Hey Stud Muffins,

It's been a week and ITS OVER!!!! Haha! I have officially, and successfully completed Challenge Doug: WEEK ONE - Vegetarian for a week

In all honesty, I haven't consumed a piece of meat all week, and massively deserved the burger I just ate! I thought I'd really struggle with this one, but I was proven wrong on every occasion.

Although my work schedule prepared me from properly making and trying a range of dishes of the vegetarian variety, I noticed that I ate a whole load of cheese, potatoes, chips and bread (including a pizza), to make up for the lack of meat.

I don't eat much meat at the best of times (only chicken, pork and beef, really - no lamb, fish or other meats at all!) so this week has certainly been enlightening to see what life would be like as an anti-meat eater. It is also important to tell you that in under 24 hours, I was craving meat - just a slice of ham, or a bit of chicken on my baked potato!

With Challenge Doug, week 2 approaching tomorrow, I thought I'd enlighten you as to its content.

I was challenged to:

Cycle to work (and back) every day for a week.

PISS EASY! Well, there's ONE slight problem. :-S I don't have a bike.

But to combat this, I will be making up the appropriate miles on the bike at my local gym, AFTER WORK. So, thanks to Google Maps, I have calculated that the exact distance between my workplace and my home is 6.5miles, which as a round trip, totals 13 miles.

And my rota for this week shows me that I am working 5 days this week.

So, while I will try my best to go to the gym each day that I'm AT work, on one day, a double shift will prevent me from going to the gym during their opening hours. To combat this, I will make up the hours on my days off, and on the other days when I'm at the gym.

13 miles multiplied by 5 days equals 65 miles, and THAT is my target by the end of the week.

I'll keep you posted, and as usual, please feel free to give me help, support and advice as a comment to this blog, or on Twitter @dougmcmuffin