Finished!

I have just finished my last Monkey chow meal. It is a great feeling to be over, can't wait for the pie this afternoon.

My sponsors have happily paid up, when I say happily I mean promptly but I was happy enough for all of us. I had ordered a family guy angry monkey t-shirt for the occasion but it did not come in time.

The monkey chow diet is completely useless for loosing weight. I would say if you have the will power to only eat monkey chow you probably have the will power to follow a balanced eating plan. I am not sure if the initial weight loss was due to lack of water or not eating enough but it was clearly just a blip. I think I managed to consume 11-12 pounds from the 20 pound bag. Not much under the 2 pound a day target I set myself.

Trickery.
My loss has been the gain of my colleagues to the order of:
1 tray of donuts
3 large pizzas
1 box of cinnamon swirl iced buns
I wish Ed had not given up so early, this list should have been much longer.

Advice to monkey chow dieters.
Make sure the terms of the bet allow you to soak the monkey chow in some kind of flavoured beverage. The instructions on the zupreem website recommend soaking monkey chow in fruit juice if your primate is refusing it's food so it is within the spirit of "eat what monkeys eat". I decided to use flavoured tea as we had already prohibited calorific drinks from my diet. Doing this with dry, unsoaked kibble is probably possible but would be very, very difficult. Flavour is very important as there are some subtle but very disgusting aftertastes that tend to become overpowering with nothing to distract you. I did not have any problems in the bathroom department but "angry man" did. If you do give it a go please let me know.

Donations.
I will be donating the remaining monkey chow to http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/ they train capuchin monkeys to help people with mobility problems.
Anwar will be donating $100 to the Greater Boston food bank http://www.gbfb.org
There is more which I will edit in once I have the details

A big thank you to everyone who tried to help or hinder, it all came together to make the experiment a lot of fun.