Made it to India

It wasn't easy but I'm here.  My flight had a pre-planned delay of 4 hours and then we sat in the plane waiting to pushback for another two hours.  I gather there was some issue with the air conditioning system that they needed to fix.  In the end, it probably worked out better that way because I had much less time to spend in the Dubai airport (business class seat drinking champagne is more comfortable than some random chair in the Dubai departure gate).

Got to the hotel and went immediately to the fitness center.  Didn't pass go, didn't collect the breakfast buffet.  Got in 10km on the treadmill.  I plan to do some naked body weight exercises and stretching this evening.  And yes, I mean really (almost) naked.  Its something that feels appropriate in a hotel room much more so than at home.  Interesting.

Had a few insights on the way over that I'll briefly share here (because I do need to get to the office). 

• I am "fat".  There is a difference between gaining some weight to go from really lean to just lean.  Did that, now I've gone beyond that.  I'm not lean anymore.  Ok - I'm not really fat either but I'm headed in that direction.  For real.
• My eating "habits" are more appropriate for someone who is messing around with degrees of lean-ness.  Noticed I had all sorts of "rules" like its okay to eat whatever is served on the plane, the calories won't count on a travel day, etc.  Those are fine rules when you really are lean but when you really do need to cut back (see above), they hinder progress.
• I have about 0% compliance to good eating habits.  Somewhere along the line I went from 100% compliance 90% of the time to eating good stuff 90% of the time topped off by some bad stuff 90% of the time.  The result is that about 0% of my meals are compliant/good/perfect (whatever you want to call it) and the non-meal eating is probably even worse.  Remember, there is nothing you can eat that will make you thin.  Its what you don't eat that makes you thin.

Now, off to the office where hopefully I don't have to kick any ass.