September 22, 2008

Yo DaVitans!!

It is now Monday September 22.

My wife and I went away for Friday and Saturday nights, to reconnect after my time with the Tour DaVita, and before another week of travel. It was very nice.

We got home about 11 a.m. on Sunday. I worked until 5:00 p.m. catching up on lots of stuff from when I was at the Tour. I had chicken enchiladas with healthy black beans for lunch (but only two of them!) and pork chops with asparagus and healthy rice for dinner.

I am now up to something like 18 nights without a dessert, I will have to go back and check. That is good for me.

This morning I got up at 5:30 a.m. and headed into the office. But first I weighed myself, the first time in about nine days. The scale shows that I am down six pounds! I don’t believe it actually, even with all the Tour riding I think I must have been low in water weight. But I hope it is only a pound or two off.

I won’t know until next Monday, because today I got on a plane at 2:30 p.m. to fly to Nashville, TN. Before heading to the airport I got a short workout in, 20 minutes on the lifecycle, plus a little lifting and stretching, plus one set of sit-ups. Now I am getting lots of work done on the plane, and have a meeting at 9 p.m. when I land. Then I will do some email, call home, and go to bed. Tomorrow I don’t know if I will get a workout in because I am giving a speech at about 8:30 a.m. — don’t know if I will get up in time.

The week has significant travel — today to Nashville, TN, tomorrow back to Los Angeles in the morning and then a long drive to Orange County in the afternoon, both in California. Then I fly on Wednesday to New Hampshire to look at some new Home Hemo technology, on to Pennsylvania to visit some physicians on Thursday, and then Friday to Boston, MA for a number of meetings with some consultants and suppliers. The good news is I was able to put those meetings in Boston at the same time as my 25th Harvard Business School Reunion. My wife and I met at business school, she and I were in the same first year section, so she will be flying out on Thursday to join me.

All in all this type of week does not bode well for the diet. We shall see. I wish for all of you a strong Match the Mayor week! Or beat the Mayor as the case may be!

One for all,

KT