Day 24: No weight

In a hotel this morning, so no weight check-in is available. The next chance to weigh in will be Thursday.

I survived dinner at Mom's yesterday, limiting myself to one service of spaghetti and sauce, and skipping dessert completely. No snacks, either. This kept me on track in my 1,500 calorie quota. Yaaaa!

The challenge for the next three days will be surviving the business trip. The hotel has a complimentary continental breakfast, so I'm hoping to be able to snag a bagel each morning (fairly safe), but then I need to scout out reasonable lunch and dinner options. That means probably a sandwich for each meal.

Wednesday will be interesting for the flight home: the plane leaves around 5 PM, arrives around 10 PM, and of course they don't serve anything (unless you want to pay extra. Yippee for capitalism). So I'll have to find a carry-on dinner, and I hope I can manage something diet-friendly among all the fast food places of the typical airport concourse.

Naturally, the flight last night was hellish. I was near the back of a Boeing 757, which, if you're not familiar, is a narrowbody jet which is both longer and narrower than usual. The seats are at least an inch narrower than in other six-across jets like the A320, but the plane I was in was configured with 48 rows. The airlines love then because they can cram a lot of cattle on board (Moooo!), but being both tall and wide makes this plane particularly uncomfortable for me.

Not only were my hips wedged into the seat, but my knees were pressed firmly against the seat in front of me, even when the seat in front was fully upright. Fortunately the person in front of me did not recline his seat; that would have physically injured something. There was also just barely enough room between rows for me to actually move into the seat: I practically had to crawl rather than walk.

Losing weight will ease the discomfort and humiliation somewhat, but it won't give me more legroom (well, maybe an inch as my butt gets smaller, but an inch isn't nearly enough). I am beginning to actively hope that Northwest will go out of business (they are in chapter 11 bankruptcy right now) so that Twin Cities residents will have more airline options.