Thanks GB

and thanks for the encouragement on MFP.
A tough stretch ahead. I'm traveling for work for about the next 3 weeks, but doing my best. On the flight over to Asia I usually get hammered; yesterday I had a light beer, skipped the bread and cookies and just ate the meat and veggies. Last night at the hotel had a steak and exactly one glass of red wine; skipped the warm bread, good as it looked. Got up at like 2am and went down to the hotel gym. Basically doing the best I can under the circumstances.
I find this much harder than being at home. I'm very much a creature of habit. I find it so easy on a typical workday to have my coffee, have a salad or protein bar or apple for lunch, and come home and eat a normal healthy meal. Routine makes it easy. But when I'm out of that routine, and you're stuck in hotels and airports and wandering and grabbing whatever you can, or eating out big work meals and drinking, man, it's so easy to go off the wagon. I'm going to try like hell the next couple weeks to start correcting and building some good habits in that area; I have realized that those things are never going to go away, and I'm never going to have the consistent daily routine, so my best bet, maybe my only bet, is to figure out how to do this on the road and with work stuff, because otherwise those things just become easy excuses.
-FATOATS