A little progress report to begin:

I weighed in at just over 263 last Thursday, not terrible considering the last couple of weeks were sure to put on a few pounds. I guess the important part is that the last few weeks haven’t totally wrecked me. I took an off-day on Sunday, but also went to the gym.

As I stand right now, I have exactly a month to get down to 250 before I head to Detroit. That’s the main goal right now. I wake up thinking “250” I go to bed thinking “250” and I try to make choices that will lead to 250.

One month to do it. I think the timing makes sense, though there will have to be a real effort to make it happen.

I’ve been thinking about taking hiking up as a hobby. I figure that I have a lot of spare time on my hands (what with working only four days per week), and I need something to fill that time. Hiking is cheap and healthy, and there are plenty of trails in Northern California to keep me going. I’ll let you know how that turns out. I will say that I have taken two short hikes (four or five miles) over the last two weeks. I like it as an alternative to spending a summer day locked on an elliptical machine. Sometimes you just have to get outside and start thinking. Sometimes that gets me in trouble, but usually it helps clear my head.

So yeah, hiking has its perks.

As you may have noticed from the last post, I have figured out how to post photos. It wasn’t that hard to figure out, I just needed to read some instructions and not be super lazy about it. I gave you a little tease over the weekend, and there are more to come. My plan is to do a pictorial history of my journey from 370 to 260. That could take some time, though I am hoping to do it sometime in the next two weeks. If you’ve stayed with the Fortress this long, you should get some hot photographic action as a reward. At least I think so.