By “life beyond 25″, I mean beyond 25 pounds lost. Down another 0.8 this past week, after a weekend of not being particularly well-behaved when it came to food.  So, I’m very happy with 204.2.  During the week, I was as low as 203.0, which was sort a weird moment.  I lost 2 pounds in 4 days – really?  No, not really.  That’s why I only do an official weigh-in once a week.

I was really hoping to get a hike in this week, but it looks like next week is the earliest I’m going to be able to work that out.  I have the hike and route planned, now I just need my life to let go of me long enough to get out there.  In the meantime, I’m working on how to burn more calories during the 50 to 70 minutes I have at the gym in the morning.  I managed to burn about 1400 calories this morning, combining time on the tread climber with the incline trainer.