Yesterday I ran in the morning but had to stop due to the blister.   Later I wanted to get some exercise in but didn't want to do it on the treadmill, because I thought using the same sneakers that gave me the blister would be a bad idea, and if I don't use the gel inserts, my ankles will hurt.

So I decided to take a hike to the landfill.    It was great fun.   They had a big tall fence with barbed wire, no less!   When they built it they must have thought people would be really determined to get in there.   However, I just followed along the fence for a short bit before I found a 16 foot wide opening where they had just removed a gate and thrown it to the side.

So that was about two hours of walking.   And it was cold, too, which probably added a great deal to the fat burning.   Molly and the boys went to robotics dinner, so I basically didn't have any dinner.   Just some nuts and some Michelob Ultra Light.

Anyway, I weighed in this morning at 211 pounds,  4.2 pounds lighter than the day before!

So that's around 9 pounds lost in the first week.   Now I know that most of that is not fat, but still it makes me happy.  I've made real progress towards getting off the overweight section of the BMI chart.   Now I'm in the lowest 1/4 of it instead of being smack-dab in the middle of it.