Yes, I am the only one here. Yes, I am a chubby white chick. No, I am not obese and do not need to be walked through the proper way to run by someone who has 60 lbs on me and is a foot shorter, but sees me as huge because I am not Japanese.

Also, the iPod is a good indicator I don’t want to talk to anyone.

Finally, you staring at me while I do sit ups and push ups and making comments to no one but yourself about my yum is not helpful. Just man the desk and leave me be.

Sincerely,

Raygan

Ps… Sorry this is rather negative but she was really offputting and I might go home and cry now. I am including a photo of myself pre workout at 161 lbs.

So, how do I do this?

Sitting on my butt is actually not getting me there. Huh! Who knew! I haven’t gained AS much as I thought I had this past year (I thought I was closer to 175 lbs, to be honest) but I am still feeling… hefty. I know I have bad body image, and part of that is from living in a country of wee people, but I recently saw a picture that made me realize I am pretty average sized compared, at least, to the other western women I know, so I should seriously stop beating myself up so much. Yes, I need to lose 16lbs. I know. But that is not the 30 that I thought, nor the 50 I lost when I left Japan the first time!

Anyway, I have downloaded an app called sparkpeople which tracks your calories and exercise – much like the Weight Watchers program I did back in 2003, which helped me lose that 50lbs.

A new friend, showed me this video, which is quite inspiring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbXgQqbOoU And it seems to me everyone I know is doing an ironman. Ok. so, 2 people. But still. That is still amazing. Where I am not going to be ironman material any time soon, there is no reason I can not be inspired and get off my butt and do a 10km run. So, October 10th, I am signing up for my first ever 10k. That means I have to actually train – as the farthest I have ever run before (well, since high school) is 7km.

Wish me luck, Bitches/Babes/Buddies!

Workout cals week total:   1661

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Workout cals week total:   1163

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Workout cals week total:   574

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Week Total: 31:57

Running, 4.02km
AVG pace 7.56/km
Cals burned 277cals

So, after weeks of on again off again running, and sporadic posting… I need to lose some weight and get into shape. I feel gross. And it is already getting hot out, so hopefully this wont hinder my attempt. My goal this week is to run THREE times. 3. I can do it.

Week Total:  0 Hours  52 Mins

Workout cals week total:   661

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Run:   52  mins

Distance:  7.86 km

Pace:   6:40 min/km

Cals:  661

Temp:   28  C

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HTR Monitor:

in zone (over 140 beats per minute) / training time / total time

38  /   52  /  120  mins

Max     177                          AVG   122

Work out Cals:    661

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GRAND Total Cals Today:  ______

Half of P90x day 3 shoulders and arms, half of ab ripper. I can see it’s going to be really hard to find time to fit in these workouts.

And I’m riding my bike to the new office now, 6 km.

P90x day 1: chest and back.

I did not have time to do the ab ripper, which was well enough considering I puked up my whole breakfast after this workout.

Anyway! P90x day 2: plyo

Owww owww owww that was hard.

Week total: 30mins

I am a fat, lazy slob. SO there.