Oh, man, this soreness is worse than I thought. To the point where after walking around the house I breathe a sigh of relief when I get to sit down once more. I'm so out of shape.

Walked around 6 miles today in roughly 2 hrs 50 mins. You have no idea how exhausted I am. It hurts, but I guess losing weight is rarely a walk in the park (pardon the pun). Part of the problem is that Miami is hotter than freaking hell, and while I obviously want to take walks at earlier hours, I'm just not waking up early enough to go about doing that. Right now I'm transitioning into waking up at around 8 AM for an upcoming anime convention. While an evening stroll would seem convenient, that would mean explaining myself to everyone in the house as to my whereabouts, and they'll ask questions and all this bullcrap. Frankly, the fewer people that I have to explain myself to, the better.

Weighed in today at 230.6 lbs today, which means I lost 0.4 lbs over the course of a week. That's not particularly good, but I'm pleased just to know that I'm actually losing weight (or so it seems). That said, 0.4 lbs is nothing to be proud of. So, in the following weeks, I'll probably try to walk 15 or more miles and see how that works out. I want to be losing at least 1 lb a week.

Nothing puts me in a bad mood like being around my asshole parents.

Today I think I walked around 3.2 miles (which I got from Google Maps) within 90-mins or so, but I did stop for a water break at Publix and to withdraw cash for the upcoming Mizucon anime convention.

I'll probably wait until at least Thursday or Friday before weighing myself again. Doing it too often will just make me go crazy, so I want to leave a big enough gap in time so that I know for sure whether or not I'm losing or gaining weight. I'm not even sure how far I'm walking. I'll put on a podcast around 90-minutes or so, and time it so that I'm walking back home by the second half of it, however far that takes me. The past few days, I've been trying to pick up my walking pace, but I just feel like I'm such a slow walker. I guess that has to do with me being fat. Getting tired quickly and all that. I'll experiment until I find something that works, but hopefully what I'm doing now is all right. That all depends on how much calories I'm taking in, and I'm honestly not sure how much I'm taking in. Calorie counting isn't as easy as you'd think, especially if I'm not the one cooking the food. I'll just let the scale do the talking, for better or for worse. It's also interesting to see my weight after not being able to weigh myself for a few years. There wasn't a scale in the house, and I never felt the need to buy one until now. My weight is basically what I thought it'd be. Maybe if I can actually lose the weight, then I can cosplay as slim anime characters at cons. The main characters are almost always really skinny, so as a fat guy, it's hard picking characters to dress up as. Sure, I could always be the elephant in the room (haw) by being fat Shinichi Kudo or Son Goku, but I just wouldn't feel comfortable doing that.

I don't even care if no one reads my shit. Sometimes it's nice being able to vent without worrying about what people think of my ramblings. I'm in the mood for rambling, so I thought I'd go into my obesity. Thankfully, I'm not so fat that I can't exercise. Because just eating healthy takes forever and sucks. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of healthy foods that taste good, but eating that way gets tiring. My goal is to find a method of burning 1-2 lbs a week, so that by next year I can be at my goal weight. If I gotta go running for miles every week, I'll do it. I never really gave a shit about being called a nerd or neckbeard, but I can't stand it when people call me fat. I've pretty much been fat my entire life, and I think it's about time to do something for myself. I see pictures of fat guys I went to high school with and how they got skinny, and it makes me real self-conscience. But I'm not letting those feelings get me depressed, instead they've motivated me to make something work. I hope I don't have to bust my balls to lose weight, but whatever it takes, man. I probably would have had a girlfriend by now if I wasn't such a fatass. Funnily enough, even though I'm fat, I don't think I'm ugly. I have low self-confidence, yeah, because nearly everyone likes to make fun of fat people, but I feel like I'd look good if I just lost some weight. So we'll see what comes of this.

If anyone actually reads this, then I'll take this time to apologize for the lack of activity. I couldn't think of anything worth blogging about, so I stopped using this place for a couple of months. I currently weigh 231 lbs and my height is about 5'5". I want to lose around 100 lbs so that I can be at a normal weight. I've started going on walks three times a week, but a good friend of mine informed me of a painful truth. Walking doesn't burn a whole lot of calories, so I may not actually be losing anything. In a week, I'll hop back onto the scale to see how much I weigh. If I weigh more than I do this week, then clearly I'll need to make some changes. See you in a week.