Remember to Breathe

Day 3-
My "weekend" has been hectic this week.  Tuesday, I went to the hospital to get some refills and Wednesday went out to lunch with some friends.  We had wonderfully awesome Xiao Longs and wantons. (which is really pronounce like that only smush the vowels) I walked all over Suzhou during the lunch outing then it was off to Shanghai for a lovely dinner with a dear friend.  I walked some more and had a great dinner.  Today, I had to go reup my visa for a month.  You know it's not good to be illegal in China.  Deportment blah blah blah.  I did some more walking and finally arrived at the visa place.  Do you get the hint that all you ever do in China is walk? After, a taxi, train and bus ride I finally arrived home at 7pm.  I was set on doing my podrunner podcast before dinner so I stretched, order dinner (delivery no its Degrino) and left my house.  It was much easier this time.  It felt super fast and I was done in no time at all.  I am having a problem with my breathing during the running bits.  I forget to breathe.  Then I am like oh no I forgot to breathe again in the nose out the mouth to try to slow it down but it worries me.  Isn't running supposed to be relaxing.  I need to get this breathing thing under control. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Keep on Keepin' on

Day 2
So, I weighed myself at the Walmart. You are probably asking yourself why are you weighing in at Walmart? Well, I live in China and do not own a scale. So, I used the (free) scale aisle at the Walmart to help me.  Sadly/stupidly I wore jeans.  I weighed myself on every working scale in the aisle.  I wanted to make sure they were accurate.  The highest showing 88kg and the lowest showing 86kg.  I decided to take the middle of these so I currently weigh 87 kg.

Beginning Weight- 97.5 kg (215lb)
Current Weight- 87kg (192lb)
Total Loss- 10.5kg (23lb)

It's Time.

Day One- 

It’s time.  It is time to get my life in order.  It is time to get my health in order.  What I have been doing isn’t working and so what does that mean? If what you’ve been doing isn’t working then change it! That is one thing I have learned here and I have had the freedom to do this.  So IT IS TIME!

Fitness Goal 1- Finish Podrunner intervals first day to 5k podcast

Weight loss goal 1- 170lbs by the time I return home. 43 days.

I just completed Podrunner 1^st to 5 week 1 today.  It was a half hour and I did well.  The walking is easy because all I ever do in China is walk.  It has been great conditioning for this. If you can walk a solid 30 minutes then you can do week 1.  So it’s some walking and then I believe to be a minute of running.  My goal was to do my very best at the running parts and not stop for the entire 30 minutes.  I was successful in that.  After every minute of running I found myself saying “thank god!” I even had to talk my way through one of them.  Come on you can do this just a little more.  I went .6 miles in 30 minutes of running and walking.  Bonus I did not get hit by a car or bike.  (This is kind of a big deal in China) Have you ever tried to cross a street in China?  Nightmare.

I am not sure on my current weight but at my last weigh in a few weeks ago at a friend’s house I was down about 27 lbs from my first weigh in at Weight Watchers Shanghai.  I think.  I will go to Walmart and weigh myself today or tomorrow.  I figure I have about 18 lbs to go before I return home.  Do able? I don’t know but I am going to try.

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