...has finally decided to make the full commitment to WISH and sign up!
I've been lurking this board for months. In fact, while living in California (hence, my name) earlier this spring, I started losing some weight. But, alas, I got transferred to Japan in late June. What with closing out a job, packing my house, selling the house, selling the car, and doing everything imaginable to essentially vaporize off the North American continent...well, I didn't eat too well those last six weeks in California. And I put every pound back on.
I moved to Japan in late June. Life here is wonderful. The wonderful parts are the people, the rich culture, the beautiful landscape, the extensive walking that I have to do every day ( I have no car and only use the train to get to work and back), and the variety of fruits and veggies (if I can identify what they are!). The not so wonderful parts are the very fatty cuts of meat they sell, the quantity of fried foods they have, the noodles and the rice. Yes, actually, the day to day eating in Japan is really rather, well, bad. They don't concern themselves with protein and fat content of foodstuffs, so it's hard to pick healthy stuff off the shelf. And for the last two months I haven't been eating too well here at all.
But it's time to change that. A few weeks ago, I really wanted to do more exercise, but I live in the congested city here. Just not conducive to easy power-walking or jogging. So I did some online checking, and bought a treadmill. This will be delivered tomorrow and will sit in the middle of my livingroom right in from of the TV. The other reason I decided to make the investment was because I'm being transferred to Russia in another year or so, and the winters will be miserably cold and snowy up there, so a good quality piece of exercise equipment will definitely be needed up there.
Like so many WISH'ers here, I'm tired of carrying around this extra baggage. This became crystal clear to me this past weekend when 18 of us from the office decided to hike up Mt. Fugi! I was dead last getting my bum up that mountain. I felt nothing but satisfaction in completing the task, and actually 2 didn't make it. But I was also embarrassed by the fact that so many of my male collegues had to verbally support me, and coax me up that mountain. They wanted to take off and get to the top, but because we were a team, they couldn't and wouldn't leave me. They were the reason for my success, but I still felt like I let the team down by holding them back so much.
So, I take the WISH challenge to get rid of this "personal baggage". I have 45 pounds of baggage to leave in Japan. I didn't claim it at Customs when I came in, so I'm sure they won't mind if I leave it!
This "team" here on the WISH board is so supportive. I'm excited to be a part of the group. And I look forward to having all of the "intercontinental" support that I can get! You gals and guys are the best!
I've been lurking this board for months. In fact, while living in California (hence, my name) earlier this spring, I started losing some weight. But, alas, I got transferred to Japan in late June. What with closing out a job, packing my house, selling the house, selling the car, and doing everything imaginable to essentially vaporize off the North American continent...well, I didn't eat too well those last six weeks in California. And I put every pound back on.
I moved to Japan in late June. Life here is wonderful. The wonderful parts are the people, the rich culture, the beautiful landscape, the extensive walking that I have to do every day ( I have no car and only use the train to get to work and back), and the variety of fruits and veggies (if I can identify what they are!). The not so wonderful parts are the very fatty cuts of meat they sell, the quantity of fried foods they have, the noodles and the rice. Yes, actually, the day to day eating in Japan is really rather, well, bad. They don't concern themselves with protein and fat content of foodstuffs, so it's hard to pick healthy stuff off the shelf. And for the last two months I haven't been eating too well here at all.
But it's time to change that. A few weeks ago, I really wanted to do more exercise, but I live in the congested city here. Just not conducive to easy power-walking or jogging. So I did some online checking, and bought a treadmill. This will be delivered tomorrow and will sit in the middle of my livingroom right in from of the TV. The other reason I decided to make the investment was because I'm being transferred to Russia in another year or so, and the winters will be miserably cold and snowy up there, so a good quality piece of exercise equipment will definitely be needed up there.
Like so many WISH'ers here, I'm tired of carrying around this extra baggage. This became crystal clear to me this past weekend when 18 of us from the office decided to hike up Mt. Fugi! I was dead last getting my bum up that mountain. I felt nothing but satisfaction in completing the task, and actually 2 didn't make it. But I was also embarrassed by the fact that so many of my male collegues had to verbally support me, and coax me up that mountain. They wanted to take off and get to the top, but because we were a team, they couldn't and wouldn't leave me. They were the reason for my success, but I still felt like I let the team down by holding them back so much.
So, I take the WISH challenge to get rid of this "personal baggage". I have 45 pounds of baggage to leave in Japan. I didn't claim it at Customs when I came in, so I'm sure they won't mind if I leave it!
This "team" here on the WISH board is so supportive. I'm excited to be a part of the group. And I look forward to having all of the "intercontinental" support that I can get! You gals and guys are the best!
