"In lieu of a gym membership... (week 1)"

#PokemonGO: Hi! If this is unacceptable here, please feel free to remove.I don't know if anyone remembers the post I made last Thursday. I bought a shit-ton of Lucky Eggs because of the sale...http://ift.tt/2oNf1pg decided I would use two daily as motivation to walk for an hour (and power up my Espeon, among other things). To copy and paste my own explanation from the last post:"I'm a 5'8, 320 pound, 26-year-old woman with social anxiety bad enough that going to the gym is difficult (paranoia that everyone is laughing at me) and bad knees. Clearly this is a bad position to be in."Anyway, I'm here to check in, just as I said I would.Here's a screenshot of my Pokemon Go inventory:http://ift.tt/2p8989I here's a picture of me on the scale, if you'll please pardon my horrible toes:http://ift.tt/2oNyCWf's almost 8 pounds lost this week. I'm not peeing myself in excitement over that because I'm well aware it's mostly water weight. But still, it's progress! It's also the result of strict dieting as well as walking, I feel I should point that out.To address the phanpy in the room (other than myself), no, I don't have a picture of me on the scale last week. Sorry. The number I used to start, 320, was from weighing myself at my mother's house a few days prior to posting; I had to get my own scale.There were some people on my last post saying this was a hoax for attention due to the age of this account. I imagine this is just more fuel for such people. But I'm not too worried about that because I'm just going to do this again next week (provided the mods don't care).Also, to those of you who do think my account age makes this suspicious... think really hard, won't you? Do you really think I want all this personal information connected to my normal Reddit account? This site is full of people who will take anything you say and reroute it back to you in the form of "lol yea wel ur fat." I'm not here for that.Two other things I want to address:The first thing is, there's a public Kik group for ProjectBalls. There were people in it the day after I made that last post, as well as people who Kik'd me personally. I owe all of you an apology even bigger than I am. See, I wanted a way for people to get together, commiserate, encourage each other. And people have been doing that.But I am not very good at being social. When I had a message, I'd dither trying to think of interesting things to say. I couldn't think of a damn thing. I don't know how many of you understand, but if you say to me, "how are you?" then I have about a thousand different (and equally stupid) things to say, and they all begin with wondering if I should say how I really am, or if I should just be like "fine, you?". Then they branch off more.I've also been dealing with a staggering amount of self worth issues that have left me mainly doing my walks and decidedly not talking to people.In short, it's not you, it's me, and I'm sorry I suck in that way. I never expected this to get as popular as it did, and frankly I'd like it if it didn't draw a lot of attention. When I posted here the first time, it was on a whim for a bit of accountability. I considered not posting here anymore for that reason. But, hell, you have to finish what you start, yes?The second thing is, if the people who have been messaging me with offers to rub my tired feet could, uh, stop doing that... I'd appreciate it. I'd love to banter with you about that shit but I mostly just block that kind of thing out of respect to my SO (who is also joining me in this goal btw!).Are pokestops ever going to be requestable again? Because the places in walking distance to my apartment are just about barren. I got a Cyndaquil a bit ago, and that was nice, but I'd really like to stop having to buy pokeballs 'cause my Espeon and Vaporeon now take about 4000 stardust apiece to power up and I need to catch them their delicious nourishment. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2oNbuaI