Battle of the Interweb Exercises

I'm a fat kid. It's a plain and simple fact. I don't have a problem with it, other than the normal ones: guys don't like fat chick even if they themselves are chunky, finding fat clothes period is difficult anyway but finding them when you're 5'2" is almost impossible, having skinny friends who can eat anything sucks. I've been keeping a sort of food diary off and on on livestrong.com since last summer. It's a decent help since it's great to see the caloric intake of what I've eaten, but it's also a pain to see that by the end of the day, I've usually blown my goal or that I can't find what I've eaten or what exercise I've done.

So I just joined shape.com today, which I thought would be better suited to my needs since it's designed for women and actually provides personalized plans and exercises. Now here's the weird thing: these two different websites disagree on a few but important details, like my BMI (about 9 points higher according to Shape). The other strange thing is that I can't figure out how to log my hula hooping exercises. Now, I've been told by several people (some of whom whose views on fitness I respect, most I do not) that hula hooping isn't real exercise. However, this month's issue of Shape actually printed Marissa Tomei's normal workout that consists *gasp* of nothing but the hula hoop. It's actually a pretty decent workout from what I've done, and I don't think she even uses a weighted hoop. You'd think that since Shape printed this as a legitimate exercise routine, that I would be able to find it and log it. Nope. Unless there's a more scientific way to search "hula hooping," something's amiss.

I also started researching the best running shoes for women since, as my last blog stated, I plan on starting to run a few times a week. Holy crap are they expensive. I mean, I know that I can't afford to buy them right now anyway, but 1) I'm cheap and 2) it's very difficult for me to buy shoes that expensive when I have such oddly-sized feet and prefer to be barefoot since I know that won't make me hurt.

Maybe I just need classes to start again and start making money. I have way too much free time on my hands right now, and I hate it. Mostly I need money so I can keep myself busy/ exercising. I'm broke as a joke right now. Crap.