It's really hard being the fattest girl in all of China.

Chinese girl are really, really skinny. Most of our friends are about 5'2” and 90 lbs. I'd estimate that this is the average in Southern China from what I've seen. Do you know this make me feel?! I'm surrounded by literally half a billion stick figures!!! I'm a giant!!!!!!!!!

And I don't get it either. How are all these Chinese girls so skinny?!
Chinese food doesn’t seem healthy to me. Do you know what I think the most popular Chinese food is? McDonald’s and KFC. Seriously, Chinese people eat it like every day. If you ask any of my students what their favorite food is: “Mydonaah's Hanboaboa” or “Mydonaah's French frieahhhs. Yeah, by the way, they don't say “McDonald's” they say “Mydonaah's” because that's the name that McDonald's uses in their commercials to make it easier for Chinese people to say. ANYWAYS, so what else to Chinese people eat? Fried rice, fried noodles, fried vegetables, fried meat, fried dough – they use insane amounts of oil. And it's not like Chinese people don’t eat junk food. They go crazy for these little plastic cups/tubes of fruit –flavored jelly (PUKE!!!!!) and they LOVE potato chips, cookies (which they call biscuits – weird) and chocolate. And, Chinese people LOVE ice cream. A Chinese grocery store has a significantly bigger ice cream section than an American grocery store. Their flavors are fucked – like corn flavor or chocolate/green tea or jellied aloe vera/strawberry – but they LOVE the stuff and definitely eat it every day.

So, as you can see, I don't understand how they're all so thin. And it's not like they exercise either. All of our friends think its SO WEIRD that Brandon and I work out. Literally none of our friends have done any exercising since high school when they were required to do badminton, ping pong, ballroom dancing and basketball in gym class. None of them have ever in their lives used a treadmill or lifted weights. Never, ever. They think that Brandon and I are the weird ones!!
Brandon and I use our apartment complexes’ “gym” (two tredmills, some free weights and a 100% broken bowflex machine). I call it “our gym” because for the past six months, we have literally been the only two people that have bought “membership cards.” Our complex has 644 apartments and like I said, Brandon and I are the only ones that set foot in there.

I think that being around skinny people all day, everyday for the past nine months has really gotten to Brandon and me. We feel like total cows!! Its been making me want to work out way more than usual. I've been spending gazillions of hours climbing the stairs in our apartment building and even running (which I HATE) for 25 minutes a day and doing more and more weights too. Having 90 pound friends is really good motivation!! But, I haven't lost ANY WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! Brandon, on the other hand, has been eating at McDonalds five meals a week and has lost tons of weight. 60 pounds actually. He does work out super hard but it's so not fair!! He's so skinny now! Every time we go to the grocery store, we weigh ourselves and every time he weighs one or two pounds less than the time before and I'm always the same. It's so heartbreaking for me!! So, I asked my friend Lindy if Chinese girls had a trick to losing weight. She said that I should start exercising for three minutes a day, five days a week. Yeah, that's what she told me.