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[ghost]

Eating in Turkey is a pleasant activity and there are many tasty dishes. There are also many enticing desserts - of which ghost was a fan of 'sutluc' - a kind of milk pudding.

One problem teachers face in Turkey, though, is putting on weight, because food is cheap, available and eating places everywhere and temptation takes over.

The result is many teachers put on weight in Turkey.

Check this out to see how one individual lost a ton of weight.

You can do the same if you have the willpower.

Ghost also achieved significant weight loss this past year going down from 84 kilos in January 2005 to its present weight of 73.5 kilos a loss of over 10 kilos.

Check this out.
http://www.posetech.com/library/pp-TWM-0001.html

Ghost in Taichung, Taiwan

[tekirdag]

[Golightly]

[ghost]

The objective is to get down to 70 kilos or less, but ghost finds this impossible, despite minimum 1 hour pretty intense aerobic exercise a day (running and speed walking). There is a point that one reaches where you cannot lose any more weight.

Ghost is 6feet 2inches tall (1.87) so its weight is not too bad considering its height, but it hates to have any extra fat - especially around the waist area.

The problem with food (or alcohol) is that intake is often more a result of a psychological rather than physiological need, and under stress or when bored - people tend to eat/drink more than they should - with further damage for those who have t.v. sets and snack while watching the box.

Here is Taiwan, in spare time, there is nothing for ghost to do but to exercise (jogging and speed walking in the hills - 1-1.5 hours day), surf the internet, and take Chinese lessons. Ghost is lucky to have the hills and Park near the apartment, because most of the rest of Taichung, and most Taiwanese cities are impersonal/dull concrete jungles.

Ghost is somewhat fed up with the food in Taiwan (rice/noodles/tofu, rice/noodles/tofu/rice noodles/tofu...ad. nauseum..)....and ghost prefers to avoid the meat - much of which is still sold from the open (no refrigeration) in trucks that scour the city and residents for sales. Taiwan still has some aspects of the Third World that it cannot escape from.

Ghost misses the variety and tastiness of Turkish food, for sure, and also the pleasant service offered to foreigners in most Turkish 'Lokantalar' and while the Taiwanese are certainly not unpleasant people, the general culture and lifestyle is just one huge yawn - boring, boring.

Ghost in Taichung, Taiwan

[howmucharefags]

One of my Eskişehir based students is an excellent tatoo artist. The guy has a genuine talent. I'm well chuffed with my latest. Pm me for his details.

[howmucharefags]

I'm going to start calling you Karen Carpenter.

[justme]

Here's a good way to lose weight-- the 10 kilos in one year plan:

1) get married, start a new job, and move to a new house all within 3 months (4 kilos).
2) Decide you don't want to be fat in those wedding photos and diet further (2 kilos).
3) Decide to boycott the canteen at your school because their food isn't great, it's overpriced, they can't work out a way to give you just soup, and since you're a captive audience on campus with no other restaurant for miles around they can do whatever they want. Then, depend on the food your co-workers bring around every day because you can't be bothered to make a lunch the night before (3 kilos).
4) Get a nasty stomach bug that turns your insides to water (1 kilo).
5) Maintenence: A steady diet of coffee and cigarettes is oddly satisfying. The sugar in tea will keep you going for about 5 hours/day.

Guaranteed to keep those jeans hanging low...