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[ekim]

I'm trying to lose weight these days and was at a bit of a stalemate before I started eating Jamji Jiggae or Kimchi Jiggae. Suddenly I lost a kilo or two in a week.

Anyone got advice about what I can eat in Korea to lose weight? Any of you got a diet plan that doesn't require my lazy butt to go to a big supermarket?

[thebum]

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[mindmetoo]

Diet is part but what kind of physical activity do you do? In Seoul, you walk a lot. Or at least I do. I walk 40 minutes every day to the subway and back. You're always up 'n' down subway stairs. I'm on my feet all the time teaching. On weekends I'm always hoofing it. I go for a jog twice a week. Walk and avoid short bus/taxi rides. Ansan must provide a lot of opportunity to walk.

They observe one difference between thin people and fat people is thin people are more active in everything they do. Even when at rest, thin people fidget etc.

I've found between the food in Korea and the massive increase in physical activity a big city demands, I can pretty much eat whatever I want and maintain a 32" waist. Which at age 40, for a North American male, I feel is pretty good.

For times of extreme eating excess, I'll lunch on a batch of rice and canned tuna.

[crazy_arcade]

Exercise Exercise Exercise.

I'm doing 60 minutes of cardio every other day and circuit weight training every other day.

Cut out sugar. I mean, really cut out sugar. Simply cutting out sugar will make an incredible difference.

Drink water and only water. Juice? Cut fruit juice in half with water. Milk? Skim milk.

[europe2seoul]

I always loose weight when I eat Korean food - no fat in it. The problem is that I get hungry 2-3 hours later max, no matter how full I was when finished eating.

I also do not eat snacks/candy/soda/artificial fruit juice not by choice for dieting but I simply do not have any urge to buy that. I prefer concrete real meals.

It works. If exercise is added works very well.....but

[bejarano-korea]

You need to diet and exercise. Basically find something you like to do but weight loss will not come (or will be very slow) without exercise.

I went through a pharse of exercising everyday and eating crap and of course the weight went on.. slowly but it went on gradually.

I watched this woman who lost about 10 stone on the tv today and she did it by exercise and eating her main meal in the morning and her cereal in the evning. She never felt hungry, she had loads of energy because her main meal was first thing in the morning and she burned more calories because she didn't go to bed on a full stomach!

Which makes perfect sense if you think about it!

[europe2seoul]

[bejarano-korea]

[europe2seoul]

[Cerebroden]

1 to 1.5 hours to cook a proper meal?!?!?!?!


really, either learn to multi task or stop cooking up 7 course meals

[ajgeddes]

Europe2Seoul, I don't understand what the difference is whether you eat it for breakfast or dinner, it is still 1.5 hours.

[ekim]

Oh yeah, when I said lazy butt I meant walking around LotteMart or taking the subway/bus out to whatever western supermarkets exist on the outer fringes of town.

I've been lifting weights 3 days a week and jogging 2. The thing is, if I lose 1kg jogging the next day my weight's came back with avengence at plus 1.2kg's! I just don't get it. I actually lose more weight on the weekend days where I do nothing!

I usually get a jamji kimbap first thing in the day. Later on I might have the tuna and veggies can from 711. I'll probably work out then. After that I'll get some jamji or kimchi jigae. Occasionally I get chicken on a stick instead of the tuna/veggies can, but not the deep fried kind. I usually sleep 1.5 to 2 hours after my last snack/meal.

Still, I can hardly lose weight. It's been almost a month at the gym now and I'm still hovering around the 86kg mark. I was 91kg's when I came back from traveling, but then I stopped drinking, so 5 slid off magically. Then I started working out and my weightloss stopped. I don't get it. Any comments on the above diet? And I do mostly drink water.

[europe2seoul]

[europe2seoul]