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[afsjesse]

So I've been going to the gym for about two weeks and working out. After that I go have dinner which consists of two Tuna Kimbab with no mayonaise or that icky soup they give.

Just curious on your thoughts. Does the kimbab offset the weight I've lost at the gym? If so, what Korean food would you reccoemend for a diet?

[bogey666]

[optik404]

just eat chicken breast and veggies every day. or chicken and brown rice.

[emilylovesyou]

It depends on the type of workout you have and what that specific kimbap has in it besides the usual radish/cucumber/etc.

If I were you, I'd try to get in a more varied diet than just tuna kimbap. Diet should be about 60% of your weight loss, and exercise 40%. The best way to loose weight through exercise are fast movements, like 100 yard dashes, or stepping through tires. Also free weights are good, squats, lunges, etc. more than machines. Machines if done wrongly can really injure you. Also adding yoga-like stretches and a cardio workout like kick boxing maybe three times a week is good too.

So my advice: vary your workout routine and start eating a more varied diet (not like don katsu, but maybe something like kimchi jigae)

[icnelly]

Research your BMR, and RMR and multiply by an activity factor, then with that special number of calories do this: don't eat anymore than that. Done!!

Also research macronutrition: fat, carbs, and protein, as they're the basic fundamentals when making a healthy meal plan.

The basic simple principle: calorie reduction for weightloss and calorie surplus for gaining...pretty easy, right?

You asked about kimbop: it's a fine food with alot of energy from the rice, but that you don't know how it will affect you shows me that you don't know your caloric intake or its macronutritional split.

[NoExplode]

1 cup cooked has approx. 82g refined carbs, so you're consuming 164 carbs in rice. High GI as well. When you eat a food with a high GI, the GI is cut significantly when you pair the food with other things. Eat some meat with that rice, and the GI will be cut in half, just like spreading peanut butter will cut the GI of a slice of white bread. IE, don't worry about it so much so long as your not a carb addict who eats plain rice and pasta with nothing else.

That said, I prefer rice for my carbs over bread, seems to fill me up more. Just do a google and find out what you're consuming. If you're not the active sort, rice will be worse for you than someone who works outs 2 hours a day. In that case, maybe switch to brown rice or something.

[icnelly]

[cdninkorea]

[red_devil]

[Gillian57]

"Korean food has always been traditionally very healthy. It wasn't until western influences introduced numerous unhealthy eating options. "


Oh PLEASE. Koreans traditionally starved until the advent of the dreaded Western food. For pity sake, read your history books. I am so damn tired of hearing how Western food distroyed the health benefits of Traditional Korean Food. It has been Western influence that has ALLOWED Koreans to GROW for f@#$k's sake. Before Western influence, Korean were short little shits.

As for the health benefits of current "Traditional Korean food," ah, yeah, right. Fat and salt. Oh, and copious amounts of red pepper paste, just what a good stomach-cancer needs to thrive....

As far as western influences introducing numerous unhealthy eating options, well, gee, I guess that comes with freedom and democracy. How about Korea developing a little something like Self-control...... Every time I bake cookies or cakes to bring to share in the teacher's room I sit back and watch the shark-fest. Rather disgusting display of shovelling food into mouth. Then they have the balls to complain that the "Treats" I brought in were "Too sweet" and why don't I make them more Korean??? WTF? They were TREATS not MEALS.

I give up.

[moosehead]

yeah, I concur with Gillian's post

and what about Ks love of donuts - ?? jees - back in the U.S. I ate maybe 1-2 donuts a year - a YEAR -

these people seem to eat them all the time - ever pick up a K donut - OMG they weigh like a pound a piece!!

someone else mentioned how there must be some bulimia going on here - I totally believe it - seeing a skinny little schoolgirl picking up donuts in the bakery - oh yeah uh huh - tell me you aren't going to puke that up right after you eat it!

and don't even get me started about how many Ks think those of us who don't eat beef or pork are strange -

not to mention eating dogs - yeah, K food is loaded with nutrition, uh huh.

where's the steamed veges? when do they steam anything?? or broil?? virtually everything is either boiled to death or fried to death - taste is irrelevant.

[PRagic]

Go heavy on the cardio, preferably interval training (bike or treadmill), and cut your carbs to under 30 a day (20 if possible). After a few weeks, work in serious veggies. Snack on almonds or pecans. Watch the weight come off.

Go lighter weight training after the cardio to keep your heart rate up. You'll see better gains in definition, too, as opposed to going with heavy weights. Also, this keeps the pain and risks of injury down to a minimum, and is easier to maintain in the long run. Spare yourself the powders and shakes. Good luck.

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[moosehead]