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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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Some people are just big boned.  |
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Gillian57
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I was never fat in my life until I moved to Korea. I got way more exercise in the States, ate healthier, went to the gym 4-5 times a week, road my bicycle everywhere....
Since moving to Korea 7 years ago I have put on 10kg and feel like crap. That said, I wear a US size 8, not exactly obese, but certainly bigger than I had ever been before. Is it the food? The lifestyle? Or just the fact that I am older and shit happens? Who knows.....
What I am tired of is hearing how Korean food is so much healthier than "American" food. Yeah, right, dream on. At least in the US a person has options regarding what they eat. |
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Gillian57 wrote: |
Well, I was never fat in my life until I moved to Korea. I got way more exercise in the States, ate healthier, went to the gym 4-5 times a week, road my bicycle everywhere....
Since moving to Korea 7 years ago I have put on 10kg and feel like crap. That said, I wear a US size 8, not exactly obese, but certainly bigger than I had ever been before. Is it the food? The lifestyle? Or just the fact that I am older and shit happens? Who knows.....
What I am tired of is hearing how Korean food is so much healthier than "American" food. Yeah, right, dream on. At least in the US a person has options regarding what they eat. |
Same for me, except I went from 32 waist to a 36. |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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I wonder how much the fast food industry kicked in to produce this film. I love a good burger as much as the next guy, but to deny that this shit is making Americans fat? Give me a break. |
Eating fast food doesn't make you fat. Eating a lot of fast food and not exercising makes you fat. Looking at the site and previews, he says use your head on how often and what you order. Nothing wrong with fast food occasionally.
Gotta agree about the myth that Korean food is healthy. Koreans say, "well...uh...I mean traditional old-fashioned Korean food is healthy. What Korean nowadays follows the traditional Korean diet? |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| Some people are just big boned. |
Well, then some people have HUGE bones in their asses. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| What I am tired of is hearing how Korean food is so much healthier than "American" food. Yeah, right, dream on. At least in the US a person has options regarding what they eat. |
And I'm tired of hearing that quitting smoking will be good for my health.
You sir, do have options- it's called 'cooking'. You go to this place called the 'supermarket' and buy your 'ingredients' and then make it yourself.
The average Korean meal we get at our school's cafeteria is amazing. Balanced, always has fresh fruit. Things that are fried are served in moderation. Heavy on the veggies. Too bad after a months straight I couldn't even look at it. I just couldn't make my stomach match my brain.
Please enlighten me as to the healthy American cuisine that is routinely served? What the sack of 20 at White Castle?
Why did I have to think of the sack of 20...I need a plane ticket and a sack of 20 now...Jalapenos on 10 of those...
Most of the expats I've noticed who have gained weight have two things in common- Never leaving their apartment and sticking to Fried Chicken, Pizza, Chips, and Fast Food. Of course they blame their weight gain on the 1 Korean meal they eat a week. "Dude, it's all that rice."
I lost a bunch of weight my first two months here, then I gained some of it back as I started to get tired of Korean food and order more Chicken and Pizza and bought a computer for home. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:52 am Post subject: |
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The 'Lord of the Rings' is pretty cool...!
I got fatter in Korea too. Could just be age though. Was 26 when I arrived here and am 33 now... I noticed that after mid twenties my metabolism slowed right down and my abilty to retain muscle tone dropped. Sucks... |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:23 am Post subject: |
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I lost weight when i first came simply because i walked EVERYWHERE and it was hot and humid. Half of the weight i lost was probably pure sweat...
It's obvious Korean food is more healthy than American food. About as obvious that eating a lot of fast food will make you fat.
Koreans do a ton of walking, it still amazes me. The hordes of elderly with their mountain gear powering up the mountainside is a sight to see that's for sure. |
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beast
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| I like that part, "Dude, it's all that rice." I've heard that a hundred times here; all the fat teachers, "But the sticky rice is soooooo fattening. Back home we have the normal rice that isn't sticky and white." Yes, if only you had that normal unsticky, unwhite rice, you'd be a perfect physical specimen. Of course if you didn't eat that pizza for dinner and the Kraze Burger for lunch.... |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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| What I am tired of is hearing how Korean food is so much healthier than "American" food. Yeah, right, dream on. At least in the US a person has options regarding what they eat. |
And I'm tired of hearing that quitting smoking will be good for my health.
You sir, do have options- it's called 'cooking'. You go to this place called the 'supermarket' and buy your 'ingredients' and then make it yourself.
The average Korean meal we get at our school's cafeteria is amazing. Balanced, always has fresh fruit. Things that are fried are served in moderation. Heavy on the veggies. Too bad after a months straight I couldn't even look at it. I just couldn't make my stomach match my brain.
Please enlighten me as to the healthy American cuisine that is routinely served? What the sack of 20 at White Castle?
Why did I have to think of the sack of 20...I need a plane ticket and a sack of 20 now...Jalapenos on 10 of those...
Most of the expats I've noticed who have gained weight have two things in common- Never leaving their apartment and sticking to Fried Chicken, Pizza, Chips, and Fast Food. Of course they blame their weight gain on the 1 Korean meal they eat a week. "Dude, it's all that rice."
I lost a bunch of weight my first two months here, then I gained some of it back as I started to get tired of Korean food and order more Chicken and Pizza and bought a computer for home. |
I have to laugh. I also want to add, how many of those who gained weight actually snack more in Korea than they did in their home country? Culture shock can bring depression, and a lot of people satisfy that with sweet high calorie foods.
I gained more weight in Canada in the past 3yrs than I've ever had on me in my life. Mostly it was from snacking while studying. I can't wait to get back to Korea and start losing the weight. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:57 am Post subject: |
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You sir, do have options- it's called 'cooking'. You go to this place called the 'supermarket' and buy your 'ingredients' and then make it yourself.
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Korean supermarkets are absolutely terrible and there's much more choice in American stores. I cook enthusiastically, as a hobby, and, of all the civilized countries I've experienced, Korea's supermarkets are the worst by a considerable distance in terms of choice of quality products. Sadly, this is a country where there's market demand for spam, kimchi, rice, pork and ramyeon but precious little else. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| spam, kimchi, rice, pork and ramyeon but precious little else |
What supermarket is this?
There are vegetables, fruit, flour, sugar, salt, pepper, oil, seafood, beef, pork, and chicken available at mine in middle of nowhere Korea.
Aside from Corn meal, Cheese, Turkey, and some seasonings there is pretty much everything you need. I think we can order cheese online and have it shipped. There are only a handful of dishes I can think of that are near-impossible here, all the rest are doable- you just need time because we have to make them from scratch.
And a real oven for casseroles. But that can be adapted to the toaster.
Still I do wish the supermarkets here did have more variety for western food, but then again I also wish a White Castle or Qdoba would open up next door and it's just silly to wish for that. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
There are vegetables, fruit, flour, sugar, salt, pepper, oil, seafood, beef, pork, and chicken available at mine in middle of nowhere Korea.
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Struggling for examples then? (salt? pepper? sugar? oil?)
Yes, okay, there's chicken, beef and seafood. I didn't complain that there is no beef, chicken and seefood however (and already mentioned pork). Nor did I complain that there isn't any salt, oil, sugar and pepper. I complained that "of all the civilized countries I've experienced, Korea's supermarkets are the worst by a considerable distance in terms of choice of quality products" and, not only do I stand by this view, but feel that view is vindicated by your bizarre counterexamples.
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| there is pretty much everything you need |
If one has the aesthetical capacity and sophistication of a dungbeetle, then yes, there may, possibily, be everything you need. The key word being "need". That is, one will not starve to death. But otherwise, compared to Tesco or Marks & Spencer or Walmart SuperCenter, Emart, Lottemart etc are absolute crap. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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If one has the aesthetical capacity and sophistication of a dungbeetle, then yes, there may, possibily, be everything you need. |
Have you read A Confederacy of Dunces? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
If one has the aesthetical capacity and sophistication of a dungbeetle, then yes, there may, possibily, be everything you need. |
Have you read A Confederacy of Dunces? |
No. Why? |
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