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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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188cm and 70kg.
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how much is that in Feet and Inches? you surely don't weigh much pounds wise... |
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maxxx_power
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
Location: BWAHAHAHAHA! I'M FREE!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| phaedrus wrote: |
188cm and 70kg.
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how much is that in Feet and Inches? you surely don't weigh much pounds wise... |
That's way skinny. Would you consider yourself a healthy person?
Right now I'm at 186cm (6'1") and 87kg. Ideally I'd like to drop about 4 more pounds of fat and put on about 10 more pounds of muscle. I don't eat refined sugars, potatoes, white rice (occasionally), or white flour which helps a great deal. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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I've been working out the last 6 months or so and have lost about 7 pounds but have put on muscle. I'm 6', 183cm and down to 97kg. That's still a little heavy but I'm losing.
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Plastic B
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Daejeon no more
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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When I arrived in Korea I was a skinny mofo, but rapidly put on the kilos ~ 14 kg in the first 7 months, after that I levelled off. I put it all down to the late night all-you-can-eat and drink binges. Oh, and the lack of amphetamines in that drugforsaken hole...
Happy to say since I have been in Thailand I've managed to lose a couple of kilos without even trying...or taking yaba! |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've lost about 7-8 kilo.
For me that is not a lot, as I am tall and big boned. Actually, no one has really noticed here. When I went home, though, people did notice, with envy. And I had to buy some new clothes. But I am still too big boned, from my German ancestry, for most Korean clothes.
I think, for me, the reason is that there are just not so many temptations, and going out to eat does not equate with gaining weight, as it does in the States. That is not meant as a political statement, it is just a fact. I had to be very careful when I went to the States, and that is not really the case in Korea. |
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ryleeys
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Columbia, MD
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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5'10". 177.8cm
150 lbs. 68.1kg
Gained 10 pounds the first month I was here, have lost 20 since. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Plastic B"]When I arrived in Korea I was a skinny mofo, but rapidly put on the kilos ~ 14 kg in the first 7 months
damn man and i thought i was bad, thats some serious debauchery going on there aye?. Thats all good though, live it up and go hard i say. I seem to go through phases where i will train like a mofo and get into good nick, then my life will change which put's the kybosh on the old routine. Im steadily getting back into some form though. |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| maxxx_power wrote: |
| PEIGUY wrote: |
| phaedrus wrote: |
188cm and 70kg.
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how much is that in Feet and Inches? you surely don't weigh much pounds wise... |
That's way skinny. Would you consider yourself a healthy person?
Right now I'm at 186cm (6'1") and 87kg. Ideally I'd like to drop about 4 more pounds of fat and put on about 10 more pounds of muscle. I don't eat refined sugars, potatoes, white rice (occasionally), or white flour which helps a great deal. |
Yeah, I'm healthy. I grew really tall when I was in my teens, and didn't fill out. I've been gaining weight slowly since I stopped growing upwards. Believe it or not I actually weighed less when I was about seventeen. I gained about 8 kilos since then. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Plastic B wrote: |
When I arrived in Korea I was a skinny mofo, but rapidly put on the kilos ~ 14 kg in the first 7 months, after that I levelled off. I put it all down to the late night all-you-can-eat and drink binges. Oh, and the lack of amphetamines in that drugforsaken hole...
Happy to say since I have been in Thailand I've managed to lose a couple of kilos without even trying...or taking yaba! |
yabadaba dooo.. man you gained 14kilos... JESUS!! |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| I lost about 15kg in the first 3 years in Korea, but over the last 5 I have put back on about 12kg of it. Been working out a bit more these day and have got my beer intake down by 70% right now and I am being pretty careful with what I am eating too, so I am starting to see some results... Have lost again about 3kg and hope to be down to my low weight again by summers end. I am working hard it. |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: Re: How much weight have you lost in Korea? |
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| After about six months now most of my pants just hang off my a_ss like I'm some joual talkin' ganstah straight outta Outremont. |
hey, are you from montreal?
on the fat question, i put on weight when i first got here because i don't eat meat and so i ate a lot of fries and pizza (not so healthy). then i hit the gym constantly and figured out where to buy healthy food.
i wanted to say though, that i don't the korean food is particularly (sp) healthy for you. it's full of trans fats and it's all fried (unless you only eat rice and seaweed). while there are some skinny girls out there, i'd say that on average more koreans are overwieght that the people back home. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:17 am Post subject: Re: How much weight have you lost in Korea? |
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i wanted to say though, that i don't the korean food is particularly (sp) healthy for you. it's full of trans fats and it's all fried (unless you only eat rice and seaweed). while there are some skinny girls out there, i'd say that on average more koreans are overwieght that the people back home. |
Ignoring the "it's all fried" part, which is incorrect, this post holds some validity. Sure the girls are, for the most part, rail thin, but the dudes tend to be pretty flabby -- at least past their twenties.
But "more Koreans are overweight than the people back home"? Where are you from, Ethiopia?
Sparkles*_* |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:22 am Post subject: Re: How much weight have you lost in Korea? |
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| After about six months now most of my pants just hang off my a_ss like I'm some joual talkin' ganstah straight outta Outremont. |
hey, are you from montreal? |
I lived there for 10 years. Dollard to be specific. Where I've lived: Windsor (*spit*), Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, and now Seoul.
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| i wanted to say though, that i don't the korean food is particularly (sp) healthy for you. it's full of trans fats and it's all fried (unless you only eat rice and seaweed). |
Which foods are fried?
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while there are some skinny girls out there, i'd say that on average more koreans are overwieght that the people back home. |
That doesn't jibe with my experience. It's so rare to see your basic Bubba fat person in Korea. In Seattle, people were pretty fit, but head east, from Detroit to the east coast, any street is filled with dozens of your basic Bubba fats. I don't even want to talk about what you see down in Florida. Oh lord.
As the other poster says, some of your younger kids look like they've benefited from an Italian mother "Oh John-Luco, eat! You are too skinny!" but I just don't see Koreans as being anything but a generally skinny HWP people. |
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gomurr
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| Everytime I come back to Korea I lose around 5kgs. Simply because I don't eat anywhere near as much of the junkfood here as I do back home. My wife and I also cook more healthier food then Mom does back home. I also find teaching kids is another form of exercise. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| HAH... lose weight? I wish! I've only gained since I set foot in Korea and it didn't help that I got married last year... almost 10 kilos so far... AYE! |
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