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[tomato]

I am currently reading Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution and trying to comply with his instructions.
Needless to say, I have to overcome the hurdles of reading the package names and finding something I like.

My belt is fitting looser already, but the diet has wrought havoc with my digestive system. That is probably because I swore off white rice and can't find anything to take its place. I understand that there is a Website through which one could order oatmeal in Korea, but I can't find it.

The local supermarket has a good line of products under the brand name of �츮 ��깰 (our agricultural products). When I get home, I am going to try boiling their ��� ���� (yellow glutinous millet) and their ���� �� (brown unhulled rice).

I still wish I could find an alternative to white bread. Where can I get wheat bread or rye bread? And what would the name on the package say?

[FUBAR]

check the thread for online shopping. That online store has oatmeal and rye bread.

[Css]

You can get rye bread at hyundai...no clue about price though...

I cant imagine doing atkins here, the rice and noodles are hard to leave out...what kind of carb levels do veggies have?

[theatrelily]

Congrats on the diet success!

I've been following an Atkins lifestyle since last December...have since lost approx. 55 lbs and feelin' pretty darned good about all of it...

If you need any help or suggestions for eating out, let me know....

[shortskirt_longjacket]

anybody know how many heart attacks dr. atkins had before he finally kicked the bucket last winter (from, of course, a heart attack)? was it two or three?

it works for losing weight, but it is absolutely awful for you. your body produces ketones when you don't eat carbs and it's really bad for your kidneys. they have these little strips that you can buy to test whether your body is in ketosis or not (these strips are for people who are diabetic to tell if they're going into shock or something).

it doesn't seem natural. it doesn't seem healthy. people should just get out and exercise, do a better job at portion control, etc.

but i s'pose if you're gonna do it, korea would be the place. you can get a lot of different meats here. reading labels to actually monitor your carb intake must be a birch, though.

[theatrelily]

....actually I think Atkins died of complications due to a bad spill he took outside of his condo in NY...his physician released a statement to refute the rumour mills stating that his blood pressure and cholesterol had been textbook and his heart condition was viral and not diet related...

I've had my own stats checked regularly and I'm in great health (minus current head cold that is...)

..however I do believe that no diet should exclude exercise, and I (as Atkins also advocates) exercise regularly...

[osangrl]

Oatmeal in Itaewon!


Go down the street between geckos and burger king.... you can go to the redoor shop on the left for black market goods.

or

keep going down that street till you hit Chungwa apartments on the right.... there is a freshmarket in there and downstairs before you enter the supermarket is a man in a corner selling black market goods too.

[jazblanc77]

[turtlepi1]

Here's an idea...lay off the western diet...cut bread and sugar and eat a traditional Korean diet and the weight will fall off.

I eat like crazy everyday and I am losing weight like mad.

I was always a "normal" weight. Then when I was working in the computer industry working 15 hour days I ballooned up to 210 lbs. (I'm 5' 7" and normally 140 lbs) It lasted for a couple of years then I decided I needed to do something about it. I cut out sugar (4 litres of Pepsi a day) and started eating "normal" meals. I lost 30 lbs in 5 weeks. The rest of the weight didn't seem to want to come off.

Like I said, the rest of the weight has been falling off...

Just a thought.

[rNS]

[tomato]

I saw �и� and �Ҹ� in the grain section at the supermarket, and I had to look up both words in the ���ѻ���.

�и� is "���ۺ���," which means "pressed (rolled) barley."

�Ҹ� is "������ ���η� �̵����� �� ��ó�� �ٵ�� ������ ������." As well as I can figure, that means "barley grain which has been lined up and then trimmed, hulled, and refined like rice."

Since Dr. Atkins disapproves of refined rice, he would most likely disapprove of �Ҹ�. What do you suppose he would say about �и�?

[Yaya]

Dr. Peter Gott has had a lot of success stories with his "no flour, no sugar" diet. He does allow for natural sugar products like fruit and stuff.

I myself have cut down on carbs, though I still eat sandwiches. I have cut out pancakes, doughnuts and other stuff like that. And with rice, I limit myself to a single bowl.

[Little Laura]

It's a luxury, granted, but because I'm going to be here for some time I broke down and bought a bread machine at Carrefour for about 70,000 won. I buy Pillsbury whole wheat flour from Dandy's, the little grocery store right in front of Hanam Supermarket in Hanganjing. I make an almost all whole grain bread, adding some soy flour I found at a local healthfood shop (just a little, has a strong flavor), oatmeal, cornmeal, some walnuts, and when I have them, pumpkin seeds. Sometimes I use milk, sometimes whey (it's a cinch to make your own cottage cheese or ricotta, another nice treat for Atkins dieters, then just add some cocoa powder and a packet of Splenda, maybe some walnuts...)

If anyone needs specifics re: the recipes, let me know. For the ricotta, all you need is milk and lemon juice.

Also good for Atkins: Did you ever try those seafood sticks that taste like crab? Available at any local supermarket. Get the orange colored ones, not the red ones. Chop and mix with mayo, minced onion, diced celery, salt & pepper.

[anomi]

[sistersarah]

i used to drink almost 4 litres of cola a day too, that was in university...

it was hard to cut it out....actually, it's not fully cut out. i still drink between 1 and 1.5 litres. still bad, but better than 4.