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[desultude]

I've lost weight in Korea- maybe around 13 kilos, but I just found some of it while back in the States for three weeks.

The difference in diet? In the States- too much temptation of really good bad for you food- for example; thick juicy bacon blue cheese burgers, real fresh french fries, bacon, really really good bacon, mashed potatoes with roast pork and gravy. All of that is so bad, but damn it tastes so good. Thats not to mention Ben and Jerry's (that hasn't been thawed and refrozen, as it is too often here) homemade cookies and cakes, Godiva chocolates, ad delicium.

In Korea it is easy to avoid these things. Western restaurants here suck- why pay the big bucks and get fat eating crap? If you stay away from the twigim and go light on the white rice, you can eat well.

I eat brown rice mixed with grains- high on the complex carbs and real filling, lots of fresh vegetables and fish. I also cook for myself, which helps a lot.

[hojucandy]

i have been growing slowly but steadily heavier in korea. esp this last year - lack of excercise..... lots of great korean food

[Cedar]

I arrived in Korea at about 60 kgs and now, almost nine years later, I am still about 60 kgs. I usually go down 2 kgs in the summer, and up two kgs in the winter, plus bloating during my menstrual cycle can be as much as 1.2 or 1.4 kilos addition.

I ate healthy when I lived in the States, I eat healthy here, I exercised, I still exercise...

However, as a fish eating but non-dairy vegetarian I always lose weight when I spend too much time in Tibet...

[bucheon bum]

didn't gain nor lose weight in my 2 years of korea: i stayed the same.

[butter808fly]

I came here to loose but found that its just as easy to overeat here as it is in the states, well almost as easy. I havent gained much but my flat butt is not round and my gut has grown a bit from lack of kickboxing classes and warm weather for bike riding.

Joining the gym in a week

Koreans dont eat a lot of veggies it seems, so fortunatly they are plenty abundant in the markets. Eating out is what kills my weight loss..oh, and ice cream.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I finally joined a gym here. I'm just waiting for the day I finally make it to 70 kg on the scale (I'm 183cm) and scream 'thank-@#$%ing goodness'. I really am trying to eat anything I can find, even breaking my veg-aquarian diet on ocasion. How do so many of the kids manage to get fat on Korean cuisine?

[Blind Willie]

[Evan]

[jajdude]

I think I have gained some.

[Greekfreak]

When I first arrived in Korea 4 years ago, I was about 70kg. Until I learned to read and write in Korean, I lived on nothing but doeji guk bap and orion chocolate-covered digestives for about two months, didn't work out during that time, and walked to-and-from work.

Dropped down to about 65 kg, my lowest in a long time.

At this point, with the abundance of fried foods and weight training (and no longer being single), I'm probably between 80-85--not good. I agree that it's easy to put on weight here, especially since not ALL of the native dishes are healthy. Nor are they all delicious.

When I first got here, they said Kimchi is a delicacy... my opinion? Desperation is not a delicacy.

[hojucandy]

[rawiri]

I lost 50 kg's of useless dead annoying weight as soon as i stepped on the plane from melbourne...her name was jacqui.

[eamo]

[syclick]

I was pretty slim when I got married here in Korea. Then my mother in law stuffed me up with Korean food, and I gained back 5-10 kilos.

[sparkx]

I was about 85 kilos when i came here 2 years ago. Actually having money to throw around for the first time in my life and not having to skip meals to pay for text books and tuition resulted in a 12 kilo weight gain.

I'm presently about 97 kilos with my goal being 100 (by lifting weights not packing on chubb)