American Expats!
lugiagirl249
Posts: 66 Member
Hi guys!
It's been almost 2 years since I moved from the U.S to Sweden. It's been a couple of months
since I joined MFP and I'd like some American expats for friends to support/get support from.
I follow a LCHF diet and enter in my diary daily.
Also, expat rants are welcome! :laugh:
-lg
It's been almost 2 years since I moved from the U.S to Sweden. It's been a couple of months
since I joined MFP and I'd like some American expats for friends to support/get support from.
I follow a LCHF diet and enter in my diary daily.
Also, expat rants are welcome! :laugh:
-lg
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Hey!
I'm also an expat! I'm in the middle of my second year in South Korea, and I follow the no rice, eat lots of veggies and protein diet! (Ice cream and wine are welcome
). And I've been a vegetarian for about ten years.
I track daily, too. Feel free to add me as a friend. 0 -
Hi!!
You were just the post I was looking for.
I'm Teresa; an American expat who moved to The Netherlands from NYC.(Moved in Jan 2014) I've been yo-yo-ing with going LCHF for a while now, but I think this weekend I'm going in for good. (Right now I am weaning off by having 2 Keto meals and having a normal dinner.)
Oh I am full of diet and expat rants :P Nice to meet you! Will add you as a friend if that's okay 0 -
Wow, South Korea is a long way from home! Did you move for love? Work? New scenery?
Also, 10 years is quite a feat!0 -
Feel free to add me too! I've been living in Norway now for a little over 4 years. (Waiting on my citizenship papers now, woohoo!) I don't follow anything, I eat what I want so long as it fits into my calorie allowance and sometimes eat it anyway when it doesn't.0
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Hi!!
You were just the post I was looking for.
I'm Teresa; an American expat who moved to The Netherlands from NYC.(Moved in Jan 2014) I've been yo-yo-ing with going LCHF for a while now, but I think this weekend I'm going in for good. (Right now I am weaning off by having 2 Keto meals and having a normal dinner.)
Oh I am full of diet and expat rants :P Nice to meet you! Will add you as a friend if that's okay
Alright! Wow, I'd love to visit the Netherlands.
Good start to the diet! I did cold turkey myself. So far so good!
I've got plenty of expat rants to offer as well. XD0 -
Feel free to add me too! I've been living in Norway now for a little over 4 years. (Waiting on my citizenship papers now, woohoo!) I don't follow anything, I eat what I want so long as it fits into my calorie allowance and sometimes eat it anyway when it doesn't.
Woohoo Scandinavia! I hope you're enjoying Norway. I bet you guys have better weather right now.
It's been clouds and rain for weeks!
Grats on your citizenship! I'll will be applying for permanent residence permit this summer as well.0 -
That's awesome you're doing it cold turkey. I tried so many times in the past year, but it's super hard. I'm a carb-o-holic and I totally admit it.
The NL is great I loved Sweden; I went there for work 2 summer's ago and 3 days wasn't enough; I def want to go back!Hi!!
You were just the post I was looking for.
I'm Teresa; an American expat who moved to The Netherlands from NYC.(Moved in Jan 2014) I've been yo-yo-ing with going LCHF for a while now, but I think this weekend I'm going in for good. (Right now I am weaning off by having 2 Keto meals and having a normal dinner.)
Oh I am full of diet and expat rants :P Nice to meet you! Will add you as a friend if that's okay
Alright! Wow, I'd love to visit the Netherlands.
Good start to the diet! I did cold turkey myself. So far so good!0 -
Wow! Congrats on almost citizenship.Feel free to add me too! I've been living in Norway now for a little over 4 years. (Waiting on my citizenship papers now, woohoo!) I don't follow anything, I eat what I want so long as it fits into my calorie allowance and sometimes eat it anyway when it doesn't.0
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That's awesome you're doing it cold turkey. I tried so many times in the past year, but it's super hard. I'm a carb-o-holic and I totally admit it.
The NL is great I loved Sweden; I went there for work 2 summer's ago and 3 days wasn't enough; I def want to go back!
I know what you mean. Sweden has such fresh ingredients for baked goods, they're so irresistible!
I never would have thought that kebab pizzas were so good. I couldn't tear away from such tasty menus.0 -
Same problem here in The NL. And it doesn't help that my Dutch bf is super skinny and eats 3x as much as me... :O
And the beer here is great. I just weighed myself today after 5 months here and I think I'll be going into Keto cold turkey now
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Same problem here in The NL. And it doesn't help that my Dutch bf is super skinny and eats 3x as much as me... :O
And the beer here is great. I just weighed myself today after 5 months here and I think I'll be going into Keto cold turkey now
I wish you the best of luck going cold turkey.
YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!0 -
I'm Rita, this is my second year living in Finland. It's great to meet other expats on here!
Please feel free to add me as a friend 0 -
I'm Rita, this is my second year living in Finland. It's great to meet other expats on here!
Please feel free to add me as a friend
Hi! Welcome to the club! :P0 -
I just moved to Germany from New York last October. ^_^0
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I'm a British expat living in Bahrain........ soon to return to the UK though.......0
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I've been an expat for 3 years now. First year in China, two in Taiwan. I will be moving to Turkey in about 3 months for another 2 years. I can rant w/ the best of them!0
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I just moved to Germany from New York last October. ^_^
What's it like to live in Germany? I only visited last summer for a few days.0 -
I've been an expat for 3 years now. First year in China, two in Taiwan. I will be moving to Turkey in about 3 months for another 2 years. I can rant w/ the best of them!
Oh wow. I'd like to read some stories! 0 -
Feel free to add me too! I've been living in Norway now for a little over 4 years. (Waiting on my citizenship papers now, woohoo!) I don't follow anything, I eat what I want so long as it fits into my calorie allowance and sometimes eat it anyway when it doesn't.
Woohoo Scandinavia! I hope you're enjoying Norway. I bet you guys have better weather right now.
It's been clouds and rain for weeks!
Grats on your citizenship! I'll will be applying for permanent residence permit this summer as well.
I wish the weather was nice here, especially since it's May 17th soon! Yesterday I got caught out in the hail with my son and today it's raining. So exciting about your permanent residency, I was relieved of a lot of stress when I finally got mine.0 -
Wow! Congrats on almost citizenship.Feel free to add me too! I've been living in Norway now for a little over 4 years. (Waiting on my citizenship papers now, woohoo!) I don't follow anything, I eat what I want so long as it fits into my calorie allowance and sometimes eat it anyway when it doesn't.
Thank you! I love the exemption that's allowed me to apply so soon. Live in Norway for 3 & 1/2 years and be married to a Norwegian for the same amount of time and they count it as 7 years. I'm really looking forward to visiting family in the US with a new red passport and hopefully out of the obese category, 24ish pounds to go!
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Congrats on the almost citizenship. Be sure not to forget your American passport too. I understand that when entering the US you need to use your US passport, or it was just a horror story.
It's the same here in Finland. I only have to be here for 4 years total to apply for citizenship, plus I have to pass a language test. My confidence in Finnish speaking has taken a real beating lately, I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now. I handed someone off to my colleague rather than ask her to speak English, I'm pretty ashamed that I'm not fluent already!
It will be nice to have some people to chat with about the challenges of losing weight while living overseas. I've finally learned to love the packaging with 100g on them The thing for me, is why is everyone so slim? The baked goods are so tasty!! 0 -
Congrats on the almost citizenship. Be sure not to forget your American passport too. I understand that when entering the US you need to use your US passport, or it was just a horror story.
It's the same here in Finland. I only have to be here for 4 years total to apply for citizenship, plus I have to pass a language test. My confidence in Finnish speaking has taken a real beating lately, I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now. I handed someone off to my colleague rather than ask her to speak English, I'm pretty ashamed that I'm not fluent already!
It will be nice to have some people to chat with about the challenges of losing weight while living overseas. I've finally learned to love the packaging with 100g on them The thing for me, is why is everyone so slim? The baked goods are so tasty!!
You have to pass a language test to get citizenship? NO WAY. I'm glad it's not like that in Sweden. I just need 3 years with my fiance and I'm good.
Anyway, It's been hard for me here because I want to taste all of the good treats. I also have noticed that everyone is thin. How do they do it???0 -
I've been visiting Germany every summer since I was about 14 years old.I just moved to Germany from New York last October. ^_^
What's it like to live in Germany? I only visited last summer for a few days.
Living here is a lot different though. I'm not fluent in German *at all* so that's a challenge because English isn't as widely spoken as I thought. At least here in Düsseldorf. I originally lived in Berlin and English was practically a second language there.
Other than that, I love it here. Food is good, most places are within walking distance, public transportation is superb.0 -
Congrats on the almost citizenship. Be sure not to forget your American passport too. I understand that when entering the US you need to use your US passport, or it was just a horror story.
It's the same here in Finland. I only have to be here for 4 years total to apply for citizenship, plus I have to pass a language test. My confidence in Finnish speaking has taken a real beating lately, I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now. I handed someone off to my colleague rather than ask her to speak English, I'm pretty ashamed that I'm not fluent already!
It will be nice to have some people to chat with about the challenges of losing weight while living overseas. I've finally learned to love the packaging with 100g on them The thing for me, is why is everyone so slim? The baked goods are so tasty!!
Oh yeah, you have to pass some language classes here too even just to get permanent residency but it's easy peasy, at least I thought so. I just gave up on sounding perfect, my husband tells me my Norwegian accent/sentence structure is really charming so I just take his word for it and press on. I feel like if people really want to communicate with me they will make an effort to understand instead of just blowing me off.
I'm pretty sure the passport thing is a horror story. My husband had no problems visiting me in the US when we first hooked up. I also have to turn in my passport when I renounce so I wouldn't have it anyway. I avoid the baked goods if I can, except for lefse. I think I was born with a cinnamon weakness! =/0 -
Congrats on the almost citizenship. Be sure not to forget your American passport too. I understand that when entering the US you need to use your US passport, or it was just a horror story.
It's the same here in Finland. I only have to be here for 4 years total to apply for citizenship, plus I have to pass a language test. My confidence in Finnish speaking has taken a real beating lately, I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now. I handed someone off to my colleague rather than ask her to speak English, I'm pretty ashamed that I'm not fluent already!
It will be nice to have some people to chat with about the challenges of losing weight while living overseas. I've finally learned to love the packaging with 100g on them The thing for me, is why is everyone so slim? The baked goods are so tasty!!
Oh yeah, you have to pass some language classes here too even just to get permanent residency but it's easy peasy, at least I thought so. I just gave up on sounding perfect, my husband tells me my Norwegian accent/sentence structure is really charming so I just take his word for it and press on. I feel like if people really want to communicate with me they will make an effort to understand instead of just blowing me off.
I'm pretty sure the passport thing is a horror story. My husband had no problems visiting me in the US when we first hooked up. I also have to turn in my passport when I renounce so I wouldn't have it anyway. I avoid the baked goods if I can, except for lefse. I think I was born with a cinnamon weakness! =/
Hold up, you have to renounce your citizenship? Does Norway recognize dual/multi citizenships?
Sweden does, so I'm not giving up mine until my finances require me to pay taxes to Uncle Sam.0 -
I've been visiting Germany every summer since I was about 14 years old.I just moved to Germany from New York last October. ^_^
What's it like to live in Germany? I only visited last summer for a few days.
Living here is a lot different though. I'm not fluent in German *at all* so that's a challenge because English isn't as widely spoken as I thought. At least here in Düsseldorf. I originally lived in Berlin and English was practically a second language there.
Other than that, I love it here. Food is good, most places are within walking distance, public transportation is superb.
Pretty much the same experience here in Sweden. Practically everyone knows some English here, but I am working on my Swedish as well.0 -
Hey, I am an expat living in Norway too! I moved here a little over a year ago and married a Norwegian. I am going to language classes now, so I still have a ways to go before I get permanent residence or citizenship (and yes, Norway doesn't allow dual citizenship).
I don't post often but it would be nice to have some friends that can give me food ideas and be able to read my diary without me having to translate it hehe 0 -
Congrats on the almost citizenship. Be sure not to forget your American passport too. I understand that when entering the US you need to use your US passport, or it was just a horror story.
It's the same here in Finland. I only have to be here for 4 years total to apply for citizenship, plus I have to pass a language test. My confidence in Finnish speaking has taken a real beating lately, I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now. I handed someone off to my colleague rather than ask her to speak English, I'm pretty ashamed that I'm not fluent already!
It will be nice to have some people to chat with about the challenges of losing weight while living overseas. I've finally learned to love the packaging with 100g on them The thing for me, is why is everyone so slim? The baked goods are so tasty!!
Oh yeah, you have to pass some language classes here too even just to get permanent residency but it's easy peasy, at least I thought so. I just gave up on sounding perfect, my husband tells me my Norwegian accent/sentence structure is really charming so I just take his word for it and press on. I feel like if people really want to communicate with me they will make an effort to understand instead of just blowing me off.
I'm pretty sure the passport thing is a horror story. My husband had no problems visiting me in the US when we first hooked up. I also have to turn in my passport when I renounce so I wouldn't have it anyway. I avoid the baked goods if I can, except for lefse. I think I was born with a cinnamon weakness! =/
Hold up, you have to renounce your citizenship? Does Norway recognize dual/multi citizenships?
Sweden does, so I'm not giving up mine until my finances require me to pay taxes to Uncle Sam.
Yeah I have to renounce, no dual citizenship allowed. My son will have dual because he was born while I still hold American citizenship but he will have to choose at age 18 which he wants.0 -
Hey, I am an expat living in Norway too! I moved here a little over a year ago and married a Norwegian. I am going to language classes now, so I still have a ways to go before I get permanent residence or citizenship (and yes, Norway doesn't allow dual citizenship).
I don't post often but it would be nice to have some friends that can give me food ideas and be able to read my diary without me having to translate it hehe
Adding you! Hyggelig å møte deg!0 -
Hey, I am an expat living in Norway too! I moved here a little over a year ago and married a Norwegian. I am going to language classes now, so I still have a ways to go before I get permanent residence or citizenship (and yes, Norway doesn't allow dual citizenship).
I don't post often but it would be nice to have some friends that can give me food ideas and be able to read my diary without me having to translate it hehe
Wow, I didn't realize that we have a good amount expats in Scandinavia. This is comforting!
Good luck with the language classes! I had a hell of a time with mine. : \ :mad:0
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