New country, new lifestyle

I've moved countries twice i the last 3ish years. First to Germany and I lost about 10kg (22lbs) by biking a lot and eating more fresh food. Fresh fruit, veggies and bread from farmers markets and so on. I didn't have a car, lived 5km away from work & town, so I walked and cycled EVERYWHERE. I also didn't have a washing machine so hand washing clothes was a workout by itself. :P I was still overweight though.

Moved to UK last September, gained a ton of weight, what I lost and more. Been trying to get back to gear in the last couple months and I'm about back to pre-England weight. Still have about 20 kilos to lose though!

Yes! I came to London in Jan, piled on a fridge worth of weight and am now in the middle of losing it it's totally doable with MFP! Scanning barcodes has saved my waistline

I did live abroad for 4 years in the past, but didn't gain or lose weight. However, on a 2 week business trip to Barcelona last year, I lost somewhere between 7-10 pounds. I ate so much healthier there and walked a LOT because there was a metro employee strike at the time that decreased the availability of public transportation.

I gained it back when I came back to the states (though lost it again recently).

Machka9 wrote: »

I moved to a new country ... I gained weight ... and I lost it again.

Same here, I live in a remote and small place in Ireland and there isn't a great choice of food available, plus I need to take the car to go anywhere. I've lost almost 10 kg., need to lose another 20 kg. to be in the middle of my health BMI.

I spent a semester in South Korea and lost weight, gained it back when I came back to the US. It was easy in Korea, because I was walking so much more (in my hometown you have to drive, because everything is too spread out to walk to, and our public transit is a joke). And I was always going on some sort of adventure so there was no time to eat out of boredom.

g00286581 wrote: »

That's funny, I find it so much easier to eat healthy in Ireland (the same as the uk I assume) and was a lot slimmer this time last year than I am now.. but here in Central Europe, it's bread, cheese and process meet every where you turn. The veg are not the freshest in the shops and forget about being served veg in restaurants everything is fried and covered in sauces, yuck

I just came back from vacation to see my family in Central Europe, and I know exactly what you mean. I actually lost two pounds because the food was so bad I didn't eat any of it. Lidl has an acceptable produce section, I found. Definitely better than Billa. The bigger cities might have a market day once in a while. If you're out on a village somewhere.... you're going to have to burn a lot of gas to get proper food.
It is doable, though! I managed to have avocados and plain yogurt every day, and made my family try sweet potatoes and oven roasted broccoli for the first time you can still find some healthy food, just not as fancy or exotic as in a bigger or more western country.

(Also, I gained like 30lbs in Germany, despite walking everywhere, because I didn't realise just how many calories rice has. I was there for half a year and it took me like three times that to lose it.)