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The Water debate
I always drink water before or with meals. This helps me eat my food and also I hear that you fill up faster if you have some water beforehand. Not sure how true that is. However, being in Korea.... people here drink water AFTER their meals as it is believed to hinder digestion. I've only known one person here who drinks…
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Walking after meals
Does walking after a meal really aid in digestion? I know the worst thing is to fall asleep after eating as it's bad for digestion and the opposite - walking or light exercise to be a positive habit.
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Shows promoting Low Fat diets....
I came across and old BBC TV show from 2006 - I Know What You Ate Last Summer. This show promoted Low Fat diets and lots of outdoor exercises to overweight teenagers at a camp in California. It also had a calorie cap of 1200 and a fat cap of only 12 grams! This can't be so healthy in the long run.... and it was promoting…
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Help in-body check at Gym in 3-4 days!!
So I was in Seoul enjoying the fact that I can find NY style pizza and Japanese food and I got this message from my gym. I'm cutting out the refined carbs after today (had some granola cereal in my yogurt) which means telling the lunch ladies at work "no rice" again which they DO NOT understand. I see the worried look on…
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CURVES gym
I joined one here in Korea because I heard the other gyms in town didn't have air conditioner (it was late spring), and I don't have much room in my studio apt... however they don't have the "Jillian Micheals" program or other classes like the ones in the states. However, I have heard some people say that this gym is only…
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culturally ingrained insensitivity to weight & general observations
So this year I moved halfway around the world to an area that is the basically the opposite of America health-wise (S.Korea). With the USA having about 40% of the population being overweight or obese and where I live now having -5%, the difference is noticable. I went from being "slightly larger" or even "Average" in the…
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How can I keep track? Food culture differences living abroad ....
How can I keep track of my calories if half the time I don't even know what I am eating? So I've been trying to use myfitnesspal for the last few months living abroad - I moved to Korea last spring. But lunches are always a guesstimate. Even if I manage to ask "Igeo mwoyeyo?" ("이거 뭐예요?""What is this?") it doesn't help me…
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Okinawa Diet Plan
I have the book and I've been reading into it and it seems reasonable for myself personally. I am not much of a fast food eater. When I go out it's rarely pizza or American style Chinese food. I eat whole grains and no red meat naturally. I would basically be swapping out some of my whole grain rice for sweet potatoes…
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Shirataki Cookie Variations (Chocolate, fruit, green tea)
I've been using the noodles in various foms -an Asian Grocery has them in all different types. They also have Konnyaku (the blocks). Lately I've been into frying them up (to get all the moisture out) and making into cookies. This time I was able to use two types, one egg noodle style with tofu, and one thin spaghetti style…
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I'm at that platau already...
Everytime I see this number (150) I can barely get below it. Only once in my life was I down 10 or 20 more lbs...and I think my WII scale was lying... I've tried WW, south beach, even the master cleanse and nothing sticks. Lately I've just been eating between 1200-1700 cal and working out for up to 2 hrs. When school…
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Shirataki or Yam Noodles - A Japanese Diet secret
Anyone else have these before? They have absolutely NO dietary value, come already "cooked" and are great for those who can't have many carbs as they have NONE! I've put them in broth and tonight in Spagetti sauce (yeah I know...soo Western of me, but I wanted turkey meatballs) and if you can first get over the smell of…
