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hiddenuser · Oct 8, 2020

Always a Poppy said: ↑

Have you tried custard with the biscuits and beef with the gravy?
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gabbys on rovera has "gravy beef" which is served on three scoops of mashed potatoes. a real comfort food. never found decent biscuits and gravy here or just biscuits for that matter. rather than custard i get the leche flan sold by the SU farm store. addictive

Always a Poppy · Oct 8, 2020

shabbynomad70 said: ↑

i have lost forty pounds since coming here but have a long ways to go. more importantly to me is that i came here on ten prescription meds and i am now down to three, with two of those now being half tabs.

i ride a bicycle almost every day to market and my diet has shifted markedly towards fresh raw vegetables.

i once might have been within hailing distance of mr rye's fitness, having a 28 inch waist, weighing 140 pounds and running every day. wore a three piece suit to work, closed the discos at 2 a m three nights a week and my s*** didn't stink!! but those days are long long gone.

the most important change for me here is that i love every day. i am happier in my personal life than i have ever been. every two years when i go back to the states i reach a new level of loathing for that life i used to live. (tho i still miss the biscuits and gravy but even when i go back i don't eat them anymore)

i am always on the lookout for those things we expats have in common here and will offer the opinion that generally speaking we appear to be and or claim to be happier and more self satisfied here. i know it is markedly true for me.

this is probably a good time to say that my daily dose of dumaguete info is a positive for me and i enjoy the humor, observations, assistance to each other and electronic repartee!
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Have you tried custard with the biscuits and beef with the gravy?

anti_crazy · Oct 8, 2020

Always a Poppy said: ↑

Has anyone else experienced similar weight loss on moving here?
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I have. I was about 87kg (192 lbs) when I first moved here. Now it's an effort to stay above 70kg. My workout routine is about the same as years before (I can do more pushups but could be because I'm lighter now). And, as others have said, I also have a wife worried what others will think if I don't grow my belly bigger.

hiddenuser · Oct 7, 2020

Rye83 said: ↑

I went from 105kg @ 25% body fat (from when decided to lose weight and I got on a scale for the first time in probably a decade, my heaviest was likely around 110-115kg) to around 70kg @ ~7% body fat in less than a year while in Afghanistan. (Although, I will admit I was competition lean without much muscle mass. The average person from any country may be taken back when they can see every muscle fiber on a person.)

When I came back here the comments I got were downright offensive and disrespectful. They thought I was dying from some deadly disease or had been horribly addicted to meth, it did not change any opinions when I told them that I was extremely strict with my diet, in the gym 7 days a week and walking 15-20km/day (and had extensive knowledge, notes, data and an article about me on the men's health website to prove it). Some even commented that they thought I used to look "buff" when I was extremely obese and suggested I go back to that. I never took it personal though, their opinions were coming from a place of ignorance.

I think this idea that obesity=healthy stems from the country reducing the number of people living in poverty and the introduction of cheap calories in the past several decades. They just don't know any better...though many will be learning through huge medical bills and early deaths in the very near future. I believe many Western civilizations have went through this exact thing before (glorification of obesity...which is not the same as the dereistic thinking of today). The government will likely step in and push nutritional/exercise classes in schools and PSAs, I could even see them adding junk foods under the "sin tax" (gluttony is a sin, right?), once it gets completely out of hand and hospitals start complaining to politicians about not getting paid.
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gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, as is pride

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