Weight gain in Korea......and my new fitness plan!

After leaving my host family in Korea and working at a Summer Camp for 5 weeks......I gained like 10 pounds in seven weeks. But in my head I was thinking -  it's ok you're going to Korea and will be living off vegetables again....it will go in no time.

I should have know better

But it's starting to hit me now..... I am growing at an alarming rate.

So yeah, basically I am failing at skinny life. But thinking about it I guess this was inevitable.

Let's compare my life now to life in Switzerland.......

1) Food

Switzerland

Daily

Breakfast - Cereal with the kids

Lunch - Spinach omlette or a spinach salad with dried meat and cheese

Dinner - Vegetables of some sort and then cheese

Snacks - Swiss swiss chocolate (ok, I was eating large portions of this)

Standard lunch

I remember when I thought this was a ridic large dinner.

Eating out

Due to lack of money I would very rarely eat out - and if I did I would generally choose the smaller option to save money. Of course there was the occasion where I was taken out for food or cooked for.....and I would eat a LOT - but this was not the norm.

Takeaways/Fast Food

I think that in total I had McDonalds twice in Switz.....and this was pretty much the only fast food option.

Drunk Food

A tuna sandwich from Buzz ......and generally only if I had skipped dinner.

Korea

Daily 

Breakfast - A chocolate snack bar at school

Lunch - School dinners (generally soup + meat + rice + noodles + kimchi)

Dinner - Either Ramen (supernoodles) or eating out (see Eating out)

Eating out

Do I have to write this down? Ok I probably go out for food two .... three ok maybe four times a week. But it's so easy and social when it's so cheap!! And tastes soooo good!!

Takeaways/Fast Food

So yeah....the chicken burger place near mine is awesome.....the pizza place is pretty cool...... oh and...... well, you get the idea.

Cooking for one sometimes seems too much of an effort.

Heyyyy KFC.......we didn't have you in Switzerland!

Drunk Food

Deep fried Oreos...... Pizza in a cup.......Lotteria?!

2) Exercise

Switzerland

I had my routine - after taking the kids to school I would come home and do 'Jillian Michaels - 30 day shred'- and even when I skipped - I was still cleaning a house - walking and carrying back a lot of shopping, ice skating/ hiking/ jogging / drunken walks home if I couldn't afford a taxi.

I remember doing Jill hungover and actually telling myself this.......Motivation....where did you go?!

Korea

Now this is totally my own fault. I have fallen out of my routine.....I managed Jill for one week....then lost momentum. There are plenty of places to hike here and stay fit so I need to get back on this. I started to get quite fit at one point......THERE WAS A FOUR PACK.......What do I have now???!!! WAHHHH!

Am I happier now or then?

I think this is how I tricked myself for the first few weeks. I kept telling myself how happy I was. 

But I've realised that my happiness fits into two categories. 

Am I happier with life in general here? YES.

Am I happier with my body? No. Clothes don't fit as well and basically things just don't look as good. And well, I just feel blurgghhh. I was working a LOT more hours last year.....and managed to fit in exercise.....now I just tend to nap or play candypang!!

Me after trying on my old clothes

So what am I going to do about it?

There's no point complaining if I am not going to do anything about it - so this is why I am writing this blog post - to kick my fat ass into action.

I will first start on the exercise side of things - as food is too much of a social occasion atm.

So first step.......at least 30 mins of Jill a day...... NO EXCUSE.

Do at least one outside exercise activity a week (this Sunday I will go hiking to Mt Aspen)

I will also try and post my weight monthly to give me a push not to cheat

So here we go - Week 1 - 64kg (ouch - 57kg was my standard in Switz)
I don't have a tape measure - but once I get one I will add them too - as I feel that my legs have actually doubled in size

So let's go....anyone want to join? I do so much better with fitness buddies.....even if we just message each other with how we're doing :) :)