Why Living in Japan Will Make You SKINNY

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  @MrsEats · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @Maderyne · 3 years ago

  For me, sweet candy, doughnuts, and sugar cola drinks were my problem. &nbsp;One day I decided to stop buying them. I ate oranges, apples and grapes to get the sweetness, passed on the pastry, and began drinking tea instead of colas. Bit by bit, the pounds fell off and I felt better. The only downside was my clothes no longer fit me. That was when I knew I had won!

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  @Glitchwerk · 4 years ago

  My mother is a professional pastry chef, and I learned how to bake from her. One trick I started using to lose weight is if I see a pastry that I know how to make (cookies, cakes, etc) I say to myself &quot;I know what is in that&quot; or &quot;I can do better&quot; or &quot;i know what this tastes like already&quot; and this is how I talk myself out of eating it.<br>I also used my knowledge of baking to cut out fats and surgar in the things I make at home. Most of my pastries are 30-70% less calories now. I encourage everybody to learn the chemestry of baking so you can cut unnecessary calories from your food &nbsp;too.

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  @MagraveOfGA · 3 years ago

  A note about the sugar/sweetener at the table. Those are for the benefit of people who order coffee. It is usually served black at restaurants, so the customer would add sugar, powdered creamer, or artificial sweetener to their taste.<br><br>Also, &nbsp;America also has, an apparently unique, thing where most restaurants/fast food places allow free refills on most drinks.

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  @sheikahsoulreadings · 3 years ago

  I know exactly what you are saying. I went from 250lbs (113kg) to 120lbs (54kg) and I thought I would automatically be confident. No. I even had a family member who thought I would go from baggy clothes to dressing like a supermodel. No. <br>I discovered that my lack of confidence was inside., not outside

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  @moonbright9 · 4 years ago

  When I was in America for 4 weeks I lost 5kg, yet when I was in Japan for 3 weeks, I gained 3kg XD japanese food just tastes so good

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  @eviegrim4387 · 3 years ago

  adding sugar to soda was the funniest thing to me, but i understand the confusion. we use it for coffee because coffee is usually served with no cream or sugar. i hope nobody is adding sugar to soda...

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  @ErzaScarletRed · 4 years ago (edited)

  Really appreciate how you incorporated your own story into this as a way to show some personal perspective to the audience! It makes it more relatable imo. I&apos;ve also been wanting to visit Japan (since I have a friend there), but it might be a little trickier since I&apos;m vegetarian 😅

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  @immeow9971 · 3 years ago

  I had my honeymoon trip to Japan for 3 weeks. Ate so much but realised I lost weight despite eating so much!

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  @kiss-shot-acerola-orion · 3 years ago

  I also struggled a lot with my weight. When I was younger, I worked out almost 6 hours every day. I was in 5 different sports clubs and also made a license as lifeguard. But suddenly I started to gain weight, so I trained even harder. Didn&apos;t help, so I went on a diet, only drank water and ate fresh vegetables, still gained weight. I couldn&apos;t eat in public since everyone told me with my weight I should skip meals, I got belittled and called lazy and fat. My weight rose until I wasn&apos;t able to do sports anymore since my joints hurt so much and I got bruises from the slightest bump.<br>It took 6 years until I finally found a doctor that believed me and looked for the cause, finding out it was lipedema that made my weight rise.<br>Lipedema is an illness where fat cells increase unlimited, it gets worse and worse with time. To make it simple, it&apos;s like with cancer, the cells stop doing their original job and become neoplastic. The cells get bigger and bigger and neither diets nor sport can affect them. But since they are &quot;fat cells&quot;, neither people nor medicine take it serious, calling out people affected by the illness: &quot;It&apos;s fat, so it&apos;s your own fault. Just stop lying to yourself.&quot;<br>No it&apos;s not, and finally that viewpoint starts to change (a little). After 20 years of suffering (the cells don&apos;t just get bigger, they also cause a lot of pain) I finally got my operations, and since last year, I am back on working out, cause I finally am able to do so again. On my own, I would not have managed to do it. Lipedema is an illness, not a decision.

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  @Nature.informs · 3 years ago (edited)

  (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWDAXfeGI&amp;t=1154">19:14</a>) This part made me cry because you showed us how you overcame these obstacles. You were probably scared on sharing this information with your viewers but I think you nailed it. You showed us that the best part of a journey is when you spent time with the people you care about.🥰

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• MB

  @mb7241 · 4 years ago

  As someone who&apos;s currently in the process of losing a lot of weight (highest weight was 321 lbs/146 kg, started seriously trying to lose weight at 309 lbs/140 kg, currently 283 lbs/128 kg after about 12 weeks, goal weight 185 lbs/84 kg), I can confirm that letting go was the first step (not just of the emotional pain from people making fun of my weight, but also of the idea that I had to eat to get full, like every other American does). &nbsp;I&apos;m doing this for me...I don&apos;t want to wake up one day when I&apos;m 40 years old, and find myself headed to the hospital with a heart attack that I might not survive (I just turned 37 a few days ago). &nbsp;I&apos;ve begun eating more vegetables, and almost completely cut out sugary drinks and desserts. &nbsp;I&apos;ll soon be starting back on the gym grind, as well. &nbsp;Mrs. Eats, I appreciate you sharing your story and your bravery, I wish all the best for you and Mr. Eats on his journey, and I hope to hear more of it in the future. &nbsp;Meanwhile, I&apos;ll be cheering him on while on my own journey to health :) .

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