Diet

It's not a suprise that my diet has changed while I have been living in Korea.  However, because I cook most of my meals myself I am not fully enveloped in the standard Korean diet.  However due to a lack of basic ingredients my diet is rather restricted. Generally during the school year my diet is mainly rice and fish at school and then a mix of rice, potatoes and the odd scrap of meat at home.  I realised recently, while it has been the summer holidays that I generally I am maybe eating meat once a wek when I go and meet up with friends, but otherwise the meat I can get a hold of to eat in cooking, is either not worth it or far too expensive.  Another problem with meat is that, that which you can get at resteraunts is fairly fatty.  There are very few good cuts of meat out there and those that do exist will cost you the earth to buy.  For the most part I get my protien these days from tuna (I cannot find a great deal of choice with fish that I would actually like to eat) and what they call cheese here (which basically amounts to the most plastic like cheese you can think of).

While I have been in Korea I have successfully put weight on, this is counter to what I prefer.  I have come to the conclusion that my weight gain is mainly due to the fact that I live in such a boring place with little to no friends.  This makes it rather easy to turn to foid as a means of enjoyment.  Also I fail to get regular exercise, it is especially difficult to motivate ones self to do so when the temperature is so high and humid.  I have atempted to change my diet of late to cut out some of the bad stuff and not to over eat.  Hopefully by adjusting my diet I can cut down some of the weight I have gained.  Most likely it will be a slow process, but if I can just keep my mind on it I should be able to bring my weight down and maybe I'll even be able to motivate myself into propper exercise when the temperature comes down a little.