Reply To: 42 kilos lost and counting

I agree so much about Korean food being so much more filling than Western food. I recently ate at a Korean restaurant, I ordered kimchi jjigae. They brought the soup and it was small size. If you order soup in Hungary they usually bring you a huge soup bowl. I got the rice and 6 banchan next to it, all were small sized. I was looking baffled and thought: “nah, I’m gonna swallow this in 2 minutes and be hungry”. I couldn’z finish the meal!! I was so full that I could hardly force the last spoonful of rice down. I ate at 1pm and at 7pm I was still not hungry at all. O.o When I eat at the office cafeteria every day, no matter how big a portion is (and it’s always huge), I’m hungry 2 hours later and have to buy some snack to be able to cope until dinner.

I don’t know how food is made here in Europe but in every restaurant the portions are getting bigger every year and of course when you pay for it, you don’t want to leave it on your plate, so you eat everything. Your belly adjusts and gets bigger and bigger. And they keep mking portions bigger everywhere.

I also cook a lot of Korean food at weekends, even family started to appreciate it, but on weekdays I usually eat at the canteen, because I am always too lazy to cook at home to bring to the workplace… Maybe I should really strengthen my willpower and prepare doshirak. I’m always hungry when I eat Western type of food.