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I went to Korea many times, Seoul but also the South.
Love the place(go to South and visit the Islands,follow my advice), the food (yes, Kimchi too, but the newbie traveller will find it a bit too challenging, ha ha, better stay on korean style grilled meat) and the people, oh yeah!!the people are just special!
I was there quite often during the 80’s , much more exothic then, even if less rich ,now it’s a bit like everywhere else in Asia: Western habits do have contaminated the Asian culture, western food, western architecture, lots of shopping centers (so you can buy the same western goods you can find in the shop ‘round the corner, but this time originally made in Korea), tourist’s business, and money talk from morning to nigth, anyway please do not misunderstand me, right now the Koreans live much better then 20 or 30 years ago, and Korea is still a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful place, and worth visiting , that’s for sure!! I’d fly over there rigth now if I only could….:-(

Fed up (ha ha ha) of being overweigth (abt 5’8” 186lbs) and loosing all the tennis matches I played, I decided three and half years ago to do something in order to loose at least 20 lbs.

1) I bougth a couple of books about the Zone Diet of Barry Sears

2) I convinced my wife to join me in loosing some lbs

3) I persisted and
-the first month I lost abt 10 lbs
-the second month I lost abt 5 lbs
-the third month I lost abt 3 lbs
-the fourth month i lost abt 2 lbs
-the fifth month I lost abt 1 lb
-the sixth month I lost almost nothing, but had already
reached my GOAL!!

4) since then I didn’t get back any of the lost fat….!AND I’M WINNING ALL MY TENNIS MATCHES NOW (well may be not all but I’m not any longer giving away the games like before…!)BUT DO NOT THINK THAT ONCE YOU HAVE LOST YOUR 10 OR 20 POUNDS YOU CAN START EATING AGAIN WHAT YOU LIKE!! Keep on diet! keep counting the calories and keep the right balance between the intake of fat, proteins and carbohydrates in each meal. Reduce sugar, fat (and fast) food, sweets and pasta, drink only water (or wine during meal if you like) slow down on beer too (better give a cut), avoid like pest all kind of soft drinks (coke, seven-up and all the like).

Have at least three big meals and two snacks every day, yes it is the quality of the calories that you get eating and drinking that make the difference not the weight of the food you shove in your stomach!!!
Add a daily routine of phisical exercises, at least 3/4 hours per week of phisical training!!

This diet can also help you to avoid problems with your health (diabetis and high blood pressure), my blood test have never been so good before!

WARNING!!Perseverance is the key, no shortcuts are available to loose weigth, so avoid any system or diet that promises you to loose a lot of weigth in a too short time, these are just good system to spoil your healt!

Good luck!!

I’ve travelled (because of my job) all over China for more then 12 years and managed to learn only few basic words spoken with a terrible accent.
Tried many times to improve my little chinese with the help of Cd’s, tapes, books etcetera …..result zilch!!
But few weeks ago I’ve purchased Pimsleur 1st course and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!IT WORKS!!!
By the way does anybody know were to get the written text of the Pimsleur courses?? Sometime it takes days to find the right word on the dictionary!! I want to learn also the writing and reading of the characters not only how to pronounce them…