Koreans in general seem to think we get paid a lot more than we do. At a meetup with Americans and Koreans, one of the Americans offered to pay for the whole meal because it was one of the Koreans' birthday. The other was surprised, and birthday Korean said to her friend "oh, well, it's because foreign English teachers make a lot of money. 3mil won a month"I wish!!!
Quote from: JNM on December 09, 2016, 12:49:56 pmQuote from: yirj17 on December 09, 2016, 12:30:26 pm...Caloric intake needs depend on your lifestyle. If one expends a lot of energy then one should probably intake more than the average person. If one doesn't really exercise much, one could do with less. 1500 calories has been my average intake before but I never starved myself. I just ate really simply-- like eggs and veggies.This is why former-athletes are often fat.Look at most NFL or CFL football coaches.That's my excuse anyway - I have never been a an athlete but my activity level is much less than it was in younger years. My eating, however is about the same.Yup. Post-college I definitely gained more squish around my middle because the job I got after graduating was very sedentary. As I'm not prone to exercising, I try to balance it out with watching my portion consumption and so far I haven't gained a terrible amount of weight. I could definitely do with losing a few pounds and building some muscle though.
Quote from: yirj17 on December 09, 2016, 12:30:26 pm...Caloric intake needs depend on your lifestyle. If one expends a lot of energy then one should probably intake more than the average person. If one doesn't really exercise much, one could do with less. 1500 calories has been my average intake before but I never starved myself. I just ate really simply-- like eggs and veggies.This is why former-athletes are often fat.Look at most NFL or CFL football coaches.That's my excuse anyway - I have never been a an athlete but my activity level is much less than it was in younger years. My eating, however is about the same.
...Caloric intake needs depend on your lifestyle. If one expends a lot of energy then one should probably intake more than the average person. If one doesn't really exercise much, one could do with less. 1500 calories has been my average intake before but I never starved myself. I just ate really simply-- like eggs and veggies.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 09, 2016, 12:25:22 pmQuote from: kobayashi on December 09, 2016, 12:11:36 pmQuote from: Aristocrat on December 09, 2016, 08:17:28 am- They throw half of it away- This is probably the largest meal they'll eat of the day... sometimes the only one- They diet/starve themselves - You'll notice that whilst being thin, muscle is almost non-existent, their bodies keep breaking down muscle tissue since glycogen stores are perpetually low.- Some will do regular cardioThe fast and slow metabolism excuse is... well... BS. 'Natural' metabolic speeds are only really 5% faster than normal, for people with fast metabolisms and 5% slower than normal for folks with slower metabolisms.The thing that really slows down or kicks up your metabolic speeds is the amount of muscle your body carries. More muscle = faster metabolism and vice versa. Korean woman, in particular, are starving themselves to look thinner.i would agree with this. from speaking to the female teachers at my school, the vast majority of them don't eat breakfast. and when i ask them what they have for dinner they'll most often say something like "ramyeon" or "rice and seaweed soup" or something like that.our school lunches are around 450-600 calories, and those types of dinners aren't more than 500 calories. i would say a lot of the female teachers at my school are only eating 1,000-1,500 calories per day. ANYONE will be skinny eating so few calories.To be fair, it's pretty healthy to make lunch your largest meal in the day and just have some vegetables and maybe a little brown rice for dinner. Maybe some meat or something if it's a special occasion.a) it's easier than cooking a big elaborate meal.b) it's healthier.c) it's cheaper.d) you don't go to bed with a bunch of calories just waiting to be converted to fat tissue while you sleep1500 calories is a perfectly reasonable and healthy amount of calories to have in a day.That's not how that works
Quote from: kobayashi on December 09, 2016, 12:11:36 pmQuote from: Aristocrat on December 09, 2016, 08:17:28 am- They throw half of it away- This is probably the largest meal they'll eat of the day... sometimes the only one- They diet/starve themselves - You'll notice that whilst being thin, muscle is almost non-existent, their bodies keep breaking down muscle tissue since glycogen stores are perpetually low.- Some will do regular cardioThe fast and slow metabolism excuse is... well... BS. 'Natural' metabolic speeds are only really 5% faster than normal, for people with fast metabolisms and 5% slower than normal for folks with slower metabolisms.The thing that really slows down or kicks up your metabolic speeds is the amount of muscle your body carries. More muscle = faster metabolism and vice versa. Korean woman, in particular, are starving themselves to look thinner.i would agree with this. from speaking to the female teachers at my school, the vast majority of them don't eat breakfast. and when i ask them what they have for dinner they'll most often say something like "ramyeon" or "rice and seaweed soup" or something like that.our school lunches are around 450-600 calories, and those types of dinners aren't more than 500 calories. i would say a lot of the female teachers at my school are only eating 1,000-1,500 calories per day. ANYONE will be skinny eating so few calories.To be fair, it's pretty healthy to make lunch your largest meal in the day and just have some vegetables and maybe a little brown rice for dinner. Maybe some meat or something if it's a special occasion.a) it's easier than cooking a big elaborate meal.b) it's healthier.c) it's cheaper.d) you don't go to bed with a bunch of calories just waiting to be converted to fat tissue while you sleep1500 calories is a perfectly reasonable and healthy amount of calories to have in a day.
Quote from: Aristocrat on December 09, 2016, 08:17:28 am- They throw half of it away- This is probably the largest meal they'll eat of the day... sometimes the only one- They diet/starve themselves - You'll notice that whilst being thin, muscle is almost non-existent, their bodies keep breaking down muscle tissue since glycogen stores are perpetually low.- Some will do regular cardioThe fast and slow metabolism excuse is... well... BS. 'Natural' metabolic speeds are only really 5% faster than normal, for people with fast metabolisms and 5% slower than normal for folks with slower metabolisms.The thing that really slows down or kicks up your metabolic speeds is the amount of muscle your body carries. More muscle = faster metabolism and vice versa. Korean woman, in particular, are starving themselves to look thinner.i would agree with this. from speaking to the female teachers at my school, the vast majority of them don't eat breakfast. and when i ask them what they have for dinner they'll most often say something like "ramyeon" or "rice and seaweed soup" or something like that.our school lunches are around 450-600 calories, and those types of dinners aren't more than 500 calories. i would say a lot of the female teachers at my school are only eating 1,000-1,500 calories per day. ANYONE will be skinny eating so few calories.
- They throw half of it away- This is probably the largest meal they'll eat of the day... sometimes the only one- They diet/starve themselves - You'll notice that whilst being thin, muscle is almost non-existent, their bodies keep breaking down muscle tissue since glycogen stores are perpetually low.- Some will do regular cardioThe fast and slow metabolism excuse is... well... BS. 'Natural' metabolic speeds are only really 5% faster than normal, for people with fast metabolisms and 5% slower than normal for folks with slower metabolisms.The thing that really slows down or kicks up your metabolic speeds is the amount of muscle your body carries. More muscle = faster metabolism and vice versa. Korean woman, in particular, are starving themselves to look thinner.
To be fair, it's pretty healthy to make lunch your largest meal in the day and just have some vegetables and maybe a little brown rice for dinner. Maybe some meat or something if it's a special occasion.a) it's easier than cooking a big elaborate meal.b) it's healthier.c) it's cheaper.d) you don't go to bed with a bunch of calories just waiting to be converted to fat tissue while you sleep1500 calories is a perfectly reasonable and healthy amount of calories to have in a day.
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Went for my haircut today and though the hairdresser can cut ok (slightly better than the other ones in my city), she styles my hair like sh*t.
Quote from: The Arm on December 12, 2016, 07:20:48 am8:20 and I'm already annoyed.Someone (my CT I suspect) has cleaned the whiteboard in my classroom with something and now it's ruined. Yay.Oh. My. Goodness.I hate it when that happens. It ALWAYS happened to me before. And then the whiteboard won't erase and you get a smudgy, greasy mess.
8:20 and I'm already annoyed.Someone (my CT I suspect) has cleaned the whiteboard in my classroom with something and now it's ruined. Yay.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 12, 2016, 07:34:25 amQuote from: The Arm on December 12, 2016, 07:20:48 am8:20 and I'm already annoyed.Someone (my CT I suspect) has cleaned the whiteboard in my classroom with something and now it's ruined. Yay.Oh. My. Goodness.I hate it when that happens. It ALWAYS happened to me before. And then the whiteboard won't erase and you get a smudgy, greasy mess.Yep No doubt I'll get blamed for it too
Quote from: Aristocrat on December 10, 2016, 12:54:42 pmWent for my haircut today and though the hairdresser can cut ok (slightly better than the other ones in my city), she styles my hair like sh*t.At least that style looks decent. You could have received the window-licker bowl-cut that seems to be all the rage with the boys in my area.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 12, 2016, 07:34:25 amQuote from: The Arm on December 12, 2016, 07:20:48 am8:20 and I'm already annoyed.Someone (my CT I suspect) has cleaned the whiteboard in my classroom with something and now it's ruined. Yay.Oh. My. Goodness.I hate it when that happens. It ALWAYS happened to me before. And then the whiteboard won't erase and you get a smudgy, greasy mess.My school bought a bunch of cheap "white board cleaner" and it smells like pure rubbing alcohol. Sure enough, after a few uses my boards are now almost impossible to erase. A good white board is supposed to have a thin coating of wax or oil so they are easy to erase. Alcohol completely strips it of that. I read somewhere that a light misting of WD-40 sprayed and then rubbed on the board might restore it a bit. I have a small can at home, I might try it on a corner of the board and see if it works, then tell the school to do it themselves because I'm not going to pay for all that, and then wait for months while they try and find $20 petty cash to get it done.I miss chalk.At least none of my current schools use liquid chalk. That stuff is garbage.