Fri, May-07-04, 07:25
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New Member
Posts: 4
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Plan: South Beach Diet
Stats: 120/120/100
BF:
Progress: 0%
Location: Europe
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Originally Posted by AngieT
WOW Spain. Lucky you. I have never been there. Question. Someone mentioned that the people are very thin. Why? Do they eat differnetly? Is there diet more low carb? Do they walk everywhere or is the culture thin obsessed? Americans are known for being over weight. I think it is fast food, watching tv, and computer games rather than moving. I'd like to hear about your Spain experience. Do you know how to speak Portegese (spelling)? Angie
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I don't think people are so obsessed with weight as americans. Spaniards are obsessed about "health", though. we like our "mediterranean diet" and its food pyramid based on (from most important to less important) grains, vegetables, fish, starches and meat. And of course, we stay away from junk food and taking the car everywhere.
Before I gained the weight, I was a Spain S (US 0-1). Well, I went to the USA and the S was HUGE for me, I had to buy the XS and make it smaller later as it was still too large. Now I am a Spain Medium, the charts say it's a US 6, but in reality, it is a US2. You won't find any nice clothes bigger than a size US 6 (Spain L) here, perhaps 8 (Spain XL).
We're just born small. So there's no need to sell bigger clothes as nobody will buy them.
As somebody else said, we are having problems with our kids lately, as they're following the American culture (food wise). Women have recently incorporated to jobs (year ago, a woman would quit working after becoming a mother) so there's nobody to make the food and the kids will be taken to MacDonals etc. 12% of our children are obsese (compared to the 60% of Americans is nothing, but if you think the average rate of fat children was 0-5%, you realise what a problem it is).
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