2019年3月9日土曜日 - 
How I lost 17 kilos without exercise!
Coming from America, Japan
is often seen as a country with an extremely healthy population, which is
attributed to good lifestyle and diet. Japanese eating practices such as hara
hachi bu are often touted as weight loss advice in American articles. The
first time I came to Japan I stayed with a host family, and my host mother, a
full-time homemaker, made me healthy Japanese meals almost every night. I had
always had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle, so naturally in a year of eating
Japanese food I lost some weight.
That was in 2015. In 2016 I
came back to Japan, this time to Osaka. There was no mother to cook for me, and
now I had a tiny kitchen and a small set of things I knew how to cook. Based on
my previous experience, however, I had determined that Japanese food was
healthy, so I could eat pretty much whatever I wanted. After two years of
living this way, I realized that my favorite skirt no longer fit me, and I
decided to check the scale. In August 2018 I was 88 kilos, and being a short
girl of only 157 centimeters, that was quite heavy. I was shocked, and I knew I
had to change my lifestyle.
I started doing some
research online and I quickly found that Japan has a lot of diet drinks, diet
pills, and strange leggings that make your legs slimmer, but I decided to go
for a more natural approach. I decided to cut out all starches, such as rice,
bread, and noodles. I also cut diary products like milk, cheese, yogurt, and
ice cream. Sweets and fried food were out as well.
extremely: 極めて
attribute to: ～によるものとみなす
base on: ～に基づく
determine:～と決定する
no longer: もはや～でない
slimmer: スリム
starches: でんぷん質の食べ物
diary products: 乳製品
quite: 非常に
torture: 拷問
immediately: すぐに
guilty: 罪の自覚がある
