Checking in from overseas this morning, and I keep noticing how different the food culture is here compared to what I read about from US folks on these meds. Down 51 lbs now and honestly the smaller appetite has made restaurant portions abroad feel almost normal sized for once. Curious where everyone else is posting from and how your week is going.
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Posting from Japan and the smaller portions here have been a weird advantage, restaurants already plate things modestly so I don't feel like the odd one out. My week's been fine, mostly just sticking to the same routines
Posting from Japan and the smaller portions here were already my normal, so the appetite change mostly hit at home where I used to clean my plate without thinking. Week's been fine, just quieter dinners.
Posting from Japan and the smaller plates here were already the norm so the meds mostly just made me notice it less. Week's been quiet, just working through a mild appetite dip myself.
Checking in from Japan, and the tiny side dishes at restaurants here used to feel like a joke to me. Now a full set meal actually leaves me satisfied, which I never saw coming at around 30 lbs down.
honestly, posting from Japan and the smaller plates here have been a strange kind of relief, I don't have to mentally halve a portion before I start eating anymore.
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Posting from Japan and the smaller plates here have honestly made eating out feel less like a test of willpower.
posting from Japan and yeah, the smaller plates here stopped feeling small somewhere along the way. Which country are you in?
Posting from Japan and yeah, the portions here were already modest so the appetite change mostly just made me stop hunting for second helpings.
Posting from Japan and the set meals here still look huge to me, though I used to clean the plate without thinking. What region are you in?
Japan here too, and yeah the ramen bowls caught me off guard. I'm only a couple pounds in so my appetite hasn't shrunk much yet, half a bowl is still a stretch
Posting from Seoul and the banchan spread is what gets me, all those little plates add up to way more food than it looks like at first glance
Down 5 lbs here too and the market bakery near me sells pastries the size of my hand. Do you find you're ordering fewer courses now or just smaller portions of the same meal?
Posting from Nashville and the portions here still feel huge to me even 23 lbs down. The ramen thing in Japan makes me wonder if your regular size there would look like a kids bowl over here.
Toronto here, and honestly the shock for me was how normal a full plate looks now that I'm down 45. Used to clear a whole dinner out without thinking, now I'm boxing half of it before I even start eating.
honestly, posting from Portugal here, and the cafe culture has been the strange one for me. A pastry and coffee used to be a warmup, now it's genuinely a whole meal.
posting from the Netherlands, and the smaller appetite thing hit me too when I realized a Dutch lunch of bread and cheese is actually filling now instead of just a starter. Week's been quiet, mostly just trying to keep the bike rides going.
Lexington KY here and yeah, traveling is weird now, I order what looks like a normal plate and end up boxing half. Any particular country's portions surprise you most?
Posting from Toronto and the portion thing runs the other way for me. Down about 4 lbs so far and I still get sidesized plates at regular places here, so the shift has not really landed yet.
new Zealand here, and the cafe plate thing is real. I still order the small size out of habit from before and now it actually fills me up
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