PCOS Messages for October, 2001: Re: China- to Kate

Re: China- to Kate

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:16:59 -0600 (CST)

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HiKate, So funny about your Mom. I took my 120lbs marathon runner sister to the silk alley and they kept saying she was tai pang (too fat) and needed XL. She was so upset! She wears size small at home (size 4) and did not like buying the XL's of China!

I try not to take it all too personally. I love vacations at home where I can walk into stores and buy things like jeans at the Gap! No jeans for me at Sanlitun. I have a friend here who has recently lost about 60 lbs- and all the shop girls say she is too fat to shop at their stores!! :)

You asked what I do here... I run a non profit organization that provides sports programs to expatriate and local Chinese children. I run 15 sports leagues for 1,800 kids. And I coach the high school ice hockey team. I play on the men's hockey team and the woman's rugby team and have fun travelling around the country with the kids and adult teams.

You are right in that the rice/ noodles are generally served separately. It just takes will-power to say "bu yao" - don't want it! I guess the biggest reason that I tend towards the fan (rice, noodles, bouzi etc) is that I grew up in a "fat-free" household and have a hard time telling myself that it is OK to eat the dishes cooked in oil. They also tend to make me sick becuase I don't stomach oil very well. I have gotten better at restaurants- telling them to please boil my veggies instead of deep frying them- but I have a hard time doing that at dinners with lots of people becuase it causes such a stir and people all want to know why I would want it prepared without flavor and oil?

Great hearing from you. It is nice to know that someone else has had similar experiences!!

Thank you! Helen PS. Will you be returning to Zhong Guo? What were you doing here?

At Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Kate wrote: >
>Hi Helen,
>
>I appreciate everything you have to say about China -- I spent a year
>living in Beijing in 1999/2000 and loved it, but also hated aspects of
>it. I did get a lot of comments about my weight/size, but after a while
>I figured out that if people weren't talking about that, they would have
>found some other aspect of me with which to be fascinated (you know what
>I mean). Sometimes my haircolor (reddish blond), or my breasts (which
>are big), were a bigger draw than my size (which isn't THAT big). The
>most damaging to my ego was going shopiing. Even after I lost about 20
>lbs, the shopkeepers would always look at me and say, "You're too fat,
>you need a bigger size." It amazed me that they thought that was a sales
>technique that would work :)
>
>By the end, it was very funny. And I stopped taking it personally --
>especially after my 110lb mother came to visit and all the clothing
>sellers on Salintun kept telling her she needed to buy "bigger" sizes.
>
>Anyway, I was going to say that I actually ate far fewer carbs while
>living in China. Since rice was primarily a filler dish reserved only
>for when you didn't get enough to eat, I found that my carb intake
>scaled back dramatically. With very little bread, I ate mainly veggies
>and meats. I know the northern Chinese cuisine is starchier than other
>parts, but I really found the options much more varied than here in the
>US, where bread is served with every meal and sugar is tough to avoid.
>
>Best wishes. By the way, what do you do in Beijing?? How is it these
>days? I realy miss the place.
>
>--
>Kate
>
>--
>kerinmc@yahoo.com
>Kate
>

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