How I lost 10 kgs in 3 months easily - with no diet, and no gym

One of the reasons I lost weight so quickly is that my apartment is on the fifth floor and there is no elevator. I remember when I came, how challenged I was by this walk upstairs, but now I can do it easily. Also there are many stairs here - up to classrooms, down again, etc.

Another is, I think, that I have almost deleted milk from my diet. It was hard to determine what was milk here and often I ended up with yoghurt. And when I did get milk, it went "off" quickly, so for my daily coffee I use a premix - all the milk and sugar is in the little packet with the coffee.

Meals - I do eat three meals a day. Breakfast is always porridge that I prepare myself in the microwave. A piece of fruit, and my coffee.

Lunch - often a chicken burger, and even chips with it sometimes.

Dinner - a restaurant or canteen food. The latter is very basic Chinese food. And I'm avoiding the canteen more and more. Four months and it gets a bit much!

Snacks. I do have quite a few - and often high calorie, but generally lots of fruit.

That's the story!

It is true - without any diet plan, no patches, no fancy pills or program, no exercise regime, and just "living" I have lost 10 kgs.

Fancy that! I have had to ditch clothes - I have had to get new jeans. Now I need new ones again. The "new" ones are falling down! I'm laughing!

I have always had a weight problem - once many years ago I could not gain any - but after having two children I gained and with diets did the yo yo thing. I'd lose it and then put it back on again.

How did I do so well this time?

I moved to China - where I have been living for just four months. In fact, it probably has taken not 3 but 4 months to lose all the weight, but initially I didn't notice it, and only yesterday I was on scales for the first time. In reality I don't know how long it has taken.

No special food? That's right - I've eaten mainly Chinese food at the college canteen. We are provided with plenty of food - but I don't always eat all that is on my plate. I have in fact had a chicken burger for lunch on frequent occasions, had a glass of wine or two 3 or 4 days a week, and indulged in some snack foods and sweets - something that I don't normally do.

Exercise? I don't do any formal exercise - but walk everywhere. And some days it can be many kms. Even just walkign to the bus stop is quite a way. And I live on the fifth floor and there is no elevator. And my class room is on the fourth floor and I am forever going up and down. I do have a bicylce, and until it had a flat tyre I rode it about, but now I walk everywhere.

My contract is almost at an end - but I plan to be back after nearly 8 weeks back in Australia. Will I keep the weight off? Will I lose much more when I return for a further 4 1/2 months in China?

I guess I will just have to wait and see.

But I will walk more, and I will watch my food. Maybe, just maybe I can keep it off forever.