Eastern Europeans getting fat????

BoozyBabe

This is something I've noticed lately & I'm just wondering if anyone else has.

I work in a factory environment where about 65-70% of the workforce are Eastern Europeans.

When they first joined the company the females were all so noticeably nice & thin, lovely figures, at least 99% of them.

Lately it just dawned on me when I look around at the females, the thought of "they're so nice & skinny" doesn't hit me as it used to.

A lot of them have little bellies & love handles.

Anyone else noticed this?
Is it the wonderful Irish diet that's eventually winning them over, so they're starting to gain weight like us or what you reckon?

patrickolee

Would think it has more to do with the 'factory environment'

aidan_walsh

Jesus, how would we know? Aren't you in the idea position to find out? Ask one.

"Excuse me, why have you gotten so fat all of a sudden?"

Simple as that.

Owen

I'm actually trying to get my other half to gain weight. She's 5'6, and weighs 7.8 stone! :eek:

BoozyBabe

What you mean?

BoozyBabe

Aidan:- I was just wondering if other people had noticed that they're not as thin as they once were, or is it isolated to here.

That's all.

but if it's completely stupid then work away & get the thread deleted.

digitally-yours

Yes my wife <from poland> is too slim tooo

I love her to bits

and yes i asked her to put some weight too :eek:

KTRIC

My other half is German and she's expierienced this first hand since she came here 7 years ago. All her German friends and collegues are the same. Once they hit Irish shores the pounds just pile on

The strange thing is when I go to Germany I eat like a pig and drink a lot more beer than I would have here, but when I get home I've actually lost weight. Last christmas we spent 2 weeks in her mums house in Bavaria and I lost 3 pounds !!! AT CHRISTMAS !!!

Has to be diet related.

TerrorFirmer

KTRIC wrote:

Has to be diet related.

Well, obviously? It's hardly going to be the Irish air causing it

KTRIC

HavoK wrote:

Well, obviously? It's hardly going to be the Irish air causing it

Thats were you're wrong, Irish air has more saturated fat than air in mainland Europe.

The_B_Man

or natural ageing related pudge! its not the booze at all!

Dyr

because whats sold in this country as food products would be considered animal feed in the rest of europe?? :eek:

watna

I was reading this chuckling away at the absurdity that being in Ireland makes you fat until i realised that my other half (from NZ) has put on weight since being here. He now has a large (but still cute!) belly. He was showing me photos of him last night from home and he was all round much svelter. It's true, Ireland makes you fat. We live together and eat the same food, so why haven't I got fat? We must have some Irish gene that makes us immune to tha saturated fat in the air... it's the only explanation!

Raiser

BoozyBabe wrote:

.....When they first joined the company the females were all so noticeably nice & thin, lovely figures, at least 99% of them.

Lately it just dawned on me when I look around at the females, the thought of "they're so nice & skinny" doesn't hit me as it used to.

A lot of them have little bellies & love handles........

Oh God ! Every Irish mans worst nightmare re. Eastern European gals - assimilation :eek:

As soon as they turn plain too we'll have to issue them Irish passports

Naked Lepper

lol fat ppl are funny

latenia

They're all just getting married.

ruprect

BoozyBabe wrote:

Is it the wonderful Irish diet that's eventually winning them over, so they're starting to gain weight like us or what you reckon?

Could be overpriced gyms that they cannot afford, or do not want to spend money on since it seems so much compared to home. There have been 4 girls in our place, all went to the gym (and moaned about the cost), and lifting weights is very popular with the guys.

Same might go for food, unhealthy food is usually cheaper.

ntlbell

They can now afford to eat?

Dun laoire

BoozyBabe wrote:

Aidan:- I was just wondering if other people had noticed that they're not as thin as they once were, or is it isolated to here.

That's all.

but if it's completely stupid then work away & get the thread deleted.

Dont mind him.

Jumpy

Irish food is the worst in the world in regards to quality and price, the dodgier the food, the cheaper the price (still extortionate) so health standards lower. You cant get any decent variety.

daveirl

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Archeron

watna wrote:

We must have some Irish gene that makes us immune to tha saturated fat in the air... it's the only explanation!

If only that were true. Then perhaps I wouldnt have my own gravitational pull.
On the plus side though, at least my lack of that saturated fat non absorby gene means I'm welcome in the beer guts/receding hairlines forum.

Heisenberg.

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WindSock

Lifestyle probably. TV may be better here.

Kintarō Hattori

The quality of ingredients in Eastern Europe is far better than what we get here, so possibly that might have something to do with it. To be fair though OP I can't say I've noticed the Eastern European ladies getting fatter, they still look fantastic to me, would the reason be a wee thinge of jealousy that they look fatter to you?

estar

well ever since a polish girl i worked with told me

we all have "ze muffin top"

ive been waiting for this moment

haaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

welcome to our world girls.

DublinWriter

KTRIC wrote:

The strange thing is when I go to Germany I eat like a pig and drink a lot more beer than I would have here, but when I get home I've actually lost weight. Last christmas we spent 2 weeks in her mums house in Bavaria and I lost 3 pounds !!! AT CHRISTMAS !!!

Me too. When I worked in Frankfurt, I ate and drank like a horse and I was down to an all time personal low of 12 1/2 stone compared to my current swarthy 15.

I think it was down to walking, as I walked to work every day. I noticed that the Germans I worked with tended to walk to the office too.

I also think it's down to eating little and often as opposed to having a massive kebab after eleventy pints in the local and then a 5000-calorie breakfast roll the next morning.

DublinWriter

daveirl wrote:

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...does she know who the father is?

brianthebard

KTRIC wrote:

My other half is German and she's expierienced this first hand since she came here 7 years ago. All her German friends and collegues are the same. Once they hit Irish shores the pounds just pile on

The strange thing is when I go to Germany I eat like a pig and drink a lot more beer than I would have here, but when I get home I've actually lost weight. Last christmas we spent 2 weeks in her mums house in Bavaria and I lost 3 pounds !!! AT CHRISTMAS !!!

Has to be diet related.

How much walking and physical activity did you do when you were there?

Gran Hermano

Maybe they've just analysed the local competition and realised they
can enjoy pigging out on spuds, buttermilk and Guinness and still
bag an Irish bloke

lukegriffen

in eastern europe they eat a lot of meat. The other day i was sitting nearby as this east european guy had lunch, & he opened a plastic container of sliced meat, basically spam, and had 5 or 6 slices in bread.
I know most of the cheap crappy meat is pure fat / water, so maybe back home the quality of their meat products is a lot better, with a lot less fat ?

Who knows...

I know when I went to Poland a lot of their traditional dishes (perogies - yum) are quite fatty, yet all the young people are all very slim. Maybe it's national service.

kwinabeeste

i always wondered about this! I have worked in US for weeks at time a good few times. This usually involved eating out in the evenings and a rake a drink in the evening with co-workers. I never put on weight and in some cases i actually lost weight. Dunno why but i am convinced that its to do with the food and drink! Chemicals in water or hormones in food....its a funny one!!

Tha Gopher

The Scientist wrote:

I was in Riga just over a month ago, a city well over the size of Limerick which has one McDonalds. Diet is hugely important to those wimmin. It shows too. They are all hawt...

You trawled every suburb too? Anyway its bigger than Limerick.

In fairness proportionately most EE women are as decent as Irish. Irish and EE both whack Western Europe mainland out of it.

And all of the above are beaten by the Slovaks. Fcuking Hostel standard crackers the most of em

With so many working in the food industry and getting free fast food at work, Id say it has a bearing on it.

faceman

racist thread alert!! :eek:

Pigman II

What sort of factory do you work in Boozy? It's not a Chocolate factory by any chance?

cailinoBAC

I don´t know what it is, but it´s true. I lived in Eastern Europe for a year and did no specific exercise, ate as much as here and lost a load of weight (though I didn´t really notice until I came home cos I still looked like a cow beside the average Eastern European) and then proceeded to put most of it back on. Some of the girls I knew there had lived in Ireland for a while and put on weight while they were here. One of them claimed it was because the food here is a lot more processed, I don´t know, could be. Still I went to Russia for just a few weeks a few years ago and even in that time my clothes were a lot looser at the end of the holiday.

tampopo

My wife is foreign too and has put on a lot of weight since living here, though she won't exercise at all at all.

She eats a fair bit of her own food too, so I don't think it's only the diet. She doesn't eat meat, much.

Deffo lack of exercise isn't helping..... sigh

Kintarō Hattori

lukegriffen wrote:

I know when I went to Poland a lot of their traditional dishes (perogies - yum) are quite fatty, yet all the young people are all very slim. Maybe it's national service.

I'm pretty sure they don't have national service in Poland anymore.

Owen

lukegriffen wrote:

I know when I went to Poland a lot of their traditional dishes (perogies - yum) are quite fatty, yet all the young people are all very slim. Maybe it's national service.

Mmmm, Pierogi *drooooool*. It's the type of eating Polish people do too, we sit down at a table in her house, with various meats, breads, cheeses, and conversation can go on for an hour or so while people slowly eat the food in front of them. It's like eating a little, just often.

There's a Polish Restaurant in Cork now, 'Gospoda', the portions are anything but small!

Kintarō Hattori

Hmnnn Pierogi - I can't say I'm a big fan of it, occasionally the meat based ones, but oh god the veg ones are foul.
Polish cottage cheese on the other hand is amazing stuff, a billion times nicer than what we have here.

Fruit and Veg in Poland are extremely high quality, much more so than they are here. They are plentiful and relatively cheap. The pic below I took last year in the south and was at a local market and this was just one small section of fruit and veg. There are tons of stalls like this with each person selling their own fruit and veg.

It's simply much healthier stuff.

Owen

eo980 wrote:

Hmnnn Pierogi - I can't say I'm a big fan of it, occasionally the meat based ones, but oh god the veg ones are foul.
Polish cottage cheese on the other hand is amazing stuff, a billion times nicer than what we have here.

You haven't had the Strawberry ones with brown sugar on the outside then?

Kintarō Hattori

ned78 wrote:

You haven't had the Strawberry ones with brown sugar on the outside then?

Ehh no, I can't say I have. Hmnn I'll have to raise this issue with herself in the morning! I don't know why I wasn't told about these.

simu

eo980 wrote:

Fruit and Veg in Poland are extremely high quality, much more so than they are here. They are plentiful and relatively cheap. The pic below I took last year in the south and was at a local market and this was just one small section of fruit and veg. There are tons of stalls like this with each person selling their own fruit and veg.

It's simply much healthier stuff.

Aye. A lot better than the shrivelled "fruit and veg" you find in your typical Irish Centra.:(

Kintarō Hattori

simu wrote:

Aye. A lot better than the shrivelled "fruit and veg" you find in your typical Irish Centra.:(

Absolutely, I used to get bits and pieces from Moore Street but after seeing the high quality in Poland and the generally crap quality in Moore Street I stopped that. And don't get me started on the price of fruit in the supermarkets!

brianthebard

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

BoozyBabe

eo980 wrote:

would the reason be a wee thinge of jealousy that they look fatter to you?

Oh, yea, that must be the reason for it!!! :rolleyes:

No honestly, I'm quite happy with myself, of course I'd love longer legs etc, etc, but I'm not about to get bitter over it & wish everyone else fat!!!! :eek:

No, like I said, when they first arrived, you could easily say about 99% of them had gorgeous thin figures.

As I've looked around lately, that figure has easily dropped to around 60%.

This is only in the space of a few years

Kintarō Hattori

brianthebard wrote:

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

I can't say I have, where would I find one of those in Dublin city centre?

simu

brianthebard wrote:

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

There is a good market near where I live but the point is that you should be able to get good fruit and veg all over the place and not need to go to a special market.

ScumLord

Irish produce can be excelent in my town all the meat is from local farmers and you won't find better meat any where else in the world.

Supermarkets stock the ****iest foodstuff they can find, it's cheap for a reason. We have two fruit a veg men in the town too with organic or at least very good fresh veg. I can get a bag of everything (inc. apples, oranges, grapes, potatoes, carrots, a good variety and enough to feed a family for a week) for €15. Find a supermarket that can beat that.


The Eastern European chicks are putting on weight, I have a friend who went to Slovakia with his girlfriend for a few months and all he did over there was go to the gym or go swiming, you have to walk everywhere too.

Kintarō Hattori

simu wrote:

There is a good market near where I live but the point is that you should be able to get good fruit and veg all over the place and not need to go to a special market.

Most definetly agree with you on this.

peasant

KTRIC wrote:

My other half is German and she's expierienced this first hand since she came here 7 years ago. All her German friends and collegues are the same. Once they hit Irish shores the pounds just pile on

The strange thing is when I go to Germany I eat like a pig and drink a lot more beer than I would have here, but when I get home I've actually lost weight. Last christmas we spent 2 weeks in her mums house in Bavaria and I lost 3 pounds !!! AT CHRISTMAS !!!

Has to be diet related.

My guess is that it is sunshine related. Vitamin D and all that ..

I lost 4 kgs during sunny April without any change to diet, habits or excercise. I DID notice that my appetite had decreased somewhat.

Now that it's gone dull, damp and cold again, my body tells me to put the hibernation fat back on again and I've already put one kilo back on again ...once again without change to diet, habits or excercise.