vs Eating Healthy

08/16/20 • 48 min

Janet and Brian are both very much into food. This is in a foodie-type way as well as from a health-conscious perspective. They talk about the changes in their eating habits since the beginning of lockdown and social distancing. They discuss the “quarantine 15”, stress eating, Asian (cultural) relationship with food, dieting, (not) meal prepping, and how it all relates to health.

They also get into how physical appearance is a significant driver in Korea in terms of the “dieting” that often trends alongside how celebrities are portrayed in media and how it relates to the standards of beauty. Sharing their experience with many of the diets they have tried (including whole-food plant-based vegan), like so many, they’ve come to the conclusion that having a balanced diet means different things for different people. Expect some tips as well as to how they make eating some of the major staples of Korean food as easy and accessible as possible. When it comes down to it, making it easy to do the things you want to do gives you more opportunities to do the things you want to do including eating healthy. Janet shares how she negotiated her way to a Korean side dish subscription. Check out the K-Town Rumble Website: https://www.ktownrumble.com/ Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/ktownrumble/ https://www.instagram.com/therealjanetlee/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisbrianlee/

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TMT: I'll Never Really Be Able to Forgive My Parents

In this week's TMT episode, Janet and Brian go deep into talking about ideas around forgiveness when it comes to dealing with immigrant parents. In this story, a 30+ year old posted about being raised by neglectful and abusive parents, who then, as an adult, distanced themselves for 7 years only to return to find that nothing has changed. Many Asian-Americans see how they “should have been raised,” under a westernized lens of what a loving and supportive family looks like. Janet and Brian go on to explain what this looks like in their individual experiences, While also explaining that even for them there are still past events that they continue to struggle with. It makes it easier to forgive when you are able to empathize with the people who need to be forgiven. Forgiving people can be especially difficult when the people that you need to forgive don't even realize that they have done anything wrong, but there is a secret to this. The secret is that forgiveness is not something that you give two other people it's something that you give to yourself.

Reddit Topic Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianParentStories/comments/i5v8xz/as_a_30_year_old_adult_im_realizing_that_maybe/ Check out the K-Town Rumble Website: https://www.ktownrumble.com/ Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/ktownrumble/ https://www.instagram.com/therealjanetlee/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisbrianlee/

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TMT: Has Anyone Else Noticed That the US Has a Lot of Resentment and Spitefulness?

Janet and Brian address the question “has anyone else noticed that the US has a lot of resentment and spitefulness?“ They share their ideas around the amount of conflict that occurs between different subgroups (or categories or whatever you wanna call them) of people.

Some of the ideas that they talk about are centered around the idea that when there are differences there are more opportunities for conflict. America in comparison to many other countries is very young and is still working to establish its identity. It’s not so unlike many of us who come from multicultural backgrounds trying to reconcile opposing ideas from our eastern and western influences. They also take some time touching on the major influence that media plays on the perception of the general public. In the end, you’ll see that this type of conflict is not isolated to Americans. They expand the conversation to discuss what this type of conflict actually looks like in Korea as well. Tune in to this week's episode of TMT to hear more. Reddit Topic Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/i5zhy0/has_anyone_else_noticed_that_the_us_has_a_lot_of/ Check out the K-Town Rumble Website: https://www.ktownrumble.com/ Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/ktownrumble/ https://www.instagram.com/therealjanetlee/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisbrianlee/