Like any westerner, I grew up on bread. It is a rather massive part of almost all westerner's existence and was just a staple at every meal that we had. Breakfast? Eggs bacon and bread, or cereal with toast, or even better cinnamon sugar toast. Lunch? Sandwiches Dinner: Something something something with??? you guessed it! Bread!

One of the only downsides of living in Da Nang is the fact that just like anywhere else that is popular in the world, there are just so many darn people here. With that amount of people comes a lot of noise and of course traffic which makes even more noise.

So the way things go here in Da Nang and I would imagine most other places in Vietnam where expats tend to live is that everywhere that you rent, well almost everywhere, comes fully-furnished by default. This is the first country that I have lived in that it is just standard that everything you would ever need, including cutlery, is just provided for you by the place that you are renting.

Not that long ago I decided after seeing a friend for the first time in years and realizing that I was quite a lot larger than him that I was going to change things about how I live. Just like you hear in the movies or on YouTube channels or something like that, the largest part of this entire combat with your own body and losing weight is diet.

Before I begin I need to point out that this is not just the 2nd terrible tale I have on Tinder, almost all of my experiences on Tinder have been bad. The few successes that I have had have been because we had common interests but in those situations the women that I hooked up with were not local, were not planning on becoming local, and we didn't really connect well enough for them to contemplate them becoming local. I also wasn't going to fly to Europe or wherever they heck they happened to be from just to go out again.

It's actually more like 4 weeks but I didn't really have a rock solid plan until about 2 weeks ago when the scales arrived in the mail and I started doing some serious tracking of my weight as well as what I eat and drink. So we'll just call it week number 2, ok?