You took it personal again and is getting defensive. I didn't ask you from what weight you lose 9Kg but I have some intuition that it wasn't 50Kg.
Anyway internationaly acknowledged that obesity is rather forte of Big Mac nation than Russians.
I doubt that tourists, regardless of their nationality, visit such backwater like Brooklyn or Bronx. They are both very far from tourist routes.
P.S. You will laugh but Odessa (big one) isn't in Russia. In SU era there was distinctive dialect of Russian language in Odessa - its inhabitance used mostly Russian vocabulary but mixed Russian and Yidish grammer.
It was infinite source of jokes that always started from the same frase "As it would be spoken in Odessa...".