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Good question, I know Nakhon Nayok has white water rafting. When I did it I had a blast. Im not sure if you could do kayaking though. I'd love to find a place that offers it near bangkok.

From what i've read, leptin seems to be the biggest factor in obesity or at least among the biggest.

To reset leptin, I believe many advocate eating less frequently which is contrary to popular belief and also limiting sugars, processed junk and exposure to toxins as they are big contributing factors to inflammation which can have a negative impact on leptin receptors.

As somebody else mentioned, its probably a hormonal issue.

I'd definitely up the fat intake (healthy fats) as well as the protein intake. I'd recommend eating nuts, avocados (if you can get your hands on them), fish etc. And as somebody else mentioned, avoid sugary, processed food. Focus on eating fresh food with a large emphasis on fruits and vegetables with some high quality protein and fats thrown in. I'm a big believer in a balanced macronutrient ratio. Fat/Protein/Fats all relatively equal.

How much sleep do you get per night? And is it quality sleep? Sleep is perhaps the most important, thats when your body amps up hormone production. If you're not getting quality sleep, it would definitely effect hormone levels.

In terms of exercise, i'd really focus on resistance training. But not sure exactly what your fitness routine is like. You might be doing that already.

Its a problem many people face so you're definitely not in the minority. Good luck, keep us posted on your progress.

so my wife speaks english, do people learn to read and write english in bars as well.

dont often see bar girls walking around wth pens.

her father and brothers speak english to, and write, perhaps they are barman.

wake up people, bg have limited terrible english, thats why they work in bars because they are uneducated.

If thats the case 99% of Thai people are uneducated because when you venture outside of the touristy areas, english speaking Thai people are extremely hard to find.

Whata bunch of wussies!

It's supposed to hurt but up to the limit of course. If they go too hard, tell them that. Few of the places I've been to ask you beforehand how you want it.

It is a good feeling after the massage, like some mentioned, same like after the exercises, you feel better. Any time I come to Pattaya I have a route to go through, hit a California WOW gym (on a second road and soi 12 or 13 I think), then take a baht taxi to Sauna and Spa place on a second road, across from soi 6, then normally after sauna I walk out and walk back a few blocks and get 2 hrs Thai massage at one of the places there. Later on when you sit at the bar and enjoy your fav drink you feel like you were just born. Great feeling.

Think I am going to try this. Super excited now.

Maybe im in the minority in that I want a real rough massage. However, for the most part although the Thai massages were quite painful I did not feel better afterwards or even the day after. To this day i've had two real good Thai Massages, both from the same lady. She was brilliant, roughed me up something fierce but I felt like a million bucks after.

Why would anybody waste energy and time dispising and hating thousands of people they do not even know.........it would appear some hate the concept of older men with younger partners.........why? is the question......it is not immoral........it is not illegal.........perhaps to some the image is not always pleasing on the eye....and in that they may have a point ........maybe in Thailand the image is just too much in your face for some to avoid an adverse reaction.......doesn't make it wrong, or the people involved deserving of hatred

it is certainly not pleasing to the eye. But I don't really care for that, its the fact that they are both exploiting each other and the relationship has absolutely nothing to do with love but rather money and sex. It's just a little hard for me to accept that relationships like this exist not only in Thailand but around the world.

These farang are literally providing for poor, Isaan farm girls with absolutely no morals and without even a shred of integrity. The majority of farangs who come here are literally funneling money to the worst of the worst of Thailand. While riding my bike through Kamphaeng Phet, I went to buy coffee at the side of the road and started talking to a family there. They told me their daughter married a Dutch man in Pattaya (whenever you hear Pattaya, your eyebrows certainly rise). Anyway, the Dutch dude bought this girl a house and it was just behind the coffee shop through all the trees. So they showed me it, it was a beautiful 3 bedroom house. The Dutch dude is back home and the girl is still in Pattaya likely still doing the dirty.

Its just mind boggling how people would do this for these girls.

No wonder they send their kids down to tourist areas. Easy money.

The only way to enjoy life in the Wild East....er....Thailand is to never have a business, stay single and stay out of bars.....

Pretty much bang on there.

Some people just dig themselves a hole that after awhile is impossible to get out of.

The only way to enjoy life in the Wild East....er....Thailand is to never have a business, stay single and stay out of bars.....

Pretty much bang on there.

Some people just dig themselves a hole that after awhile is impossible to get out of.

Why would anybody waste energy and time dispising and hating thousands of people they do not even know.........it would appear some hate the concept of older men with younger partners.........why?

The younger Alpha guys don't care - they have the hotties themselves.

It's always the younger Betas. These have some difficulties to get a woman at all, take a long time of "courting" and their women are rarely above a 7 in looks. These betas are often the "white knight" types, who believe they must protect women from the evil. Evil, in their eyes, are the Alpha "jerks" and the older men with hotter women who they believe "don't deserve it".

That's where the hate and bitterness come from: a combination of envy and lack of self esteem.

Ugh, not really.

I got pulled over for not wearing a helmet, doing a U-turn and not having a license in Hua Hin. He tried to overcharge me and I told him in as much Thai as I could speak that hes ripping me off and this is what I should pay. I then said, let's go to the police station together and he got embarassed and said that I could go by myself.

Bottom line is I didnt pay a single baht and pretty much told him hes a greedy, spineless turd.

That was over a year ago.

I should point out that if in the marriage between the young lady and her old old man he is aware of the fact he is being used, thats fine.

He is using her, she is using him, great,

however what I think is pathetic is when they cannot see it, and they are clearly being used but walk around with there head held high, thinking everyone is looking at them like some god, when really people are laughing at them and thinking ohhh you poor misguided fool.

Those that are aware that it is often just a business transaction, often but not always, fine, those that are not, take the blinkers off.

Why shouldn't he hold his head high, why shouldn't his girl hold her head high. You think he should cower and hide because he shouldn't have a right to be happy?

If he's happy and she is happy then who the hell is anyone else to pass judgment.

To me, he isn't the fool, he is happy and proud to be happy. You are the fool for trying to make yourself feel better at what you mistakenly see as misguided happiness.

You may feel better about yourself if you just take people as they are and enjoy in their happiness.

The problem is SHE ISNT HAPPY. A 20 year old girl with a 65 year old man is not happy. In virtually every single one of these relationships there is absolutely no chemistry. Hell, they can barely even communicate. Shes got broken, limited English and he often times cant speak a word of Thai.

And if the man is happy then I just feel sorry for him. To be happy with someone who is after your wallet and clearly doesnt love you is rather pathetic i'd say.

You don't sound like you feel sorry for these chaps. You sound like you are out to villify and belittle them, and that you feel contempt and dislike for them.

You really don't sound as if you have any effort to understand the world from their perspective before you launched on your bilious tirade of prejudice.

Given how uncontroversial and conventional the original article was, Eek seems to have hit the troll jackpot with this one, for flushing out the spleen-merchants, without needing to stir the pot or add even a pinch of seasoning yet.

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Why should I feel sorry for them?

I should point out that if in the marriage between the young lady and her old old man he is aware of the fact he is being used, thats fine.

He is using her, she is using him, great,

however what I think is pathetic is when they cannot see it, and they are clearly being used but walk around with there head held high, thinking everyone is looking at them like some god, when really people are laughing at them and thinking ohhh you poor misguided fool.

Those that are aware that it is often just a business transaction, often but not always, fine, those that are not, take the blinkers off.

Why shouldn't he hold his head high, why shouldn't his girl hold her head high. You think he should cower and hide because he shouldn't have a right to be happy?

If he's happy and she is happy then who the hell is anyone else to pass judgment.

To me, he isn't the fool, he is happy and proud to be happy. You are the fool for trying to make yourself feel better at what you mistakenly see as misguided happiness.

You may feel better about yourself if you just take people as they are and enjoy in their happiness.

The problem is SHE ISNT HAPPY. A 20 year old girl with a 65 year old man is not happy. In virtually every single one of these relationships there is absolutely no chemistry. Hell, they can barely even communicate. Shes got broken, limited English and he often times cant speak a word of Thai.

And if the man is happy then I just feel sorry for him. To be happy with someone who is after your wallet and clearly doesnt love you is rather pathetic i'd say.

she is not against farang at all.

her writing is about sex tourists and the old guys who marry young whores finding trouble, getting what they deserve.

only sex tourists and the like would diagree with her or find to much fault in her writing.

most farang in thailand are really pathetic, and remember i said most not all.

they make a business transaction, get married, and really believe they are a stud, the handsome man comments goes to there wrinkled up old heads.

now it's time for dads army to strike me down and attack my post, here it comes, i could praise mother teresa here and get flamed.

Bit judgmental of you!

What exactly do you think is wrong with sex tourists?

And how come you don't consider yourself one?

After all you say you are a foreigner and are presumably having sex with a local, so how are you different from the others?

The only way you wouldn't be a sex tourist, is if you had never slept with a Thai lady (as far as I can understand the definition)

Are you somewhat implying that there is nothing wrong with sex tourists.

Having sex with a local without having to pay for it is far different than a 75 year old coming to Thailand, marrying a bar girl, buying her a house, supporting her sleezebag family then getting screwed up the rear end when she boots you out of the house that you paid for.

To see nothing wrong with sex tourists who come to this country and marry hookers is absurd. Its filthy and frankly its primarily the reason why Thailand gets such a bad reputation.

I can't vouch for the veracity of the article's authorship, but I gotta say...I've banged loads of "good" Thai girls on the first date. (And without the involvement of alcohol or any other "substances".)

Maybe they weren't as good as you thought.

They got it all figured out then. Thats our problem, we think way too much and dont live the lives that we want to live as a result.

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HAHA, that's the thing though. Even the "sports bars" are sleazy. I just wanted to watch a boxing match last year and I had a couple of the girls there telling me they loved me. I must've been looking pretty good that day. Safe to say I watched the fight, bought a couple beers for me only and then got the hell out of there. A few more beers and you might do something you regret.

As far as the article writer's musings on farang men, she's right on several points but I think her lack of experience of one half of her heritage is obvious in some parts. Her generalization that Thai men are lazy, cheating drunks is seriously wide of the mark. It reads like grievances passed down from her mother or, perhaps, stories she's heard from other Thai women with a predilection for foreigners. The facts speak for themselves; if Thai women preferred farangs, there'd be a hell of a lot more "luk kreungs" hopping around.

As I said on another thread where the OP was seeking input with regard to impending nuptials with his Thai girlfriend, the overwhelming majority of Thai women would prefer a THAI man for obvious reasons including sharing same culture and language. Adolescent Thai girls don't fantasize about white or black men or pin posters of them on their walls; they have male idols who are distinctively Thai albeit covered with a couple of coats of Dulux Matt White emulsion.

From what I've seen, it is chiefly Thai women of a certain age who are, perhaps, raising one child or more alone that tend to give farang guys the green light since most financially-solid, respectable Thai men will be loathe to take on an over-ripe Thai woman and her spawn. Many farang guys, however, will.

Exactly. Thats one area she seems completely oblivious to. Its amazing how we think Thai Women prefer farang men. Who says that? Hookers? Yeah the "thai men are no good" line works everytime bottom line is they are probably shagging their Thai Husband every night.

Most Thai women much prefer a Thai man because as you said they share the same culture and language.

If a Thai woman is looking for a farang boyfriend/husband, i'd run the hell away.

This girl is spot on with pretty much everything except for that Phuket/Chiang Mai reference which made me laugh.

Bottom line is Thailand is a GREAT country with amazing people when you venture outside of the slimy, tourist traps. Not only are most of the Thai's there complete scum, but most of the Westerners are as well.

I feel like I am fairly well travelled and seeing some of the things ive seen in Thailand was perhaps the most disturbing things ive ever laid eyes on.

But if you dont meddle in the whore...err I mean bar scene then you will enjoy the best things and not the worst things that Thailand has to offer.

I'd say backpackers are pretty terrible but do not deserve to be lumped in with the sex tourists. Absolute scum those guys are.

Man, I have the same experience. I did a motorbike trip in the North of Thailand and on occasion i'd see a farang in a pretty small village town and I would say hello to him and he'd pretend I didnt even exist. Its incredibly strange. Some people are happy to see other farang especially when they go so long without seeing one. For me, its a good opportunity to speak my own language freely and not have to talk dumbed down english.

i think Vietnam and Cambodia will take over thailand's retiree base and Backpakers...

Vietnam, maybe.

Cambodia, definitely not. Even though I loved my brief time there.

What sets Thailand apart from Vietnam are the people. People simply cannot say that the Vietnamese people mucking around in tourist areas are good people. They are horrible and it turns quite a few people off. But then again, same with many of the foreigners who visit there.

The people outside of the tourist areas though are genuinely nice people at least in my experience.

Probably more to do with what you ate your rice with. For the most part - asians have been eating it for thousands of years I guess without getting too fat overall (excluding the donut and ice coffee crowds).

Want to lose weight-cut out all the crappy sugar and booze in your diet. I eat brown and white rice mixed regularly. Workout 3 times a week combined with the sugar/booze removal and have lost 6 kilos of fat while adding on more lean muscle.

Bingo. White rice isnt particularly fattening. Sure if you consume it in large amounts it can be detrimental but you can say that about many foods. Like you said Asians have been consuming white rice for thousands of years and they for the most part remain in good health. They also are responsible for some of the healthiest populations in the world.

Now is white rice healthy? Not really. But its not unhealthy either. It just falls somewhere in the middle. I'd actually suggest white rice over brown rice which contain harmful toxins if not properly prepared.

My story is very similar minus the health problems. I spent a year in Thailand and decided for some reason to travel and work in Australia in May. However, after travelling around SE Asia in March and doing a motorbike trip across Northern Thailand, it become abundantly clear that I was not ready to leave. I love the people, the food and the way of life here. I couldnt believe how helpful people were when I was stuck at the side of the road with motorbike problems.

Anyway, I still decided to go to Australia and am not having fun. Im making money but the money really isnt worth sacrificing being surrounded by great people, fantastic culture etc.

Its safe to say, i'm coming back to Thailand very soon. Part of the reason im posting on TV is because im experiencing Thailand withdrawal and this is a way for me to feel connected while being away. haha.

Rideswings, I hope you get your health back on track and get back to Thailand.

What????? Aussie's aren't great people?? Flies in the face of everything I've heard?

From them at least ..... But seriously the few I've known most have been accommodating people..

HAHA yeah, its not so much the people here. The people are no different or at least not much different from Canadians (my home country). I really dont have a huge problem with them and in my travels, ive met some very nice Aussies. In fact, one of my best friends in Thailand was from the land of OZ. But its just the culture of "developed" countries that to be honest I might not be ready for, if ever. I fell in love with the culture and the people in Thailand. I met some real awesome people there.

I find it astonishing that anyone would want to have a Thai girlfriend/wife but refuse to accept their culture and use this as a condition of the relationship. Totally selfish and I'm not surprised at the OP's lack of success.

Those girls are not what you'd call traditional thai girls. They are most likely working girls who are solely out to meet foreigners so they can get provided for. Nothing to do with accepting their culture because that isnt part of their culture.

My story is very similar minus the health problems. I spent a year in Thailand and decided for some reason to travel and work in Australia in May. However, after travelling around SE Asia in March and doing a motorbike trip across Northern Thailand, it become abundantly clear that I was not ready to leave. I love the people, the food and the way of life here. I couldnt believe how helpful people were when I was stuck at the side of the road with motorbike problems.

Anyway, I still decided to go to Australia and am not having fun. Im making money but the money really isnt worth sacrificing being surrounded by great people, fantastic culture etc.

Its safe to say, i'm coming back to Thailand very soon. Part of the reason im posting on TV is because im experiencing Thailand withdrawal and this is a way for me to feel connected while being away. haha.

Rideswings, I hope you get your health back on track and get back to Thailand.