RSD1

Well over 365 dumps made. A very solid year!

I understand your point, it's a question of quality of life versus quantity of life and everyone is free to make that choice for themselves. The sad thing in Thailand though is that so many are uneducated about the dangers related to eating and drinking and many are developing serious, chronic illnesses, and only understanding about those dangers once it's too late. The motorcycle topic is a separate issue. I also drive a motorcycle sometimes, but the dangers do worry me. I've made some changes in the locations that I need to go to regularly to where I can now walk to a number of places that I used to need to drive to. So I've significantly reduced the amount of driving I do on the motorcycle to try and reduce the risk factor.

I’m not pointing this out on the Skytrain to fat shame anyone. I’ve lived here for decades and witnessed a dramatic shift. When I first arrived, the population was generally small and healthy looking. Now, about 50% of people appear to be overweight. These are simply observations. A major public health crisis has emerged. The number of deaths from obesity related complications, including heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions, has skyrocketed compared to when I first came here. This crisis is deeply tied to food, diet, and a lack of education and resources to address the issue. Many suspect that Thailand’s large sugar and agricultural industries play a significant role. These powerful lobbies are believed to influence the government, hindering efforts to regulate the sugar industry. As a result, this unchecked influence continues to contribute to the growing number of preventable deaths.

You kidding me? I do all those things myself. That's why I live here, because I can. Aren't you the same? Otherwise, you would be back in Liverpool fixing people's toilets and drinking cheap warm piss beer if you didn't prefer living in the hub of being bent.

He likes Samet. Don't you remember his post where he took a whole bunch of ladyboys and a few of his gay mates on a trip down there for a reach around weekend?

bob, you should make a whole series of these annoying posts moaning about all the things that Thai people do that break the rules when they shouldn't. Since you're so entitled to live in a perfect Thailand you should also whine about cutting people in line, street gambling, public drinking, ignoring red lights, not wearing helmets, driving in the wrong direction, driving in the wrong lane, illegal parking, overloading motorcycles, selling alcohol during prohibited hours, ignoring speed limits, ignoring no smoking areas, burning trash, avoiding taxes, noise violations, bribing officials, etc.

and where was your ladyboy partner when all this happened?

bob, there is a ฿5000 fine for driving motorcycles on the footpath. You've got the GoPro footage, just report him to the police and stop whingeing about nonsense like an old minger.

Because he's 70 and he has nobody else to talk to.

Yes, it would be unnecessary waste. Easier thing would be to just weigh your meals on a kitchen scale for a few days and see how much you're normally eating by weight. Then just put 20% less on your plate by weight going forward. And you should be removing equal amounts of each item. That should do it.

Must be great footage for your GoPro collection.

but what if you discard the salad and keep all the potatoes?

But I got Mrs. Neville right here and she says otherwise. Are you calling her a liar?

Oh, so much anger and hatred for the locals bob, maybe you should've just stayed in Spain???

Seriously though Bobby, why aren't you down at Katoeys ‘R’ Us right now having some ladyboy giving you a fisty?

No, he is Collin Neville from Dorset and he just arrived recently in Thailand. He speaks Thai because his Thai wife, Mrs. Smith, I mean Mrs. Neville, taught him tight for 10 years back in Luton, I mean Dorset.

So you are racist against me now because I'm Thai? And how am I?

What did you have for dinner and what did you say to me in Thai? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the loud sound of my engine. I thought when you tried to kiss me though that was a nice touch.

so now you know, BobbyBoy.

Yup. That works too. Though 30% may not be the magic number. You only need to create a 10% caloric deficit to start losing weight. So it depends how much you are over eating above your maintenance calorie level.

Sorry bob, that was me. But you're just too fat, slow and old and take too long to get out of the way. Maybe you should walk in the street where there's more space and leave the sidewalks to people like us on motorcycles.

The big change I noticed after Covid is that the girls on the street are no longer choosy about who they go with. Prior to Covid you saw a lot of Indian and Arab men being turned down by the Thai women on the street. Now, most of the Thai women are gone and the ones who remain are willing to go with nearly any of the ethnic groups. You also get groups of five or six Indian men that will approach one girl on the street for a lower priced package deal to do them all, one after the other. It's gotta be rough going for these women who are entertaining those low budget offers.

Most of these foreign girls have handlers from their own countries based in Thailand that help to look out for them. The girls pay some money to the handlers and the handlers deal with the authorities. But it could be that the authorities want more money from the handlers now and so this was all to send a new year's message and to remind them that the authorities are the ones who are really controlling the game and that next year it's gonna start costing them more to bring their girls in.

I think the whole carbs are all bad thing is a big misnomer. Yes, too many simple carbs aren't good for other health reasons, but carbs in general, aren't the enemy for weight loss. A lot of people cut out carbs and then they end up dropping weight and they think it was because of the carbs in their diet. But what happens is they cut out the carbs and they continue to eat the same amounts of the other foods and what they're actually doing is creating a caloric deficit and that's why they're losing weight. If you did the opposite, you cut out all the fat from your diet, and the protein and you just ate complex carbs then you would likely lose weight too. Again, it comes down to how many calories you're taking in per day and you need to create a caloric deficit to lose weight. But it doesn't matter where the calories are coming from in terms of weight loss. As long as you're not exceeding the amount of calories that puts you into a surplus then you should lose weight. You could even go on a low carb diet and end up gaining weight if you end up eating too much extra fat in place of those carbs.

The first three that you mentioned are generally imported and higher priced in Thailand although you can get big bags of frozen ones in Makro from China that aren't expensive, but they don't taste great either. In Thailand, Pomelo, Guava, Rose Apples, Green Mango and a few others are very low in sugar and are all local fruits and easy to find. Watermelon is actually high glycemic, but so much of it is water that it's hard to consume too much of it. So it's another good one.