Thai Diet

[radley]

Is there anyone out there who knows any thai menu for those who want to slim fast. I'm fed up of eating really low-fat products, I mean, all of the food I eat now is really sweet(fruits, muller rice, optivita from kellogs, wheat biscuits) so i get cravings to eat meat. I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me thai menu including ingredients. I need at least 5-7? I don't really know because I don't want to eat the same food over and over because I'll get fed up and then quit.

[suegha]

Not sure what you're looking for, but here are a few links...

http://www.templeofthai.com/recipes/

http://www.mcdang.com/eng/Thaicuisine/Contents.asp

http://thfood.blogspot.com/

http://www.thai4uk.com/kai_yang.html

I hope these help.

[radley]

Thanks mate. I'm going to check it now

[cathyy]

http://www.enjoythaifood.com/talkingmenu/index.php

[stub]

Is there anyone out there who knows any thai menu for those who want to slim fast. I'm fed up of eating really low-fat products, I mean, all of the food I eat now is really sweet(fruits, muller rice, optivita from kellogs, wheat biscuits) so i get cravings to eat meat. I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me thai menu including ingredients. I need at least 5-7? I don't really know because I don't want to eat the same food over and over because I'll get fed up and then quit.

It sounds like you are in the same situation as many (most?) people trying to lose wait on the traditional low-fat diet. I'd suggest doing research into modern dietary thinking and choose an approach better suited to you. For example, lowering your carbohydrate intake reduces your appetite so you end up eating fewer calories - and the only way of losing weight is to consume fewer calories than you burn. Everything else is just management - keeping the body healthy and stopping cravings. No problems with higher fat diet if the total calories goes down (unless you are also nursing a colestorol problem or similar), and if the sweet stuff you mention has a high calory count that may be your problem; and I don't mean high calory 'per serve', but what you end up eating of it in a day!. It may turn out to be really easy - I find I lose weight if I stick to a normal diet but only eat rice with breakfast or maybe breakfast + lunch. Instead of wanting a full dinner, I find a small snack just fine. Or maybe the 'high GI' approach - buy your kha pow gai or whatever on the street without the rice, and cook brown rice at home (extra points if you cook less rice than you would have got on the street too!).

When cooking, I tend to improvise. Pick a meat, vegetable or tofu as the main. Abritrarily choose herbs or spices (holy basil, or corriander, or the strange one you haven't seen before, or some random curry paste). Do a stir fry with little oil, chilli, garlic and onion to taste. The curry pastes need some sort of creamer, so maybe add soymilk after the meat is braised instead of coconut milk and fresh corriander too for a red or green curry. Brown rice or maybe skip that altogether.

More resources over in the weight loss forum too.

[Gary A]

Is there anyone out there who knows any thai menu for those who want to slim fast. I'm fed up of eating really low-fat products, I mean, all of the food I eat now is really sweet(fruits, muller rice, optivita from kellogs, wheat biscuits) so i get cravings to eat meat. I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me thai menu including ingredients. I need at least 5-7? I don't really know because I don't want to eat the same food over and over because I'll get fed up and then quit.

It sounds like you are in the same situation as many (most?) people trying to lose wait on the traditional low-fat diet. I'd suggest doing research into modern dietary thinking and choose an approach better suited to you. For example, lowering your carbohydrate intake reduces your appetite so you end up eating fewer calories - and the only way of losing weight is to consume fewer calories than you burn. Everything else is just management - keeping the body healthy and stopping cravings. No problems with higher fat diet if the total calories goes down (unless you are also nursing a colestorol problem or similar), and if the sweet stuff you mention has a high calory count that may be your problem; and I don't mean high calory 'per serve', but what you end up eating of it in a day!. It may turn out to be really easy - I find I lose weight if I stick to a normal diet but only eat rice with breakfast or maybe breakfast + lunch. Instead of wanting a full dinner, I find a small snack just fine. Or maybe the 'high GI' approach - buy your kha pow gai or whatever on the street without the rice, and cook brown rice at home (extra points if you cook less rice than you would have got on the street too!).

When cooking, I tend to improvise. Pick a meat, vegetable or tofu as the main. Abritrarily choose herbs or spices (holy basil, or corriander, or the strange one you haven't seen before, or some random curry paste). Do a stir fry with little oil, chilli, garlic and onion to taste. The curry pastes need some sort of creamer, so maybe add soymilk after the meat is braised instead of coconut milk and fresh corriander too for a red or green curry. Brown rice or maybe skip that altogether.

More resources over in the weight loss forum too.

My Thai wife watches her weight closely. She has a fail proof diet plan. She has strong arms and when she goes over her weight limit she simply pushes herself away from the table. I have adapted that same plan and it also works for me. I can't believe people try those diet plans that CANNOT possibly be good for them. All things in moderation. High protein, low carbohydrate diets? Give me a break. Who could believe that fruit is not good for them?

[Choscura]

pat pric sot is a good standard if you're trying to lose weight. can be as spicy as you want, 's got veggies in.

also you could simply try eating less white/sticky rice (just don't finish what they put on the plate).

[Cuban]

Measure your waist, thighs, chest and upper arms.

Water just passes through you quickly - but drink loads of water.

It is protein that triggers your body/brain that you have eaten enough and are no longer hungry. Soups are filling, so you might be wise to consider high protein soups, shreaded chicken boiled or BBQed added to a very simple rice flour soup. Add green veg.

No beer/whiskey etc.

Some push ups, any other excerise you can. Sit ups and lunges. Using your main muscle groups to burns calories helps.

Get a bike, do 15 minutes early morning and before sunset for the first 10 days then 30 minutes for the rest of the month.

Measure your waist, thighs, upper arms.

If you can gain some muscle while loosing fat you will see the improvement in the measurements and your clothes will fit better. Don't rely on weight scales as muscle weighs more than fat, and it is muscle that burns calories. A toned body with a bit of fat on it looks better than a fat body with no muscle tone.

Yoga and streaching muscles is important if you are over weight, the fat you carry around is stressful to your joints - in the early days take it EASY. Build up walking and cycling times or distance a little more every few days.

Get a frisbee or football, play with the local kids. (Tough in the heat I know.)

Do you know your blood pressure?

It took a few years to slowly gain weight - it will take time to loose it.

Take it a day at a time - if you fall of the waggon, don't let a bad day become a bad week.

Best of luck.

[tropo]

It is protein that triggers your body/brain that you have eaten enough and are no longer hungry.

I think the opposite is true. It's the carbohydrates that trigger your brain that you're full.

If I eat meat and other high protein food without carbohydrates I never feel full and get hungry again quickly.

[dttk0009]

I find dieting in Thailand quite easy. Lots of cheap, fresh fruit available all over the city, so there's always something to snack on. When it comes to meat, stick to chicken, as it's probably going to be your best bet. I usually only eat fruits and yoghurt for dinner, cereal/toast and fruit for breakfast and a meal for lunch. I have a small snack around 4-5pm as well. The trick is to keep the portions small. I don't mean ridiculously small, but let's say that a plate of rice from a street stall should be largest meal you eat. Try to distribute 5 small meals throughout the day, as this keeps your metabolism going. Try to pick foods that aren't cooked with massive amounts of oil. I usually cook at home and prepare my fried rice w/ olive oil, or cook some pasta. Your calorie intake should be around 1200-1400 a day.

Most importantly, if you want to lose fat, do some cardio exercises. Sign up at a gym and run for 40 minutes at least 5 times a week. In addition, weights will also burn additional calories.

I slimmed down using this diet from 200lbs(a year ago) to 160lbs(now). I wasn't entirely consistent with my dieting and exercising, but for the most part I lost around 1.5-2lbs of fat a week this way, while building some muscles.

Don't go too severe (ie - starve yourself), or you're most likely going to go on a binge fest eventually. Stay healthy and good luck!

[PlainJane]

Cardio (skipping rope) and then do your set of exercises, then do cardio (skipping rope) and then do your set of exercises. It keeps your heart-rate up.

[drbill]

This may not work for you but I have trimmed down considerably in the last 4-5 months by eating thai vegetarian (except for dried shrimp,shrimp paste and afew shrimp and non fried fish for cooking)without any rice,or much high starch vegetables and by substuting unsweetened soy milk instead of coconut milk in curries,and no carbs such as noodles , bread, cake,kanom, junk food snacks and by avoiding beer or alcohol and soft drinks except light calorie free soft drinks.Avoid eating late at night.I eat large portions. I'm never hungry. After afew weeks (if you are very over weight like I was )than start some easy cardiovascular exercise ;swim, fast walking,bike etc. Don't over do it .Then exercise alittle more.I've come down to 202 lbs from a weight that you would not believe and hope to stablize at 180.I feel great.

[lawling]

Forgive me for going off at a slight tangent here but when I hear discussions about the merits of Thai cooking I sometimes worry about the amount of salt a lot of dishes contain. My doctor back home has long cautioned about the adverse affects of excessive salt and I have recently seen a lot of publicity about its role in hardening of the arteries leading to strokes and heart attacks.

When I am back in the UK, I am able to manage my salt intake but in Thailand I eat out all the time and sometimes I'm aware that salt is added very liberally, especially via nam plah - and of course, since it's an easy way to enhance flavour, one can understand why restaurants are heavy handed with it.

Does anyone else share my concerns and have any advice on how to cope with the problem? Indeed I would be interested if anyone enlighten me as to how many grams of salt would be contained in a tablespoonful of fish sauce?

[Monroe]

Forgive me for going off at a slight tangent here but when I hear discussions about the merits of Thai cooking I sometimes worry about the amount of salt a lot of dishes contain. My doctor back home has long cautioned about the adverse affects of excessive salt and I have recently seen a lot of publicity about its role in hardening of the arteries leading to strokes and heart attacks.

When I am back in the UK, I am able to manage my salt intake but in Thailand I eat out all the time and sometimes I'm aware that salt is added very liberally, especially via nam plah - and of course, since it's an easy way to enhance flavour, one can understand why restaurants are heavy handed with it.

Does anyone else share my concerns and have any advice on how to cope with the problem? Indeed I would be interested if anyone enlighten me as to how many grams of salt would be contained in a tablespoonful of fish sauce?

The sodium content of fish sauce has bothered me at an increasingly greater rate. Last I recall, 2 Tbsp. contain 28% of any given person's daily value of sodium.

I've had to reason with myself that although I've seen 4-6 Tbsp. used per meal, it is spread over several bowls. So one might only get 5-10% sodium per serving.

Back to the main subject, I've found that only eating 2 meals a day (breakfast and an early dinner) helps in the weight loss process--given that each meal is of average size. What I've done recently is increased protein intake, decreased carbohydrate intake (though I still maintain 200-500 calories worth) and eaten a lot of fruit and vegetables.

This, combined with a small amound (20-30 minutes a day) has trimmed off any body fat I may have gained and built up a reasonable amount of muscle.

[Monroe]

"This, combined with a small amound (20-30 minutes a day) has trimmed off any body fat I may have gained and built up a reasonable amount of muscle."

Sorry, part of my sentence got chopped off and made the message a bit incoherent. Rather, I meant to say, "This, combined with a small amount (20-30 minutes a day) of exercise has trimmed off and body fat I may have accumulated and built up a reasonable amount of muscle."

[lawling]

"This, combined with a small amound (20-30 minutes a day) has trimmed off any body fat I may have gained and built up a reasonable amount of muscle."

Sorry, part of my sentence got chopped off and made the message a bit incoherent. Rather, I meant to say, "This, combined with a small amount (20-30 minutes a day) of exercise has trimmed off and body fat I may have accumulated and built up a reasonable amount of muscle."

Thanks - though it was quite clear what you meant.

That seems like a good solid routine. I try to do likewise but having a few beers regularly tends to undo a lot of the benefits obtained from sensible eating.

[Monroe]

Thanks - though it was quite clear what you meant.

That seems like a good solid routine. I try to do likewise but having a few beers regularly tends to undo a lot of the benefits obtained from sensible eating.

You might substitute that beer for something less filling, like a good whiskey or Cognac. I've traditionally gone with Johnnie Walker (Black or Blue-label), Hennessy, or Remy Martin, respectively.

Say one has trouble affording 100 or so USD per bottle, they might try the Black-label. It's not too much more than some of the European beers (though significantly more expensive than the Chang or Leo-type varieties), lasts longer and has a uniquely hardy taste to it.