Healthy eating in Thailand / Bangkok

If you don't have a kitchen or can't prepare your own food here in Thailand you are very limited yes I agree. have you ever thought about trying raw food? no cooking required, eating fresh fruits and veggies. buy them cheap at the local market and wash them. *** Good luck

hell noooooo I'd get bored really quickly. Plus, I need at least one warm meal a day or else I could get depressed.

No one else has a brilliant idea?

Hot rolled oats with milk and your choice of fresh berries and raisins in the morning. Afternoon have Salads with tomatoes, celery, green peppers, lettuce and Italian dressing and or home made soup from cabbage, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, garlic, your choice of herbs. Fruit for snacks. Evening find a nice restaurant 3 miles away and walk to it there and back. No deserts with sugars in it.

P.S. If you think this is rabbit food than hell you could hop all the way to the restaurant   instead of walking. 

I have lived in Thailand for 4 years, and have been losing weight the whole time. Lost 40 lbs now. You just have to stay away from fried foods, instead of noodle ask for Mung Bean, it's a dry noodle made from bean, soak it in water for about 10-15 minutes, you can use for soup & stir-fry. The main way to lose weight is to eat less. And we eat our main meal in the afternoon around 3 pm, at dinner we have soup or salad. We also eat more Vietnamese food than we do Thai, you can ask them to leave the sugar out of the dishes if you like. But it is more how much you eat, than what you eat. You can buy dim sum & steam in your rice pot for one meal, get a cooked chicken, separate it from the bone & add it to a green salad, another meal would be clear chicken broth soap with pork ribs, vegetables, & mung bean noodles, you can season yourself. There is lots out there, just be creative. The Thai's don't like to make changes in there food, but you can always say you have food allergies  The Vietnamese are more open minded as far as food preparation . Good Luck, Enjoy the food, there is so much to try, just modify it for your needs. Make sure you tell them not to use MSG, they put it in everything, and if you eat your eyes will end up being puffy & have a large salt retention, high blood pressure & on & on, not such good health.

Too expensive for my budget

California4me wrote:

I have lived in Thailand for 4 years, and have been losing weight the whole time. Lost 40 lbs now. You just have to stay away from fried foods, instead of noodle ask for Mung Bean, it's a dry noodle made from bean, soak it in water for about 10-15 minutes, you can use for soup & stir-fry. The main way to lose weight is to eat less. And we eat our main meal in the afternoon around 3 pm, at dinner we have soup or salad. We also eat more Vietnamese food than we do Thai, you can ask them to leave the sugar out of the dishes if you like. But it is more how much you eat, than what you eat. You can buy dim sum & steam in your rice pot for one meal, get a cooked chicken, separate it from the bone & add it to a green salad, another meal would be clear chicken broth soap with pork ribs, vegetables, & mung bean noodles, you can season yourself. There is lots out there, just be creative. The Thai's don't like to make changes in there food, but you can always say you have food allergies  The Vietnamese are more open minded as far as food preparation . Good Luck, Enjoy the food, there is so much to try, just modify it for your needs. Make sure you tell them not to use MSG, they put it in everything, and if you eat your eyes will end up being puffy & have a large salt retention, high blood pressure & on & on, not such good health.

This is actually good advice, advice I can use. Where do you buy the mung bean noodles? So they're low carb or carb free noodles?

Yes I always ask the som tum lady to not put any MSG in mine, but if you buy those dishes that they sell on the street or at the foodcourt, you know, those stands that has like 8 or 20 different dishes for you to choose from and eat with rice? They're prepared already and even the vegetable dishes aren't that healthy since they're always so oily and very often sweet as hell.

I'm also not a fan of soups, Thailand is hot enough. The only soups that I enjoy is miso soup. I add some dried seaweed in them. But that doesn't really count as a meal, more like a small snack since it's just 30 calories