The Thai Woman's Diet: Follow This And You Too Can Be Thin

If you come to Thailand, one of the first things you will notice is how thin Thai women are. Of course, most Thai women are petite, but they are also tiny in body size. The average Thai women's size is between a two and a four, and many Thai women are as small as a size zero. As a Westerner living in Thailand, it does get frustrating. Even when I'm at my smallest, an American size eight, and buy clothes, I'm still told "We don't sell Extra Large size." You can only imagine how some of the larger Western women feel. Thai women however eat in a particular way, and if you follow how they eat you too can lose weight and stay slim.

Food is very important to Thai people. If you watch them, they seem to be eating all the time. Breakfast is food from a street stall. A snack comes about an hour and a half later from another street stall. Lunch follows on quickly, with another snack in the afternoon, a snack before dinner, then dinner. You would think with all this eating Thai women would be fat. So why aren't they?

1. Snacking is a good thing. Although it seems like Thai women eat a lot because they're always snacking, if you watch closely you will see the portions they eat are actually quite small. But, because they are constantly snacking, their metabolisms are fast. Eating small amounts constantly actually speeds up your metabolism. The way we eat in the West, with three very large meals, causes our metabolism to slow down and the food our bodies don't burn up gets stored as fat. So we get fat.

2. Small portions. For breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner most Thai women eat communally. That means they buy several items and then share among friends. Each women will eat a few different things but in small portions. Overall, they may eat a lot of different kinds of food but in portions that are almost doll size.

3. Not much meat. Thai people do not eat a lot of meat. Meat is in many Thai dishes but it is small portions of meat that are mixed in with vegetables and a sauce, then served over rice. Even when they order meat dishes, it will be usually part of a communal meal where rice and vegetables are still the main things they eat.