Bodybuilders Best Friend in Bangkok

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Bodybuilders Best Friend in Bangkok

Posted on 04 August 2009 by Mike Behnken

Healthy Surprise

I have been trying to go from the “Try Everything” phase of just getting here to getting back into my healthy eating and daily workout program. Across from the California WOW which I workout at I usually get something from 7-Eleven and something from a street vendor.

Up to this point I have usually bought corn-on-the-cob and I never noticed that in the giant steamer they have these little red sweet potatoes.

One of the best active diet foods are sweet potatoes and yams which are stacked with complex carbs and B-Vitamins. Up until this point I had not seen sweet potatoes anywhere except for grocery stores which sometimes the ones from the USA are very expensive. The bag of sweet potatoes is only 10 baht (30 cents) and it is the perfect food to eat before and after workouts.

I plan to make these little bags of sweet potatoes a big part of my active diet as they satisfy the sweet tooth and are very hard to pig out on. The only thing which is yet to be determined is if my stomach can handle them.

I don’t know if it is true but I have heard that some fruits and vegetables with peels can get you sick because they store enough water to irritate your stomach. I have downed a 2 bags of these little potatoes while I walk back from the gym at Sukhumvit Soi 23 to my apartment at Sukhumvit Soi 1 and have yet to get sick and I’m crossing my fingers.