Preperation for my return to Thailand!

[bucknaway]

I am back in the gym preparing myself for my trip to Thailand in October. Over the winter I ate like a pig and didn't go to the gym at all! It got so bad that I could not fit into my pants with a 29" waist. I had to start wearing 34" waist pants! Well I have been back in the gym and eating healthy again. I even started wearing weights to build my legs up and I am happy to report that I am down to a 32" waist and hope to be at a 30" waist by the end of July.

I know many will say that Thai guys don't care what visitors look like, but I can tell you that it does matter. Being in good shape will often reduce the compensation requested of you from those in the business, it helps you in the non-commercial social circles amongst the general gay/straight population not to mention being better able to handle the heat.

This is the first time I have focused so much energy into preparing myself for something so far away! Each day I think about what I will eat and how much time I will spend in the gym. This may be my last trip for many years to come and I want to make sure it is as memorable as possible!

Do any of you do the same thing? Do you prepare yourself for your holiday or do you simple come as you are?

Well, holidays don't come into it, but I do lube my poop chute 3 times daily - just in case.

Have you considered trying that?
You never know when (even in non-commercial, high-class social settings - say at a black-tie dinner party) somebody might want to slip you a length.

Like the Boy Scouts, my motto is "Be Prepared"

:occasion9:

[1PR4BKK]

Hey Buck:

Congrats on slimming down and getting in shape for the trip.

I have a similar ritual before I go on a trip. I know many people say that it doesn't matter when it comes to your body when you're in Thailand but I agree with you. Being in decent shape increases the odds of non-commercial hook ups.

I am working on the bod for my trip to Brazil in a couple of months and hopefully will keep it up for my trip back to Thailand.

....I am working on the bod for my trip to Brazil in a couple of months...

Will you be putting it back under the floorboards before you leave?

:occasion9:

[gaymandenmark]

Hey Buck, great you can already see some progress in your work-out.

Of course it matters how you look and feel. Most guys both in the noncommercial and commercial scene prefer of course to have fun and be in bed with a guy who is more fitt than fat.

If anyone think different, they are in a delusion.

Now I am in my mid fifties and I have to admit that I am going to be a littlebit lazy, and my belly is not as small as it was in four or five years ago. But I am in no way ashamed, when I sometime compare myself to other people at my age. Sorry to say that, but that is the truth :king:
It must be the genes, I still have no problems having fun and sex with younger guys outside the commercial scene.

What I do about two month before my travels: I use my bike every day or walk and walk. Then I go on a diet, a lot of proteins and almost no carbohydrates, like bread, potatoes or pasta.
Last time I lost 5 kilos just with that diet. I know it is not a diet to sustain weight loss, but it works for me in the short run.

Then unfortunately I have more thin hair than my big brother, so one day before my travel, I cut it "skinhead" like they call it in Thailand.

And then: Thailand here I come. :hello1:**

[Narakmak]

Buck, you're hot anyway. You don't need to pay for sex. I respect that you enjoy doing so. The pimps here await your green stuff.

Buck, you're hot anyway. You don't need to pay for sex.

He'd have to pay me ... I've seen his GayRomeo profile.

No Way. :puke:

[Narakmak]

That's harsh dude. I'd do him.

[gaymandenmark]

I am sure many farangs have problems, only because bucknaway is now 46 years old, but still handsome. :headbang:

[bucknaway]

I am not ashamed of my age at all. I can't wait till I turn 50! I enjoy it when I am at work and am asked how long I have been working there? I love to see the shock on their face when I tell them this is my 25th year working at the same company! Some days I dare say I look as if I am in my 20's and other days I am sure I look as if I am in my early 30's. One thing I have noticed is that the more time I spend in the gym, the more youthful I look and feel.

I use to be afraid of growing older, but now that I like the person I am, I now can't wait to be 50, 60 or 70. Of course I won't be visiting the bars looking for trade at that age, but nor will log onto message boards in order to throw sand in anyone's lubricant.

Now.... The funny thing is that when spring came, I looked at some of the clothes I wore in Thailand last year and knew there was no way I was getting into them! LOL But slowly... I am reducing and getting back to the old me and saying goodbye to the well-fed me of winter. :)


PostAuthor: 1PR4BKK ┬╗ Sat 2 Jul, 2011 1:00 pm
Hey Buck:

Congrats on slimming down and getting in shape for the trip.

I have a similar ritual before I go on a trip. I know many people say that it doesn't matter when it comes to your body when you're in Thailand but I agree with you. Being in decent shape increases the odds of non-commercial hook ups.

I am working on the bod for my trip to Brazil in a couple of months and hopefully will keep it up for my trip back to Thailand.

I would LOVE to visit Brazil! Some of my favorite porn movies are made there! :)

[christianpfc]

I come as I are (no sports before the holiday to be fit), but I read in advance an plan where to go and what to visit.

[Dodger]

bucknaway Wrote:


Do any of you do the same thing? Do you prepare yourself for your holiday or do you simple come as you are?

Absolutely, although it's not a pre-holiday workout - it's a become part of my life style.

I think it was somewhere around the first time I showered with a boy in LOS and stood next to him gazing in the mirror that it ocurred to me - that I had to get myself back in shape. I developed a personized health program which I immediately implemented and have stuck to it to this day. I started eating a healthy low-carb/high protein diet supplemented with daily doses of whey protein (57 grams) and creatine monohydrate which boosts the body's abilities to process protein in the body immediately after workouts. I exercise daily which is still a pian in the ass and work with weights on Saturdays.

I went from wearing pants with a 38" waist - back down to 32" which was my waist size when I was younger before I allowed myself to balloon out. Feels great - but really requirs a lot of discipline which didn't come easy for me.

I don't know what the boys think about it - but that's really not what matters, it's how I feel about myself that I guess matters the most.

I Hope to see you on the sois in October looking slim and trim.

Cheers

[allieb]

Well, holidays don't come into it, but I do lube my poop chute 3 times daily

Try changing lube for colmans mustard. Certainly tightens up the poop shoot which is probably what you need.

Well, holidays don't come into it, but I do lube my poop chute 3 times daily

Try changing lube for colmans mustard. Certainly tightens up the poop shoot which is probably what you need.

Really?

Colmans mustard up the arse?

I do remember Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (as Derek & Clive) doing a sketch about rapsberry jam up the arse though!

CLIVE:
Wh-, I'll tell you what is more important than life itself .....
DEREK:
Than anything.
CLIVE:
..... and that is raspberry jam.
DEREK:
Up the arse

CLIVE:
Raspberry jam should not go up your arse. It should go down-, it-
DEREK:
It shouldn't, but it does! It fucking does, mate!
CLIVE:
(coughs and laughs) No!
DEREK:
Oh-h, you put raspberry jam out, mate, and you take your drawers off, fucking stuff goes WHA-AAY!! (blows raspberry) Right up the arsehole!

Unkiebuck: (Yells) Mei Baan??
Mei Baan: Yes Boss?
Unkiebuck: Take Rasberry Jam off the shopping list please!
Mei Baan: (looking questioningly) OK boss.

...And don't even mention Loganberry jam.

:occasion9:

Do any of you do the same thing? Do you prepare yourself for your holiday or do you simple come as you are?

I thought I was the only one who did this! Up until about three years ago I was a bit of a porker, then lost four stone (I believe that's about 25kg in foreign currency) really toned myself up and looked and felt better than I had done in many years, easily fitting into a 30" waist pair of trousers. It was coincidence that shortly after this I went to LOS on holiday, and boy did I REALLY start to notice the difference. Aside from getting more attention, I noticed that I was being treated differently too. As if the boys had a bit more respect for me. As and for sex, well... looking down on your performance and seeing a slim, toned body as opposed to a flabby beer gut wobbling around all over the place certainly spiced everything up. I hadn't enjoyed sex that much in years. Not to mention the extra bit of 'length' one seems to acquire when there isn't so much flab in the way.

Ever since then, I have tried to keep myself in shape but I do start to slip back into my old ways from time to time, maybe putting on then losing half a stone, mostly through just being too busy for the gym. I do however make a point of spending the month before flying out to LOS getting into shape. It just puts a whole different experience on the holiday, and I would never consider going out there now unless I wasn't reasonably happy with my body.

There was a funny sketch on a show called Little Britain in the UK once where they were having a weight loss meeting (Fat Fighters) and the woman in charge made a fat guy stand in front of the mirror, and was then told to take a good look at himself. He was then asked "Now imagine THAT huffing and puffing away on top of you all night - not nice is it?"

Although it was meant to be comedy, I always thought there was more than a grain of truth in it, and I always think of it when I see a small and slim Thai boy who's been caught in the gravitational pull of an obese ferang.

[Brisboy82]

I have also been hitting the gym to tone up before my next trip. I expect my boys to have a good body and it's only fair that they get the same in return.

People think that because the Thais tell them what they want to hear that the Thais don't care about these things but if course they do. Nobody wants to sleep with a guy who doesn't take care of himself. I also have a much better tine when I am feeling good about my own body.

[psd1315]

I usually prepare this way

Go to the Dr. Then I get extra valium, antibiotics, the wide range that kills off most STDтАЩs. Last trip in Feb 2011 came back with a pound load of scabiesтАж which I never have had itched like hell for three weeks, boiled all my clothes and sheets twice. Stocked up on a quart of Permethinn cream. Guess most boys and hotels cant rid the scabies and now also the pesty bed-bugs are hungrier than ever.

I generally donтАЩt drink, smoke or do drugs go to the gym often, but gain weight about 10 to 15 pounds every year before I return to Thailand between the heat, diet, hiking, swimming and sex, I come back just over 8#lbs above my high school weight 165 1bs.
Im 52 years old and never had trouble attracting the boys, itтАЩs the other foreigners and Russians that I despise.

Ps: coffee, coffee pot and Dr. BonnnerтАЩs soap is a must.

You just sound like a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard.

No offence.

:occasion9:

You just sound like a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard.

That comment says a lot more about you than it does the OP.

That comment says a lot more about you than it does the OP.


I speak as I find, and your opinion bothers me about as much as my next shit.

:occasion9:

I speak as I find, and your opinion bothers me about as much as my next shit.

If your next shit bothers you as much as a comment which you feel is important enough to respond to, one can only assume you have hemorrhoids. Which I hear is quite common for obese people.

I speak as I find, and your opinion bothers me about as much as my next shit.

If your next shit bothers you as much as a comment which you feel is important enough to respond to, one can only assume you have hemorrhoids. Which I hear is quite common for obese people.


No, my next shit bothers me as much as your opinion does.
I could not have been any clearer.
Further, you have no idea whether I am obese, rotund, normal weight, or positively skeletal - as you have never met or seen me.
Therefore I can only assume that you are educationally sub-normal in some way and prone to delusions into the bargain.
Which I hear is quite common in old cows (see avatar)

:laughing3: :laughing3:

My opinion clearly bothers you quite a bit. You equate this irritation with your bowel movements, which says to me that you have a medical problem. Quite why you'd feel the need to post about this on a gay message board and not a medical one is anyone's guess, but seeing as though you did, and you have demonstrated a dislike for people who like to keep fit, I merely suggested you had hemorrhoids, a common ailment associated with people who are unhealthy and/or obese.

Perhaps if you started to use that head of yours to write something sensible and grown up, instead of using it merely as a counter balance to your fat arse, we might be able to get this thread back on topic.

[Dodger]

Scottishguy Wrote:


You just sound like a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard,

Scotty,

Your continuous stream of sniper-style insults on this (and all the other threads you participate in), makes it sound as if a few you need to pop a few valiums yourself.

Bucknaway,

It appears as if you're not alone - as most responders share the same practice of getting fit before the game starts.

I know for me - LOS has provided the motivation to stay fit which would probably not have occured had I not discovered this place. I'm not sure if it's added a few years onto my life or not - but it sure makes the days I'm living now more fulfilling.

Now, just another thousand situps to burn off the calories from those Singha's at Corner Bar...555.

Scottishguy Wrote:


You just sound like a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard,

Scotty,

Your continuous stream of sniper-style insults on this (and all the other threads you participate in), makes it sound as if a few you need to pop a few valiums yourself.


Not at all - I would only need Valium if posting on here made me feel depressed, whereas the truth of the matter is that I find the content of much of this board to be hysterically funny (even though the posters are trying to be serious!)

In this thread we have a middle aged man, self-confessed hooked on valium, and who drugs himself up on a cocktail of antibiotics as a phrophylactic against the myriad of STD he expects to expose himself to during the non-stop prostitute fuelled orgy he regards as a holiday.

Now, if I'm wrong to sum it up as I did, what's your considered take on his reckless behaviour??

[giggsy]

Having just returned from a few weeks on the Spanish costa's I find I have put on a few pounds so I too better start a diet for my vist to Thailand later this year. I thought I would go back on the Winalot diet even though last time I was on it I ended up in hospital with tubes coming out of every orifice. The diet itself works very well and you can usually lose about 1 stone per month. all you do is keep some winalot biscuits in each of your pockets and when you feel hungry just eat a couple. They expand in your stomach and the hunger quickly goes away.
"But how did you end up in hospital" I hear you ask.
Well I stepped of the pavement to smell an Irish setters arse and got hit by a bus.

[Dodger]

scottishguy wrote:


...what's your considered take on this guys reckless behavior?

Well, now that you put it that way, I guess my take is that he is a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard. You just don't have to be so blunt...555

[psd1315]

You just sound like a valium-addicted, filthy old pervert who can't relate to non-prostitutes, and who regards catching a multiplicity of venereal diseases as an occupational hazard.

No offence.

:occasion9:

HeтАЩs a good example of why I travel to Thailand, I cant connect with the queennie gay types around the world. The light handed lefties that are marching in to get married after finding their new source of virginity. I just wonder how many have forgotten, virginity escaped them on man #69.

Got to laugh, the acquisition, 4 valiums, 2 over and 2 on the way back is an addiction. Oh yes indeed, nothing like looking out the window 35,000 feet up in total darkness for 9 hours.

Thanks for reminding me, once a daisy always a daisy.

[thonglor55]

Thanks for reminding me, once a daisy always a daisy.And a daisy chain?

[bucknaway]

:: Update ::

So far so good. Still, I only eat what I prepare myself and I try to make all my meals as fresh and flavorful as possible. As a matter of fact, I have taken to preparing my food to resemble much of the food you would find in Thailand or a Chinese restaurant. I am doing a lot of steaming of veggies along with a lot of stir fry and rice. Along with my meals I try to enjoy some fresh fruit and I now find that I crave my own cooking over anything that can be purchased from a takeout restaurant. Even today, I was invited to a catered lunch, I didn't want the food that was provided because I wanted the chicken soup I prepared.

My gym routine has increased and I am now able to fit more exercises into the 2 hours I spend in the gym and it is my plan to increase my workout by another 1/2 hour to focus more on my legs and I guess it is paying off because when I was at the grocery store buying some things for dinner, a guy continued to chat me up and say hi to me with his every passing and a lady there seem to want to do nothing but talk to me while in the checkout line. I am not sure but maybe my wearing my gym shorts and top had something to do with the attention I was getting. I didn't mind the attention mind you, I only hope I do as well on the competitive streets of Bangkok.

Before I arrive, I will post some pictures but I am going to give myself 7 more weeks of intensive weight training before I post pictures of my progress...

Oh and I still have not booked my flight yet, but I have booked my condo in Pattaya with Asian Escapes. I will be staying at the View Talay 5. I have not decided if I will stay at Babylon when I arrive or not. I am torn because some of the guys I know don't want to visit me in my room at Babylon, but I do want to try it just once more. Maybe I will just stay there one or 2 nights and then move to the favorite hotel before I travel on to Pattaya.

[Smiles]

" ... I am not sure but maybe my wearing my gym shorts and top had something to do with the attention I was getting ... "
Ah yes, the devastating allure of a close-by pungent BO after a 2-hr (soon to be 3) gym workout . . . in a store checkout lineup where people are purchasing FOOD and you're rubbing up against them, while yapping.
Priceless.

" ... Still, I only eat what I prepare myself and I try to make all my meals as fresh and flavorful ... "
God, aren't we Miss Prissy.
And to think ... you pass out KFC buckets to security guards.

[bucknaway]

Oh your imagination. I don't sweat from my workout:). I notice that only a handful of guys do sweat at the gym.

Oh your imagination. I don't sweat from my workout:). I notice that only a handful of guys do sweat at the gym.

What about the boys?

[gaymandenmark]

Oh your imagination. I don't sweat from my workout:). I notice that only a handful of guys do sweat at the gym.

What about the boys?

accordimg to another tread I thought Buckna was still a boy :hello1:

Oh your imagination. I don't sweat from my workout:). I notice that only a handful of guys do sweat at the gym.

What about the boys?

accordimg to another tread I thought Buckna was still a boy :hello1:

In Bucknaway's case, that is a particulary insensitive remark to make.

Yet again it illustrates that it's all about context.

[gaymandenmark]

In Bucknaway's case, that is a particulary insensitive remark to make.

Yet again it illustrates that it's all about context.

On that I agree with you, it is all about context.

Sorry Buckaway if i have offended you one or another way, even if Scot think so, my remarks had nothing to do with race or the colour of the skin.

It was only a "smart" and maybe stupid comment about the age aspect, and how people call themselves and other adults guys for boys.