To enable me to provide links etc. I have moved this blog to my website at

http://zarendhara.net/naturehealth.htm

The purpose of the blog is to provide a record of how I was able to live macrobiotic in Thailand. Initially when the doctor said diet, I thought where I live in Thailand would be the worlds worst place but now I am beginning to think the exact opposite.

Come to my macrobiotic blog and see why.

billzant

Dear Klara,

How are you?

Thanks very much for replying to my intro, are you a moderator or just interested? Not that it really matters which one.

I mentioned going to Bangkok so the obvious assumption is that I was on holiday, in fact I have retired to Trat - a small town in Eastern Thailand down near the Cambodian border (if you have been to Thailand near Koh Chang).

My retirement is chosen isolation, I live alone and the nearest westerner...

billzant

Hi Bill,

I have no idea how I missed this post. Gary, I look forward to the day when a whole week's worth of new posts can show up, maybe making it easier.

I've written this many times - as it seems many people are isolated - but the fact that you have a health food store is a good start - the advice would be to put up a notice in the health food store, asking if there is anyone else macro, or interested in practicing mb.

We live in great times as far...

billzant

I put the first blog entry as text as an intro in the forum. I now include Klara's reply and my subsequent reply in my blog for completeness.

billzant

I have always taken some concern over my diet - for many years being vegetarian. Where I live it is not easy to be vegetarian so I gave that up. At the same time before I retired (18months ago) I was an international schoolteacher, and it was not so easy establsihing healthy shopping patterns. So my doet slipped a bit; my major culprits were coffee and sugar, and cheese.

In my job I was very strressed inwardly, often sending bullets down to my digestive system. Although this never...

billzant