Exercise and where you live

I am not a trainer, I am not a nutritionist or doctor. This is just my experience and well it is my opinion. Perhaps you will agree, it doesn't matter to me it is just a fact in my life and I think it would be for many other people as well. I recently discovered it and my personal observations.

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We all know we need to exercise. If you have been following me long enough you know that I got to be a bit of a fat-ass around then end of last year when i hit 106kg and am now around 88. The problem it, that since i am in my 40's that if i stop exercising, even for a little bit, i put on weight fast. This can become a problem because of where I live in Thailand.

It is absurdly hot and humid in Thailand pretty much all the time. Sure the calendar talks about the "cooler time of the year" but I gotta call bullhickey on that, it is never cool in Thailand.

If you do really anything in Thailand other than sit in front of a fan you will likely sweat, a lot. Despite this I will still go for a run along the beach on the pathways and I am quite certain that I sweat a lot more liquid than is contained in the water bottle that I bring with me. I normally stop running not because I am tired but because I fear I might die of heat stroke. This normally means that I am only able to get about 3-4km in before quitting. There are air con gyms here but there is literally nothing i would rather not do than run on a treadmill. OMG that sucks.

how dare you try to stay fit? Says the sun

So as you know, i am now in Australia in Queensland and for the first time I went for a jog on the beach pathways that they have here and I quite easily made it 9km. I only stopped because well, i was back to where i started. I could have done more. The thing is, I wasn't anywhere near as tired as i was after just a few kilometers running in Thailand.

You don't have to be a sport scientist to figure this out I know, but I can't believe that my cardio is so much better once i get a much more amicable temperature into the mix? I understand i would be able to go a bit farther, but 3 times as far with plenty still in the tank? That's absurd.

On another side note i would also like to say this and will likely go into greater detail about it later. The city provides the exercise areas for free in Australia. They are maintained to an extremely high standard. They are perfect! Yet if you go just about anywhere in this country and look around literally 90% of the people are overweight. I thought i could stand to lose a few more kg until i came here. Now, no matter where I go I am one of the most in shape people in the area.

I know it is probably the food, or perhaps it is the weather (not hot enough to sweat) or perhaps the "work all the time" culture that keeps em fat over here. I dunno, that is another story.

For now I just know that it has now become my life's objective to find a place where it is far less hot than southern Thailand. Something like where a lot of the year it can be 75 degrees F 26 degree C during the day for most of the year. Perhaps I am dreaming. Queensland is like that, but it is too expensive here.

If you know a place like that in a cheaper country i would love to hear about it!