Eating ONLY THAI 7-11 Food To Fit My Iron Man Suit
March 23, 2026 · 21 min · 2k views
This one's definitely different, but it still ties back to the Iron Man suit. I'm halfway through a four-month weight loss challenge to fit inside a 3D-printed suit, and I was getting bored of chicken and rice. So for seven days, everything I ate had to come from a 7-Eleven here in Thailand.
Spicy instant noodles, ham and cheese toasties, onigiri, pizza, protein drinks, ice cream. The full convenience store diet. The only non-negotiable was the same target I'd been chasing for two months: around 1,700 calories a day with at least 160 g of protein.
Why 7-Eleven
Partly because weight loss is boring to watch and I wanted to spice things up. Partly because of the question underneath it: can you eat "bad" food and still lose weight? Is 7-Eleven food really that unhealthy? Or does it all come down to something else?
Thai 7-Elevens are also a special place. The ham and cheese toastie is famous with foreigners for a reason. And when you can't even brew your own coffee at home, the first trip of the day happens early.
One rule a day
Eating out of a convenience store while hitting my macros wasn't hard enough on its own, so I gave every day its own rule. Day 1 was a free-for-all. After that: no warm food, no protein shakes, no chicken breast, nothing to drink but water, only liquids, and finally everything spicy for every meal.
The protein shake ban hurt, because shakes are the easiest way to hit 160 g. On the liquids-only day I walked out of the store with seven bottles of shakes and not much else, and by the evening my stomach wasn't happy about it. The spicy day ended with instant noodles where I meant to add half the sauce packet and somehow added all of it.
And yes, I ate a lot of ham and cheese toasties.
Did it work?
I didn't lose weight because 7-Eleven food is secretly healthy. I lost it because I tracked: I logged everything, kept the calories around 1,700, and built every day around protein first, whether that was chicken, mackerel sandwiches, krapao gai or shakes. The food was convenient, salty and processed, and it still worked because the numbers worked.
So you can kind of diet out of a 7-Eleven. I wouldn't recommend it as a lifestyle, but it answered the question.
160 g of protein a day
- 7 days of 7-Eleven only
- 160 g of protein per day, hit while losing weight
- Halfway through a 4-month challenge, 2 months to go
- Almost 8 kg down since the start