Cheat day

Signal

“So.” What’s the problem?

Cha Ji-chan asked.

“What?”

“You knew that having insufficient nutrients was not good for you.” But why are you doing a low-carb diet again?

“Because it’s hard.”

Cha Ji-chan frowned.

“Hey, resisting carbohydrates is going to be tougher.”

“That’s not it, it’s just that it’s hard to keep cooking meals.”

I spend almost 10 hours a day just on broadcasting and editing, and I make sure to exercise for 1-2 hours.

It’s not always necessary, but there are days when I write scripts, and recently I’ve been teaching Mukji how to edit as well.

If Mukji hadn’t helped with finding broadcast material, writing scripts, and assisting with company tasks, I would have probably died from overwork by now.

How busy must one be to not even have time to clean the house? I don’t have the strength or time to prepare and clean up three meals a day.

When such a story was brought up, most of the viewers could relate.

└That’s true.

└Even when I get off work, exercise, and come back, I can’t do anything. I just end up collapsing and falling asleep.

└Exercising after work is impressive too, haha. I just turn on YouTube and zone out after work.

└I wasn’t the only one, huh? Haha

Wasn’t this place only for gym rats?

└Once you get used to it, it gets better, but getting accustomed to it is difficult.

But seriously, when I get off work around 7 or 8 and come home, even working out for an hour is tough. In the meantime, you’re doing cleaning, laundry, and cooking? I can’t do it, yeah.

└ Hahaha You don’t have to go to work like me, but you got a job and can’t even exercise Huh? Why the tears?

Even Cha Ji-chan seemed troubled, resting his fist on his lips and pondering for a while.

“Realistically, it’s quite difficult.” It’s not something that directly affects my livelihood like it does for me.

A person like a bodybuilder can consider exercise and diet as part of their job.

However, Nana and others have to make a living in other ways.

It is practically difficult to balance work, exercise, and diet together, so I just do my best within the given circumstances.

Even if it is somewhat different from the correct answer.

“At first, I did it myself too.” But since I just can’t find the time, they sell diet lunch boxes. There’s a service that delivers food daily in a ketogenic style, and I’m eating that.

“It’s frustrating.”

Cha Ji-chan nodded.

“Since so many diet methods are widely misunderstood, those companies also approach it in the wrong way.”

“Right.”

While we were having a conversation.

Ju Ji-seung, who arrived late due to a scheduling conflict with today’s broadcast, waved his hand.

“Hyung.”

Joo Ji-seung chuckled and gave a light pat on the back.

We always trusted and relied on each other, but besides “I’ll make you some side dishes,” there’s also “How long are you going to sulk?”We became much closer while spending time together.

“Hyung, we were having a very serious conversation right now.”

Cha Ji-chan summarized the conversation so far and conveyed it to Joo Ji-seung.

It seems that even the monk agrees.

“Right.” Since I also cook my own meals, I can manage my diet to some extent, but for those who aren’t involved, it must be hard to exercise and manage their diet on their own.

With chores like cleaning and laundry, there are so many demands placed on one person.

“I saw somewhere that the obesity rate among single-person households is really high these days.”1)

“Is it because of this reason?”

Right? When I get home after work, I don’t have any energy, so I mostly eat delivery food. Then I gained weight.

“Wow.” “This is serious.”

Cha Ji-chan tilted his head.

“Willpower is important, but if the environment is like this…”

I, Cha Ji-chan, and Joo Ji-seung couldn’t find the words either.

I couldn’t quite figure out where things went wrong and how to fix them.

“Here!” Let’s start with what we can do first. Today is one of the three major exercises. An exercise that uses all the muscles in the body to lift the heaviest weights. The exercise that you can do even if you don’t have time! It’s a deadlift.

I’m dead.

Please provide the text you would like to have translated.

‘How long are you going to sulk?’I finished and went straight home.

My whole body ached, so I collapsed onto the bed without even taking off my clothes.

It seems like it would be fine to sleep like this, but tomorrow is Thursday, so I need to prepare for the debate.

Thanks to the materials organized by Mukunji, we can save time searching for documents, but it’s not just about having the materials.

It is advantageous to prepare remarks by considering several scenarios to facilitate a smooth discussion.

Especially tomorrow, I can’t lose.

Because we need to give Baek Woo-jin, who got cocky after winning once, a good scolding.

“Ugh.”

After reading the organized document once and finding the necessary information, I organized the remarks, and before I knew it, it was already 12 o’clock.

And, as expected, hunger surged.

I had dinner at 6, so it’s about time I got hungry, but if I eat something now, I’ll go to bed late and it will mess up my condition for tomorrow.

Above all, it hinders my diet.

“Sigh.”

I got up thinking of having a glass of water and looked around the house, and it really looked like a pigsty.

The laundry basket and trash can are overflowing, and the delivery boxes are piled up in front of the door.

It’s been a long time since I last cleaned the floor, so there’s a layer of dust.

I feel like this can’t go on, but I’m really tired and can’t move anymore.

I decided to wake up early tomorrow and clean, so I drank some water and lay down on the bed.

Come to think of it, I also need to do the bedding laundry.

I am clearly living my life to the fullest and doing my best, but there is still so much left to do.

How do other people manage to do housework, exercise, and work? I wonder why it’s only me who finds it so hard.

“Willpower is important, but if the environment is like this…”

Suddenly, the words that Cha Ji-chan said this evening came to mind.

The reason that phrase keeps coming to mind is probably because of an article I saw sometime.

The content was that obesity is due to poverty.

Present the thesis while showing the correlation between health insurance premium trends reflecting income and wealth and obesity rates.

The conclusion was that the cause stemmed from differences in diet.

Because healthy foods that contain good nutrients and are low in calories are more expensive compared to junk food.

It means that people who don’t have extra money naturally end up eating processed foods and foods with imbalanced nutrients.

There was also mention that, relatively speaking, due to a lack of leisure time, they couldn’t secure the cost and time needed for exercise.

Because of this, the argument was that obesity is no longer an individual issue but a social problem.

At that time, I felt like I was watching my own story, so it stuck with me.

Now it feels more relatable.

“It would be nice if I could at least eat my meal comfortably.”

These days, prices have risen too much.

When looking for a restaurant to shoot mukbang content, most of the time the price information posted just a few months ago was incorrect.

It means that food prices have risen in such a short period.

In the past, there were many places where a bowl of gukbap cost 5,000 won, but these days, it’s common for them to cost 10,000 won.

Gimbap has gone up in price as much as the old price of gukbap.

The ketogenic lunch box I receive through regular delivery also costs around 10,000 won each.

I heard on the news that even office workers are finding lunch prices burdensome and are eating convenience store lunch boxes.

Convenience store lunch boxes are inevitably lacking in dietary fiber and vitamins.

Since the side dishes mainly consist of processed meats without any vegetables, it leads to nutritional imbalance and ultimately results in obesity.

According to the logic of Joo Ji-seung and Cha Ji-chan, when nutritional imbalance occurs like that, the body increases food absorption rates to secure the lacking nutrients, making it easier to gain weight and increasing appetite.

The body is sending signals.

We’re in danger right now.

“…….”

I got up and sat right on the bed.

After being diagnosed with diabetes, I feel a sense of crisis and am trying hard, but I don’t know how much longer I can keep fighting like this.

Actually, I did binge on bread the other day.

My heart feels heavy.

The burden of having to continue this difficult fight is also heavy.

“No.” No, that’s not right.

There’s no point in thinking in a negative direction.

Since you have things to do tomorrow, you should get some sleep.

I lay down again and tried to sleep.

Still unable to shake off the thoughts, I turned on my smartphone to check the comments from today.

└The diabetes uncle lost a lot of weight, but did anyone say anything?

└Even after losing 35kg in 3 months, I still get criticized, lol.

I’m really enjoying the video. However, I have doubts about the claims that the ketogenic diet has problems. There are actually people who have successfully lost weight by restricting carbohydrates, so why do you deny it?

└No way, lol. Go watch the old video. Now you can see my chin, haha.

People who watched today’s broadcast left encouraging comments.

There are people questioning Chajichan about the ketogenic diet being wrong, and even Satan asking why he isn’t making them exercise harder.

└But I’m also worried. Since I don’t have time to exercise, I walk home from work, but when I arrive home after about an hour of walking, I can’t think of anything.

└In the first place, it doesn’t make sense to diet while working at a company. I’m dead tired, but someone has to make breakfast and pack lunch.

└For real, when dinner time comes, after working hard, I think about eating something delicious for dinner.

“…….”

As expected, everyone thinks similarly.

I was also stressed and struggling, so I found joy in life by eating something delicious.

Even now, it’s not much different.

As a result, my body is breaking down, and even though I know it intellectually, it’s not easy to take the right actions.

How wonderful it would be if we could eat healthy, delicious meals at reasonable prices.

If there were such a restaurant, I would go every day.

“Uh?”

Suddenly, a ridiculous thought crossed my mind.

There are few restaurants where diabetics can go, so I always felt inconvenienced.

I learned to cook from Jujiseung and cooked for a while, but even that didn’t last long due to a lack of time and energy.

I bought a diet lunch box as a substitute, but even that was an improper diet, leading to nutritional imbalance.

“Should I set the table?”

For now, it’s out of the question.

I’m not knowledgeable like a nutritionist, I don’t have cooking skills, and I don’t have any capital.

But even if they are not as knowledgeable as a nutritionist, people who are knowledgeable, good at cooking, or wealthy know.

I know it very well.