Cheat day

The collaboration with the Heart Sutra significantly increased the number of subscribers.

It’s a major channel, and during the broadcast, Joo Ji-seung was so blatant in his promotion that I had some expectations.

I never dreamed that it would increase by about 13,000 people in just one day.

Even though the increase has slowed, even now, two days later, more people than usual are still coming in.

The even more joyful news is that the video views have started to rise noticeably, and the number of live broadcast viewers has also increased.

“When the water comes in, you have to row the boat.”

Since being diagnosed with diabetes, I’ve been struggling continuously, but finally, an opportunity has come my way.

I can’t miss it.

It really feels like a job where I can eat delicious food and communicate with many people is finally within reach.

If I can make a living doing what I love and be loved and recognized for it, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

“To do that.”

It seems like the time to make a choice is approaching.

Since I’ve surpassed the minimum threshold of 100,000 subscribers to be a full-time YouTuber, I should now focus on growing my side dish store without taking on freelance work for other channels, except for Jimkkun, WooGenius, and Banya Sikgyeong.

To do that, there’s still one task left: content.

The current trend should be seen as a combined effect.

To retain the incoming people and also appeal to more, I need my own content.

“What should I do?”

Originally, I mainly posted videos of myself eating food, but now the main content is videos of me suffering while making and eating healthy meals.

The response isn’t bad, but it will be hard to expect a greater effect with just this.

What would be good?

It’s still daunting to dive into full-time without solid content.

“……I’m hungry.”

After worrying for a long time, I feel hungry.

In the past, I would have opened a delivery app to check out my favorite places or newly opened restaurants, but now I have to cook for myself.

I set the table half-heartedly, and just looking at it makes me sigh.

As instructed by the monk, mix white rice and brown rice in a 5:5 ratio and cook.

Even that is quite insufficient because my blood sugar has risen significantly, and I can only eat a third of what I usually do.

The chicken breast I bought to consume protein without fat is so dry that I can’t even describe it.

I’m surviving on the side dishes my mother sent, but I can’t keep up this diet.

Because the food has to be delicious.

Even if it’s not as good as Jujiseung, we must keep expanding the range of foods we can make.

I tore the chicken breast and put it in my mouth.

Even if you fry it, it won’t taste good, so there’s no way it can taste good when boiled.

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Even if I don’t expect a whole chicken, I want to enjoy a delicious piece like a leg or wing without any worries.

“You said that if you exercise, you can eat a bit more.”

However, since it’s hard to improve my cooking skills right away, it’s quicker to exercise if I want to eat something delicious.

“What should I start with?”

I heard that thigh exercises are good, but after searching, I found that there are so many types of squats, like wide squats, single-leg squats, sumo squats, jump squats, and so on.

Boo-woo- boo-woo-

The smartphone vibrated.

I checked and found that there is a meeting scheduled for today at 3 PM.

It is a regular meeting held once a month with ‘gym-goers.’

Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

I listened to Jichan about this month’s content direction for the baggage handler and summarized it.

“Are you really not going to do it?”

“Yeah.”

It seems that Cha Ji-chan is still quite regretful about me stopping the editing.

“Yeah.” ……Sigh. Thinking about finding an editor already feels overwhelming.

“Stop whining.” If you say you’re looking for an editor at the porters’ place, who wouldn’t go looking for one?

“The problem is that there’s no one like you.”

Cha Ji-chan twirled the glass and said.

Banchan. Did you go on Ji-seung’s show?

“Did you see it?”

“Why don’t you come on my show?” You asked me once before, remember?

A while ago, Chajichan asked if I would be interested in appearing on his show.

“Hyung makes me exercise, and Jiseung hyung feeds me.”

“When you exercise, you feel good, right?”

“Fuhahaha!”

Cha Ji-chan’s eyes widened.

It was funny. Just now.

Saying that exercise is good, the sense of humor of a 2-million-subscriber YouTuber is indeed exceptional.

“Don’t do that, just come to our gym.”

“I don’t like it.”

“I’ll take care of it.”

“I won’t do it.”

“While we’re at it, let’s shoot a video too.” You need content anyway. I also needed new content lately, so this is great.

The conversation is heading in a bad direction.

To follow this human exercise routine, I’ll catch the person before I catch the blood sugar.

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“No.” “It’s okay.”

“Hey, why are you feeling burdened between us?” Come out.

“Contractual relationship.”

“What?”

“Since we’re on very dry terms, you don’t have to go this far.”

“Hey, dude.” Why do you say things like that? Making people feel disappointed. How much time have we spent together?

“5 years.”

“Isn’t that a bit old by now?”

“At least 10 years.”

Cha Ji-chan blinked and then got angry.

“Then why are you speaking informally to me?” In our contractual relationship, I’m three years older than you, and as you said, we’re not even close, and we’ve only known each other for five years.

It’s being petty.

“I will treat you with utmost respect from now on.”

“Hey!”

As I bowed my head and greeted, Cha Ji-chan wiggled his hips and threw a tantrum.

The well-developed deltoids, trapezius, and pectoralis major swaying from side to side are extremely intimidating.

“Stop it.” Gross.

“Let’s do it.” I told you I’m doing well. “Where else are you going to find a trainer like me?”

“……Is that so?”

I participated in a competition and even came in first place, and the gym I opened two years ago is running well, so it doesn’t seem like a completely wrong statement.

“Okay.” “Do you think someone who told you not to learn from someone who was once fat like me and then got healthy would know about your body condition?”

Strangely persuasive.

In a Q&A video celebrating 1 million subscribers, Cha Ji-chan revealed a photo of himself from high school, disclosing that he was 168 cm tall and weighed 98 kg at the time.

There will surely be a difference between someone who has experienced obesity and someone who has not.

“Side dishes, think carefully.” “Didn’t you want to eat something like this?”

Cha Ji-chan shook the Java Chip Frappuccino.

When you sip the drink, the mocha frappuccino fills your mouth along with the finely crushed ice.

Enjoying the sweet aroma that flows through the nasal passages while savoring the texture of chewing java chips and ice pieces together is pure art.

It was once my holy water.

“If you eat that now, it’ll be a big problem.”

“If you work out hard, you can eat stuff like this, you know?”

“How do you know that?”

“I also have diabetes, you know?”

Cha Ji-chan showed me his smartphone. It is the blood sugar recorded daily in Google Sheets.

I am maintaining my fasting blood sugar between 90 and 100, and my postprandial blood sugar has not exceeded 180.

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It’s at the level of an ordinary person.

“If you exercise with me for just 2 hours every day, you can be like me.” I promise.

The sweet words that you can eat delicious food.

And the audacity of drinking a grande-sized Java Chip Frappuccino that’s even sweeter than that.

If I have to exercise anyway, wouldn’t it be better to learn from someone who knows it well?

I almost lost my sanity for a moment at the hope that one day I might get to drink a Java Chip Frappuccino.

However, I came to my senses when I heard that I could lift 120 kg with the bench press and work out for two hours every day.

“I won’t do it.” I can’t do it.

“Why!”

Cha Ji-chan shouted.

“Hyung, you know exactly how to exercise, so why should I do it?”

Over the past five years, I have edited or reviewed most of the videos uploaded to Jimkun.

If I follow this guy just because I want to eat, I’ll end up eating funeral rice.

“What are you talking about?” “Of course, I’ll take your condition into account.”

“……Really?”

“Okay.” I won’t make you do anything unreasonable.

Cha Ji-chan glanced at me.

“Running is usually good for losing weight, but if you overdo it now, you’ll mess up your joints.”

I know exactly.

The doctor also warned me not to do any strenuous exercise right now.

So, just walk for exactly 2 hours at the pool. If you do it in the water, it won’t strain your joints, and you can also manage the intensity of the workout due to the resistance.

No. I can’t do it.

“The words ‘I can’t do it’ have stuck in my mouth.” What’s the problem this time? “Who do you think is going to see your belly fat?”

“Yeah.”

“I misjudged the side dishes.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Is that really more important than a Java Chip Frappuccino?”

Cha Ji-chan raised his glass.

“You can drink it, you know?” Besides this, you can still have pizza and jjambbong, the things you like, sometimes, you know?

“Are you a doctor?” “Where’s the guarantee that I’ll end up like you?”

I almost wavered for a moment.

Even if Cha Ji-chan manages his blood sugar well through exercise, that’s ultimately a personal experience.

It cannot be applied to everyone.

“I’ve had diabetes for 10 years.” Better than an average doctor.

Cha Ji-chan ostentatiously slurped his Seongsu, no, Java Chip Frappuccino, and then rested his arm on the table.

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“You’re going to do it anyway.” Building muscle to control blood sugar and manage content, how great is that?

The problem is doing it with you. “I’ll just do it alone.”

“I can’t.”

“Why can’t you do it?” “Just watch the workout video and follow along.”

“My video?”

No. Physical House.”

Cha Chi-chan’s eyes widened like an axe.

Physical House, the leading health channel in our country with over 3 million subscribers, is a rival of Gym Koon.

It seems like you don’t really care about it over there, though.

“There’s only strange things with the porters.” I don’t remember handling proper exercise information while editing the video, bro.

If there had been such a thing, I wouldn’t have even had to worry about how to start exercising.

You must have seen it so many times while editing that you got tired of it.

The porter dealt with videos like “Diving Contest with an Octopus,” “Hanging on a Pull-Up Bar Longer than a Sloth,” and “How to Show Off Your Muscles: Glute Edition,” rather than professional videos.

Cha Ji-chan sighed as if feeling frustrated.

“Hey, do you think I became a trainer without knowing anything?”

“Yeah.”

“This bastard.”

Cha Ji-chan got angry.

He’s the kind of brother who finds joy in teasing.

Listen carefully. A diabetes patient must always have an assistant when exercising.

“Why?”

“When fasting blood sugar is above 300 mg/dL, exercise can actually be harmful.” On the contrary, it could actually raise your blood sugar levels. Did you know?

“I didn’t know.”

I only heard to exercise, but they didn’t tell me the details.

See? “You don’t know, but I do.”

“…….”

“If your fasting blood sugar is over 300, exercising won’t have much effect.” Even if you exercise, you can’t utilize the glucose you consume.

It seems like it’s because there’s too much sugar.

So if you have diabetes, you need to check your blood sugar before exercising. If you overexert yourself when your blood sugar is high, you could collapse. On the contrary, you shouldn’t exercise on an empty stomach either. Because hypoglycemia symptoms can occur.

I heard that if you have hypoglycemia, your life is in danger.

Joo Ji-seung also said that when hypoglycemia occurs, one should quickly consume sugar, whether it’s ramen or cola.

“So, diabetes patients must always have someone with them when exercising.”

“Mm.”

“Do you still want to do it alone?”

“Yeah.”

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Are you worried someone will gossip about you if you go to the gym? Even if they seem kind on the outside, they might laugh behind your back.

There’s nothing to say since it’s the right answer, but Cha Ji-chan smiled.

“I did too, man.” But at least in our gym, there are no people who mock those trying to get healthy. Even if they are here, I’ll kick them all out.

It’s a trustworthy face.

But when I actually try to start exercising, I can’t bring myself to do it.

“What’s your fasting blood sugar today?”

“210.”

Sure. I managed my diet well and took my medication properly, so I brought it down to that level. You’ve reached the stage where you can start exercising now. You did well.

Suddenly, it’s a compliment.

“Of course, if you keep doing it like this, your blood sugar will drop.” Then it will get closer to the normal range.

“That’s good enough.”

“No.” Even if I try to control it, my blood sugar spikes again when I drink stuff like this. “Are you going to drink only Americanos for the rest of your life?”

“…….”

“Are you not going to drink the Java Chip Frappuccino?”

“I’m going to drink it.”

“Then I should exercise.”

“……Is that so?”

“Yeah, man.” After we finish exercising, I’ll treat you to something delicious.

“Really?”

“Sure.” Then.

“You’re not deceiving me, are you?”

“Hey, have you just been living a lie?”

“Yeah.”

“That didn’t work.” But I can trust you. You got beef from me last time, didn’t you?

“Yeah.”

“Was there someone else besides me who bought you beef?”

There wasn’t. “There’s no way someone who buys me beef could be a bad person.”

“That’s right.” Now we’re finally on the same page.