The Adventures of Fat Yip

My name is Jon Yip. I’m a mid-20’s mechanical design engineer at a start-up solar company. I’ve lived my entire life in Southern California, grew up in SD and went to UCLA, with exception to the last 3 now in SF. I live a very active life-style of lacrosse, basketball, and also doing triathlons. I like to think that I still have the metabolism of when I was in college but I can’t kid myself any longer. Even with all my weekly activities I still have been getting bigger, especially over the last year or so. My close friends started calling me Fat Yip as a joke and now more people use it as my official nickname. I realize now that I can’t just eat whatever I want and whenever I want thinking as long as I work out I won’t get fat.

Thus, brings me to my journey to a healthy bod. My friend Mike, twitter:@mikepkim, has been nice enough to tailor a special meal by meal diet for me for the next 19 days. It includes tons of protein and barely any carbs. It will be a tough battle for me because I can push myself in almost everything…except when it comes to my stomach.

Now let me explain something. I do not think KNOW I’m not fat and there is nothing wrong with fat people. I’m not doing this to lose weight. I’m doing this because I know I can’t have my current lifestyle of sometimes eating greasy fast food for every meal in a day when I’m 30 years old. I’m doing this to be a healthier human being. The extra benefits of this all is that I’ll save money by eating at home, (I used to eat out for lunch and dinner EVERY SINGLE DAY LITERALLY), lose weight and get in really good shape. Follow me every day as I explain my struggles and triumphs toward my goal to a healthy bod.

-Fat Yip