The Adventures of Fat Yip

Quick apology for not posting over the holiday weekend but I was busy stuffing my face stupid in San Diego with deliciousness with my family…I’ll get to this on my next post to update you on the entire weekend but first I wanted to finish up my 19th day which was last Friday 12/23.

Day 19 (12/23) – The Last Day

So I took Friday off to pack and clean up prior to my flight back down to SD for Christmas. Had the regular 4 egg white + 1/2 re-con drink for breakfast, 1oz of cashews for snack, 6oz of top sirloin with 1 cup of bok choy for lunch, and the same thing for dinner, which also happened to be  on the plane!

My last meal, which I unknowingly knew at the time, on the plane with my Time magazine out.

My plan for the weekend was to continue my eating plan with one free meal which I chose to be the Christmas Eve dinner with my entire extended family. Everything was fine. My brother picked me up from the airport around 8pm and he quickly convinced me to go on another mountain bike ride through the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve. It was SOOO MUCH FUNNN!!! 12 miles of intense riding in the pitch black. This time we also went through “the tunnels” which is this very narrow trail that is enclosed/canopied by trees and bushes so that you feel like you are in a tunnel. It was pretty technical and I had to duck several teams from low hanging branches or my head would have been taken off. The 1.5 hour adventure went well and we survived, well mostly even though my brother did fall over once. Check out this pic of the bike computer right after the ride…

Note the number on the bottom left of the monitor…32 DEGREES!!! My toes and ears were completely numb!

The Demise

After we packed our bikes and gear into the car my brother looked over and said “Dude, I’m going to get a cali.” I was kind of expecting it and said that it was fine. I knew I’d be SUPER tempted but said to myself that I didn’t need one. As we were driving to Santanas my brother kept trying to convince me to just get one. He knew how much misery I was in and how badly I really wanted one. I kind of teetered back and forth and realized that he was right. It was 11:30pm and about to be the end of the 19th day on this adventure. I had lost 9lb, plenty of body fat, and gained a leaner, muscular body. I learned what I wanted to learn and felt no need to continue losing weight. I mean I’m in San Diego for Christmas weekend, why do this to myself? It was time to enjoy food with family and friends!!!

Doesn’t this picture look like my cali with guac is smiling at me? Just happy to be my friend again and ready for me to devour it? Yeah, it does. It was love at first site…and it disappeared in less than 5 minutes. This burrito would lead to a weekend of pure FOOD ECSTASY which I will discuss in further detail in my next post.

Day 19 – 168.0lb/14.5% (At around 1am after eating the burrito at 12am; I also brought my scale with me on my carry-on luggage!)

– Fat Yip

Quick and dirty update because I got to pack up and get ready for my flight down to San Diego for CHRISTMAS!!! WOOHOO!!!

Last night went to Vinyl Wine Bar in Lower Haight with my friends Sisco, Victor, and Nikki, who is up here for Christmas with fam. I got there around 8pm. Ate dinner right before around 7pm but was still SUPER HUNGRY when I got there. Unfortunately, they also happened to have a special pizza night so it was tough. I thought if I could chug a few glasses of water I’d be fine but the water tasted kind of funny, almost smokey like whiskey. I told everyone else to try it but they couldn’t taste it after drinking wine. They did think it was just funny tap water but I knew otherwise. Great conversation for over 3 hours and got home late. Showered up and did my weigh in…

Day 18 – 166.6lb/13.6%

Still Slimmin’ It Strong

P.S. Here’s my daily breakfast of champions.

4 Scrambled Egg Whites and my 1/2 scoop Re-con with Water.

-Fat Yip

It’s 10AM. I’m at my cubicle. I’m starving and already finished my 1oz of cashew nuts. There are a thousand delicious bagels in our break room, a gift from one of our vendors. We also have our company holiday pot luck today too which means there will be like 50 dishes and deserts for everyone to feast on. I’ll be that guy microwaving my steak and bok choy and walking back to my desk to eat and watch something on HuluPlus. It’s already a rough morning BUT it is almost CHRISTMAS and you can tell because I’d say 50% of my company is already on vacation. It’s quiet but kind of nice too. Today would be a lot more rough if it weren’t for an awesome Day 17 yesterday!

Day 17

Breakfast, Lunch, BUY A ROAD BIKE, Workout, Dinner.

So as many of you know, I competed in my first Olympic distance triathlon at Pacific Grove in September. It involved about 2-3 months of hard training mostly in the gym since a) I didn’t want to swim in the cold ass Bay and b) I didn’t have a road bike yet. I managed to borrow my friend Laurie’s bike for the 2 weeks before my race and got about 20 miles on it before the 24.85 miles I’d have to do during the race which is also AFTER the 0.93 mile swim and before the 6.21 mile run. It was tough but it definitely helped that I did the Spring Sprint Tri in May with my brothers down in San Diego. That was a LOT easier since it was sunny in the high 70’s with much shorter distances (1/4 mi swim, 9 mi bike, 3 mi run).

Anyways, I’ve been talking about buying a road bike for almost 9 months now and finally pulled the trigger yesterday after work. I took the advice of my friends and scoured craigslist daily being as patient as possible until something perfect came up.

The bike I got was a 2001 Trek 2200. It is a bit older but only one owner who only put 4,000 miles on it, which isn’t a lot for 10 years. No crashes, just minor scuffs from it falling over or from moving it around. It is a hollow aluminum frame with a carbon fork and is also equipped with Shimano 105s. Came with a pump and also wireless computer too. CHECK OUT MY NEW WHEELS!

I’m always very sketched out when meeting people from craigslist for expensive items when they say bring cash but we met at the Dublin/Pleasonton BART station where there were hundreds of people around. I also got there as early as I could so it wasn’t at night time too. He ended up being a really nice older guy who brought his new full carbon bike with him too, along with his teenage son. We rode around together in the parking lot for about 10 mins and talked about the bike and I was sold. Shifting gears on it felt like hot butter and it just felt so natural and perfect for me.

Now I finally have my own road bike to start going on long rides on the weekends and to train hard for my upcoming 2012 tris. Right now I’m only registered for the Golden Gate Tri in late June. I am still figuring out if I’m going to do the Spring Sprint Tri again with my brothers or try the Avia Wildflower Tri with my friends. They both fall on the first weekend of May. The sprint was supposed to be a new annual tradition with my brothers but my brother Steve is a doctor now up in Portland and can’t commit to it yet. The Avia Wildflower is on it’s 30th year and is the Coachella of triathlons. It’s also one of the most difficult olympic distance tris to do because of the course and the heat. It’s a tough decision but I’ll decide within the next couple of weeks.

If both of these go well and I’m up for it, then I might try to do the Big Kahuna Long Course Tri (HALF IRONMAN!). It’s in September and held in Santa Cruz so I’ll definitely have some time to train after the GG tri with a half-marathon or two.

Future of Fat Yip

It’s kind of crazy that  I’m currently on Day 18 of my adventure and I guess almost done. I started off thinking it was going to be 19 days only but I think a modified version of this will be lasting for another week or two. I decided though that I really enjoy blogging and writing every day for you guys. So after I’m done with this endeavor I’m going to continue writing about new and healthy foods that I’m going to cook a few times a week and also about my life training for these triathlons and the ultimate goal of doing a Half Ironman. I think it’s going to be tons of fun and I hope all of you will enjoy it! In the meantime here are my weigh-in results after Day 17 last night.

Day 17 (12/20) – 167.6lb/13.6%

Yeah, I kick ass.

-Fat Yip