The Adventures of Fat Yip

Day 4 overall kicked ass but lunch and the afternoon wasn’t so great. When I pulled out my spinach at lunch time for the 7th consecutive meal my stomach was churning. I also decided to eat in the break room with my coworker as opposed to at my desk in solitude. This meant smelling and looking at everyone else’s delcious savory meals. They all knew something was amiss seeing me A) eating in the breakroom since I always eat out and B) for me to be eating so much spinach instead of so many well done animal style fries from In N Out. At that point I knew I needed a meal change for dinner.
So far every lunch and dinner since Monday I’ve been eating the same exact 8oz Top Sirlion with 2 cups of spinach. I knew I could substitute the steak for salmon and found out more recently I could sub out the 2 cups of spinach for a cup of brocoli but didn’t want to until I REALLY needed it in order to make it taste that much better. Anyways before I got home I stopped at my local small Grocery Store and bought about 2 cups of organic brocolli. I then proceeded to the meat deli and with my stomach rumbling from hunger had to pull the trigger on getting 1lb of King Salmon. That orange meat never looked so tasty! And it was damn expensive at $23 per lb!

I rushed home and proceeded to cook THE BEST MEAL EVER!!! I was literally salivating watching 8oz of this beautiful regal beast cook with juices all over the pan. Side note: I did not workout like usual before dinner because I had indoor lacrosse from 9:30-11pm later in the evening. I was genuinely concerned I would have zero energy during the game and not only play badly but also get crushed and/or hurt. The salmon and broccoli dinner saved me. I’ve never felt so appeased by such a simple meal. My body felt better than ever and the game went well. With only 3 subs on my team, I basically played almost 90% of the game. I also scored 4 of my team’s 5 goals! But we lost…story of my lax career.
Day 4 killed it because I ate like a King. I had such a big smile and it took me one whole episode of How I Met Your Mother to finish my plate of food. Usually it takes me till the first commercial to be on my second plate!
I’m also flying down to San Diego right after work for the weekend to watch the Chargers destroy the Bills so I got both my lunch and dinner packed with me on the way to work. One is steak and spinach and the other is salmon and broccoli. Which should I eat for dinner at the airport!?

Day 4 – Right when I got home from lax: 171lb/16.7%, After chugging water and a shower: 171.8lb/15.5%.

Get some.

-Fat Yip

It’s now the Day 3 evening. I’m done with all my meals and I’m chilling at my friend Victor’s place for my first real test. To hang out with friends while they are eating home cooked pizzas. I am quite full after finishing my dinner only an hour before hand but typical Fat Yip can always eat more. There’s even a bag of open Pita Chips on the coffee table about 2 ft from me. I feel great though. And by great I can barely type right now because my forearms and every part of my body is sore. Let’s start from the morning.

Eggs getting grosser. Drank it down with the Re-con strawberry flavored supplement stuff which isn’t too bad but still not used to drinking flavored powder with water. My 1 oz/like 12 cashew nuts are doing me wonders at 10am every morning. Lunch was great, no complaints. I actually found my roommates Montreal Steak seasoning last night so today’s top sirloin is much tastier than the last two days. I sat at my desk and watched the newest Family Guy on HuluPlus. My coworkers all kept conversing right at my cubicle about what they wanted to eat for lunch. They also keep gchatting me different types of food. I hate it but I also like it. It makes me stronger and I love the challenge. Afternoon 1/2 avocado was delicious as usual. Have you seen an avocado skin eaten this cleanly!?

Got home from work around 6:30pm. Was going to watch Hugo, the new Martin Scorsese film, but friends bailed on me so I didn’t want to watch alone. It was a good thing though.

I decided to run to the 24 hour on Bay Street and work out SUPER hard even though the LAST thing my body wanted to do was anything but eat, sleep, or sit down and watch TV. It was a very tough 1 mile hilly run. I lifted super hard. There were some pretty cute girls there too. I’ll be going back a little more often. Run home was seriously as hard as my last mile of my triathlon. I just had nothing in the tank at all and the last half of the mile was up-hill. Luckily, a good Kanye song came on and I got the chills and my adrenaline started pumping and I almost sprinted all the way home.

Took my supplements, ate my dinner, cooked tomorrow’s dinner and now I’m watching people drink wine, eat a fancy salad, and eating a tasty pizza.

I am so sore and tired. I can’t explain it to you any more. It’s very similar to after my first day ever of Hell Week for waterpolo my Freshman year of high school. I was too tired to go to my violin lesson and to practice violin for over a week. Toodles.

Day 3 – 172.8lb/15.9%

-Fat Yip

Random hilarious Asian cartoon video: I LOVE EGGS!!!

I thought that eating the 5 eggs at 7AM would mean I’d be hungry at work by 10ish but I really was ok. It was kind of weird not going out to lunch with my coworkers. I haven’t brought a lunch to work in OVER A YEAR. The first thing I did do when I got to work was get rid of my snack drawer. I have candy and snacks galore in one of my desk drawers and told my coworkers to go ahead and raid it so I have no urges at all. Lunch was still tasty but beginning to get old. I’m going to have to sub my 8oz of top sirloin for salmon soon.

With lunch done at 1pm I then started worrying if I’d make it to dinner which was waiting for me back in San Francisco almost 2 hours away. Luckily I had my 1/2 avocado snack at 3pm. I used a spoon and took my sweet ass time to finish it. I did start getting a headache around 4pm which I usually don’t get. I’m not sure if it’s because my body is finally yearning for some glycogen or if I was just sleepy. I refused to take any advil or ibuprofen to help make it go away. I just drank more water and made it to 5:30PM where I was able to sleep in my coworker’s car on the drive back to SF.

I got back home just past 7pm SOOO TIREDD. I think I’m starting to feel it now. I decided to push myself to play some basketball. I played 1 game and my body was giving up on me. I had no energy and all the locals at the court kept asking why I wasn’t trying or running fast breaks like I usually do. It was painful but I knew that dinner would taste that much better and also that I’d be eating closer to 8pm now instead which means I shouldn’t be too hungry by the time I go to bed.

At my lunch today I was also able to stop by my friend Mike’s parents’ Japanese restaurant in Fremont to pick up some supplements that Mike left for me. The restaurant is called Semo Sushi and it is BOMB.COM. Too bad I couldn’t eat anything. Mike left me Combat (2 scoops before bed), BCAA (1/2 serving for breakfast, 1 serving for dinner, 1/2 serving before bed), and Re-con (1/2 serving for breakfast and dinner) all made by Muscle Pharm. I haven’t taken supplements before so we’ll see how shredded I get!

THANK MIKE!

Overall, I am EXHAUSTED. My plan, which I think is working, was to work out A TON and be super sore every day. That way I wouldn’t be able to tell if I was tired because I was sore or just tired because I’m not getting any carbs. I think I’ll feel a cumulative of both coming soon…

Day 2 – 172.8lb/17.9%

– Fat Yip