People who gain weight even if they eat together or just drink water.

A colleague asked me. “How do you maintain your weight?”

To a simple question, I naturally answered with a smile, “I don’t eat it.” When asked, my co-worker said, “Yeah, that’s it,” and nodded, “Well, I don’t drink that much.” People offer me a lot of things, but the truth is, I’m the type of person who gets fat just by drinking water. That’s why the basal metabolic rate is low. I exercise, but once I get used to it, I have to do harder exercises, so when I’m busy these days, what I can do other than increasing my walking speed is extremely limited.

A few days ago, I couldn’t help but laugh.

I am a one-meal person.

Eat a very light lunch, drink a light tea between lunch and dinner, and do not eat dinner. So, my style is to finish everything exactly between 6 and 7 o’clock. If I eat dinner, I don’t eat it unconditionally because it all goes to waste. But a few days ago, I found hotteok on my way home. Ah, I couldn’t resist looking at the hotteok. In the end, I ate hotteok while standing in line, and my craving for food exploded. Takoyaki was being sold next door. Personally, I really like takoyaki, so I had to close my eyes there, but I bought 6 more and ate them. This should have been the appropriate limit. On my way home after eating, I saw people eating hot ramen in front of a convenience store. It’s been a few months since I ate ramen. Some I intentionally didn’t eat, and some I put off because I kept eating noodles. The temptation was to eventually buy a small bowl of ramen, eat half of the small bowl, throw away the other half, and gorge on it.

I was annoyed at myself for eating while worrying, but I ate.

In the end, I was so full and anxious that I jumped rope 3,000 times at the local playground. It was for the best because I couldn’t sleep when I was full. I thought that if I did that, it would help with digestion and diet.

As someone who checks my weight every day, I was very excited.

The next day, my weight increased by 2 kilos.

I sighed, said, ‘This is it, I’ll just keep going,’ and reorganized again.

And I became anxious at the thought that I had to find my original self.

I got annoyed for a moment. I was so angry that I gained 2 kilos in one go just by eating like that, and I sighed as I thought that I would never have the pleasure of food for the rest of my life.

And to get my body back to its original state, I increased my home workouts and enforced fasting. After fasting for exactly three days and returning my body to its original state, I sighed with relief and cried, wondering why life was so difficult.

There are many people in Korea who are too thin. Maybe that’s why, a few days ago, a friend talked to me about dieting. She said she is now receiving care at a specialized diet clinic. I asked about the results and he said it was difficult to answer because it was still early days, but I suddenly became curious about that friend. When I asked through KakaoTalk, I was told that it was still in the same place, so I thought maybe that was it, but I didn’t like this body that I inherited from my mother genetically.

Actually, if you think about it, my mom would feel unfair. Both her maternal grandfather and her maternal grandmother were thin, and her mother was chubby, while all her maternal uncles were thin. She’s always dissatisfied with that, so she spends her whole life taking care of it. I don’t think it’s any different, so I’m wondering what to do with this body as her lifelong homework.

I sometimes go to the clothing store because I have a fashionable look called eye body. And try on clothes you wouldn’t buy. Then, after checking the inches, I think it’s a good thing if I look good. If not, I think it’s a signal to lose weight, and I decide that I’m not the same weight, so I go on a diet right away.

My friends say that I live a very tiring life, but after living fat for a year in college, I know how difficult it is and I don’t want to go back, so I’m doing flippers like this now.

“I get fat even if I just drink water,” I say. That’s why I always say that I should live as an ascetic. People sometimes ask me, “What do you do for fun?” and when they do, I smile and say, “Just that.”

When I see people who don’t gain weight while filming mukbangs, I think there must be a reason. However, I get jealous when I see people who say they don’t gain weight even though they don’t exercise. Those people in the world who have stories may also have joys and sorrows.