Hey guys, it's Tyen.
So in today's video, I'm gonna be trying out another K-pop diet, because you guys really
liked my last one where I did IU's diet and it's gonna be Jennie's diet from the super
popular K-pop group, BLACKPINK.
From what I know, she does this diet for about three days before a video or photo shoot just
to look good for the camera.
This diet consists of an avocado salad with detox juice as well as a porridge at night.
She doesn't add salt to anything, so she doesn't eat any salts because it makes her bloat before
her shoot.
And to supplement her diet, she also goes through yoga and low impact workouts like
pilates.
I looked at the diet and I was thinking, "Okay, this looks kind of dangerous," because it's
less than a thousand calories, which I don't think anyone should be doing.
Essentially it's way under the calories that I personally intake on a daily basis.
I would eat about like a thousand five calories in a day.
I would say it's similar in the sense that it's pretty plant-based but I would say it's
different in the fact that I have a lot more calories and I definitely put a lot more protein
in my diet.
Do I have any special diets before I do a photo or video shoot?
I used to when I was bodybuilding, when I had to do fitness shoots because I had to
get those like six-pack abs and looked super shredded.
So I remember eating my chicken breasts, my broccoli.
I would cut out all sugars.
No dairy.
I would drink a lot of water.
I would go for a run in a jacket just to sweat out all the water retention.
So I was a bit more extreme in the past but I think just in the course of my personal
fitness career, I've come to realise that I want to embrace a body that's more sustainable
and a lifestyle that's more sustainable, so I just eat healthily.
I train normally because it makes me feel good.
I definitely still do cut out dairy and sugar before my photo shoots just because I don't
want any bloating or indigestion on the day itself, but you know I've come to a phase
where I'm always in front of the camera so like what you see is what you get you guys.
If I had to like diet all the time to look a certain way that would just drive me crazy.
I am just about to go weigh myself and take some photos so that I can compare myself on
the Day 1 versus Day 3.
I want to say that I have not actually weighed myself in I would say more than half a year.
I personally chose not to weigh myself because weighing yourself can add a certain layer
of pressure and stress to a person.
Because of like mental health, I have decided that it's a lot healthier and happier for
me and for other people just not to weigh themselves so much.
My point being that weight is not the only indicator of health.
I feel that it's actually a very bad representation of your health.
You should look more into how you're feeling, how much stronger you are, and your overall
mood, which is why I ask you that in the No Sweat app at the end of your workout instead
of asking you what your weight is.
But for the purposes of this video, I'm going to be weighing myself and taking some progress
photos.
In general how I'm feeling?
I am feeling a bit bloated.
That is just because I had Doritos yesterday and wine.
It was a girls' night so I did not want to deprive myself of a good time.
But it's okay, I'm gonna do a little workout and sweat it all out.
Hi Blue!
Do you wanna do a diet with me?
Do you wanna have an avocado salad with me?
You do.
Okay so for today's workout, I am going to be using my own app.
On the app, you can actually switch your workout focus from "Tone Up" if you want to gain lean
muscle, "Lose Weight" if you want to lose weight and there's also other focuses that
you can do.
So for me my current focus has been to "Relieve Stress."
I think with the current global climate, it's just not been the most positive and I am someone
who's generally very optimistic, but I do have times where I do need to take a step
back and breathe.
And I'm just adding some weights to you know challenge myself.
Alright I'm done with my workout and here is my post workout meal.
I have avocado, salad and also some eggs.
Honestly this is not too different from what I normally eat.
I guess the only difference is that I would have my avocado with some toast but this looks
really wholesome.
We got some good fats, some protein, some vegetables and fibre and I think we're off
to a good start.
For my first dinner, I am having the rolled oats and I know this looks super bland but
I'm actually a fan of rolled oats so I'm not really complaining now.
I love eating raw oats, it's just a staple meal so I'm okay with this.
I think the reason why she puts this into her diet is because it's a slow digesting
carbohydrate.
It has low GI, low in the glycemic index, so it keeps you fuller for longer.
I do feel kind of bad, with every kind of diet it's always the social element that holds
me back, because I obviously know food is something to be shared and you want to hang
out with your friends.
So later I am actually going to a friend's place but I already said like you know I'm
on this diet so I'm just gonna go there and watch my friend eat while I have an early
dinner now.
I feel kind of bad but it's okay, all is understood.
I feel like the temptation is gonna be there but I have pretty good willpower, so I think
I'll be okay.
Good morning friends, it is Day 2 of the K-pop diet and last night, I was actually doing
pretty okay with just the oatmeal porridge.
I think it's because I didn't really have much to do like I wasn't expanding a lot of
energies, and in general oat just kind of makes me feel very satiated and full.
I will say though, I did wake up at 4am with some hunger pangs which I actually normally
get from time to time.
But then it's also because you are a bit dehydrated at night so your body's telling you to drink
some water.
So I woke up, drink some water and went back to sleep and I'm okay.
This morning I woke up feeling hungry again so yeah I'm really looking forward to my avocado
salad.
I have packed my avocado salad with me and I'm gonna have it at my grandma's house.
Today is a day where I spend a lot of time with my family.
Like for afternoon, I usually do like lunch with my grandma.
My mom just bought some croissants so it is wafting around in the car which is not helping
because I'm having a brain fog and like a massive headache.
Mom, you know I'm on a diet?
Okay then don't eat it.
So mean!
Just smell it.
My whole car smells of it!
Just smells of fresh baked croissants.
It's so good, it's so fresh and delicious gosh.
So I cannot wait to eat, I'm so hungry right now.
And the avocado salad is just gonna be really good.
Okay so I'm at my grandma's house now.
Look at all this food that she made.
What's this grandma?
That's my lodeh.
Yeah.
Rendang.
And beef.
That one is a Thai style beef.
It looks so good and I have my salad here.
Grandma you know I'm on a diet?
Are you?
You don't have to be on a diet.
Why do you have to be on a diet?
For a video.
I'm trying out you know the K-pop idols?
Yeah.
I'm trying to go on their diet which is supposed to be avocado and salad.
What do you think about their diets?
I don't know much about diet, but you should know and you just do your own thing.
Nevermind, you eat whatever you can.
Finish your salad and then see lah, how you want to eat a little bit.
You're a goat now.
I'm a goat.
It's okay, be a goat for now.
It will pay off.
So right now I am about to go for a walk.
My workout for today is going to be a long cardio session walking at one of my favourite
places which is Lower Peirce Reservoir with my friends.
So yeah in terms of hunger levels, I'm actually okay like I feel pretty satiated from the
avocado and the salad.
I was super hungry before it but I think the avocado, like the good fats from the avocado,
was keeping me super full.
Okay I'm finally back home after that long walk and I am starving to say the least.
I would really love to eat like a substantial meal but my family is having steamboat, I
have to stick to my diet so I have prepared myself my porridge.
Okay so we have some vegetables that we are putting into the pot.
I don't think it's breaking the diet if I add some veggies to my oats.
When you're dieting right, do you think it's anti-social to eat your own food at social
gatherings?
No.
Everybody has more to eat.
Alright so it's about 11:30 now, I just finished watching a really good F1 race.
I am a bit of an F1 fan myself so to celebrate, I would normally like to eat like chips, or
popcorn, or chocolate, have a nice like hot drink just to like, cause I'm in such a good
mood.
But I have to resist that and instead I'm gonna be chugging a lot of water.
Sacrifices of a K-pop idol.
Good morning.
It is my final day on the K-pop diet and I'm not gonna lie, this was not an easy diet to
follow.
I think that one of the worst things that I experienced was the headaches that I got
and I would just attribute that largely to the fact that I wasn't having a lot of salt
in my diet.
I think a lot of people have that misconception that cutting out salt is the best way around
it but actually, mineral salts and sodium especially is very important to a balanced
diet.
You know you have to have the salts for the electrolytes that you need to function.
You know when they say like cut salt, I don't mean like take out salt completely, there
is a lot of natural sodium that you can get from chicken, from eggs.
I think what has kept me pretty satiated have been the avocados because it's a lot of good
fats, but I would say that overall the lack of salt is getting to me and have a bit of
a headache so I'm very excited for this to be over.
So in her diet she actually puts detox juices as one of the things that she consumes.
I will go and do a natural detox drink which is celery juice so I love my celery juice.
Okay guys, it's about 3 o'clock right now and I'm about done with all my Zoom calls
and all the work.
I think I'm doing pretty okay on the diet, like besides the green juice that I had this
morning, I also did sneak in a little coffee so I am running on a bit of caffeine.
But I actually don't feel that hungry.
So I'm going to do some stretching today and see how I feel.
Okay guys so I have officially lasted the whole day on celery juice.
I was rushing so I didn't have time to eat, and the fact that I have not had much to eat
over the last few days has just been pretty excruciating.
I just like came from an appointment.
As I was driving actually, I had a couple of thoughts I just wanted to like share.
Something great that came out of drinking celery juice was that I had really good bowel
movement today guys.
Like okay, I am not a fan of detox drinks.
I personally tried them myself and I just know the dangers of going on detox juices
and these drinks and teas.
I think that they are marketed very unethically so I'm really against those but I am totally
for natural diuretics because it gives you the bowel movement without those painful cramps.
So that was really nice today and I felt very cleansed and good.
Something else is that the fact that I was moving around quite a bit today, suddenly
the hunger is starting to get to me so I am really looking forward to the huge bowl of
porridge.
Okay so I'm making my final porridge meal and here it is.
I also took the liberty of mixing in some vegetables so I have some cauliflower, and
chili and carrots, so it's slightly savoury and salty.
If you guys want the recipe for this you can actually check it out in one of the previous
videos that I did where I did Asian inspired savoury oats.
Oats can be really boring in itself but it's a great base for you to put like vegetables
and sauces and it's super easy to prepare.
It's really delicious, I love this.
I actually really, really like this meal.
Alright final results on Day 1, I was 57.6 kilograms and on the last day, I was 56.7
kilograms.
So that's like 1kg loss from Day 1.
I think in general, I am looking a lot leaner and I feel tighter in my core.
I definitely feel less bloated than Day 1.
I think that that's just because I was not eating processed foods, I was cutting out
my salts, cutting out sugar, cutting out dairy, cutting out heavy carbs and naturally I was
gonna lose water weight.
Honestly I'm not surprised at the results because I just know that if I was very strict
and I took out all these variables, I knew that I was gonna drop weight.
But you know what?
1kg is something that fluctuates even during the time of the month for me, which is why
I'm not a fan of weighing myself because I know that the weight fluctuations can be result
of so many different factors at play.
I did weigh myself for this experiment the past few days but it's not something that
I think I want to do in the long term.
Will I ever do this diet again?
I would say absolutely not.
I am personally not a fan of crash dieting.
And it's because I think it leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviours.
Because when you do crash diet, once you lose that initial weight, you feel very addicted
to that feeling so you're going to want to go to more extreme measures.
And when you stop seeing results because your body gets so used to the diet that it goes
into a plateau, you get even more extreme.
You start cutting your calories even further back, you start to get very conscious about
the foods that you eat and that can just be very unhealthy for you - not just physically
but also mentally and emotionally and that develops a very bad relationship with your
foods.
I've seen it time and time again, I've personally struggled with it in the past.
Time and time again we've also heard a lot of accounts of all these K-pop artists developing
mental health issues down the road, anxiety, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, fainting
during rehearsals and I think that that is all a result of the crazy crash diets that
they put themselves through.
That's their own choice, that's their decision.
They do have to live up to a certain level but I think for the general public, for us
as a whole, I'm a lot bigger a fan of eating healthily and living a more sustainable and
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