Comedian Yu Minsang opened up about his dieting experience.
On the 12th, MBN's Dongchimi uploaded a preview video to its official channel titled "Yu Minsang lost 20kg because he wanted to get married?! 'I drank only lemon water for a week'".
That day MC Lee Hyun-e asked Yu Minsang, "Did you have a time when you were skin and bones? I can't believe it," expressing surprise, and Yu Minsang also said, "I wonder if I was really skin and bones," appearing bewildered. At that moment, past photos of Yu Minsang were revealed, and his unrecognizably thin appearance shocked everyone.
Yu Minsang said, "I was in ninth grade, or maybe eighth grade. Strangely, ever since I was a baby, my nickname was always 'flying pork cutlet.' Even then I never heard that I was thin; whenever people thought of Minsang, they thought of a big guy."
Seeing this, Noh Sa-yeon encouraged him to diet, saying, "Lose a little. I think you'll look handsome," and Yu Minsang recalled his dieting past: "So long ago I lost in the 20-something kg range and for a while during the days of Gag Concert I briefly appeared on the news. I came to film something else for Gag Concert and a reporter suddenly asked, 'Mr. Yu Minsang, you've lost a lot of weight?' and I said, 'Yes, I just lost a little.'"
He said, "I was quite fat during the 'Father and Son' segment. After 'Father and Son' ended, I felt, 'This isn't right.' Because I thought I should get married. Because I did 'Father and Son' so much, some people might have been confused and misunderstood, thinking, 'Didn't that person already get married and have a son? Wasn't he already a father?' I received many misunderstandings, so I thought I couldn't stay like that. I decided to lose weight and get married."
He went on to describe his diet, saying, "Back then it was a lemon detox where you have to drink only lemon water for a week." Lee Hyun-e exclaimed, "You did that for a week? You drank only lemon water?" and Yu Minsang said, "You just drink lemon water. I even carried the container around and drank it. I also tried a chicken breast diet. Heo Kyunghwan sent it to me back when he was in the chicken breast business. But they made it tasty, seasoned so I ate it with rice as a side dish a lot. That's apparently not how you should do it," sharing his failed chicken breast diet story to much laughter.
Yu Minsang said, "Eating like that didn't work well. In conclusion, when I later lost 20kg, I definitely cut back on certain things and mixed in the lemon detox. I ate less and exercised; I liked basketball so I went to play basketball. I held back. I lost it by restraining my eating."
But he added, "That's the point. After losing it all, one day I inevitably ate a bit at a company dinner. I barely gained weight. It was like 0.1kg or not much. I thought you don't gain weight just by eating a little, and then I immediately gained weight. The door opened," revealing that his weight returned due to yo-yoing, which provoked sympathy.
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