Even Though I Will Gain Weight, I Still Want to Eat Fried Chicken Before Going to Bed
About This Novel
I can't control myself from ordering fried chicken in the middle of the night, but I can insist on getting up at five o'clock in the morning every day to write - this is a collection of essays by Park Sang-young, a writer who wants to overeat when he encounters pressure, describing the joys and sorrows of work and life. The author candidly, sincerely and wittyly tells his real life story of repeatedly losing weight and giving up, and spending countless nights blaming himself while overeating. He was hurt by his family of origin, college entrance exams, and interpersonal relationships. He hated going to work but needed to make money. He wanted to pursue his dream of writing, wanted to escape far away, wanted to have love but was afraid of disappointment. The happiness of the senses was always short-lived and illusory. "Appearance supremacy" became more and more popular... Using "late night gluttony" as the pretext, this book records a contemporary young man's keen observation of society and life, ruthless complaints and bitter satire, as well as the flickering hope and warmth.
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Fat writer secretly eats meat
There are more fat men than women in South Korea. This man shed tears of bitterness over his past experience of gaining weight. First, he ran away from his parents to study abroad, and then he became fat while working part-time and writing novels. Every time he looked in the mirror, he wanted to lose weight. After becoming an amateur writer, his irregular lifestyle completely made him gain weight. The book is not profound in describing the psychology of fat people losing weight, but it is still somewhat helpful for fat people to lose weight.
Makes me empathic and timid
At first I thought - wow, isn't this person just complaining all the time? In fact, the author later discovered this when he looked back at his earlier works, haha. The kind of empathy that comes from sharing a room with a mentally ill caregiver who shared a childhood misfortune, and eventually became an adult who relied on taking a lot of drugs to maintain a life of constant mood swings. This similarity makes me even more timid, because I am not that good. I have failed all the way since the high school entrance examination. Bipolar disorder has damaged my cognitive ability and lost the motivation to maintain my hobbies. This knowledge has made me live as a puppet for a long time. Ye Gong loves dragons, but when he saw a dragon queen, he was so frightened that he pissed himself off. It was probably me. But what can I do? Even though I know that my life is miserable, I still slump in the armchair and keep watching saliva movies, and I just live like this. I have always stubbornly believed that there is no light in my life. It is just that I am trying hard to drill wood to make fire, because the damp wood in the damp weather keeps breaking after being rubbed. De Ye, who has experienced many battles, can't help but give up after complaining repeatedly, but I can only continue, unable to take care of other things. I know that this fire is necessary. I have hope because of it. My worries lately are nightmares. I hope I can have sweet dreams after taking Valium tonight.
So, is going to bed hungry for health or weight loss?
Humorous text and interesting soul are worth reading
2026.01.30 My life is not a "process" moving forward to achieve a certain goal, but a continuum of reality that I am experiencing. Reality allows me to live in the present, and today also allows me to survive tomorrow. Even if I can't go to bed hungry today, I don't want to push myself so harshly anymore. I decided to just be grateful and live each day I was given. You who spend every day like me, no matter how you survive this moment, no matter what others say, you are great and worthy of applause, even if your plan to go to bed hungry today fails.
Always dissatisfied with reality; only thinking about the past or a certain point in the future, but not the present.
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Official(5)Scraped 11d ago
Fat writer secretly eats meat
There are more fat men than women in South Korea. This man shed tears of bitterness over his past experience of gaining weight. First, he ran away from his parents to study abroad, and then he became fat while working part-time and writing novels. Every time he looked in the mirror, he wanted to lose weight. After becoming an amateur writer, his irregular lifestyle completely made him gain weight. The book is not profound in describing the psychology of fat people losing weight, but it is still somewhat helpful for fat people to lose weight.
Makes me empathic and timid
At first I thought - wow, isn't this person just complaining all the time? In fact, the author later discovered this when he looked back at his earlier works, haha. The kind of empathy that comes from sharing a room with a mentally ill caregiver who shared a childhood misfortune, and eventually became an adult who relied on taking a lot of drugs to maintain a life of constant mood swings. This similarity makes me even more timid, because I am not that good. I have failed all the way since the high school entrance examination. Bipolar disorder has damaged my cognitive ability and lost the motivation to maintain my hobbies. This knowledge has made me live as a puppet for a long time. Ye Gong loves dragons, but when he saw a dragon queen, he was so frightened that he pissed himself off. It was probably me. But what can I do? Even though I know that my life is miserable, I still slump in the armchair and keep watching saliva movies, and I just live like this. I have always stubbornly believed that there is no light in my life. It is just that I am trying hard to drill wood to make fire, because the damp wood in the damp weather keeps breaking after being rubbed. De Ye, who has experienced many battles, can't help but give up after complaining repeatedly, but I can only continue, unable to take care of other things. I know that this fire is necessary. I have hope because of it. My worries lately are nightmares. I hope I can have sweet dreams after taking Valium tonight.
So, is going to bed hungry for health or weight loss?
Humorous text and interesting soul are worth reading
2026.01.30 My life is not a "process" moving forward to achieve a certain goal, but a continuum of reality that I am experiencing. Reality allows me to live in the present, and today also allows me to survive tomorrow. Even if I can't go to bed hungry today, I don't want to push myself so harshly anymore. I decided to just be grateful and live each day I was given. You who spend every day like me, no matter how you survive this moment, no matter what others say, you are great and worthy of applause, even if your plan to go to bed hungry today fails.
Always dissatisfied with reality; only thinking about the past or a certain point in the future, but not the present.
