Kang Min-kyung eats only half a sweet potato a day

[dipropylene]

Celebrities are no strangers to dieting, and some develop bizarre eating habits to prep for their acting roles. Kang Min-kyung from the girl duo Davichi has proven that she is no exception, especially when it comes to crash dieting.

Kang revealed that by eating just half a sweet potato a day, she lost six kilograms (13 pounds) in just two weeks before shooting advertisements for the vitamin drink Miero Fiber.

"I love chocolates and cookies, but instead of snacking, I would have a bite of an uncooked sweet potato instead," Kang said on SBS' "Night of TV Entertainment" on March 21.

Her second secret to weight loss: "black food." The singer said that she saw actress Lee Mi-sook have a concoction of black sesame, black beans and black rice blended with milk, and decided to try the concoction for herself. The two co-starred in the drama "Smile, Mum" in 2010.


sauce: JoongAng Daily

Comments

[jacky-snoopy.livejournal.com]

D: does this mean ALL she ate was half a sweet potato a day or that instead of eating cookies, etc, she ate half a sweet potato?

[dipropylene]

The article makes it sound like all she ate was half a sweet potato a day, but her comment about snacking makes it sound like she did eat something else too. Oh well, if she lost as much as 6kg in just two weeks, I highly doubt she ate much.

[owakuu.livejournal.com]

Well that's unhealthy in a long run. Eat my darling, eat.

[bumie.livejournal.com]

mte

[sora501.livejournal.com]

me too....

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

DDDDDDDDD:
why would you do that to yourself?
pure torture.

[my-car-is-prada.livejournal.com]

Wow, no wonder she looks so unhappy all the time.

[mentality34.livejournal.com]

she's also in CCM, i can't see how she'd be happy

[angelynn-virus.livejournal.com]

ehy I stare at my fried chicken box with guilt rite now, holy sheeettt!!

[asth77.livejournal.com]

Lol She's gonna gain weight in a few years and that's not gonna end well.


I like that gif.

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

lol my ass. More like she lost 6 lbs* and not 6 kilos....has anyone even seen Minkyung to start with. At that size to begin with dropping 13 kilos is dropping like 15% of her weight in 2 weeks. That's out dieting Stage IV cancer patients.

I'm really sick of this kind of 'journalism'. Offended on behalf of the scientific community tbh.


(* even 6 lbs in two weeks is scary fast)

[burger.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping she just meant that she'd eat a sweet potato instead of cookies and chocolate and that the article is exaggerating, but to lose that much so fast you would have to be eating nothing else :/

[ongew.livejournal.com]

i could eat one of those after every meal and regret nothing tbh

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

Why though!?!?
She's already tiny!!!
If I was her size, I'd stop worrying about "losing weight", just enjoy myself and workout regularly.

[lightspeedsquid.livejournal.com]

[michurusan.livejournal.com]

I find it ironic since key was the one who said nicole was fat.

[laceandskin.livejournal.com]

My chocolate chip lava cookies are cooling right now.

[kanbinayume.livejournal.com]

share please!!! those sound delicious.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Wow this sounds so healthy, awards to the people that give them these ideas.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

still thankful i'm not a female kpop idol.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

(http://tinypic.com?ref=vmruk5)

What I hate is when women say things like this, like they're somehow proud that they are starving themselves to fit into some media-created gender specific mold of how a woman should be. And after hundreds of years of women's suffrage, it just astounds me. Honestly, more women need to get informed about feminism.

[windygables.livejournal.com]

A+ comment, I completely agree.

[ongew.livejournal.com]

don't this people know about exercising? or or or balanced diet plans? smh. koreans are slim to begin with, idgi.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

how does she still have boobs, I would hate her if I were a flat korean woman

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

Did she even have 6kg/13lbs extra to lose?

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

maybe she lost bones -___-

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

UNCOOKED sweet potato? Blegh. Are they any ~health benefits~ to eating it raw? And how does one even stand the taste of raw potatoes?? They smell funny.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

LOL pretty sure it wasnt raw. they probs just left out the cooked part. as people have said upthread this is a very shoddily done article.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

i feel like this should have a trigger warning on it

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

If she really ate that little and lost that much weight in such a short time its screaming unhealthy and reminding me of someone with an eating disorder. seriously just to be on the safe side OP you might wanna put a trigger warning.

[juhli.livejournal.com]

uncooked sweet potatoe ?!
No wonder she can only eat half of it tbh....

[krobwell.livejournal.com]

she sounds like a real snooze cruise