whenever you're having a bad day or you need a bit of a confidence booster,

每當你有一個糟糕的一天，或者你需要一個有點信心的推動力。

all you need to do is look through some comments from your viewers.

你需要做的就是通過一些觀眾的評論。

and it will really put a smile back on your face.

它真的會讓你的臉上重新露出笑容。

I feel a real strong bond with so many of my viewers

我覺得我和我的很多觀眾都有很強的聯繫。

through the wonderful and appreciative comments that I regularly receive

通過我經常收到的精彩和讚賞的評論

It's a bond that feels almost spiritual in so many ways.

這是一種紐帶，感覺在很多方面幾乎是精神上的。

So every morning, just after I've had my coffee,

所以每天早上，在我喝完咖啡後，我都會。

I love to pop open the comment section and just have a read through

我喜歡打開評論區，然後讀一讀。

and feel that personal bond, feel that sort of spiritual connection.

並感受到那種個人的紐帶，感受到那種精神上的聯繫。

Haha, you fat!

哈哈，你這個胖子!

Haha, funny guy.

哈哈，有趣的傢伙。

No, I'm not.

不，我沒有。

A few years in Japan made you so fat.

在日本的幾年時間，讓你變得這麼胖。

Ooohh...did it?

哦......做到了嗎？

Abroad in Japan christ you gain weight you fat bastard.

在日本的國外，天哪，你會變胖，你這個胖子。

Chris you are gaining weight again. Control yourself.

克里斯，你又胖了。控制你自己。

I can't control it.

我無法控制它。

Is it just me or has Chrish gained a lot of weights? lol

是我的錯覺還是Chrish胖了很多？

I have the Chris Broad body. Not smiley face.

我有Chris Broad的身體。不是笑臉。

What happened to gym bro? You stopped going?

健身房兄弟怎麼了？你不去了？

Fat

脂肪

Oh my god I genuinely hate everyone and everything that's existed ever

哦，我的上帝，我真的很討厭每一個人和每一件事的存在曾經

Stupid people! No actually it's quite expensive...

愚蠢的人！不，其實挺貴的... ...

Yeah, take that! Take that, pen!!

是啊，拿著這個！拿著，筆！

Right, now I'm not denying I might have put on a little bit of weight recently

對了，現在我不否認我最近可能胖了一點。

but you and I both know that I can lose weight, I could lose weight just as easily as I'd turn the light switch on and off

但你我都知道，我可以減肥，我可以減肥，就像我打開和關閉電燈開關一樣容易。

Why won't the fucking light come on

為什麼他媽的燈不亮？

Anyway it's not my fault that I've put on weight, it's Japan's fault.

反正我胖了不是我的錯，是日本的錯。

Until last month I was living in a tiny typical Japanese apartment

在上個月之前，我一直住在一個小小的典型的日本公寓裡。

with a kitchen so small the fucking Smurfs would have had a hard time cooking in it.

廚房太小了 藍精靈們很難在裡面做飯。

Short!

短！

So I had to eat out everyday, I had no choice!

所以我只好天天在外面吃，沒辦法!

And every time I tried to do exercise, fate stands in the way

每次我想做運動的時候，命運都會阻擋我的腳步

I could climb up that staircase

我可以爬上那個樓梯

Or I could take the patronizing small escalator!

或者我也可以坐光顧的小扶梯!

Yeaaaah!!

Yeaaaah!

It's so difficult to burn calories in Japan!

在日本消耗卡路里太難了!

Even day to day tasks like lifting the toilet seat are taken care of

即使是日常的工作，如抬起馬桶座，也會被照顧到。

I could lift the toilet seat up but it is quite difficult!

我可以把馬桶蓋抬起來，但相當困難!

I know!

我知道！

I'll press this button!

我要按這個按鈕！

Yeaaaahhh!!

Yeaaaahhh!

How? How do Japanese people stay so slim? When they live in a world of automated toilet seats and patronizingly small escalators

怎麼做到的？日本人怎麼能保持這麼苗條？當他們生活在一個自動馬桶和小扶梯的世界裡時

Still, I do take putting on weight quite seriously these days especially after my last frustrated experience of putting on weight in Japan two years ago

不過，我現在對減肥還是很重視的，尤其是兩年前在日本減肥受挫的經歷之後。

When my waist line quickly came to define every interaction I had with the people around me

當我的腰線迅速定義了我與周圍人的每一次交流時

Everyday for about a year

一年來每天都有

A frustrating experience I wish to talk about

我想說說我的一次挫折經歷。

in this video.

在這個視頻中。

But now, more than ever, I feel the pressure from society to not be fat

但現在，我比以往任何時候都更感到來自社會的壓力，我不胖

Especially as a YouTuber where the only thing that seems to matter is the number of people who click the subscribe button

尤其是作為一個YouTuber，唯一重要的事情似乎是點擊訂閱按鈕的人數。

as opposed to having videos that are actually good.

相對於有視頻，其實好。

You know I thought I'd be happy by now, having more subscribers than "Simply Red"

你知道我以為我現在已經很高興了，擁有比 "簡單紅 "更多的訂閱者。

But it's still not enough

但還是不夠

And how am I gonna get more subscribers if I'm overweight and have a poor quality face?

而我如果體重超標，顏值不高，怎麼能獲得更多的用戶？

One idea I had was putting a cat in the videos

我的一個想法是把一隻貓的視頻。

You love cats I love cats everybody loves cats, right?

你愛貓我愛貓大家都愛貓，對吧？

If I'd got a cat I wouldn't even need to get slim people would just enjoy watching these videos

如果我養了一隻貓，我甚至不需要瘦身 人們就會喜歡看這些視頻了

seeing the cat kinda run around in the background

看到貓咪在背景中跑來跑去

A cat would probably double the subscriber rate almost overnight

一隻貓可能會在一夜之間讓用戶率翻倍。

But unfortunately like most apartments in Japan I'm not really allowed a cat

但不幸的是，和日本的大多數公寓一樣，我也不能養貓。

So a friend recently bought me this out of pity

所以最近有朋友出於同情給我買了這個東西

Say hello to Mister Snuggles

跟依偎先生打招呼

He may not move as much as a real live cat but once you put this stylish hat on him

他可能不像真正的活貓那樣會動，但只要你給他戴上這頂時尚的帽子，他就會動了。

that I found at the 100 yen shop yesterday

昨天在百元店發現的

Look at that!

你看那！

He practically oozes charisma

他的魅力簡直是無窮無盡

And if that doesn't boost the subscriber rate

如果這還不能提高訂閱率的話。

Nothing will!

什麼都不會！

Another thing I could do is just lie

我可以做的另一件事就是說謊

and pretend that I'm some kind of healthy aspirational lifestyle vlogger

並假裝我是某種健康的渴望生活方式的博客。

Everywhere I look on YouTube now most popular vloggers seem to be the ones who are

我在YouTube上看到的每一個地方，現在最受歡迎的vlogger似乎是那些誰是。

showcasing some kind of perfect lifestyle

展現某種完美的生活方式

Bragging about all the brilliant organic things they consume

吹噓他們所消費的所有優秀的有機物。

and all the bananas and yoghurt they free fully enjoy

和所有的香蕉和酸奶，他們免費充分享受。

Whilst the rest of us just sit there watching along, stuffing our faces with fried diabetes

而我們其餘的人只是坐在那裡看著，用油炸糖尿病來填滿我們的臉。

So guys, I like to start my day with a coconut mango milk life shake! It's so full of vitamines and minerals

所以，夥計們，我喜歡開始我的一天與椰子芒果奶生活奶昔!它是如此充滿維生素和礦物質。

Zinc, Copper, Cyanide...everything is in this!

鋅、銅、氰化物......一切都在這裡面!

Aaah it's so....oh fuck me...so delicious!!!

啊啊，真是......哦，我操......太好吃了！！！。

I read online it makes your skin 3 times less flammable so you should definitely get some from my online store

我在網上看到，它使你的皮膚3倍減少易燃性，所以你一定要從我的網上商店買一些。

in the description box below

在下面的描述框中

Yeaaah, something tells me I'm not gonna be able to pull that off!

是啊，我有種預感，我不可能成功的!

Now in the UK or most western cultures these days

現在在英國或大多數西方文化中，這些天來

if you've put on weight it's regarded as being worryingly normal

胖了是正常的，胖了是杞人憂天

which is hardly surprising given that 60% of the British population is now classed as either overweight or obese

這一點也不奇怪，因為60%的英國人口現在被列為超重或肥胖。

Compared to Japan where that number is just 4%

與日本相比，這個數字只有4%。

And if you noticeably put on weight in the UK or most countries

如果你在英國或大多數國家明顯發胖了

to point it out to the weight gain would be considered to be a little bit rude or impolite

指出體重的增加會被認為是有點粗魯或不禮貌的

Unless you're maybe a close friend or relative

除非你是我的親朋好友或親戚

Because perhaps there's an underlying problem maybe you're stressed, depressed, or have anxiety issues that need to be addressed

因為也許有潛在的問題也許你有壓力，有抑鬱，或者有焦慮的問題需要解決

sometimes on a professional level.

有時在專業層面。

And then there's JAPAN!!

還有日本！

Where everyone around you including acquaintances whose names you don't even remember

你身邊的人，包括那些你根本不記得名字的熟人的地方

will prod you day and night in the stomach.

會日夜鞭策你的胃。

And make remarks about how fat you are.

還說自己有多胖。

Everyday for the duration of time that you are overweight.

在你超重的時間裡，每天都在。

Back when I was woking as an English teacher about two years ago I started putting on some weight

兩年前我當英語老師的時候，我就開始發胖了。

due to a poor diet and I was going through a bit of a tough time

由於飲食不當，我正經歷著一段艱難的時期。

And all of the sudden my interactions with the people around me...my students, my colleagues, my friends

突然間，我和周圍的人......我的學生，我的同事，我的朋友的互動。

even people I didn't really know

甚至是素不相識的人

All these interactions started to change quite quickly

所有這些互動都開始迅速改變

I found these interactions went through 3 stages: the first stage was the look, what I call "the look"

我發現這些互動經歷了3個階段：第一個階段是看，我稱之為 "看"

Its not like "the look of love" its more like "the glance of despair"

它不像 "愛的眼神 "更像 "絕望的眼神"

You'll notice that when you meet people they won't look at you in the face, they'll be looking at your stomach

你會發現，當你遇到別人時，他們不會看你的臉，他們會看你的肚子。

As if to say "oh my god what the hell is that?"

彷彿在說 "哦，我的上帝，那是什麼鬼東西？"

I can't tell if it's a subconscious thing or it's a deliberate thing but I found it tends to happen

我不知道這是潛意識的事情還是刻意為之，但我發現它往往會發生在這裡

without the person even mentioning your weight or anything so it's very subtle

甚至沒有人提到你的體重或任何東西，所以它是非常微妙的。

The second stage is the comment! The indirect comments

第二階段是評論!間接評論

Because Japan is a polite indirect culture, people don't really say "you're fat!" they'll kind of make amusing subtle observations about it

因為日本是一種禮貌的間接文化，人們不會真的說 "你真胖！"他們會有點有趣的微妙的觀察。

Three of my favorite comments were:

我最喜歡的三條評論是：

"It seems you like food recently!"

"看來你最近喜歡吃東西啊！"

And "don't you enjoy doing some exercise?"

還有 "你不喜歡做運動嗎？"

And then of course my personal favorite:

當然還有我個人的最愛。

"You became a big face!"

"你成了大花臉！"

And then finally there's the third stage

最後是第三階段

which is arguably the most frustrating of all which is the prodding!

這可以說是最令人沮喪的，也就是催促!

It'll usually happen after you've talked about your weight with that person at least once.

這通常會發生在你和那個人至少談過一次你的體重之後。

The next time you'll see them, they'll start prodding you in the stomach

下次你再見到他們，他們就會開始戳你的肚子了

Like you're a big walking fucking marshmallow

就像你是個會走路的大棉花糖一樣

And at the height of my fatness it happened from everyone: students, colleagues, friends, people I met on the street once or twice

而在我最胖的時候，它發生在每個人身上：學生、同事、朋友、街上遇到的一兩次的人

the guy at the fish market

魚販子

the woman putting the things through the counter at the supermarket

擺攤女郎

If you don't enjoy being prodded in the stomach, you're absolutely screwed!

如果你不喜歡被人戳肚子，那你絕對完蛋了!

And yet despite all of this, I've never gotten offended or I never found it rude because I know in Japan

但是儘管如此，我從來沒有被冒犯過，或者說我從來沒有覺得這很粗魯，因為我知道在日本

health issues are taken very seriously

健康問題非常重視

And this kind of collective action was to try and get me to realize I was being unhealthy

而這種集體行動就是想讓我意識到自己是不健康的。

and Japan actually has a fat tax called the metabo law

而日本其實有一個肥肉稅，叫元寶法。

where people aged between 40 and 74 have to have their waist line measured every year

40歲至74歲的人每年都要測量腰圍。

and if they're considered to be over the limit the company or the local government can get fined

如果他們被認為是超標，公司或當地政府會被罰款。

So it is taken very seriously

所以非常重視

Then again it's not all bad, if you do put on weight you'll be eligible to join "Chubbiness"

不過話說回來也不全是壞事，如果你真的胖了，你就有資格加入 "胖子 "的行列。

which is an actual pop group consisting of slightly overweight women

是一個真正的由略微超重的女性組成的流行音樂團體。

Now I did eventually lose the weight that I've put on 2 years ago

現在我最終還是減掉了兩年前的體重

but not because I was being prodded or had 2000 people hinting that I was fat

但不是因為我被催促或有2000人暗示我是胖子。

I lost weight for the right reasons

我減肥的原因是正確的

Like a 10.000 yen bet I made with a friend to lose 10kg in 10 weeks

就像我和朋友打賭，要在10周內減掉10公斤，賭注是1萬日元。

A bet which I lost but nonetheless lost 8kg in the process

一場賭局，我輸了，但還是輸了8公斤。

and learned how to live a healthy lifestyle which I haven't forgot

並學會了如何過一種健康的生活方式，這一點我沒有忘記

But strangely all the prodding and comments actually made me want to stay overweight out of principle

但奇怪的是，所有的鞭策和評論居然讓我出於原則性地想保持超重的狀態。

to show that I really didn't care what other people thought

以示我真的不在乎別人的看法。

After all, losing weight shouldn't come from social pressure it should come from within

畢竟，減肥不應該來自社會壓力應該來自內心

Or in the form of a 10.000 yen bet

或者是一萬日元的賭注。

So I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna get fit, not because of people prodding me in the street

所以我要去做，我要去健身，而不是因為人們在街上催促我。

nor because of viewers on YouTube whingeing that I'm fat

也不是因為觀眾在YouTube上抱怨我胖了

I'm gonna do it

我要去做

for me!

為我

Because from what I can gather when you're in your twenties or your early 30s

因為據我所知，當你二十多歲或者三十出頭的時候

That's supposed to be the fun bit

這應該是最有趣的部分

you know before you have children and mortgages and death

你知道在你有孩子，抵押貸款和死亡之前

I wanna have fun, I wanna climb mountains, I wanna dive beneath the sea

我想玩得開心，我想爬山，我想潛入海底。

I wanna cycle around the world

我想騎車環遊世界

I want twice the amount of subscribers as Simply Red

我想要比Simply Red多一倍的用戶量。

Then, then it will be enough!

那麼，那就夠了!

"Chris you're gaining weight again! Control yourself!"

"克里斯你又長胖了!控制自己！"