Afterwards, Wang Weiwen received a full-body photo and current weight from Lu Tongyu.
Wang Weiwen used several exclamation marks to express the shock he felt in his heart.
"Brother, how come you've lost so much weight all of a sudden? The last time you came to the team to weigh yourself, you were still the same."
Lu Tongyu: "My brother brought me some weight loss pills, and they're quite effective. I took them yesterday and I had lost 5 kilograms when I woke up this morning."
Wang Weiwen's face changed drastically: "Don't take diet pills randomly, you'll ruin your health."
Lu Tongyu: "My brother is a doctor. The medicine he gave me is harmless, and I haven't felt any discomfort since taking it. My appetite, energy, and bowel movements are all normal. Only my weight has changed. It's truly amazing."
Wang Weiwen didn't understand the reasoning behind this, so he half-believed and half-doubtedly warned Lu Tongyu, "Don't let your guard down. If you feel unwell anytime soon, stop taking the medicine immediately."
Lu Tongyu: "Don't worry about that. I will definitely do it. Also, don't tell anyone in the team about my weight loss, not even the coach. Once I succeed, I'll go back to the team and see the coach myself."
Wang Weiwen: "Don't worry. I don't know you yet, but I wanted to surprise everyone."
Lu Tongyu laughed heartily and said, "I wanted to give you a surprise. I, the speedster Lu Tongyu, am back!"
Lu Tongyu hadn't laughed so heartily in a long time, instantly bringing Wang Weiwen back to the time when they had competed hand in hand on the track and field. His laughter also touched Wang Weiwen, causing the frustration he felt after losing the competition to dissipate.
What Wang Weiwen is most looking forward to now is that Lu Tongyu can return to the team as soon as possible, continue to sweep the track and field arena, and become a new light of track and field.
"Can you make it back in time for the Asian Championships in March?"
Lu Tongyu took a few deep breaths, then he suppressed his smile, clenched his fists, and said in a resolute tone, "I will definitely come back."
After the phone call, Wang Weiwen's mood stabilized a lot. Thinking that Lu Tongyu would be returning to the team soon, Wang Weiwen trained in the best condition every day, and his results also stabilized a lot.
Even his coach was surprised that he had adjusted well to the blow of the World Championship defeat. He said that his condition had returned to the peak of the previous two years and praised his stable and mature mentality, saying that he was not as impatient as in the previous two years.
Wang Weiwen laughed and said nothing. Only he himself knew the real reason for his change of state.
Lu Tongyu is about to return to the team. When Lu Tongyu officially returns to the team, he wants to have a match with Lu Tongyu. He doesn't want to lose to Lu Tongyu who has not had serious training for a year.
Lu Tongyu took his medicine on time every day, monitored and recorded his weight, and resumed daily independent training.
Two dates were circled in red pen on the calendar on his desk, one was the day he would return to the team, and the other was the day of the Asian Championships.
Every time he wakes up, he gets closer to these two days, making his life more hopeful and his training more motivated.
On the other hand, Dai Li did not ask Dr. Lu about his brother's experience with the body-slimming capsules. She was planning how to promote the body-slimming capsules.
HIV-specific drugs do not need to be specifically promoted. Infected people will take the initiative to go to the hospital for consultation and treatment through news information.
Body-slimming capsules are different. Their target users are wider and can cover almost half of the population. Body-slimming capsules are positioned as commodity drugs and require certain promotion.
Sister Tu suggested finding someone to shoot a commercial. Advertising is a safe bet, and well-known pharmaceutical companies across the country have increased their visibility in this way.
Guan Honghou holds the same view. He has resources at his disposal and says that as long as they are in the circle, he can find a way to invite anyone he wants.
Dai Li rejected the advertising proposal. She had seen advertisements for several medicines, especially those for weight loss. Without exception, they all used female celebrities with good figures and slim waists to endorse the products. Apart from the star effect, the audience could not see any therapeutic effects.
Guan Honghou: "Then let's find a fat female celebrity and film her weight loss process."
Sister Tu: "Mr. Guan, you don't understand female celebrities in the industry. Apart from comedians, how many female celebrities have gained weight? Those who have gained weight are either out of fashion or have retired. Even if some want to make a comeback, they won't be willing to show their ugly side in front of the audience."
Guan Honghou: "That's because the money offered isn't enough. As long as the amount is attractive enough, even retired female celebrities are willing to take the job. Mr. Tu, you and Teacher Xiao Dai are not short of money now. You are much richer than me."
As far as he knew, Dai Li made a lot of money from the jadeite raw stones she bought. Sister Tu spent almost all her time helping her deal with the truckload of jadeite raw stones during her vacation abroad. She auctioned some of them, sold some to jewelers, and kept some for herself, intending to make them into her favorite accessories in the future.
The five-ton jadeite rough stone is placed in the display cabinet in the lobby of Daili Company.
Guan Honghou is a well-informed person after all, but he is still shocked every time he passes by and then stops to watch for a while.
Sister Tu: "I agree, but Dai Dai wouldn't agree. No matter how much money you have, you shouldn't spend it like this."
Guan Honghou: "It costs a lot of money to invite popular female stars. Using this commission to invite retired female stars is a lot of money for them. Almost no one will refuse it."
Sister Tu can accept this explanation.
Dai Li: "We don't have to find celebrities, ordinary people can also have the same publicity effect."
Sister Tu: "But ordinary people can't promote as well as celebrities. Fans will spontaneously help promote and buy."
Dai Li: "Ordinary people are more real than celebrities. Didn't the special film about HIV special medicine we participated in a while ago also have a very good publicity effect?"
It's more than just a good publicity effect. The publicity is so good that it's known throughout the country. Even when we tell everyone that the HIV-specific drug is still in the approval stage, there are still endless patients calling the 993 Hospital and Jinshi TV Station, and their phones are almost overwhelmed.
Dai Li: "So this time I'm planning to make a body-building documentary, documenting the weight-loss journey of ordinary people. The people who buy our weight-loss capsules are ordinary people, not celebrities who have their own personal trainers or nutritionists. Ordinary people want to see how ordinary people lose weight, so they can relate more deeply."
Guan Honghou could understand her words very well. After he lost weight recently, people around him saw him and asked him for advice on how to lose weight. No matter what he said, they were easy to believe.
We are all ordinary people, with similar eating habits and similar lifestyles. If you can lose weight, others will also believe that they can lose weight.
Dai Li: "Mr. Guan, please contact the special task force of Jinshi TV and ask them if they are interested in our new project."
The fact that Dai Li sought cooperation with the Jinshi TV special group for the second time showed that she was quite satisfied with the last cooperation. The other party abided by the rules in their work, did not shoot content that should not be shot, and did not play any ulterior motives in the post-production editing.
After receiving the task, Guan Honghou contacted the special group of Jinshi TV without stopping.
At this time, the Jinshi TV special group was still worrying about new topics. It was really difficult to find a topic with interesting content.
There will be more than ten proposals for today's topic selection, all of which are stories about people that the team has dug up from all over the place. They have already gone through a preliminary selection and will be finalized today.
Each team in the group had their own ideas and could not reach a consensus. This also shows that the content of the proposal was not particularly good, which led to such a big disagreement.
The people in the team have realized the positive development that improving the program content will bring to the program group.
The station paid more attention to it, allocated more budget, and sponsors also came to us after hearing the news. The team's work situation improved instantly.
The team has tasted the sweetness, so naturally they have higher requirements for program content than before, and ordinary topics are completely out of their sight.
"None of today's proposals are acceptable. Everyone, go back and think about it. The country is so big, there must be many stories that we haven't explored, and there are many things that no one has done before." These words from the chief editor doomed today's proposals to fail.
After a long meeting, no topic was decided and everyone in the team was feeling a little overwhelmed.
"Brother Lu, I know you want to do another feature film like the one about HIV drugs, but opportunities like this are rare. We can't just sit there and do nothing until the next opportunity comes."
The director-in-chief was very stubborn: "We still have two days left in our production cycle. Let's make good use of these two days. I believe you will definitely find a better topic."
No one in the team spoke, everyone stared at their laptop screens.
The delay in finalizing the topic meant that they had to meet deadlines in the next few days and had to work overtime every day before the broadcast, and more likely all night without being able to go home.
At this time, the chief director called, he took the phone and went outside to answer it, leaving the team in the meeting room.
A group of people looked at each other.
"Why is no one talking? Someone please wake up Brother Lu, or we won't be able to finish the work later."
"Is he listening? I had an argument with him yesterday about the topic selection."
"The ratings have been dropping recently. How can Brother Lu not be anxious? If the ratings can't be improved, everyone's budget and compensation will be reduced in the future. He is also thinking about the whole team."
"If we force me to choose a topic, will we be able to create another program as popular as the special feature on HIV cure?"
Everyone was discussing in the conference room, and everyone looked worried.
The chief director pushed the door open and came back with a beaming look on his face.
"I have good news for you all. We have a new topic. This time we're going to make a documentary about weight loss!"
The people in the team did not have the same excitement as the chief director. There were many weight loss documentaries abroad, and those who worked in television had some knowledge of them.
The production cycle of a weight loss documentary is long, and there are countless problems that may arise at any time, such as the protagonist giving up halfway, unsatisfactory weight loss results, the protagonist gaining weight, etc.
The most important thing is that not many people like to watch weight loss documentaries.
Everyone in the team was against it, and some even thought it would be better to choose one of their proposals to make into a show.
But Director Lu insisted on filming the film, and the team couldn't persuade him, so they had to temporarily make a new documentary plan.
The next day, when Director Lu took the team to a meeting, the team members saw Guan Honghou's current appearance and suddenly understood why Director Lu had made the impromptu decision to shoot a documentary.
Guan Honghou, who was as fat as Miro Buddha two or three months ago, is now well-proportioned and energetic.
If they had not followed Guan Honghou in the hospital for more than two weeks and seen him every day, the members of the task force would not have dared to recognize him.
"Boss Guan, how did you become so thin and so well-proportioned?"
Guan Honghou said proudly: "Without any real weight loss skills, how could I find you to film a weight loss documentary?"
Director Lu: "Mr. Guan, do you want to share your weight loss experience?"
Guan Honghou: "I don't have much to share about my weight loss experience. I don't have any weight loss experience. I just want to promote the weight loss medicine that Teacher Xiao Dai and I jointly launched."
Director Lu and his team were stunned for a moment: "Using our platform to advertise?"
Guan Honghou made no secret of their desire to run an advertisement: "The HIV drug we used on our last show was also an advertisement. If you mind, I won't bother you anymore. I'll find another team to do it."
The decision was made in a moment. Director Lu gritted his teeth and agreed without hesitation.
It’s just advertising. Anyway, judging from the results after Guan Honghou used it, the weight loss pills are definitely effective.
After this meeting, the filming of the body shaping documentary was finally finalized.
The four members who participated in the documentary filming were selected by Dai Li, two girls and two boys.
They all went to the hospital to consult about their health problems. They heard that there was a free body-shaping program that could help and urge them to restore their normal weight, and then they took the initiative to sign up.
In order to facilitate the filming of the documentary, Guan Honghou prepared a house in advance. During the body shaping period, all participants in the body shaping transformation lived here.
The four participants arrived at the shooting location one after another, carrying their own luggage.
The four of them had never faced the camera before and were very reserved at this moment.
The two boys are not very old, but their weight is exaggerated. One looks to be over 200 pounds, and the other looks to be at least over 300 pounds.
As for the girls, one also weighed over 200 pounds, and her flesh was shaking when she walked, but the other was a skinny bamboo pole, with skin and bones all over her body. Her legs and arms were like bamboo joints, and her eye sockets and cheeks were sunken, making her look like a walking skull.
Director Lu quietly asked Guan Honghou, "Isn't this a documentary about weight loss? Why are there still skinny people?"
This question stumped Guan Honghou. The person was chosen by Dai Li, so he passed the message to Dai Li.
Dai Li: "We are not making a documentary about weight loss, but a documentary about body shaping. Not only are people in the world troubled by obesity, but some people also worry about being too thin. Both are unhealthy and need to shape their bodies."
Director Lu was puzzled: "Isn't it a diet pill?"
Dai Li glanced at him indifferently and said, "Who told you it was a diet pill? The product is called a body shaping capsule, not a slimming capsule."
Director Lu glanced at Guan Honghou silently. It was Guan who misled him. He kept talking about diet pills and he thought they could only help him lose weight.
"If slimming capsules can help people lose weight regardless of their weight, are they suitable for everyone with a BMI below the standard?"
Dai Li said as a matter of course: "They are all our target users."
Director Lu is not sure about the effect of the body-slimming capsules for the time being, nor does he know what the filmed results will be like, but one thing is certain, Mr. Guan and Teacher Dai are really ambitious in their careers.
The four participants who came to the scene to participate in the filming had the same question: the skinny girl was out of place among them.
But they were too shy to ask in person.
Outside the camera frame, Dai Li stood opposite them and explained: "You must have a question. You are here to lose weight, so why are some of you fat and some thin?"
The reserved participants nodded.
Dai Li: "The theme of our program is the body shaping program, which helps all those who have weight problems, whether they are fat or thin. With our help, you can all return to your normal weight."
Someone raised his hand. It was Tao Yuyang, the heaviest participant present. "I heard you're going to help us get down to our ideal weight in a month?"
After receiving Dai Li's affirmative answer, the participants present had more questions and competed to ask their own questions.
"You won't overdraw our energy and then perform liposuction on us, right?"
"It's definitely not possible for me to exercise to lose weight. My heart is not in good condition and I can't do exercise."
"I have a bad stomach. If I eat too much, I will get acute gastritis. I definitely can't accept weight gain from dietary supplements."
In general, when they heard about reaching the target weight in one month, they came up with countless cruel and hellish body-shaping plans.
It’s not that they can’t persist in exercising, but that their physical condition doesn’t allow it.
Dai Li: "You can rest assured that all your worries above will not happen. We will not have any physical requirements. You can still go to work, school, eat, drink and have fun as usual."
Some people asked in confusion: "How can this be considered weight loss?"
Dai Li: "Let's wait and see the results. Also, if you change your mind midway and don't want to participate in the recording, you can withdraw at any time."
Amidst the participants’ anxiety, the first day of the body shaping plan finally began to be recorded.
Among the four of them, the heaviest boy, Tao Yuyang, is still a high school student. He also took hormone drugs and has not been able to lose weight since then.
Now he is about to prepare for the college entrance examination, but his dream since childhood is to join the army. The reality is that if he does not lose weight, he will never be able to join the army in this life. For the sake of his dream, he decided to give it a try.
The second heaviest boy, Gao Jingwei, is a recent graduate. He grew up with his grandparents and was spoiled by them. He has a big appetite for snacks and has been a little fat boy since he was young.
As Gao Jingwei grew older, his weight became increasingly out of control, and before he knew it, he was almost reaching 300 kilograms.
Because of his weight, he couldn't find a suitable job, so he decided to lose weight.
The girl, who weighs over 200 pounds, is called Wu Yue and is a single mother.
I gained weight during pregnancy and didn't lose weight after giving birth. Instead, due to anxiety, I overate and my hormone levels were unstable, and my weight soared to over 200 pounds.
Before giving birth, she weighed less than 100 pounds and was a slim girl. After gaining weight, she obviously felt that her husband was becoming more and more cold. Later, when she gained weight to more than 200 pounds, her husband didn't even want to look at her, as if the person who had delivered breakfast to her for four years was not the same person, and he couldn't even remember that it was he who was pestering her for a child.
The marriage only lasted until the first year after she gave birth. She could not stand the domestic violence and filed for divorce.
Fortunately, she got the custody of the child. In order to raise the child independently and for a better new life for herself, she urgently wanted to restore her original body shape.
The skinny girl named Yu Tong suffers from severe mental illness due to years of domestic violence suffered by her stepfather. She is disgusted with the world and has anorexia. She will feel like vomiting if she eats too much. Over time, her body becomes more and more malnourished and she is in her current state. She has seen several psychologists but to no avail. She can only go to the hospital regularly for nutritional fluid infusion.
Now she has met a very good boy who is very gentle, tolerates all her shortcomings, and persuades his family to accept her.
Surrounded by happiness, Yu Tong really wants to change her current situation and become a bride in the most beautiful and healthiest condition.
These four people all have a very strong desire for body shaping, and they also cover different types. Most ordinary people can see their own shadows through them.
After the documentary crew briefly recorded their self-introductions, they let them go back to their respective rooms to rest.
At this moment, the four of them were feeling very nervous, not knowing what challenges were waiting for them in the future.
Teacher Dai said that there were no physical requirements and that they could go to work and school as normal, but who would believe that they could lose weight by doing nothing?
Everyone was doing their own thing in their rooms. Tao Yuyang was reviewing his homework, Gao Jingwei was submitting his resume online, Wu Yue was video chatting with his daughter who was staying at her parents' house, and Yu Tong was chatting with her boyfriend.
Until dinner was served in the evening, no one came out to assign them tasks.
The meal consisted of the normal five dishes and one soup. Considering that there were three overweight members, the portions of the dishes were increased, and there was no consideration at all for controlling their diet.
After the four of them finished their meal, Dai Li gave each of them a body-shaping capsule, and then the crew left the house, leaving only the fixed camera.
The intense training, the strict diet, the hellish weight loss regimen they had imagined in their minds, none of it happened.
The first day of the body shaping plan ended in an extremely ordinary way, yet with some signs of abnormality.
This went on for more than one day. The next day, the third day... and the sixth day were all the same.
The crew never interfered with what they did. Apart from providing them with a weight-loss capsule every day, the production team had no interaction with them, let alone participating in their weight-loss plan.
They can even eat hamburgers, milk tea, fried chicken legs openly, and bring snacks back from the supermarket, as if they didn't see the show.
Gradually, they began to doubt whether this program was a body-building program.
The special weight loss pills they gave me didn't cause any side effects at all. I didn't even have diarrhea once, nor did I get fat as advertised in other advertisements.
Can such a weight loss pill be effective?
The first one who couldn't stand it was Gao Jingwei. He had the idea of quitting the show on the third day, and on the sixth day, he finally brought it up.
Dai Li didn't ask him why, but only asked him if he had thought it through, because he would be weighed on the seventh day.
Their weight is not measured every day, but once a week. This is because their situations are more extreme. Either their basic weight is too high or too low. The weight change will not be too obvious at the beginning. We are afraid that the daily data will become a pressure for everyone and affect everyone's mental state.
By the seventh day, there will be obvious effects, which is like a watershed compared to the first six days. After that, their weight will change dramatically every day.
Gao Jingwei: "What difference does it make whether I measure myself or not? Can I not gain weight if I eat the food you cook? I'm lucky I haven't gained any weight in the past few days. Didn't you say I can quit at any time? Can I leave?"
Dai Li: "Okay, since you took the initiative to ask to withdraw, we will respect your choice. No one else wants to withdraw, right?"
The other three looked at each other, and Wu Yue said, "Let's wait until we get weighed tomorrow."
The implication is that if their weight doesn't change much, they will also consider withdrawing from the documentary filming.
Dai Li nodded and said nothing more. She just told him to weigh herself tomorrow and then left.
There were originally four people in the body shaping team, but suddenly one person left in the middle of the process, which made the other three people even more uneasy.
None of the three of them slept well the night before the weigh-in, and they woke up before the alarm clock rang the next day.
They came out of their rooms and were stunned when they saw the rest of their body sculpting partners.
The first person to cover her mouth in surprise was Wu Yue. She was startled to see Yu Tong coming out of the room.
"Xiaotong, how come your face became rounder overnight? You look much cuter now."
"Sister Yue, you've lost a lot of weight." Yu Tong and she exclaimed almost at the same time.
Tao Yuyang from the next room also came out, and then the three of them looked at each other.
Yu Tong: "Yuyang, you've lost a lot of weight too, even thinner than Sister Yue."
Tao Yuyang: "You two have changed a lot."
They rushed to the bathroom to look in the mirror.
Yu Tong's cheeks became plump, her eye sockets were no longer sunken, her arms grew some flesh, and even her ribs were no longer so sharp.
Just like Wu Yue said, she looks cuter.
Tao Yuyang's four-layer chin was reduced to one layer, and his eyes were no longer narrowed into slits as before.
Before, Wu Yue's thighs would rub against each other when she walked, which was very painful when she sweated in the summer. Now she walks much more easily and has less fat on her face.
Dai Li came to record their weight in the first stage and saw their smiling faces and obvious changes in their bodies.
"I guess you've noticed a change in your weight."
Tao Yuyang nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, yes, why did we lose so much weight overnight?"
Dai Li: "You didn't lose weight overnight, you just discovered it today."
Wu Yue asked in surprise: "Teacher, are you saying that we also lost weight a few days ago?"
They really didn't feel anything in the past few days, but only today did they feel the changes in each other.
Tao Yuyang said regretfully, "Brother Gao really left too hastily. Teacher Dai, did Brother Gao lose weight today?"
They had been together for almost a week, and Tao Yuyang naturally hoped that Gao Jingwei could lose weight.
Unfortunately, Dai Li's answer was destined to disappoint him.
"He didn't make it through the first stage. His situation is completely different from yours."
After saying that, Dai Li raised her chin and said, "Get on the scale."
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