Emi Wong

Emily Wong Lok-ting ( born January 1992 ) is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes fitness, lifestyle, and travelling videos.

Emily Wong was born in January 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, and moved as a baby to Hong Kong, where she was raised.

She exclusively attended local Hong Kong schools.

Her primary school's instruction was in Chinese, while her secondary school's instruction was in English except for the two subjects of Chinese and Chinese history.

She has one brother who is two years her junior.

In her youth, she learned to play the piano, reaching Grade 8 before stopping because she did not enjoy playing the instrument.

Her first language is Cantonese, and through viewing television shows from the United States, she became proficient in English as an additional language.

On the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, she received 7As.

She attended local Hong Kong schools and graduated in 2013 from the University of Hong Kong, where she studied global management and international business.

After a stint as a headhunter and management trainee at the alcoholic beverage company Pernod Ricard, Wong joined Lululemon Athletica, where she worked in the social media division.

While at Lululemon, she started her YouTube channel to make additional income.

Her exercise videos received the most views, and she grew into an influencer in the realms of fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and fitness.

Wong graduated in 2013 from the University of Hong Kong, where she studied global management and international business.

In her first job after graduating from university at the alcoholic beverages company Pernod Ricard, Wong worked as a headhunter, a role she did not like because it required a salesperson personality that she felt she lacked.

At Pernod Ricard, Wong was a management trainee.

Her company sent her to do work in South Korea in 2015.

She started posting videos on her YouTube channel, Emi Wong • StayFitandTravel, in April 2017.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Wong was raised in Hong Kong.

She reached 100,000 subscribers in four months and 500,000 subscribers in a year, prompting her to quit her full-time job at Lululemon to become a full-time YouTuber in August 2018.

With over six million subscribers, Wong is the Hong Kong YouTuber with the most subscribers.

She later joined the Hong Kong branch of Lululemon Athletica, where she worked in the social media division for two years until around August 2018.

As she did social media, she received an advanced personal trainer certification.

She had an appendectomy around one year following graduation.

After the surgery, she experienced complications that required her to visit the hospital where she had stomach cramps, typically following eating.

From age 18 until 25 or 26, three to four times every week she would "drink herself into unconsciousness".

She went to Lan Kwai Fong on weekends to drink.

On Instagram, she viewed posters' photos of what they looked like prior to and following their workout regimen.

The content drove Wong, who was then at the start of her 20s, into exercising twice to thrice daily with the aim of having "toned abs".

She was particularly motivated by the fitness author Kayla Itsines's Bikini Body Guide, which she purchased and followed.

During employee dinners at her company Pernod Ricard, she was fanatically engrossed with the high-calorie food that was served.

When her plate of chicken had sauce on it, she would clean the sauce away with hot water.

At her nadir, she suffered from bulimia in which she would eat and then throw up for several months.

At a Valentine's Day buffet, she ate a large number of French fries and threw up.

When Chad, her boyfriend, questioned her, Wong admitted that her inordinate time in the bathroom was owing to her affliction with bulimia.

Chad told her about the negative health effects of bulimia including a higher likelihood of getting cancer.

He got her to agree to always tell him whenever she vomited, so that he could warn her about the negative health effects again.

Through his reminders, she gradually purged less often until she completely ceased to do so.

By 2020, she limited her weekly exercise to doing high-intensity interval training four times.

With increased responsibilities but a lack of appreciation given for her work, Wong found her full-time job to be unsatisfying and could not envision doing it long-term.

She was disheartened by getting only a HK$1000 (US$0) raise.