December 2020 – The Worst Excuse I’ve Ever Heard In The Gym :
This is the topper, the worst gym related excuse I’ve ever heard. It’s gonna be hard to beat…
And I quote verbatim ; “I don’t know how to grocery shop”.
Bwahahahahahaha!
(The above is the exact # of ha’s I want you the reader to hear aloud.)
College aged, he’s living at home, his mom doesn’t buy enough groceries so he eats out twice a day to supplement what’s at home.
Saying he wants to bulk and struggles to afford eating, he’s eating out to the tune of solidly half his paycheck!
What he needs to do is instead of buying a burger out, AND something else daily is go into the grocery store pick up 5lbs of ground beef for the same cost as the burger alone!
Then he can bank the second meal’s money, finding himself suddenly able to afford eating the way he needs to while saving some cash.
Kid has a fast metabolism and good muscle insertions.
20lbs to 40lbs heavier he’d look like a monster.
Those 20lbs would come jet pack quick if he stopped making the excuse of not knowing how to cook, not knowing “how to grocery shop”, and actually entered a grocery store.
The place is a cornucopia of affordable, good food in abundance!
I tell him homemade cheeseburgers, egg shakes, and to buy a crockpot.
About a year later he’s still playing around at ballpark the same bodyweight, constantly hungry, and constantly spending dollars he shouldn’t be on going out to eat.
It blows my mind.
I ate on $35 weekly at his age.
I remember in high school that I started cooking fried eggs with tuna regularly as I was ravenous after getting home from the school weight room.
I wanted something quick, nutritious, and easy since I had to make it myself unless I was going to wait a good deal longer for whatever my mom would make for dinner.
(I’d then eat that dinner too.)
Fried eggs fit the bill, and to them I’d add a can or two of tuna (I love the stuff), and/or pepperoni (usually end cuts) that were bought on sale.
I guess he doesn’t cook/hasn’t cooked at home…ever.
In his situation I’d eat 4 meals a day, probably half his mom’s cooking, half his own.
Grocery costs are never high for the young adults who have their parent’s shopping available in addition to their own.
I’d be downing stew over ramen, and drinking lots of milk – my dinner.
Whatever as a mother provided dinner.
Dinner one and dinner two you know. This has been a running joke between my mother and I since I was around 16 :
Mom : “Is this dinner 1 tonight?”
Me : “No Mom, I had 5 eggs, two cans of tuna, and ¼lb of pepperoni fried up with cheese while you were out.”
Mom : “Okay good, I was wondering what was wrong since I thought you only had one dinner tonight.”
Lunch? A few sandwiches and either a quart+ of milk or a similarly sized egg shake. It could be a cold cheeseburger made the night before kept in a lunchbox.
You already have the lunchbox for the nutritious liquids, put a cold burger in there as well.
Breakfast? An egg shake and a few slices of toast with the butter slathered on thick.
I wouldn’t be eating out, spending $30/day, to get not enough calories to bulk.
Especially not on that paycheck.
I’d be eating ground beef in homemade burgers, pork/chicken stew, ramen, some type of dessert, and drinking eggs and milk at home for $15 a day tops while getting the necessary calories.
At his age I was eating well on about $5/day, mostly chicken stew with potatoes, ramen/rice, and milk.
You can give good advice, it’s not necessarily going to be implemented.
Sometimes you see the potential in others, and see them blowing it with the worst of excuses.
Heck, he could just buy frozen food with some nutrition to microwave, and bulk more effectively than he is now, but (as I laugh/snort/guffaw)…he doesn’t “know how to grocery shop”!
Persistence & Tenacity