Anonymous #1 10w

I play college baseball where I lose 15-20 pounds every season so I basically have to gain almost “too much” weight so that I’m not a stick by the end of the season. Sorry kinda hard to explain lol

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Anonymous OP 10w

That makes so much sense!! I’ve never understood bulking but I’ve never experienced losing too much weight/ muscle mass so that makes sense

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Anonymous OP 10w

I mean, not to state the obvious, but you can always just eat more during the season

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Anonymous #1 10w

Respectfully, it’s almost impossible. With having games 4+ times a week and having to skip meals because we’re playing or traveling, everyone be losing weight. My hyper fast metabolism doesn’t help either haha

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Anonymous #2 10w

Yeah it’s a grind out here

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Anonymous OP 10w

Also, it’s just expensive asf

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Anonymous OP 10w

notice how you didn’t say impossible, you said almost impossible, meaning that if you wanted it bad enough, you would. Meal prep and finding high calorie snacks are not that difficult.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Yall just don’t get it😭💀

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Anonymous #3 10w

so you naturally burn almost 2,000 calories doing absolutely nothing and then this guys is most likely burning 1,000 calories a day or more so that’s almost shedding a pound right there. He’d have to eat like 3,000 million bajillion calories to maintain himself and that takes a lot of time and money that he doesn’t have sooo

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Anonymous #2 10w

Consider your BMR and then your activity and your maintenance calories. It’s a lot

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Anonymous #2 10w

so, eat 3k calories? That’s not that expensive if you’re smart

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Anonymous #1 10w

I am smart, and in this economy it’s not cheap unless it’s pure sugar.

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Anonymous #2 10w

Not true at all. Rice is cheap, pretty much any bread is cheap, nuts and nut butters are cheap, etc

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Anonymous #1 10w

No tf it isn’t. Good nut butter without a lot of sugar is so expensive. And nuts are too. It also depends on your area and where you live. You also need more than carbs and fats to live sooo

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Anonymous #1 10w

Also I feel like you’re forgetting how I only get to have 2 meals a day 4 days out of the week for 4 months straight. 2 meals with some small snacks in between is never gonna be enough to even maintain weight

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Anonymous OP 10w

Plus all the cals I burn from playing

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Anonymous #2 10w

I budget 3500 calories a day on $40 a week and make great tasting food lol. Also, sugar isn’t a boogey man

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Anonymous #1 10w

it’s not and I believe that you are lying. Please provide your grocery list and macros

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Anonymous #1 10w

bc that sounds life changing. Don’t gatekeep

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Anonymous #2 10w

Chicken breast, rice, mixed veggies, tortillas, various seasonings you can find cheap, peanut butter, whole wheat bread, bananas, oatmeal, milk, greek yogurt, honey, and cinnamon toast crunch make up the majority of my diet. Shop at aldi, buy in bulk when I can, very easily staying below $40 a week.

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Anonymous #1 10w

okay but can you provide the price and macros of each? That’s easily over $100 right there

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Anonymous #2 10w

Especially if you buy in bulk.

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Anonymous #2 10w

That’s not close to $100 lol. And you can google the macros of everything I listed.

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Anonymous #2 10w

And maybe my weekly spent isn’t quite $40, but when it lasts you multiple weeks, it comes out to well under $40 a week

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Anonymous #1 10w

well I need to see how this maintains 3,500 calories a day for you for $40

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Anonymous #2 10w

Then google it? I left off pretzel sticks also, my b

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Anonymous #2 10w

you’re just looking for every excuse in the book my friend

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Anonymous #1 10w

My bs-meter is going wild rn. I love that this works for you and you have a magical grocery store. You’re living the life

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Anonymous #2 10w

I just go to Aldi lmao. I live in Kansas, idk what state you live in.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Oh ya for sure. I’m definitely not critically thinking or anything

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Anonymous #3 10w

Then drink cals. Milk is cheap as fuck and you can find it everywhere.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Again you need more than fat and sugar from milk, and carbs 😂

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Anonymous #2 10w

Milk is actually like, macro heaven lol.

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Anonymous #3 10w

You legit can’t perform from one source of high calorie foods. Calories = energy , but you need more nutrients than you can get from one or two cheap sources. If you can reach your calories from random stuff that’s not good because you’re eventually going to be malnourished.

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Anonymous #1 10w

I’m not hating on milk. Protein and vitamins yay, but that’s not a meal or replacement for anything

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Anonymous #2 10w

I can tell you’ve never read a food label bruh - milk is carbs and fat. You want less fat? Skim milk. Cmon man.

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Anonymous #2 10w

here’s my micro nutrient profile. Only thing lacking is fiber, cuz I didn’t feel like taking my fiber supplement that day. Again, $40 a week

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Anonymous #2 10w

Yes. Agreed. But for a quick fix like OP is talking about it will do the trick.

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Anonymous #3 10w

^^ and good protein

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Anonymous #3 10w

I’m in nursing school, love. I’m just spitting straight facts from my courses

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Anonymous #2 10w

Cool, i’m a kinesiology major with a minor in nutrition. I’m spitting facts too.

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Anonymous #2 10w

Not really sure what you’re on about. Trying to solve a problem here but it seems you all would rather argue the bit than actually want to find solutions.

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Anonymous #1 10w

Cool, well I’m also a physics minor and I can tell you that this shit ain’t adding up.

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Anonymous #2 10w

Walk into an aldi in kansas and tell me I can’t buy this shit for $40

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Anonymous #1 10w

ya, let me just follow the yellow brick road to whatever heavenly grocery stores you got there

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Anonymous #2 10w

It’s literally just an Aldi in the midwest lmao. Idk what else you want me to say.

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Anonymous #1 10w

idk what else I should say either because I literally said it depends on your location.

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Anonymous #2 10w

You can quite literally buy milk at dollar tree - quite literally my hack for when I go to college. It’s shelf stable, costs a $1.25, and tastes decent. Am I drinking nothing but milk for my calories? Absolutely not. But it’s amazing for polishing up the last ~500-900 cals for the rest of my day.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Milk isn’t shelf stable. And, we’ve covered that we like milk already.

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Anonymous #2 10w

Do some research into ultra-pasteurized milk. Guess they didn’t teach that in class 😭🙏

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Anonymous #3 10w

did you specify that your milk of choice was ultra pasteurized milk? No. It sucks that they can’t teach common sense.

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Anonymous #2 10w

shelf stable milk is by default ultra pasteurized genius

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Anonymous #3 10w

that proves no points. You still didn’t specify which type of milk you bought, so it’s assumed that you’re stupid and leaving 2% milk on the counter to curdle.

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Anonymous #2 10w

bruhh you don’t understand what i’m saying the dollar tree milk (looks like this) is a small enough size that if you’re trying to get in cals like I do (and op sounds like he’s tryna do) for bodybuilding purposes than you drink it within the day or one sitting. It’s shelf stable when unopened. Correct, if you leave it open and out, it will go bad. But unopened stash is chilling until you open them.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Bruhhh, you STILL DONT GET THAT YOU DIDNT ORIGINALLY SPECIFY WHAT YOUR MILK OF CHOICE WAS AND THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS ARGUMENT DAMMIT.

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Anonymous #2 10w

well i was trying to find them cheap options bc that seems like something that was important to them. Not sure what my favorite kinda milk has to do with it lmao

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Anonymous #3 10w

You were saying that milk in general was shelf stable, because you didn’t specify which milk you were referring to. I’m glad that we are both trying to help, and that you don’t leave 2% milk on the counter.

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Anonymous #2 10w

I think we’ve both lost the plot atp

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Anonymous #3 10w

Ya, I just feel like we might be going through something at home and needed to release some steam. GG

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Anonymous #2 10w

GG’s 🤝

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