I have had a six pack for the past 7 years of my life and am a proud owner of a thin badge, here are some simple tips in no particular order:

Not knowing how to cook isn't a real excuse. You don't need to start out with fancy stuff, just make stuff like chicken stir fry using frozen vegetables and serve it over rice. It's super cheap, takes like 15 minutes, and you can make enough to last you for the next 3 days. There are so many recipes that are insanely easy, you could make 1000 different things with chicken and rice alone just by adding different vegetables, spices, and sauces. Like twice a week I'll spend like 1 1/2 hours cooking a huge meal that I'll then eat for lunch and dinner for the next 3-4 days. That's far less time than I would spend if I was going out to eat every day. If you'd like I can send you some good recipes.

Unless you work a very intensive job there is no reason for you to be eating 3 full size meals a day. That's from when Americans still had real jobs, if you're just sitting at a desk all day you should cut down on either breakfast or lunch. I cook some pretty decadent dinners for myself and I'm completely fine with ordering unhealthy stuff at restaurants or pigging out on some sweets every once in a while. I'm able to get away with it because my breakfasts and lunches are pretty light and I just skip breakfast half the time because I'm not that hungry. (Not to say that you should order unhealthy foods at restaurants or eat a bunch of sweets, I'm able to do this because I have a healthy relationship with food)

Rice is a super cheap, low calorie, and filling breakfast. Just take a bowl of steaming hot rice (either freshly cooked or heated up in the microwave, I cook my rice in an instantpot), add some soy sauce and a sprinkle of MSG (like $3 on Amazon), then whisk a single egg in a cup with a fork and pour it over the rice and mix. It makes instant fried rice, tasty and extremely cheap for only about 300 calories and it'll keep you full for a while. It's even better if you add some sauteed mushrooms or top it with green onion. That's a staple snack in Japan and you weigh as much as their whole country put together.

Don't drink soda you fat frick, any drink besides water, coffee, tea, or wine is for poors and fats. Fast food exists for road trips and when you're really drunk, if you regularly go to fast food places in your local area you're a disgusting animal. If you go to a restaurant there's usually no need to finish everything, just eat 2/3 of it and take the leftovers home to eat for lunch the next day. Watermaxxing is really underrated. I have one of those big 32 oz Nalgene water bottles within arm's reach at all times. Even on days when I don't work out I still drink around 3/4 of a gallon. Any water you drink will be taking up place in your stomach for 0 calories. If your pee is ever even the slightest twinge of yellow you're a fricking cute twink.

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