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- Feb 6, 2013
I've always hated the "my parents didn't teach me" excuse.
It's fine if you're on your own for the first time and explaining why you need a friend to show you how the washer and dryer work but I've heard people deep in their 30's still using it as an excuse as to why they don't eat or budget or clean properly.
No one I've ever met has had these super-parents who had the time and energy to teach their kids everything they'd need to succeed socially, personally and professionally. A lot of that is just stuff you figure out as you go and through trial and error, but if you're too timid to just give it a go we also live in an age of unparalleled information sharing.
That said all this is pointless in the context of Boogie. For all we know his mom tried to teach him to cook and portion control and he declared not being able to go for thirds was abuse so now he HAS to eat 4x what a normal human does or else he has a CPTSD attack that makes him say stupid shit over twitter.
Speaking of pointless, Boogie is going to be in for quite the shock when he sees his new "weight loss" plan is actually packing on the pounds. I've seen it a hundred times in people way more sincere about changing their habits than Boogie; he's going to overestimate what he burned at the gym and then underestimate the calories in his "reward".
For example he'll assume (if he's not using a tracker of any kind) that his workout MUST have burned 1000 calories (lol) so it's okay if he stops in at MacDonald's for dinner and sure one meal there is over what he burned but it'll still even out to less than what he normally eats in a night and hey, he won't have anything else at all that evening, so it's still good!
Then he "forgets" to count the calories in what he drinks, then "it doesn't count" if its leftovers etc etc etc.
Basically my point is the workout, no matter how pathetic, isn't going to help with his constant eating but it WILL give him more excuses to do so.
Ideally he'd want to shrink his stomach to reduce hunger and the amount of food it takes to feel full (since he apparently can't stand those feelings, something you hear a lot on My 600lb life too, they act like it's unbearable) but he was already handed to the cheat for that and decided the pain of stretching his own stomach past its limits was better than going without sugar for 24 hours.
The only thing more pathetic than that is that he wants to be some sort of role model and guru. Imagine being handed everything in life, losing it all because you couldn't be assed to make the slightest effort or overcome even the tiniest of obstacles and then thinking somehow this makes you an inspiration.
