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7 days to my first exam. 10 meals. One afternoon. 📚 Chicken curry & rice — R137 for 4 Pilchards & pasta — R124 for 6 R261 total. R26 a plate. 40g+ protein every meal. 🥩🐟 I’m not ready. But I’m not walking in hungry either. @Shoprite South Africa If you’re writing this season, this one’s for you…

10 days to my first exam. No time to cook every day. ⏳📚 Mince — R110 for 1.2kg Pasta — R30 for 1kg Tomato purée — R21 Sweet potatoes — R10 for 800g Olive oil, onions, rice — ~R25 R196. 10 meals. R19.60 each. ~50g protein a plate. 🥩 @Shoprite South Africa run on Sunnday, revision for the rest of…

13 days until finals… ⏳ Absolutely no change to the routine, just a few adjustments. 💪🏾 Here’s my full 60 min upper day routine… 👇🏾💯 2 sets of pull ups to failure 2 sets of dips to failure 2 sets of heavy incline bench to failure (make sure you pick a weight you can hit a maximum of 8 reps on) 2…

One Shoprite run. Three baskets. Exam season fully fuelled. 📚🛒 Here’s what’s actually in it: Fruit — apples, oranges, bananas, pears Potatoes — 1 sack Onions Canned tomatoes Tinned fish — 2 cans Sweet chilli sauce Chicken portions — 5kg Mince Eggs — 60 Oats — 2 bags Rice — 5kg Pasta — 3 packs Milk…

I didn’t expect much from supermarket steak… So I put @Shoprite South Africa to the test. 😳🤯 Good colour, solid marbling, and it cooked like a cut you’d expect to pay double for. If you’re a student who thinks quality isn’t for you yet, check the meat aisle first. Who’s making steak this week? 👇🏾😇🥩

Mid-semester. Assignments due. Exams close. And I flew to Cape Town anyway. 🫣🎭 @impact.com invited me to a creator mixer. I said yes before I finished reading the message. The invite doesn't come when your schedule is clear. It comes when you decide the schedule isn't the boss. Same student. Same…

R290.99. 33 days until my first final. 🤯📚 And I got it all from @Shoprite South Africa . 🔌 2 hardcovers, pins, pens, highlighters, 4 books… and a 7kg sack of potatoes for fuel. 😂 Everything I need to survive exam season, R290.99. 33 days. Let’s see if it was enough. 🎯 What do you always buy when…

Heritage Day doesn’t ask for much. Just a good braai, good food and good people. 🔥❤️ Championship Boerewors 2026, rolls, braai relish and charcoal. R390 for the whole thing. @Shoprite South Africa , ultimate plug 🫡 If you’re a student reading this: the best days rarely cost the most. Plan it…

Student meal prep that actually packs in the protein! 💪🏾📚 7 plates. 387g of protein in total. And it only cost R197. EGG FRIED RICE + TUNA R69 · 3 plates · R23 each 700g cooked rice · 8 eggs · 238g tuna · olive oil Per plate: 675 kcal · 44g protein BEEF, RICE + SWEET POTATO R128 · 4 plates · R32…

R1,527 of food. 12 weeks. 180g of protein a day. 😼💪🏾 Here’s what’s actually in it: Chicken Portions — R170 for 4kg Chicken livers — R66 for 1,5kg Mince — R135 for 2kg Rice — R100 for 5kg Eggs — R140 for 60 Oats — R30 for 750g Peanut Butter — R70 for 800g Canned Tuna — R70 for 4 That’s the spine of…

Test week starts TODAY! 😱 Six meals, twenty six rand each, and I don’t think about food again until Friday. 😮‍💨📚 Pasta 800g ground beef braai relish Onions Potatoes Cheese Sweet Chill Sauce R155 for the lot. This was basket three. The one I said mattered most. And of course @Shoprite South Africa…

45 min on a Wednesday. X6 plates. R35 each. 🤯 And of course, @Shoprite South Africa g! 🔌😮‍💨 Butter Chicken & Rice • 1kg chicken fillet • Butter Chicken Flavoured Cook-in sauce • Fresh cream • Braai relish • Onions • Seasoning Mid-week is where the plan usually dies. You’re tired, you’re behind…

Everyone keeps asking how I’m managing. Some days I’m not. 🪫📚📸 Test week next week. Shoot day today. I didn’t over-commit by accident — I wanted to know what I could carry. I’ll learn to rest. Just not this week. Take on more than you can hold. You’ll find out you could hold it. Same student. Same…

R23 per meal. 28g protein. 15 minutes. 🤯💪🏾 Eggs, tuna, rice, onion, tomato. That’s it. 🤓 And you can get it all at @Shoprite South Africa without breaking the bank. Nobody tells you protein is cheap. They just tell you to eat more of it. 😮‍💨 Save this for test week. Same student. Same grind.

It’s MID-MONTH — and you know what that means… 🫪🫪🫪 R1000 has to last me until the middle of next month, and test week starts soon. So I didn’t go shopping. I went with a plan. 🧠🤓 Three baskets. Efficiency, protein, test week prep. Every one of them costed out before I put anything in the trolley…

Saturday plan: 6am gym, shoot, edit, be a productive man 😤 What actually happens: alarm off, phone on, and suddenly it’s 2pm and I’ve watched a stranger restore a wooden chair from start to finish 🪑 So I stopped trusting myself and gave the job to an app. Win Life locks everything at 8 🔒 and I go…

Everybody in here came to enjoy the day. We came to capture it. 📸🎥 5FM. Gqom playing, whole room moving, and I’m in the corner working. Fun doesn’t mean I’m off duty. You don’t get to pick the day the opportunity shows up. You just have to be ready when it does. Same student. Same grind. 🎧🔥…

One hour. Phone locked. Oats, podcast, silence. That’s it. The version of me that scrolls through this hour is still around. He just doesn’t drive anymore. Start with the first hour. The rest follows. 🧏🏽‍♂️ Same student. Same grind. #fyp #creatorsearchinsights #dayinthelife #hustlingstudent…

I checked my balance before I clicked pay. I clicked pay anyway. 😳💸 Not comfort. Tools. 💪🏾 Tag your favourite brand in my haul in the caption! 🤓 Same student. Same grind. #hustlingstudent #witsuniversity #takealot #fyp #creatorsearchinsights

Nobody’s filming the part where it’s just food, class, gym, food, library. But that’s the week. That’s the whole thing… No breakthrough. Just reps. Do it boring. Do it anyway. 💪🏾🙂‍↕️ Same student. Same grind. 🌟 #weekinmylife #dayinthelife #witsuniversity #creatorsearchinsights #fyp

R150 a day. Still eating like I’m being paid to. 😂🤓 No voiceover today — just the sound of me feeding the version of me I’m building. Cheap meals, real protein, same small kitchen. 🍳 You don’t need the perfect plan. You need Monday’s leftovers and a reason. Who’s locking in this week? 💪🏾📚 Same…

Monday doesn’t ask what mood you’re in. 🫣 Woke up. Ate. Sat with a founder building something real. Trained. Linked with the WBTL team. Closed the day in the library. 🤓📚 Nothing about it was special. That’s the point. The becoming doesn’t happen on the days you feel it. It happens on the ordinary…

I walked out of the biggest shoot we’ve booked yet — halfway through the job. 😱 There was an audition across town I couldn’t move. So I shot, left, showed up, came back, and finished the work like nothing happened. Nobody on that set knew where I went.😂👀 That’s the thing nobody tells you……

No script today. No voiceover. Didn’t have the time — posted anyway. Some days the words don’t come, and that’s okay. No talking, no music, just the day as it actually sounded. Rougher, quieter, more real than anything I could’ve said over it. This one’s for the days you almost didn’t post because…

New semester started today and I won’t lie to you — I’m running on fumes. 🫣 Elevate session in the morning, ushering graduations all afternoon, gym at night, meal cooked after. No days off. Last week we celebrated the win. This week it’s back to the books. I failed a year. So trust me when I say…

Results dropped. The group chats went quiet. I didn’t panic. I went to @Shoprite South Africa Three buckets later: a heater, toaster and extension cord turned my room into a study space. A lunchbox and water bottle meant long library days without spending extra. Books, files and a fresh pencil…

ome lessons don’t come from a classroom. They come from a mountain at 6 a.m., reminding you that your legs will carry you further than your doubts ever will. I didn’t climb Lion’s Head for the photo. I climbed it because some days you need proof that you can still push when it’s cold, when it’s…

There’s a version of tired that breaks you, and a version that builds you. This morning was the second one. 💪🏾🏔️ Rooftop in Cape Town, sun still climbing, putting in the work before the city’s even fully awake. No gym membership, no fancy setup — just the view, the grind, and whatever I’ve got in…

Nobody claps for the version of you that no one sees. 🫣 Come with me — my first time in Cape Town. Hustling student edition. Three jobs. A degree I can’t fail twice. Training on an empty tank. Posting while the world sleeps. Nothing crazy really, just a testament that showing up no matter what…

Back in the building. 🔐😮‍💨 I kept saying i’d lock in in “next week” for like a month straight. Today’s just day the I actually did it. It’s only up from here… 📈💪🏾 #monsterenergy #brokestudent #fyp #dayinmylife #physique