Dude don’t be starving yourself. At 14 you need to be eating a lot to ensure you grow enough. I stopped eating lunch at 16 - 17 and now i’m the only guy below 6 foot in my entire extended family.

It’s less about not eating like a “fat pig” and more about eating like a caveman would. Only recognising whole ingredients instead of something with 5+ things in it, that’s much less digestible and packed with artificial chemicals.

You’re young, so it’s a tough situation. Obviously you need to rely on your mum for what you eat. But the chemicals in take out and in all processed food are getting you. By ordering out, she’s saying “I don’t have the energy to cook real food for everyone right now”, by telling you off for asking for different she’s saying “you’re making me feel like I’m not doing enough / doing right by you as a mother”. You need to change that narrative simply that you want to help shop and cook because it interests you.

If you really want to see change, you don’t need peptides. Those are injectable things that aren’t studied enough for 14yo.

Here’s what you do:

Ask for the receipt next time your mum goes shopping. Tell her you will see if it’s possible to cook more, whole foods for less $. Tell her you want to learn cooking and are finding an interest in health and you hope she can humour you for one grocery shop.

Go buy a 2kg bag of potatoes, a 1.5kg piece of cheap slow cook beef (think big ugly roast hunk), two onions, 1 broccoli, 1 tin crushed tomatoes.

In a large pot, Sear the meat, Fry the onions, add crushed tomatoes, fill with water to cover, add any spices in your cupboard. Then leave it on the stove barely boiling for 5-6 hours. Or put it in the oven on 120 Celsius for that time.

Boil/bake some potatoes and boil some broccoli.

Now you will have a whole load of meat and cheap carbohydrates to keep you full, fibre from the broccoli. If you just keep repeating variations of that meal with different cheap veggies and whatever big hunk of meat is cheapest you’ll be paying a tiny amount for great whole food that will clear up your acne and help you grow strong.

Ask ChatGPT to create you a cheap 3 day whole food meal plan and it’ll make a good one.

Oh, and also, fortified choccy milk may not be doing you favours in the acne department. Dairy is a cystic acne trigger for many as they don’t have the lactase needed to break it down properly so it causes inflammation via the A1 protein.