Back before I started my weight loss journey, I worked a sedentary office job (LOTS of hours), and I ate almost exclusively fast food, because I was so dead tired from the job (and also probably from my weight).
I never really thought that I ate THAT much food, either. The guys who worked with me ate much mre than I ever did. But I went back and looked through some receipts from the bad old days, just to see what kinds of things I used to eat.
And it's really eye-opening. If you eat fast food, it is absolutely TRIVIAL to pack on the calories in a huge way.
For example, here is what I ate on a typical day:
| Breakfast (Dunkin) | Lunch (McDonalds) | Dinner (Boston Mkt.) | Snack/Dessert: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peanut swirl frozen coffee (large): 1160 | Quarter pounder value meal (dbl QP with cheese, large fry, large Coke): 1520 | Meatloaf meal (meatloaf, mac&cheese, sweet potato casserole) | Usually a BIG piece of cheesecake or strawberry cream pie. Calories around 900. |
| Coffee cake muffin: 590 | M&M McFlurry: 640 | Chicken pot pie on the side | |
| Sausage breakfast sandwich: 900 | 2 refills on the Coke: 580 | LOTS of extra gravy | |
| Total: 2650 | Total: 2740 | Total: 2730 | Total: ~900 |
So an average day comes out to around 9020 calories, and the shitty truth is that this food is all hyper-palatable, and these meals barely made me feel "full" and that feeling only lasted a few minutes. I'd go to lunch and dinner with other guys from work, and they'd eat much more than me.
And in the end, the food isn't really nutritious either. It's pretty sad--morbidly obese but malnourished at the same time.
Anyway, in my neck of the woods, these meals are not crazy by any means, and it is SO, so, so easy to pack on the calories fast when you're eating fast food.
I've gotten better since then. I am approaching the end of my weight loss journey and I feel so much better every day. I know how to eat properly now. But this glimpse into the bad old days made me feel pathetic and angry. Don't be stupid like I was...
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