Today’s daily food intake…
I did a little googling out of interest today to see just how many calories are in McDonalds food, because lately I’ve been having the biggest craving for a Triple Cheeseburger. Not just an ordinary cheeseburger but a triple cheeseburger. Ohh the gooey cheesy melting goodness and the extreme greasiness of one of those is just divine. Yes, I know they are so totally bad and unhealthy for you, but every now and then I just crave one. Normally of course I would give in to the temptation and go through the drive through and scoff down the cheeseburger before I get home so that no one knows I’ve had one. Then to cover up the fact that I’ve had one, I eat dinner too so I don’t look suspicious for not eating – because I am not one to miss my meals. That was back in the days when I wasn’t eating healthy and exercising though (mind you, there hasn’t been a great deal on the exercise front this week…), these days I don’t do such naughty things. I just dream about holding the cheeseburger in my hands and dream about the taste of it. Then I have to physically restrain myself from going down to Maccas and scoffing a whole crapload of food.
Now in case you’re interested here’s a bit of info about the calories in McDonalds (taken from their info sheet):
Food
|
Calories
|
| Big Mac |
493cals/2060kj |
| Cheeseburger |
284cals/1190kj |
| Double Cheeseburger |
430cals/1800kj |
| Triple Cheeseburger |
Not even on the website! How ashamed of those calories must they be? |
| Grand Angus |
630cals/2630kj |
| Mighty Angus |
686cals/2870kj |
| Quarter Pounder |
549cals/2300kj |
| Double Quarter Pounder |
851cals/3560kj |
| McChicken |
408cals/1710kj |
| Small fries |
255cals/1070kj |
| Medium fries |
368cals/1540kj |
| Large fries |
453cals/1900kj |
| 6 chicken nuggets |
279cals/1160kj |
| Mustard sauce |
66cals/275kj |
Now let’s put some of this into perspective. When I used to go to McDonalds I would quite often get (apart from the triple cheeseburger [they were a 3am specialty!]) a Double Quarter Pounder meal, with large fries and a large coke. Sometimes if I was particularly hungry I’d also throw in a 6 pack of nuggets. The grand total of that dinner: 1657 calories (there are apparently 310 calories per large coke according to my Google research). That is not just a daily allowance of food, but a daily allowance of food, plus snacks and then the breakfast and morning snack of the next day. All rolled into one dinner! Bloody freaking hell!
When you look at the figures written down like that it’s really not hard to see how I managed to gain so much weight is it. Considering that wasn’t just a one off dinner for me. During my single times, living by myself I would quite often eat dinners like that, to a varying degree. Plus there was breakfasts of rolls with bacon, eggs and barbecue sauce, full fat latte and lunches of some sort of food court meal. I have to admit I never stopped to think how many calories there were in the dinners that I was eating, and I’m a little ashamed to actually put it out there and to read this. God it makes me feel quite sick, and thankfully the cravings for McDonalds have now gone.
Just something I thought I would share with you all.
