Fun fact: if you get a quarter pounder with cheese, Diet Coke and small fries, that’s 750 calories.
Eat that for lunch and dinner plus a McMuffin, coffee, and apple pie for breakfast and you’re at 2,030 calories.
It makes me wonder how many people see that calories aren’t listed and assume “it must be small.” I don’t think anybody believes alcohol is a diet drink, but I’m sure many people don’t realize how it’s packed with calories.
That's significantly less than the average diet in the USA. According to Wikipedia it averages about 3781[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener...
Spurlock was 6'2" so even the higher end of calories wouldn't be out of line for a "normal American diet", at least for total caloric intake.
Now if he was also drinking half a bottle of scotch a day, that's another 1000 calories (plus all the liver damage...).
[1]: Divide those numbers by 4.184 for the joules to calorie converion.
Holy shit. My bulking diet is about that, I'm trying to gain weight whilst lifting 3-4x a week.
Mental.
edit: Looking at the article this isn't accounting for food wastage etc so the real figure is likely a fair bit lower.
But yes, that was part of the point of the documentary. Super size portions were triple that of small and instead of a quarter pounder we're talking double or triple the meat (and maybe more grease in the burger to boot). And companies encouraged consumer to supersize because higher profit margins.