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Sunday, June 26, 2011

super size me

When you are the sole consumer of the food you eat, you begin to realize what a fat american you are. All pretense is gone. You can no longer pretend that you and snow "shared" that bag of Doritos. There's no one there to tell you that putting two packets of cream cheese on your bagel is perfectly legitimate. Gluttony is the only explanation for anything you do.

In awe of the fact that I have not gained weight from a combination of sitting at a desk for 10 hours a day and eating like a man, i have compiled the following list of my more gruesome caloric-intakes over the past 3 weeks (keep in mind that this does not include lunch, and i didnt eat dinner for the first week that i was here...). So basically in 3 weeks of breakfast and in 2 weeks of dinner, i consumed the following (and more):

All-Time
5500 calories of bread
4500 calories of frozen pizza
3300 calories of peanut butter
2550 calories of strawberry jam
20 egg rolls (ASIAN)
20-25 apples

Things consumed in a period of time less than or equal to 24-hours
500 calories of chocolate (this was maybe a 2-hour period and this bar was supposed to be "for later")
1 entire bag of Riffles (these chips tasted like cardboard and i still ate them...)
8 apples
1 bag of cookies (~2 hours)

this might not sound like a lot of food, and it probably isnt, but the numbers game you play when you realized how much youve eat is just brutal. and it's kinda disturbing. i mean, really? ive eaten 3 jars of jam in 3 weeks? that's disgusting.

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