Dear J-
One thing this three days of training has shown me: if it wasn’t for theVet I’m pretty sure I would have eaten my way to health problems and obesity by now. Who knew that McDonald’s had a DOUBLE Quarter-Pounder? Or that Subway offers a Cold Cut Combo, a sandwich that’s essentially all meat? Such menu choices, so carefully offered, demand equally careful consideration and experimentation.
Or not. Left to my own devices, I tend to fall into one of two traps: either consistency or laziness, sometimes both. After that first summer we lived together, and all the different recipes we tried, I ended up subsisting on one of three meals (Doritos, a Michelina’s frozen dinner and bag of onion or garlic chips, or spaghetti and Prego, when I was feeling ambitious) for the following year. Funny, I could almost feel myself spinning out of control walking up to the McDonald’s counter and asking for that magically huge burger.
Portion sizes continue to spiral ever upwards, you know? In high school, not so many pounds ago, a single Quarter-Pounder would have done quite nicely to fill me up, and yet here I am walking out a bit unsatisfied; you see the grease dripping off the burger and still think it could use a bit more taste. How much longer can we continue to consume so much?
Mike
Tags: burger, double, excessive, gluttony, mcdonald's, quarter-pounder
