Temptation
So you’re on a ‘less-than-20 grams -of-fat-per-day-diet’ for about 2 months now. You have made good progress. Lost about 3-4% body fat percentage (bfp) bringing it down to about 10%. Single diget bfp is six or eight pack material. And it’s fucking hard. It means you run every other day (about 12km in 40min) and work out in the gym in between those other days so you spend about 7 -8 hrs in the gym per week.
NO DAYS OFF
You’re going well eating pretty much hummus, canned tuna and ‘weight watchers’ wraps which provide a reasonable base of carbs-protein-fat ratio. Then your brother and housemate come home with the new abomination Hungry Jack’s has concocted. Four patties of greasy beef in between four slices of plastic cheese with two strips of fried bacon. The smell was that unmistakeable HJ’s flame grilled beef, crisp bacon and salty chips- It was making me salivate; I was preparing my usual daily meal and I was so tempted to just take a bite, or steal just one chip off the plate, but I’m proud to say that I didn’t. And boy was it hard.
Taken from here the quadburger contains 4518 kilojoules, or 1080 calories, and 71g of fat. What on earth does that mean? Well the average male functions on about 8000 kilojoules (less if you are female) per day meaning if you down one of these babies you are pretty much half of your daily energy requirements. 71g of fat… most people eat about 100g in a day (I wonder how much of that is saturated?). Having not touched fast food in about 5 years I often snigger inside when I see fatties in line at HJ’s or Maccas. Surely they must realise what they are eating is probably going to kill them. Cigarettes by law have to contain warnings, there is no reason why something as hideous as this should be exempt.
I was so grossed out that burger that I just had to share it with the rest of the world- oh yeah- and my equally gross looking healthy food. And I heard from my housemate and my bro that it was awesomely tasteless. I was later told that they felt sick and depressed from eating that with large fries and half a litre of coke.
hurm wonder why…bring on the single digets…
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September 6th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
The “Death Burger”.
I hardly see how it could be much of a temptation. It’s sickening…and I bet the ones that ate it…are going to be feeling a bit sick in about 6-8 hours time.
As a side note…did they get a “Diet Coke” to go with that?
September 7th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Wow, i admire your willpower. The burger may not be that appealing but resisting those deep-fried salty greasy chips is an act worthy of knighthood.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Wow, for a moment I thought the last image was your brother/housemate eating the burger, having a Coke and three to four cigarettes hanging out of their mouth. I love how that’s what I immediately thought, rather than the more logical conclusion of french fries.
I know everyone’s going insane about that burger, but maybe we should stop? On one of those tacky current affairs shows… or possible the actual news, I don’t even know anymore… a rep for HJ’s was loving the bad publicity because it got people curious and therefore wanting to try it for themselves.
Also, not eating fast food for five years? Shiiiiit. I wish I could claim that. Salt is tooooo tempting.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Yes it does kinda look like ciggies… my housemate doesn’t smoke, tough my bro does, should have gotten to him for that pic. LOL.
And people are worth nothing to Hungry Jack’s if they are dead.
Perhaps HJ’s should consider that in thier ‘long term business forcast’ model.