My work was nice enough to offer to buy me lunch today (see earlier post re: my birthday)! I was in process of wolfing down my homemade egg salad sandwich when they asked me, but being that I can (and do) eat just about anything, I accepted. After all, who turns down a free lunch!?
Aside: they also got me "The Simpsons Movie" on blu-ray. Aren't they nice?
Anyway, I decided on Potbelly (yes, even after I had just eaten a sandwich -- what of it?!). I ended up getting a turkey sandwich AND an Oreo milkshake. Come to find out, they use WHOLE MILK in their milkshakes! GOOD. GOD.
I don't even want to KNOW how many calories I just inhaled. Well, that's not entirely true:
Shake: 740 calories, 36g of fat (23g saturated fat -- that's 117% of my daily allowance). Not to mention all the sodium and cholesterol.
Sandwich (or, as my aunt Mary U. calls it, "sandridge"): 421 calories, 9g of fat (1g saturated fat).
So, the lesson here is, I should have stopped at the sandridge. Well, there is more than one lesson, I guess. Confucius say, stop at one lunch so your arteries don't explode.
7 comments:
My comment is that you're too skinny. And I come from one of the thinnest states in the Union. Both you and Paul have wasted away without my influence (*whispering* have dessert!). I'm being completely serious here. I was going to email you, but opted for an intervention-style comment (those of you who have seen these two lately please add your comments... or perhaps I will do what they do in the women's magazines where you vote whether you like a star better malnourished and underweight (the WRONG answer) or just underweight (BETTER) and submit side-by-side photos of these two in Colorado and in Chicago.
I do understand the health concerns, and I applaud you and Paul for being so health-conscious, but you gotta live a little! It's not like you have whole milk milkshakes every week. Special occasions call for regrettable indulgences.
But I think the POINT is, Jenn, that that's an obscene amount of food and calories for one meal. This wasn't Thanksgiving, it was a birthday lunch. And I'm sleepy now. And I'm not beating myself up over it, I just don't think it's good to eat THAT MUCH, especially when I know I'll go home and eat a full dinner.
I'm not malnourished, nor am I married to Harrison Ford.
Also, Potbelly, wtf? Whole milk? WHY whole milk? I mean, I get that it TASTES better, so that has to be the reason, but come on!
Calm down, David...it's one birthday dessert. I'm guessing gin 24 hours it'll be "out of your system." (BTW, I love that sandridge is one of your keywords :)
Okay, Okay, I see your point... esp considering SOME people DO make that a regular thing.
At least whole milk is better than cream.
Speaking of, you should see the amount of jiggles and all-out rolls on the midwesterners vacationing in cabo san lucas in late february and early march. I think that instead of making everyone put their 3 oz liquids into an explosion proof plastic ziplock bag, the airport should require that the clothes that one takes on vacation have enough substance to cover oneself. I saw a lot of turkeys (beer bellies)being basted in the sun. *beer in hand* good god, makes me proud to be an american. Oh, and I also don't think I'm going to eat again until March 2009.
You can burn up those calories if you run 4 or 5 miles...fyi
Does David run? Is that what you do in Chicago now??
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