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highthief · 07-12-2008, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Willravel

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Bingo. Large fat deposits doesn't just come from caloric intake. vs. caloric burn. 2500 Calories a day on the preferred diet when one burns about 1000 calories in exercise a day (and the rest with digestion and other regular activities) is basically optimum.

2500 calories a day on McDonalds? Morgan Spurlock gained 24 lbs. in less than 30 days in "Supersize Me", and he was exercising regularly during the shooting (when he wasn't vomiting). His BMI rose 4 points. In a given day, he had a sausage mcmuffin (~370c), hash (150c), 2 hamburgers (500c), small fries (230c), a small coke (150c), and a double quarter pounder (740c), medium fries (380c), and a medium diet coke (0c). That's almost exactly 2500c. Compare a diet like that to a 2500c healthy diet like mine. Yesterday I had: 2 cups oatmeal (300c) + 1 cup 2% milk (120c) + about 1 oz. of almonds (126c) + 1 scoop whey protein powder (110c) + a grapefruit (75c), fillet of Atlantic cod (189c) + a few spears broccoli (maybe 20c), Orange Berry Blitz Jamba Juice (540c), chicken florentine (500ish?) + 1 glass of pinot grigio (114c) + 1 cup of vanilla ice cream (200c). That's about 2300c. On my diet, with regular exercise, one could be in great shape. Actually, one IS in great shape.

Well, Will, as is often the case, your facts are apparently wrong.

According the this, he ate 5000 calories a day and did not exercise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me

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Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film written, produced, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day time period (February 2003) during which he subsists entirely on food and items purchased exclusively from McDonald's, and the film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. During the filming, Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, sampling every item on the chain's menu at least once. He also super sized his meal every time he was asked. He consumed an average of 5,000 cal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment.