Fat to Fit Blog III: Favourite Junk Food Facts

Hello all,

This will only be a short blog as I'm posting a new one tomorrow with some hopefully positive results from my weigh in. Since I've started eating healthier i've noticed the foods I miss the most are actually quite disgusting, greasy fish and chips, chinese takeaway, doritios and dip,  KFC, more chips, chicken nuggets etc I'm a savoury fried golden fiend when it comes to food. But when I actually looked into what I was putting into my body, its not good, even oven chips it says on the front of the bag per 100g portion, it was about 7 chips at 210 calories. If you're going to take away any information from this blog, research your food know what's in it and it might make you think twice about eating it in the first place.

Here are my top 4 favourite foods with ridiculously high calories
1. KFC 3 piece variety meal (3 pieces of original chicken, 1 crispy strip, 2 hot wings, regular fries, regular diet pepsi) = 1270 calories and 73g fat!
2. Chinese Food Chicken and Cashew Nuts, Large Egg Fried Rice and a mound of prawn crackers = 1465 calories and 77g fat!*
3. Domino's Medium Texas BBQ Pizza (8 slices) = 1472 calories and 42g fat!
4. Chippy Large Portion of Fish and Chips = 1385 calories and 77g fat!**

My recommended calorie intake is 1920 calories a day if I do little or no exercise to maintain my current weight. The KFC meal is 66% of my daily calorie intake, the chinese takeaway and Domino's pizza is 76% of my calorie intake and the Fish and Chips is 72% or my recommended calories intake. So to eat one of these meals is to pretty much erradicate my calorie needs for the day.

As far as my fat intake of 54g goes (sedentary lifestyle), only one meal is within my daily limit of 54g which is the Domino's Pizza.

I don't want to ruin this food for everyone, its more to ruin it for myself. It's fine to have these foods once in awhile but say every week it soon adds up and if you're going to eat them you need to balance it out with exercise :)

Will be posting a weight update tomorrow :)

* = this is an estimate from a website chinese food can vary from restaurant to restaurant.
** = this is an estimate from an article, but portion size can vary massively from chip shop to chip shop, so take this calorie and fat amounts with a pinch of salt as they could be lower and they could be a hell of a lot higher depending on where you go and how much you eat!