I’m not really a skinny man, fleshy is a better term, more like a lumpy block of wood with stubby legs. All the same, Management and I have made a concerted effort over the past year to eat whole foods–fresh vegetables from local markets and meats and fish from local butchers and fish markets. Initially, it took plenty of time and energy on our part to do it but once we had a system down we found it to be better for our health and wallets, we even managed to carve our weekly food budget down to about $30 by eating local and fresh.

We eat out now and then but usually at local restaurants and we haven’t stepped into a fast food franchise in almost two years. Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me really impacted how we viewed what we ate. Though, this isn’t to say that we were radicalized into raw vegans because, honestly, who other than trust-fund babies has the money for that?

For giggles and prompted by the new Burger King Quad Stacker (four patties and eight slices of bacon) we surfed over to Burger King and built out what I might have eaten a couple of years ago. Eye opening doesn’t begin to cover it and checking out the costs of obesity at the CDC only hammers home the point that eating like this, even on a weekly basis is bad for you.

Check out the numbers in the detail and summary, far beyond the recommend 2,200 calories per day. Ouch. My heart.