1.
2 slices of a large cheese Pizza Hut pan pizza.
2.
6 oz. of filet mignon, 1/2 cup steamed broccoli, 1/2 baked
potato.
3.
6 oz. of salmon, 1 cup brown rice, 8 spears of asparagus
with 2 Tbsp. of hollandaise sauce.
4.
1/2 of a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket.
5.
10 pretzels, 1/4 cup of Spanish peanuts, 3 gin and tonics.
1.
6 oz. of filet mignon, 1/2 cup steamed broccoli, 1/2 baked
potato. This tasty meal only has about 475 calories with
58 grams of protein, 19 grams of carbs, and 18 grams of
fat. Plus 6 grams of fiber. Not too shabby!
2.
1/2 of a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket. About
600 calories with 33 grams of fat, 10 of them saturated,
but a bonanza of protein—70 grams! You could knock the
calories and fat down a lot if you could part with the
skin. Add a little salad for fiber, and you could do
worse.
3. 6 oz. of salmon, 1
cup brown rice, 8 spears of asparagus with 2 Tbsp. of
hollandaise sauce. Sounds pretty healthy . . . but over
700 calories! That little bit of hollandaise sauce was
responsible for over 100 extra calories and brought 35
grams of fat (23 saturated) to the party. And at most
restaurants, you'll get a lot more sauce than that. The
salmon, ounce for ounce, was comparable to the filet
mignon. The salmon had 40 fewer calories, but also 16
fewer grams of protein. The fat was about the same, but
the heart-healthy omega-3-rich oils in the salmon have the
beef beat hands down. So beef is a good choice if you're
trying to load up on protein. And the salmon is more
heart-smart, but if you sauce it up, you pretty much were
just as well off having the steak (and maybe some fries,
too).
4. 2 slices of a large
cheese Pizza Hut pan pizza. 790 calories! For two slices!
With just cheese! Not even one pepperoni! Plus over half
your recommended daily allowance for fat, and 76 grams of
carbs!
5. 10 pretzels, 1/4
cup of Spanish peanuts, 3 gin and tonics. 980 calories!
And we mixed the drinks pretty light. Go to a bartender
with a generous pour, and you'll easily clear a grand.
Amazingly, most people will go eat dinner after this. The
calories were split about evenly between the snacks and
the drinks, with the edge going to the drinks. You could
skip the snacks (the Simple Life diet) to cut out the 20
total grams of fat, but you're probably better off
skipping the bar altogether.
