Mike’s Daily Rant 10/30/2012 The McDonalds 10K

As many of you know already, I love McDonalds. I don’t eat it often but when I do I order what I want and could care less about caloric intake. While attempting to lose weight, I would drive awful routes to avoid passing McDonalds on my way home. I was strong but understood that everyone has a vulnerability. My vulnerability was McDonalds. However, after a month I became so strong that I could pass by with my windows down and attempt to smell what was cooking in McDonalds without stopping. This was my reward for all the hard work I was putting in. Work hard and you get to pass by McDonalds and smell the food cooking. That was a 0 calorie treat.

Now that the weight is gone, I eat McDonalds maybe twice a month if that often. I go into a order frenzy. I usually order the same thing every time that I go. I order 2 Double Cheeseburgers with no ketchup, no mustard add Big Mac Sauce a medium French fry no salt (they have to make them fresh when you order them like this) and Medium Strawberry MilkShake. This meal only comes up to $7.27 but it totals up to 2080 Calories (Via McDonalds website). The amount of calories that I eat in that one meal totals up to what I typically eat in 2 days. Yet I really don’t care because I don’t do it often.

With that background information today’s rant is inspired by my indifference to my caloric intake at McDonalds. With that many calories in one sitting it should raise a red flag to me and I should care more. Yesterday I wanted this exact meal but was not motivated to workout because I had a long weekend and was a pretty tired. So I decided that I can have this meal only if I jog to the closest McDonalds rather than drive. The distance to the closest McDonalds is 3.1 Miles away from my home. The logic behind this is that if I am willing to run a 10K (6.2 miles there and back) to get McDonalds I definitely deserve that meal. Taking into account the hills and inclines on the way there and back I calculated that I could burn half of those calories jogging there.
I put on my clothes and running shoes and grab my wallet and get ready to start jogging and then at the last moment decide that it is not worth it. I really don’t want it that bad. This was a moment in my level of thinking. I figured this out on my own. If it’s not something that is very convenient, we don’t want it. This was a breakthrough in my eyes. I challenged myself and although I lost I feel as if I won at the same time.

I have run several 5K’s, 10K’s, half marathons so on and so forth. I know how I feel after running that much. The last thing on my mind is eating greasy burgers and fries. This will be the only way that I ever eat McDonalds in this fashion ever again. That Is if I jog to get it. That means I probably will never order that way again. If I have McDonalds it will be something more sensible if that’s not an oxymoron.

So for those of you reading this, I challenge YOU to Challenge YOURSELF to something similar to this and see how great you feel after losing the challenge and deterring yourself from the ultimate reward. Yet again this sounds stupid but losing the challenge is really a victory in my eyes.

MikeMontana1914