A Bacon Cheeseburger - 783 calories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

make one at home...only like..450

I know - there were ring doughnuts around at work today and I thought about having one as a better choice than a jam doughnut. I checked it before I ate it (thankfully). 396 calories. For a freaking ring doughnut! Sheesh!

Honestly though, that's not too shocking - I mean we all know (I think) that a cheeseburger isn't going to be low. Look what I just noticed on Gordon Biersch's nutritional info online today:

Chicken Pesto Fettucini 1 serving
2160 calories !!!!!!!!!! (I did not make a typo. See their website)
142g fat
123g carbs
98g protein
3420mg sodium

So compared to their Gordon Biersch Cheeseburger, you could have 2.8 cheeseburgers or 1 order of their chicken pesto fettucini. Classic example of needing to see the numbers! One could easily think, hmm, chicken & pasta, yeah that's way better than a CHEESEBURGER. Although that would be wrong. (I'm not endorsing either of these - they are both horrible choices for me anyway.)

Gordon Biersch Cheeseburger 1 serving
770 calories
46g fat
25g carbs
62g protein
1520mg sodium

Scary stuff.

Man, I make a killer Turkey Bacon Cheeseburger at home for less than 200 calories! Almost 800 calories for a burger? Does it come with a free difibulator as well? *kitten*, that's ridiculous!

The key words here are bacon - cheese - and burger... all sound high cal to me!! I agree with kalel... make it at home and you can use turkey bacon, lowfat cheese, lean ground beef, and a wheat bun or sandwich/bun flatbread to cut the cals! Oh well, better luck next time!

Yes exactly. My co worker and i were both craving a krispy kreme donut and we split it. by doing that i satisfied my sugar craving and ate less that 100 calories. But yes @Brooke1585 i was eating the same thing, breakfast, lunch and dinner and was wondering why i was gaining so much weight. Now, if i am craving something from McDonalds, i choose either breakfast or lunch and eat lightly for the rest of the day.

I use to have TWO Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagels from McDonald's on the weekends. LORD HAVE MERCY!

Have to say I was shocked at some of the calories in burgers - luckily I had looked at the back of the tray liner before I ordered and went for chicken selects.... 385 I think they were !!!!! In the days before mfp tho would have had a burger meal and not thought twice !!!!

Isn't it crazy that before starting to count your calories, you didn't even think about how much something you ate was?!?! Before starting on here I remember getting McDonald's for breakfast, fast food for lunch and then again for dinner - one day I calculated all of what I would eat, I was amazed by how many calories I was eating and not even realizing it. Thank God for MFP. :-)

Exactly.. now I know if I were to go back say a year and choose any weekend right after I got paid I bet you that in those 2 days I consumed well over 5000 calories. I'm so happy I change my habits.

mac d is a nigtmare, yesterday i had a quick lunch there with my son only to find out when i logged it that the lunch cost me my daily calorie allowance !!!!!!!!!!!!! ......... it was nice though!

nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!!:laugh:

Nothing beats the Olive Garden experience. I accidentally had over 3000 calories at one meal. I mean, it was my cheat day-but that was excessive by any stretch of the imagination.