I’ve always been trying to gain weight and I think I have been going about it entirely wrong… After listening to John Tesh on 101.3 FM (shut up, I was channel surfing), I heard some stats I couldn’t believe, so I had to do some research for myself. Check out these stats of Starbucks coffees that probably everyone buys on a religious basis:
Yup, that’s 600+ calories for some of these drinks! That’s like more than a third of a whole day’s worth of calories that you need to survive. Granted that these stats are for Venti sizes, it still shows you why some people get fatter even though they swear they’re doing all the right things like eating salads. Hint: quit drinking your double mocha white chocolates espressos. One redeeming factor is that they got 18 grams of protein, that’s like 36% of your daily needs. Dang. I need to get one of those everyday.
Second on the list is Orange Juice. OJ you say? That really healthy drink that’s supposed to cure cancer and all that jazz? That’s right, orange juice seems like the devil when you take a look at the nutritional stats:
Yeah, only 110 calories right? Well… who the hell only drinks 8 fl oz. of anything? Lets double it to a “healthy” 16 fl. oz, which is probably pretty normal considering you can buy 32 fl oz sodas from just about any fast food joint. That’s 220 calories from basically all sugars. Sure, you get 240% of your daily needs of Vitamin C. Horray for you. To celebrate, why don’t you have another glass of good, nutritional OJ? Don’t blame me when you keel over from the 44 g of sugar. But for a guy like me, OJ everyday!
Last, I’d like to show you guys the nutritional content of something I’ve been ingesting for a while now:
Yup, protein shakes. One inbetween lunch and dinner, then another after dinner. It tastes like ass, but after you’ve eaten about 5lbs of ass, you’ll start to like it. Wait, that sounded kind of gross, but you get what I mean. Not to mention, I got another 5lb bottle coming up. Anyway, two cups of this stuff will give you 220 calories, 48g of protein and only 2 g of sugars. Not to shabby at all.
But whatever you do, don’t be like Anthony Gee and try one of these:
Even the commercial says it all…
Cusomter: “Hi, what’s good here?”
Worker: “The mashed potatos, the corn, the chicken”
Customer: “GIVE ME ALL OF THAT! LAYERED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER! I AM COMPLETELY RETARDED!!”
yUM.
If you wanna gain weight, I’ve heard peanut butter is a pretty good way to gain it while working out. Many muscled men @ Gold’s Gym in NC have told me this. Then again, it could be their version of a sick joke. haha. I’d prob look into it first.