My favorite meal of the day is breakfast. My favorite breakfast is the McDonalds Big Breakfast with hot cakes. It comes with egg, sausage, biscuit, pancakes, and a hash brown. I don't eat the hash brown, and I find the hot cakes are sweet enough to eat plain. Even without the syrpt, butter, jam, and hashbrown - that breakfast is around 800 calories! Afterwards, I am still hungry. How is that possible?
The answer lies in the amount of fat. Eggs, sausage and biscuit are 33 grams of fat. By now you should know that each gram of fat has 9 calories (compared to protein and carbs that have 3). 33 x 9 = 297 calories from fat, or, around seventy percent of the calories from those three food items combined come from fat.
The biscuit, egg, and sausage consist of 33 grams of fat and 129 grams of carbs, protein, and everything else; totaling 162 grams. Even though the fat is only 20% of the grams (the amount of food) it accounts for nearly 70% of the calories! If you replaced this breakfast with a fat free option, you could consume over 220 grams for the same calories (40% more food). In other words, healthier choices would allow one to eat more and still eat fewer calories.
I have a general rule: if it tastes good, it probably isn't good for you. The McDonalds big breakfast tastes really good. What is the point of gorging all those calories and not feeling stuffed afterwards?
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