Fat Dad, Fat Kid by Shay Butler & Gavin Butler

Author:Shay Butler & Gavin Butler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keywords Press/Atria

Day 15

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A World Without Doughnuts

I WAS BACK IN LA yesterday to do a shoot in Santa Clarita and I stopped at a gas station to fill up. I was thinking, A Coke sounds so good right now. I wanted a Coke so bad. You should have one, my mind was saying. I went to order the Coke, and it was so hard to hold back—but then the act of resistance felt so good.

I started thinking about all the Cokes I’ve had in my life. Normally, I would buy that Coke at the gas station, which is about two hundred and fifty calories. Then when we’d go out to eat, I’d have at least two or three Cokes—you know, to help the food slide down. That’s four or five hundred calories, a large part of it made up of sugar and chemicals. In a week, I’d ingest a couple thousand calories in Coke alone.

This is what I mean by how small decisions can make a big difference. Most people like to eat lunch, right? I love it! Let’s say that you’re a person who eats lunch every day. Let’s say that you also like Coke and you have a twelve-ounce can of it with your lunch every day. Just a twelve-ounce can (don’t get me started on those sixty-ounce buckets of diabetes that flow like a fountain from the nearest gas station) contains around 130 calories, and there are about 3,500 calories in one pound of fat.

Do the math with me here: your tiny twelve-ounce can of Coke you have for lunch every day, multiplied by the days in the year, makes you almost fourteen pounds fatter by the end of the year. The sums look like this:

130 calories x 365 days = 47,450 calories

Divided by the number of calories in a single pound of fat:

47,450/3,500=13.557 pounds of fat

Imagine what that one can of Coke per day does to you over five years. In fact, I’ll help you out with the math again—that’s 67.7 pounds of Coca-Cola Classic hanging around your forty-eight-inch waist. Try bending over to tie your shoes after gaining sixty-seven pounds of fat. It’s hard to breathe! Do you really like Coke that much?

As I walked out of the gas station with no Coke in my hand, I also started thinking about all the doughnuts I’ve had in my life. And I asked myself, What if I could take every doughnut I’d ever eaten and remove all of those doughnuts from my dietary equation? You know what I’m saying? What would my body look like right now if I had never in my whole life consumed a doughnut? I’ve probably eaten a couple hundred doughnuts over the span of my life so far—heck, if I ate one a month from age ten to the present, that would be three hundred doughnuts right there. A chocolate-frosted doughnut has around two hundred and seventy calories, so that makes for a grand total of eighty-one thousand calories. Whoa boy.

The small things matter—they honestly do.

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