Treadmills reviews from a man who assembled, fixed, and sold treadmills

I had a lot of road blocks in my brain when I started trying to lose weight. One of the big things weighing on my mind was “healthy food is so much more expensive than fast food.” Last week I decided to take a trip to CostCo and a few fast food places around town and compare the cost of healthy food with fast food. The results of Cost of Fast Food project blew my mind! Here are some of my most interesting results.

1. My chart is based on a person eating 2,000 calories per day for a year.
2. I was shocked to discover that a diet of brown rice would cost me less than $320 for an entire year! The myth that healthy food is expensive that has been poisoning my mind is gone.
3. A Big Mac meal costs about the same per calorie as Taco Bell Tacos. I never would have guessed that a Taco Bell Taco costs the same per calorie as a Big Mac, Fries, and a Coke.
4. I always thought pizza was a lot more expensive than everything else. As it turns out, if you eat a reasonable amount of pizza it’s actually pretty cheap.
5. I rarely bought nuts because they seemed so expensive but I never gave a second thought to plopping down a buck for a couple Jack in the Box Tacos. Those tacos cost more than DOUBLE the price of almonds. I never thought healthy food was going to be half the cost of fast food!
6. Okay, ground turkey is up there in price. However, if you combine ground turkey with nuts, brown rice, and eggs it’s still a whole lot cheaper to stick with healthy food.
7. I would estimate that I ate fast food 2 times a day and probably consumed about 4,000 calories a day. That means I was spending between 8,000 and 10,000 per year on fast food! OMG! A healthy diet should cost less than half that.

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