Hahah, not when you are poor. My typical meal was a breakfast sandwich, no drink (1.50? way too much for sugar water) or hashbrown unless I had a few extra bucks. So about 400 cal. Then lunch / dinner was their awesome tuesday / thursday deals. 29 cents for a hamburger, or 39 cents for a cheese burger which I would usually get 2 one for 4pm and one for around 8pm they go around 320 cal I think. It went on for almost 2 years. OMG, I ate like a king 2 days a week. I kept them in my purse. Special occasions I would get the grilled cheese and tomato sandwich from Brix's Burgers. OMG, that thing was heavenly. So I guess the soda and fries are really the killers in the meals. If you just get a burger it's under 500 cal. Why didn't I get fat? I walked a lot, I worked 20-30 hours a week and went to school, so I was on my feet. I swam. I was into the outdoors so I like searching the local creeks and parks. I had a dog so she had to be walked fairly often. She got a burger on her birthday every year. And I had a really sporadic intake, maybe 2500 cal one day and 500 cal the next depending on what was available. I ate a LOT of popcorn to fill me up on days where I didn't have enough to get real food.  Now? I eat whatever I want but I get full really easily and have stomach problems from non related issues in health. So, My BMI is pretty steady at 20. All I had to eat today was a chicken cup soup. Sure its salty but it is filling.