/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>Be in grade school
>School trip to California zoo
>One minute i'm with my group next thing I know i'm alone by the tiger exhibit
>Can't find my group anywhere, end up going the complete opposite direction like a moron
>Get lost in the process and start crying
>One woman finds me asks if i'm lsot and takes me to the ice cream stand
>Its a dipping dots stand
>The man at the ice cream stand gives me a free cup of strawberry cheesecake flavor, then pulls out a walkie talkie and calls in to management
>At the time kid me thought he was a fucking undercover spy like james bond
>He tells me everything will be okay and someone is coming to get me
>Go-kart comes up and tells me to hop on. Ice cream guy is nice enough to give me another dipping dots can, this time rainbow ice for the road
>They drive me around to the front of the zoo where my class is waiting by the buses
>They apparently were waiting for 10 minutes because I went missing and they couldn't leave without me.
>Teacher is angry but then relieved i'm okay
>Other students however are angry I got free ice cream and bullied me on the bus home.

So not to make this an obese/obsessed thread, but I seriously have to ask, how the hell does anyone hit 4000+ calories a day?

I started counting myself out of morbid curiosity starting today, since the average target range is supposed to be 1500 a day right? Well My breakfast was roughly 450, 3 eggs at 70,ea (210) with a slice of pepperjack cheese (80), 2 strips of bacon (90) and a piece of toast (70). And my lunch was [240] 1 Roast chicken breast (150) atop a green/red leaf salad (0) with cucumber bits and carrots (50) and some red pepper balsamic (40). So in total today, i've had [690] calories, with [810] remaining towards a dinner meal right? And i doubt that will even top 400.

And this isn't even eating light or dieting, this is just my normal regimen, which I feared would be really high. So my question is how the heck do people get to the 4000+ range? How much food do you physically have to eat to even get up there a day?

This is my first time ever counting what I eat, so apologies if my numbers are off.