If it's mental problems, poverty, medicine or a disorder, you shouldn't blame them.
-Start with your 1st argument a very wide scope of possible things that could keep your form losing weight easily. Most can be over come with proper diet and exercise, with more serious ones you may have to consult a nutritionist, your doctor, and/or a personal trainer to help you. Other ones you just have to stop being such a bitch about it.
Second point eating cheap mcD's is faster, easier, and more cost effective.
-I'll get to this. But lets remember there is no direct correlation between time and money. If you're making anywhere near minimum wage lets assume your time is not worth much.
3rd point minimum wage +2dollars/hour can't afford healthy food. They will have to sacrifice their social lives.
-A wide set of variables here. Living costs, what your social life consists of, bills you may or may not have to pay. The list just goes on and on.
4th, you explained Metabolism.
-Ok
5th Also, I never implied you took only one burger. Say you ate 10 of them per day. That's ~80 dollars per week if you drink some nice soda with it too. You save money on gas, electricity, a fridge and most of all time. Try and eat a balanced diet for 80 dollars per week, but count in the electricity for your fridge, your fridge, your furnace, your gas and the time you've lost.
Sure, why not go on your PC and pick them all. I'm waiting.
" You pay 99 cents for a meal ready to eat at McDonalds." <--- not implication confirmed. Save gas? Another wide variable, I guess if you live next door to a fast food place and are not within biking/walking distance of a supermarket you could save gas. Electricity for your fridge, uhm ok I guess you just have your fridge unplugged all the time? Get real. Splitting hairs on the money for electricity, I can't calculate how much money opening a fridge and having a light on in the kitchen for idk half an hour costs. Never mind I can. I can probably see how much cooking meals on a gas stove costs per year I'm sure that's on the net somewhere. Your time is next to worthless. Ok so even though this is the worst most specific situation which has no place in a debate I guess I'll give it a chance. Assuming I'm not within walking distance of a supermarket, that there is a fast food chain next door to you, that I have a fridge and the you do not own a fridge, that you do not use any electricity in the time it takes me to prepare a meal and that that I have my kitchen light on for 1 hour. Anything I'm missing? Want to make sure that light bulb isn't an energy saver bulb?
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Ok my light bulb in my kitchen will cost me $2.45 a year, based on the average cost of electricity per kilowatt in my state, using a pretty standard 60watt light bulb. ~.35 A week. We are down too $79.65
I came up with $3.15 a week to run my fridge. I'll post the sites I used to calculate this. So we are down to $76.50. I'd say the convenience of a fridge is defiantly not worth $163/year
"With this measure, the average block group in 2000 had a population density of 219,000 people per five mile radius." For arguments sake I'm going to assume you're one of the millions of people who live in a 5 mile radius of Walmart. The numbers are a bit dated, I'd assume more people live within 5 miles of Walmart now then ever before. If you want to argue this feel free to pull up your own statistics. Also I'm now to fat to just ride a bike 10 miles with some groceries.
Ok so $3.60 was the national average for the United States in 2012 according to AAA. Ok so the average MPG of a new car sold in 2008(Yeah I'm broke but mommy and daddy bought me a 2008 model car) was 20.9 MPG. So 10 miles there and back, at 20 mpg, I'm rounding because this is a lot of math wasted on hypothetical situations. I use half a gallon or $1.80 a trip. I'm not a retard so I make 1 trip a week. so we are now at $74.70.
Time to start shopping for a healthy diet that will help you lose weight for a, on $74.70 a week. Unless you have any other insane super specific constraints you would like me to factor in to this? I'm probably going to do this tomorrow due to it being late and I would rather go do something with the rest of my Saturday. Jaykay. I'm back because my gf wants to go to a meteor shower at 2am.
I almost missed the stove. We are going to make another wild assumption here. I know this isn't how I cook every meal every day but for simplicity I will just factor in that I use 3 burners at medium heat for an hour each day. 1 burner used for 1 hour per meal plus 20 minutes using the oven per meal per day. Yes this is overkill I highly doubt I use my stove that much for every meal, actually I know I don't but I'm just going to keep it simple. I'm going to save myself some more math and round the national average per therm cost to $1 if you want to do the math I actually believe it comes out to less then a dollar. So with this handy dandy calculator I find I would spend about $105 a year. $2.01 a week to run my stove. We now have $72.69. Well think of all the fat you could be with that $7 and some change.
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http://energy.gov/energysaver/articl...nic-energy-use
http://www.citytrf.net/costs_calculator.htm
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/...-in-your-state
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/seminarpapers/ei07112005.pdf
http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/31/news...ces/index.html
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/avera...s-238-mpg.html
http://www.bls.gov/ro5/aepchi.htm
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cooking.html
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