Never in my wildest dreams would I even think this was possible. . . to witness it captured on film is just fantastic.

At my new work the guys there have periodic “food challenges”. Former challenges have been “fastest time to eat a whole pizza”, “fastest time to eat 6 supreme tacos”, and another one that involves chugging a XXL Weight-Gain drink that, in 24oz, contains a whopping 1,090 calories. (For the record, the best 24oz time is 2m19s, while two guys have gone heads-up in a 12oz split-the-bottle challenge and each killed their portion in a scant 7 seconds.)
Being one of the “new guys”, there’s been some pressure to engage in a challenge. I don’t care about the peer pressure, but I also don’t mind being presented with a challenge. Tacos aren’t my speed though, and I don’t like pizza crust: and no way in hell am I going near the XXL. So I put out the offer of nuggets as the foodstuff of choice. The original concept was presented as a 20-piece challenge, but that was quickly countered with 40 nuggets. And after checking the nutrition facts, one of my coworkers declared that the number had to go to 50 so that the total caloric intake bested 2,000 in one sitting. Oof.

Now not knowing what I got myself into, today turned out that I didn’t need to compete in the 50-nugget challenge after all. While we had scheduled the event for tomorrow, one of the guys wanted to push it up earlier, despite the fact that I had already eaten lunch for the day. Long story short, we ended up having two simultaneous challenges at work – one challenge with two of my coworkers attempting to eat 50 nuggets the fastest (or the most consumed after 30 minutes, whichever came first), and me against another coworker in a “minor league” 20-nugget contest. Including some “extras”, we ended up making an order for 160 nuggets from McDonald’s.

In the end neither one of the “big boys” finished 50 in their given half an hour, but the winner did successfully finish 44 of them to the loser’s 42. I smoked my competitor, finishing my 20 nuggets in 4m18s. Yeah, I’m not really sure if that’s something I should be bragging about or not, hehe. But after my sandwich and soda for lunch, I had twenty nuggets and a shamrock shake around 3:30pm, then came home and about 6:30pm had a full plate of corned beef and cabbage for dinner. Then killed about half a sleeve of Thin Mints for dessert later.

Honest to God, I really do want to lose weight. But today was one of those days you just say eff it.