Day three - Wednesday 15 September: McDonalds food is okay, but the pedometers suck

Had a reasonable stretch of the legs this morning getting back to civilisation from Tottenham - a couple of miles at least. Stopped off for a Sausage and Egg McMuffin, which I scoffed with a cup of tea back at the Spiked office. Lunch was a Quorn McPremiere, McD's current veggie alternative. Like a Chicken Premiere, only with all the flavour surgically removed. Fries and a yogurt for dessert - it went down very nicely.

In fact, I have no complaints about my diet so far, except that I'm missing out on other tasty alternatives. The smell of tandoori from the Raj next to McD's in Farringdon was very tempting, and I was a bit jealous at the thought of the missus at home chomping on gnocchi carbonara, a personal favourite.

I bought a pedometer for 99p in McD's on Tuesday. It is crap. Stick to burgers, guys.

Thought I would start to link to one or articles about Super Size Me while I write. This one is by Ruth Kava from the American Council on Science and Health. It's from Tech Central Station, a free-market website which you just knew was going to defend McDonald's on principle. I don't much care for the free-market philosophy but they can present themselves as the defenders of rationality if others are just going to blame individual companies for the ills of society. I personally stacked on the pounds through too much curry and carbonara - but nobody is demanding the closure of Indian and Italian restaurants!

TCS: Tech Central Station - A Supersized Distortion: Mr. Spurlock is simply following an old Hollywood tradition -- gaining weight to suit a movie role

Calorie count:

Sausage & Egg McMuffin - 427
Quorn Premiere - 311
French Fries (medium) - 293
Diet Coke (medium) - 2
Quarter Pounder with Cheese - 516
Apple Pie - 230

Total - 1779