Comic #4237: about-to-diet
Description
Here’s a detailed description of the comic's text:
Panel 1:
- Character 1: "My God. What are you eating?"
Panel 2:
- Character 2: "Look, I’m going on a diet starting tomorrow. This is my last day to eat what I want."
- Character 2: "I am trimming 300 calories from my diet every day, and I intend to diet for the rest of my life."
Panel 3:
- Character 2: "Factoring in my improved diet, genetic history, and future medical advances, I expect to live 50 more years. That’s 18,250 days, multiplied by 300 calories a day."
- Character 2: "Just to come out even, today I need to eat 5 million calories."
Panel 4:
- Character 2: "If I don’t eat 13,000 cheeseburgers tonight, I am being cheated! Cheated, I tell you!"
Panel 5:
- Caption: "The following day…"
- Character 1: "Ech, what’s the difference if I start next week?"
The comic features exaggerations about dieting and calorie counting, creating a humorous take on the extremes of those concepts.