Starchy carbohydrates, unfortunately, are one of the two ways to consume way too many calories way too quickly. It's hard to eat 2000 calories of steak in a si

Starchy carbohydrates, unfortunately, are one of the two ways to consume way too many calories way too quickly. It's hard to eat 2000 calories of steak in a sitting. It's almost impossible to eat 2000 calories of lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, etc. in a sitting. It's really easy to consume 2000 calories of potatoes, wheat, or rice in a sitting. The other easy way to consume way too many calories is to slather your food with butter or oil. A tablespoon of oil or butter isn't terrible and may even be healthy for you--a quarter cup, however, is approaching 1000 calories. That's not so good. And people tend to use whole sticks of butter in cooking (1 stick is 1/4 cup) per dish or easily put a quarter cup of salad dressing (mostly oil) on their vegetables.