10 pretzels, 1/4 cup of Spanish peanuts, 3 gin and tonics. 980 calories! That was with the drinks mixed pretty light. Go to a bartender with a generous pour, and you'll easily clear 1000 calories.
Amazingly, most people will go eat dinner after this. The calories were split about evenly between the snacks and the drinks, with the edge going to the drinks. You could skip the snacks (the Simple Life diet) to cut out the 20 total grams of fat, but you're probably better off skipping the bar altogether.

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What could you save by making different choices at the fast food counter?
Large Burger (705 calories 45 g of fat)
Large Fries (450 calories 20 g of fat)
Small Shake (450 calories 15 g of fat)
Total Calories for 1 Meal: 1605 (eeeek!), Total Fat Grams for 1 Meal: 80

Minimize, instead of supersize, and here's what you get (still not the BEST choice for a meal, but sometimes, life happens):
Hamburger (255 calories 10 g of fat)
Small fries (270 calories 10 g of fat)
1% carton of milk (110 calories 5 g of fat)
Total Calories for 1 Meal: 635 Total, Fat Grams for 1 Meal: 25

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IF YOU TAKE AWAY NOTHING ELSE FROM THIS SITE, hear this:
drinking soda, diet OR regular, is one of the worst things you can do for your body, period. If you could cut that one thing out of your day, every day, every single cell in your body would cry out in thanks. There is so much wrong with so many parts of soda, that I could do a whole page on it. HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is one of the biggest problems with it.
Here are a few excerpts from a News Target.com article by Mike Adams:

. . . a person from the Harvard School of Public Health named Walter C. Willett who's quoted as saying, "Anyone who cares about their health or the health of their family would not consume these beverages."

What is the Corn Refiners Association afraid of happening here? They're afraid that all of the anti high-fructose corn syrup research and information is going to turn this ingredient into the next big tobacco debate. They're afraid that junk food companies and fast-food companies (and especially soft drink manufacturers) are going to be blamed for the nation's obesity crisis in the same way big tobacco companies are blamed for lung cancer.

And it's sort of hard to tell where most doctors are going to fall on this issue. It wasn't too long ago when doctors were being paid by cigarette companies to actually endorse cigarettes. So it's really no surprise that there are some doctors on the payroll of the Corn Refiners Association who are going to stand up and deny that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes in the same way that tobacco executives deny nicotine is addictive.

When you understand how blood sugar is regulated in the human body, how the pancreas works, and how the digestive system converts dietary sugars into blood glucose, it's blatantly obvious that candy bars and soft drinks are foods and drinks that promote both obesity and diabetes.

What do farmers feed cows when they want to fatten them up for market? Corn, of course! If you want to look like a cow, all you have to do is eat lots of corn and corn by-products, including high-fructose corn syrup.