I have a very bad feeling about this.....

How many more?

If this was the actual Monopoly board game, I'd choose the iron as my game piece, given it can help flatten out the gut that I am developing. 

I've only been doing this full time since Sunday, but already I’m eyeing the calendar.

I've mentioned in previous posts that I'm trying to minimise the impact this is having on my health by walking, doing sit-ups of a morning and sticking to the smallest menu item that will ensure I get the most stickers each time, the large cheeseburger meal.

Nothing more, nothing less.

I’ve been winning numerous ‘instant win’ items over the last few days, but I promised that I would stick strictly to the cheeseburger meals and not ‘cash in’ any of the instant win items.

But tonight, I cracked!

My lunchtime cheeseburger meal wasn’t tying me over, so I decided to claim my free McChicken whilst picking up tonight’s meal.

Anyway, back to the game.

So to increase my chances at this I’ve decided that I cannot go to the same McDonalds twice, well at least not until I have visited all the McDonalds in my area.

Therefore today I hit the McDonalds store locator (https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants), to find out exactly how many are in my region, and was astounded to discover there were 19!

19 McDonalds in a 19.21km radius. Talk about overkill.

Lunchtime took me to another McDonalds close to my workplace and my cheeseburger meal gave me another four stickers.

I uncovered Pall Mall, Bond Street and two more “Instant Wins”, Attraction Pass and Small Fries/Fruit Bag.

Yes, that’s 6 Instant wins in just 20 stickers, much more than the promoted “1 in 5 win instantly”. But this is obviously their tactic, for a number of reasons.

Firstly it ensures you go back into a McDonalds to claim. Secondly it ensures you keep playing the game, because ‘how lucky are you!’ and thirdly, it means that out of the 20 stickers you’ve been given, only 14 of them were actual game properties.

Dinner was picked up from the next McDonalds on my list and it was there that I cracked and claimed my McChicken.

That meal gained me Northumberland Avenue, Oxford Street, Mayfair and Liverpool St Station.

It's the first meal that I haven't won an Instant Win item. 

So after six meals, this is my report card.

I currently have:

 3 Kings Cross Station

3 Oxford Street

3 Pall Mall

2 Mayfair

2 Northumberland Avenue

1 Bond St

1 Bow St

1 Liverpool St Station

1 Whitechapel Road

1 Pentonville Road

6 Instant Wins

In conclusion, after 24 stickers, 6 Instant Wins + 8 duplicates means I have only 10 properties in play on the game board.

Says it all really.

It seems that just like in the real Monopoly game, the banker always wins.

But.....I’m not giving up just yet.

#FatMonopoly