I ate McDonald's!
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I know, sounds yukky to some. But I was super craving McDonald's last night, and I was able to fit in a 6 piece nugget, a kids fry, and bag of apples! And I enjoyed the honey packet with my nuggets. :-)
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It's better to give in to a craving instead of denying. When you deny your craving you might end up eating double or triple of that food that can be the ending of your progress.10
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I'm not sure the title needs an exclamation mark.
But I guess threads can have one if you want - I ate bananas! etc
Nothing wrong with eating Mcdonalds now and then if you can fit it into your calorie allowance.
Its not my thing, I don't like burgers - but I do eat other fast foods now and then.5 -
An egg muffin sandwich at 300 calories would be a vast improvement on a lot of the stuff people put up here as their breakfast.5
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Some people don't like McDonalds--that is true, but it's not the demon. As a treat for yourself now and again, just fine (fit it into your calorie goals), or study the lower calorie options that they offer. The trick is to not overdo with any food.2
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i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
had a whopper junior yesterday. want to down some massive calories at fast food? supersize Fries. sodas. even not supersized they are loaded with calories. those are the things i NEVER get, and dont eat, anyway. they're not 'my thing' so not having them... doesn't mean anything to me. that whopper junior was somewhere around 350 calories? pretty typical lunch calorie wise for me.
we eat out on average once or twice a week. always have. always get what I want (ie: dont feel like i have to get the lowest calorie option i can find). we dont get appetizers (well, sometimes as my meal i do), dont typically get a dessert. and, assuming I have been around my calorie goal for the past week... I will order the meal I want. I log all of it, though its unusual that I finish all of it. portions are huge in restaurants.
have always lost weight consistently (or maintained, whichever phase I was in)8 -
I wouldn't worry about what you eat when you have cravings.. you eat what you are craving.
What I would worry about is that you have cravings. Everyone talks about cravings, as if they are something everyone has.. that's not true.
Without cravings, you wouldn't eat off plan, even if it's just nuggets, and apples, which are pretty good for most people. The problem I would have, is those foods would cause me more cravings a few hours later.
Your body is supposed to be able to eat a big meal, and go a day or 2, without hunger/cravings. Of course, we eat 2-3 meals a day, just smaller meals, but if we had to do that 10,000 years ago, we'd have died off.
While not desirable today.. food is plentiful.. your body should still be able to do that now.. in other words, after a meal, you shouldn't get cravings or feel hungry for at least a day. If you do, then that is an issue.
You may be OK with that problem, and simply eat when you have a craving, and hope you do not have enough to cause weight gain, but it makes it very hard to stick to any plan, or be consistent.
Much easier to just never have any cravings.
As I said though, if you are going to eat foods which cause cravings, then you will just have to deal with them, the best you can. You should expect them, and not be surprised when you get cravings, and then eat off plan. It's simply going to be part of your lifestyle. Don't beat yourself up, if that's the way you go. It's not like you can stop it, once you get to the point of having cravings.
Just be aware that the decision was made LONG before you ordered from McDonald's. That was the RESULT.
Good Luck going forward.0 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
Genuinely curious because I don't really eat at either - why is Burger King preferred and McDonald's so far down your list? Is there a difference between the two? I've always assumed they are roughly the same, but perhaps not.1 -
...I acknowledge some people have a problem where food sorts causes them to want more of it.
But having a craving does not inherently mean that eating the thing is going to cause them to have MORE cravings for the same, or different, food.
Sometimes I crave nuggets.
Sometimes I crave a specific kind of apple or blackberries with cottage cheese.
Sometimes I go months without craving a danged thing.
It is largely unrelated to what I ate.
This ain't mysticism and craving things happen. They do not inherently lead to MORE CRAVINGS.12 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
DITTO! Burger King or Wendy's. Five Guys is good too. McDonald's...meh. I'll pass.
Just never, ever gas station sushi
hahaha
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Redordeadhead wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
Genuinely curious because I don't really eat at either - why is Burger King preferred and McDonald's so far down your list? Is there a difference between the two? I've always assumed they are roughly the same, but perhaps not.
I couldnt tell you what it IS about McD that I hate but everything there just tastes GROSS to me. at ALL of them. and its not just that the food itself tastes bad, its that I physically FEEL bad (as in nauseous ) after. literally no other fast food place does that to me. just McD. The only thing I can eat of theirs is their mcgriddle breakfast sandwich. i can tolerate that. but they stopped serving that on their breakfast all day menu. (at least here). they USED to have a grilled chicken wrap that was actually good. then they got rid of it. so with only one thing on the menu I'll eat that they only have a few hours of the day, the whole place is a write off for me.russellholtslander1 wrote: »What I would worry about is that you have cravings. Everyone talks about cravings, as if they are something everyone has.. that's not true.
Much easier to just never have any cravings.
Dude- I can crave anything from salad to peanut butter cups. I've lost 192 pounds. If I am truly craving something. I will eat it, satisfy that craving, log it, and carry on my merry way.
2 weeks ago I ate an ENTIRE package of nutter butter wafer cookies. the WHOLE FLIPPING THING. I STILL lost 2 pounds that week.
My cravings and I will take a bow, now.callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
DITTO! Burger King or Wendy's. Five Guys is good too. McDonald's...meh. I'll pass.
Just never, ever gas station sushi hahaha
oh dear god, the horror
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Your body is supposed to be able to eat a big meal, and go a day or 2, without hunger/cravings. Of course, we eat 2-3 meals a day, just smaller meals, but if we had to do that 10,000 years ago, we'd have died off.
This statement is based on what exactly???
I'm not sure there is any evidence that ancient people ate only one big meal every day or 2 or that our bodies are suppossed to do that
10,000 years ago there were many people in many different places and cultures, all over the world.
I would be very suprised if they all ate in the same style.
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Redordeadhead wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
Genuinely curious because I don't really eat at either - why is Burger King preferred and McDonald's so far down your list? Is there a difference between the two? I've always assumed they are roughly the same, but perhaps not.
Not addressed to me, but my answer—
McDonald’s puts ketchup on burgers. Whopper jr has whopper sauce.
Burger King has onion rings, McDonalds doesn’t.
McDonalds uses plastic cups. Your hands get cold (I have arthritis) and your drink gets warm.
I don’t think I’ve ever had McDonald nuggets. I’ve had Burger King chicken fries, but I probably won’t again.
Wendy’s jr. bacon cheeseburger has a good amount of mayo, no ketchup or mustard, and a juicy slice of tomato. And BACON!
Wendy’s 4 for $4 price can’t be beat!3 -
That wouldn't be my fast food of choice. At all.
But I'm glad you were able to find a way to eat sensibly at a fast food place. De-stigmatizing foods can really be important. Honoring your cravings in a sensible way can be really important.6 -
i like burger king because I like mayo rather than ketchup on a burger and that fake 'grilled' taste makes me happy. That's about the extent of it.
Well, that and their 'jr' burger comes with typical mayo/lettuce/tomato stuff and mcdonald's is just ketchup/mustard/pickles (or something similar) and I prefer the former.
It's not a moral stance or statement of superiority, just that if I'm doing a fast food burger I prefer one to the other.
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For some reason, I ferociously craved an Icee the other day. Couldn’t get it off my mind.
Made my friend take me to Target just to get one.
Absolute bliss. Enjoyed it tremendously. Craving satisfied, and I didn’t feel snackish the rest of the afternoon. I didn’t break the calorie bank, didn’t ruin my macros, didn’t go to diet jail.
Sometimes, you just want what you want. Fit it in your calories and enjoy.
As to the other, clearly y’all don’t have Cookout. I’ve already prelogged it for dinner Wednesday. 640 calories for the “tray” special with a double cheeseburger, double onion ring side and a large Coke Zero. I’ll bring it home and use my own lo-cal Mayo and ketchup. Cookout is like a cross between Five Guys and BK. Great quality, low price, and an oddball fast food selection from quesadillas to corn dogs. They even have Cheerwine. Nobody has that on fountain these days!6 -
springlering62 wrote: »For some reason, I ferociously craved an Icee the other day. Couldn’t get it off my mind.
Made my friend take me to Target just to get one.
Absolute bliss. Enjoyed it tremendously. Craving satisfied, and I didn’t feel snackish the rest of the afternoon. I didn’t break the calorie bank, didn’t ruin my macros, didn’t go to diet jail.
Sometimes, you just want what you want. Fit it in your calories and enjoy.
As to the other, clearly y’all don’t have Cookout. I’ve already prelogged it for dinner Wednesday. 640 calories for the “tray” special with a double cheeseburger, double onion ring side and a large Coke Zero. I’ll bring it home and use my own lo-cal Mayo and ketchup. Cookout is like a cross between Five Guys and BK. Great quality, low price, and an oddball fast food selection from quesadillas to corn dogs. They even have Cheerwine. Nobody has that on fountain these days!
We have cookout! Their onion rings are my favorite things on earth.1 -
What are cookout onion rings? How can they make them so low cal? I need some!1
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corinasue1143 wrote: »Redordeadhead wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i prefer burger king, but if you like mcdonalds... ok. it would be at the very bottom of places i would choose to stop. possibly even below gas station food. depends on what the gas station looked like. LOL
Genuinely curious because I don't really eat at either - why is Burger King preferred and McDonald's so far down your list? Is there a difference between the two? I've always assumed they are roughly the same, but perhaps not.
Not addressed to me, but my answer—
McDonald’s puts ketchup on burgers. Whopper jr has whopper sauce.
Burger King has onion rings, McDonalds doesn’t.
McDonalds uses plastic cups. Your hands get cold (I have arthritis) and your drink gets warm.
I don’t think I’ve ever had McDonald nuggets. I’ve had Burger King chicken fries, but I probably won’t again.
Wendy’s jr. bacon cheeseburger has a good amount of mayo, no ketchup or mustard, and a juicy slice of tomato. And BACON!
Wendy’s 4 for $4 price can’t be beat!
you just reminded me i do like wendys jr bacon cheeseburger
and i dont like ketchup on my burgers
i dont know if theres a wendys anywhere near me.... (to be fair, burger king isnt close either, its a half hour and if there is a wendys, it would be out there LOL)
i did not know the whopper jr (presumably whopper also lol) had its own special sauce.
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springlering62 wrote: »For some reason, I ferociously craved an Icee the other day. Couldn’t get it off my mind.
Made my friend take me to Target just to get one.
Absolute bliss. Enjoyed it tremendously. Craving satisfied, and I didn’t feel snackish the rest of the afternoon. I didn’t break the calorie bank, didn’t ruin my macros, didn’t go to diet jail.
Sometimes, you just want what you want. Fit it in your calories and enjoy.
As to the other, clearly y’all don’t have Cookout. I’ve already prelogged it for dinner Wednesday. 640 calories for the “tray” special with a double cheeseburger, double onion ring side and a large Coke Zero. I’ll bring it home and use my own lo-cal Mayo and ketchup. Cookout is like a cross between Five Guys and BK. Great quality, low price, and an oddball fast food selection from quesadillas to corn dogs. They even have Cheerwine. Nobody has that on fountain these days!
where do you live? cookout is a southern thing, isnt it? we dont have them here where i am in virginia (maybe in other places in the state they do) but we did in NC where im from.
pretty sure our high school kept them in business. LOL1 -
I googled Cookout. It does look pretty good1
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Well done, OP! Well done!
That’s the big lesson. Eat whatever you want. Just log it and keep the portions within your calorie budget.
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Other than onion rings (and a&w has way superior ones which is why I would get rings from there) I don't approve of anything at Burger King when compared to Wendy's (chili, baked potato, salads, and burgers without the mayo) or Mc Donald's (vanilla cone and breakfast)
BK is almost at gas station sushi levels! 💩3 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »What are cookout onion rings? How can they make them so low cal? I need some!
@corinasue1143 i think the reason onion rings are much lower cal than fries is…..onions versus potatoes. Onions are so much lower cal to begin with, and probably don’t absorb as much oil as potatoes, too.
I never thought about it til I was studying the CookOut menu and realized the rings were a fraction of the fries.
Depends on how the rings are cooked though. “Dry” versus “drippy”. We have a local institution famous for onion rings that you could grease an engine with. Theirs are sky high calories. Their whole menu is like a heart attack on a paper plate, waiting to happen, but it’s a must-do after ball games or for visitors.
I think CookOut is based out of NC. They are kind of to burgers what Chikfila is to chicken sandwiches. When the first one opened in Georgia, they had to hire a traffic cop for the first few months to control the crowd.
We just got a Culver’s. We went to one in MN. One day I’m going to save all my calories and go have frozen custard, all day long.2 -
I feel like eating McDonald's from time to time. Nothing's wrong with that. If you like something then you like it and it's okay to eat it, if you don't like something then you don't like it and it's okay to not eat it. No food snobs will change my mind.
Sometimes I order the cheeseburger happy meal (I don't like nuggets), and sometimes I'm in the mood for something more substantial like the angus mushroom and swiss burger, which clocks at nearly 800 calories for the burger alone (and I buy the meal + ice cream). In both cases, I account for it in my calories. That's easier with the happy meal, of course, which I can have any day without prior planning. The mushroom swiss meal needs a bit more planning to fit in.4 -
I'm a McDonald's regular eater. At least once a week, I have cheeseburger, quarter pounder and fries. Have done this since I was a kid and went to my first McDonald's at 8 years old when I arrived back to the US from overseas.
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springlering62 wrote: »corinasue1143 wrote: »What are cookout onion rings? How can they make them so low cal? I need some!
@corinasue1143 i think the reason onion rings are much lower cal than fries is…..onions versus potatoes. Onions are so much lower cal to begin with, and probably don’t absorb as much oil as potatoes, too.
I never thought about it til I was studying the CookOut menu and realized the rings were a fraction of the fries.
Depends on how the rings are cooked though. “Dry” versus “drippy”. We have a local institution famous for onion rings that you could grease an engine with. Theirs are sky high calories. Their whole menu is like a heart attack on a paper plate, waiting to happen, but it’s a must-do after ball games or for visitors.
I think CookOut is based out of NC. They are kind of to burgers what Chikfila is to chicken sandwiches. When the first one opened in Georgia, they had to hire a traffic cop for the first few months to control the crowd.
We just got a Culver’s. We went to one in MN. One day I’m going to save all my calories and go have frozen custard, all day long.
The difference is definitely in the onions. There's almost no calories in onions themselves, which just leaves the breading and oil for frying. cookout onion rings are thin/crispy breaded and pretty dry comparatively. Bonus: THEY ARE FREAKING DELICIOUS.
(I'm in the NRV in virginia - we have a cookout)2 -
springlering62 wrote: »
As to the other, clearly y’all don’t have Cookout.
I cannot go to Cookout without getting a shake. I mean...OMG.
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wunderkindking wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »corinasue1143 wrote: »What are cookout onion rings? How can they make them so low cal? I need some!
@corinasue1143 i think the reason onion rings are much lower cal than fries is…..onions versus potatoes. OnionsUp are so much lower cal to begin with, and probably don’t absorb as much oil as potatoes, too.
I never thought about it til I was studying the CookOut menu and realized the rings were a fraction of the fries.
Depends on how the rings are cooked though. “Dry” versus “drippy”. We have a local institution famous for onion rings that you could grease an engine with. Theirs are sky high calories. Their whole menu is like a heart attack on a paper plate, waiting to happen, but it’s a must-do after ball games or for visitors.
I think CookOut is based out of NC. They are kind of to burgers what Chikfila is to chicken sandwiches. When the first one opened in Georgia, they had to hire a traffic cop for the first few months to control the crowd.
We just got a Culver’s. We went to one in MN. One day I’m going to save all my calories and go have frozen custard, all day long.
The difference is definitely in the onions. There's almost no calories in onions themselves, which just leaves the breading and oil for frying. cookout onion rings are thin/crispy breaded and pretty dry comparatively. Bonus: THEY ARE FREAKING DELICIOUS.
(I'm in the NRV in virginia - we have a cookout)
When I eat onion rings, it’s Sonic. Very thick breading. The breading soaks up a lot of grease. That’s probably the biggest difference. Maybe someday we’ll get a CookOut. (Once I wrote a letter to Fazoli’s to complain because they weren’t anywhere near my home or work and about a year later they put one in 2 miles from my house. Maybe I’ll write CookOut.)2 -
I haven't had a *craving* for fast food since watching "Food, Inc.", which I saw in the theater so probably 2008.
I have *eaten* fast food since then, just not often, and never burgers.
But I am happy the OP was able to make it work.1 -
I have nor had MxDonalds in over 20 years. Maybe more. As a kid I loved it. I loved the fish filled. In winter we would walk in snow for apple pie and hot chocolate.
I would be absutely sick if I are it now. Lol2
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