Weight loss with junk food

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  • Jynus
    Jynus Posts: 519 Member
    You can certainly lose weight eating 1200 calories of KFC and McDonald's. But you will be severely unhealthy with all of the fat/sodium that is used to make those foods. It may get you losing weight but to much fat and sodium will leave you with high cholesterol and high blood pressure among other things.
    no it will not. fit your macros and exercise and your bloodwork will improve. As show by the hundreds of blogs and docs where people do exactly this. fast food gets a very bad rap for no good reason. excess food and no exercise is the killer. moderate intake and exercise is more than fine.
    Exactly! While the man obviously lost weight - and because he did, his BP & cholesterol naturally improved - the jury's still out on whether his junk food diet damaged vital organs, blood, and muscles, and if this diet - if done permanetly - would lower his life expectancy by putting him at risk for a fatal disease.
    He would be far more at risk being overweight and not exercising... As for damaging organs and such, I could just as arbitrarly say juries still out at how much damage eating lots of veggies every day causes too. It's fear mongering at it's worst with zero basis in substance.
  • mogletdeluxe
    mogletdeluxe Posts: 623 Member
    Eeeeeh, the old calories in - calories out debate. I can kind of understand it, but in my experience (I emphasise that point!), when I've eaten rubbish consistently I've a) felt like said rubbish and b) either hit a plateau or gained (even if it's 'just' sodium or water retention).

    I'm not a saint by any stretch of the imagination - I love pizza, beer, Chinese food, wine, Dairy Milk, chocolate Hob Nobs, a cheeky Big Mac, blah blah blah.

    And I also don't subscribe to "don't reward yourself with food - you're not a dog". I sometimes wish I could think like that, but speak to me on a Friday after zumba and circuits when my beer's in the fridge and my pizza's in the oven.

    I AM a believe in everything in moderation. Daily fast or junk food? Not good. I know our bodies aren't cars, but when I eat well and fuel properly I can feel the difference. Exercise feels easier, energy is improved. My skin and hair reflect good eats - and they reflect bad ones, too.

    And then, as others have said before me, it's much more than just the weight loss - you may be in the green calorie-wise, but what about elements like blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar levels?

    I believe that life's too short not to indulge sometimes. But I emphasise that last word!

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