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  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
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    I stop in for 2-4 chicken patties on a semi regular basis...

    BFD
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
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    dude.....you're scared of a hamburger?

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  • annwyatt69
    annwyatt69 Posts: 727 Member
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    Well, as far as I am concerned, I can get just as healthy a meal at McDonald's as I can at the Olive Garden, Chili's or Applebee's. It's all a matter of choices. Now, when you consider what you can make it home....home cooked, when done properly and with healthy eating in mind, is my choice 90% of the time. If I am traveling, I have no problem having 6 chicken nuggets for a quick lunch!
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,012 Member
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    Well we have established that you are scared and intimidated by lists I guess ;)

    when it comes to the things I put in my body, yes I am. :)

    again, doing it once and a while ain't gonna hurt you, so OP if you're still reading (ugh I hope not for your sake) then yes. Go for it. Why not?

    It's making this kind of a thing a habit that will have long term negative consequences (specifically from the amount of sodium - more than even the fat or cholesterol - that can lead to artery constricting heart problems, even if you choose lower cal options)

    Can you cite your sources for me? Specifically the long term effects of mcdonalds vs foods prepared at home while keeping overall calorie consumption equal?



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  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
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    It's not McD's but I'm already planning out dinner for Thursday and it's going to be 900 calories of Taco Bell.

    Take me!!!!!

    Pick you up at 8:30.
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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    I stop in for 2-4 chicken patties on a semi regular basis...

    BFD

    With that pic, you are really not helping us.
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
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    If a cal is a cal, sure. But, how much fat is in a McMuffin, vs your breakfast?
    And of course your body is saying fat is good....it is. It just not really good for you in large quantities.
    Basically, eating there daily, bad. On occasion....not so bad.
    For that matter you could eat your cals in lard every day, and as long as you keep them under the amount you burn in a day, you will lose weight. You will likely have a heart attack, but at least you will look good.
    He said it well.

    But also, I am afraid of the toxins. The meat at the fast food restraunts are the most abused animals and the most contaminated. It's cancer between the bun. When an animal is stressed due to abuse and then killed, those stress hormones are released into the animal's body and then into yours. They use hormones to fatten the cows and chickens to make more meat to make more money which kills more people who eat it. I am terrified of meat which has any hormones, biotics or has been abused. They are fed grain too which is bad. I only eat meat which is humanely raised, fed vegetables or grass, and not given hormones or biotics.

    There is so much more into what you're eating. Vitamins and minerals count. You're eating a lot more things which help your body with what you're doing now. Plus, "good fat" aids in weight loss, "bad fat" aids in heart attacks. YOu can have 100g of good sugar a day ( natural sugar) as a woman. You can have 6 g of bad sugar a day (processed sugar). There is a lot of bad sugar in the McDonald's crap. Even bread processes as a sugar in your body, although the package says it contains only "2 g" as I said it processes once consumed as a sugar. Sodium is not only bad for you, but makes you retain water which makes you retain weight. There is a ton of sodium in fast food. I could go on and on, but you get the gist, I hope.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
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    Well, as far as I am concerned, I can get just as healthy a meal at McDonald's as I can at the Olive Garden, Chili's or Applebee's. It's all a matter of choices. Now, when you consider what you can make it home....home cooked, when done properly and with healthy eating in mind, is my choice 90% of the time. If I am traveling, I have no problem having 6 chicken nuggets for a quick lunch!

    McDonalds is probably healthier than those other options btdubs.... or at least on the same level.
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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    It's not McD's but I'm already planning out dinner for Thursday and it's going to be 900 calories of Taco Bell.

    Take me!!!!!

    Pick you up at 8:30.

    I'm ready for you now, babe.
  • pushyourself14
    pushyourself14 Posts: 275 Member
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    This thread is really making me want McDonald's.

    I wish they still had pizza!
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
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    It's not McD's but I'm already planning out dinner for Thursday and it's going to be 900 calories of Taco Bell.

    Take me!!!!!

    Pick you up at 8:30.

    I'm ready for you now, babe.

    Damn girl. Slow ya roll.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
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    Well we have established that you are scared and intimidated by lists I guess ;)

    when it comes to the things I put in my body, yes I am. :)

    again, doing it once and a while ain't gonna hurt you, so OP if you're still reading (ugh I hope not for your sake) then yes. Go for it. Why not?

    It's making this kind of a thing a habit that will have long term negative consequences (specifically from the amount of sodium - more than even the fat or cholesterol - that can lead to artery constricting heart problems, even if you choose lower cal options)

    Can you cite your sources for me? Specifically the long term effects of mcdonalds vs foods prepared at home while keeping overall calorie consumption equal?



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    When I get on a computer ill give you a study of high levels of sodium on heart health.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
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    Pink slime? lol

    Funny food hypocrisy
    By: J. Justin Wilson
    Newspaper: The Washington Times

    Who could be in favor of eating “pink slime” or “bug juice”? Those are the clever hooks adopted by activist food snobs who raised ill-conceived firestorms about lean beef trimmings and cochineal red food dye.

    Now that America has had a moment to recover from the sensationalism, it’s time to take a more sober look at the facts behind these slime campaigns. Contrary to the overhyped reports, lean beef trimmings make meals healthier, safer, cost-efficient and less animal-intensive. Cochineal food dyes, while derived from bugs, are actually all-natural replacements for artificial colors.

    Right off the bat, the emphasis was on beef trimmings’ “yuck factor,” spurred along by a chorus of food snobs like cookbook author and columnist Mark Bittman, who urged the government on Twitter to outlaw lean beef trimmings on school lunch trays. Other activists who want meat off your plate, cream out of your coffee and leather off of your feet hyped up a campaign to get the all-natural dye out of Starbucks coffee drinks. Playing on fashionable prejudices against “processed food,” these people hoped to turn the “yuck factor” into an irrational boycott.

    Because trimmings gross out gourmands and bug-derived dyes offend vegans, they feel themselves entitled to take the products away from consumers and even shutter the businesses that provide them.

    But in slamming modern methods of food processing, these pundits can ironically contradict their philosophy’s own principles: making food safer, healthier and less animal-intensive.

    Beef trimmings are just that: the trimmings left on the bone after primary cuts of beef are butchered. As any butcher will tell you, people have used and eaten trimmings in sausages and hamburger for centuries. Thanks to contemporary innovations, processors now have ways to remove the fat. That’s right: Some of the same food activists who paint Americans as fatty food addicts have turned around and decried a process that makes the oft-maligned hamburger leaner.

    What about the safe, germ-killing treatment with ammonium hydroxide that also has come under criticism? The anti-germ process is actually widely used, in foods ranging from cheese to baked goods to chocolate candies.

    Where’s the outrage? Nowhere – because ammonium hydroxide is used as an anti-bacterial agent that actually makes our food supply safer.

    When it comes to lean beef trimmings, foodies are schizophrenic. On one hand, they generally lament that American farmers raise too many animals for food. Yet the same industries they tar are constantly researching and developing new ways to get more food out of the animals we eat.

    By efficiently using more meat from each cow, lean beef trimmings sustainably reduce our environmental impact and our slaughter rates. Ridding trimmings from school lunches alone means food pundits are signing a death warrant for 10,000 cows, the number needed to replace the meat that otherwise might be thrown out. Eliminate trimmings on a nationwide basis, and one estimate says we’ll need to slaughter an additional 1.5 million cows a year.

    Food snobs who make a living complaining about modern food processing are thrilled by the speed at which the attack on beef trimmings has gone viral on the Internet. Unfortunately, propaganda that passes for information moves so fast today that experts are handicapped getting the truth out. Meanwhile, rash decisions already have been made. Major supermarket chains, fearing a swift and ignorant reprisal, have announced that they will stop using lean beef trimmings.

    It’s often said that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on. The distance traveled by bad information goes much farther and faster today.

    J. Justin Wilson is senior research analyst at the Center for Consumer Freedom.

    Love this!! I'm copying it into my blog :) Thank ya!
  • haley255
    haley255 Posts: 117 Member
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    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.
  • thomas127
    thomas127 Posts: 32
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    I have fast food once every two weeks. I don't count calories. I count my Carbs/fats and proteins. 35% carbs 35% Protein and 30% fats. which for me comes out to about 200g carbs, 200g protein and 70g of fats.

    That way i'm consistent no matter what i eat, whether it be mcdonalds or chicken and vegetables.

    MFP has a ridiculous shortage on protein in my opinion. Live life, its been a month. You can eat fast food once in a while. Its not going to do harm.

    I'd also drink a galleon of water.. who cares about sodium. its only once every couple of weeks.
  • Sunka1
    Sunka1 Posts: 217 Member
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    I am thinking about it lately. The funny thing is, in the last five years I've only been there once, and that was in Japan. And that was before I gave a flying rats behind about calories. I just did not like it, did not like that fast food smell and could not bring myself to eat it.

    Now, after a month of clean living, I want it.
    I mean a cosi salad is 600 calories and I can get a crispy fried chicken for that.
    Egg McMuffin is only 300? My breakfast of yogurt, nuts and fruit is over that (really, take a look).
    Small fries are only 230??? That's crazy.

    I'd certainly feel a lot more full eating there. But is it crazy?

    An Egg McMuffin is a single fresh egg, an English muffin, a piece of ham, and a slice of cheese. What on earth could be wrong with that?

    A lot!
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
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    Well we have established that you are scared and intimidated by lists I guess ;)

    when it comes to the things I put in my body, yes I am. :)

    again, doing it once and a while ain't gonna hurt you, so OP if you're still reading (ugh I hope not for your sake) then yes. Go for it. Why not?

    It's making this kind of a thing a habit that will have long term negative consequences (specifically from the amount of sodium - more than even the fat or cholesterol - that can lead to artery constricting heart problems, even if you choose lower cal options)

    Can you cite your sources for me? Specifically the long term effects of mcdonalds vs foods prepared at home while keeping overall calorie consumption equal?



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    With all due respect to the person who asked for sources to be cited. The man who said McDonald's will have long term negative affects is correct. There is a wealth of information on this all over the Internet. If you want to find out for yourself, look it up. If you go a few posts up, you'll see where I discussed JUST the meat alone at McDonald's and the negative affects it can have on a body vs the meat I eat at home which I buy from a health food store. I eat meat which is quite different than the McDonald's meat and yet I still eat beef and chicken.
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
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    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
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    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,012 Member
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    Well we have established that you are scared and intimidated by lists I guess ;)

    when it comes to the things I put in my body, yes I am. :)

    again, doing it once and a while ain't gonna hurt you, so OP if you're still reading (ugh I hope not for your sake) then yes. Go for it. Why not?

    It's making this kind of a thing a habit that will have long term negative consequences (specifically from the amount of sodium - more than even the fat or cholesterol - that can lead to artery constricting heart problems, even if you choose lower cal options)

    Can you cite your sources for me? Specifically the long term effects of mcdonalds vs foods prepared at home while keeping overall calorie consumption equal?



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    When I get on a computer ill give you a study of high levels of sodium on heart health.

    Please make sure it is strictly sodium and not elevated blood pressure. Not everyone who consumes high amounts of sodium suffers from high blood pressure.

    Low sodium diets - increased mortality rates: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23420258

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