mcdonalds big breakfast :(

Aw, OP, I want to give you a hug. Look, making big changes to your lifestyle is tough and when you have unsupportive family and emotional relationships with food it is even tougher.

There was a ton of great advice in here about the nutritional value of that breakfast. It was a good thing! You needed that protein. You know what I had for breakfast? A steak, egg and cheese biscuit from McDonald's and a french vanilla latte because I needed some coffee today. Now, I won't eat that everyday. Most days are a smoothie and some kind of quinoa dish or spinach pancakes. But I knew I needed a protein boost today, and that give me 30g of protein. I also like to get an egg and cheese biscuit on occasion. For whatever reason, the McD near work does really lovely biscuits, so when I have a carby craving, that's a nice way to go. Having had that for breakfast, I now eat more carefully the rest of the day. I also know what I'm having for dinner, and it's about 500 calories per serving, without sides (though our sides are all low cal/low carb veggies so I'm not sweating it). It means that I'm not eating a chocolate bar today, and I'm not going to have an afternoon snack, but it is workable within my calories for the day, as your breakfast is - if you focus on making it work, that is.

Now, I'm going to tell you this - I have had a long-standing relationship with food and real problems with it. So I know where you are coming from. But the only thing that has helped me lose nearly 40 lbs in the last few months is realizing that no one else can affect what I choose to eat. I'm not saying you are making excuses or aren't in a tough spot with little support, because those things are true and real. But I am saying that to move past that to successful weight loss, I had to be the one who changed the way I thought about food and approached food. Food is food. Some of it is really yummy and I like to eat it. Sometimes I do, and I can't feel guilty for that, because I honestly do not want to live the rest of my life without blue cheese or chocolate. But I'm the only one who can change my habits. I'm the only one who can say 'yes' or 'no' to food. No one else is going to put food in my mouth, force me to chew and swallow. No one else is going to make me guilty or angry at myself for my choices to eat. When I took that responsibility (which I did by doing a Whole30, which is a super restricted list of approved foods - though all you can eat of those), it changed my entire approach to food. It was hard to tell people I had to pass on certain things. It sucked to be the only person at the staff gathering who was drinking water and not eating birthday cake, or bringing a salad to the special catered lunch. But I also realized quickly that no one else cared. I was lucky to have my family's support in making shared dishes compliant to my diet, but I also had to learn to pass for myself on things that didn't fit within my plan. Just because my mom made or bought X doesn't mean I have to eat it. It took me literally 17 years of 'dieting' and trying to lose weight to figure that out and implement it within my life.

It's not an overnight thing, but it is something you have to make a conscious decision about. Are there reasons to avoid McD? Yes. Is it going to eff up everything forever? Only if you allow it to. Hang in there, man.

Ok, I feel sorry for you, but the reality is we have to take responsibility for our actions and our decisions. (That may sound harsh, but when it is your decisions that you are looking at, you have the power to change.) With that sad the feeling sick is your body telling you something. But one meal, just like one bad day does not break or defeat us, it is how we bounce back.

I realize that support would make it easier, but you have to make sure that they realize just HOW important this is for you. Will that make it magically better? No. But at least then they might be as offended if you leave food on your plate, or scrap what you did not want off onto your sister's plate. (Not that you are trying to wreck her diet, but....)

One meal will not hurt. We all fall off of the wagon, but the trick is to make sure you get back on! Have the pizza and start again tomorrow. It's another day. As far as people ordering things for you, just ask politely if I can place my order myself please! It's going to be o.k....don't beat yourself up.

Don't let other people control you. You choose what you eat.
You ate the breakfast - okay, whatever. You still get to choose what you eat the rest of the day. If you want pizza, have it. Go nuts and start again tomorrow. One day of excess calories isn't going to ruin anything.

If you don't want the pizza, then DON"T EAT IT. Tell your mom you don't want it. You are in control of your own self.

According to McDonald's US website the regular Big Breakfast is 740 calories, 28g protein, 48g fat and 51g carbs. with 1560mg salt [ouch]. (http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.breakfast.279.big-breakfast-regular-size-biscuit.html). But also if you remove just the biscuit ("Hey sis, thank you for buying me breakfast. Would you like my biscuit?") it become a mere 480 cal, 23g protein 36g fat and 17g carbs, with 820mg salt.

OK, offering her the biscuit would be sabotaging back. But perhaps a quick ''Hold the biscuit".

Now that sounds workable, don't you think?

My main concerns (for my own diet) would be the high carbs (I'm diabetic) so your pancakes and syrup would be right out and the high salt. I just would not enjoy that much salt.

The beauty of fast food is that they often have nutrition information on their web sites. [Due to variabilities internationally in details and with time as things change, I would trust this more than the numbers found in the MFP tracker.] Even Dominos has that information (though you have to search a little harder. https://order.dominos.com/en/pages/content/nutritional/lighter-options.jsp

As my scale tells me: Go for it, You can do it!

Nettie