So you CAN eat McDonald's every day...

I wish their fries were gluten free. I miss them.

Thank you for reopening @kgeyser. I do think this type of information is important for those who feel like they can't or won't give up fast foods or convenience foods in order to lose weight. It's important to see that you can live a convience food lifestyle and still make choices that will lead to better health.

GOD this must've taken forever to edit for the mods!! Well done

Strange that this wasn't showing a 'new' flag, must be a clean up glitch.

I posted a bit earlier on the thread about wanting to undertake McVember. I may not get to do it as I have to travel for work to a country which does not have McDonalds, but I have been experimenting, for my own amusement.

At this early stage, it looks like the only way I could survive on McDonalds only for a month while sticking to my macros the way I normally do was if I allowed myself 2 meals at McDonalds and one meal at home per day and that meal needs to consist entirely of fruit and veg. The main reasons for this are that I am struggling to get anywhere near my preferred fiber intake and on 1200 calories and without a fruit and veg meal I am pretty darn hungry, even though I do get a delicious breakfast and dinner in quite easily.

Eating at 1200, I do not find sodium and sugar difficult to manage, eating 2 meals at McDonalds a day. Feel free to have a look at my diary for yesterday as an example of this. I have also run a few examples for myself in Excel and sugar and sodium are the least of my problems, if I combine my meals intelligently. People in America please not that the South African McDonalds calories and ingredients are slightly different so I have had to create my own entries based on the information on the South African site (not a massive difference).

Once again - this is me just messing about - not any kind of serious thing - before anyone jumps down my throat to tell me how I am doing it wrong or how my results cannot be applied to others. That is completely obvious, but thanks anyway.

I am struggling to keep my mojo going for the last bit of weight I have to lose and an unintended consequence of my junk food experiments this past week or two is the best weight loss I have seen in a while! Obviously this is only happening because I am being more careful about my deficit again, but I will take it! Lols

No one need fear for my health - if you glance at my Macros no terrible evils are being committed on my constitution. Also - no need to lecture me on 1200 calories please - I am often over that amount and I don't do any exercise so it is perfectly reasonable.

kshama2001 wrote: »

Those of you who feel that the film is an infomercial that should not be shown in schools can sign a petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/keep-mcdonald-s-nutrition-infomercial-out-of-our-children-s-schools

...The film is pitched to schools as "educational" - it even comes with a "Teachers Discussion Guide" prepared by McDonald's - but in reality it's little more than a heavily-branded infomercial for the fast food chain, one that seems cynically calculated to get kids to eat even more fast food than they do now. In this era of childhood obesity, that’s a terrible idea.

It’s fine to teach kids about calorie balancing, but this naked advertising effort expressly tells impressionable kids that “there’s nothing wrong with fast food” and that they shouldn’t believe any negative information on the Internet about fast food or McDonald’s. It also makes no mention of the poor nutritional quality of most fast food.

Teens and pre-teens are notoriously impulsive. So when a trusted authority like a science teacher says he ate fries on a near-daily basis for six months, as well as regularly eating Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and ice cream - and that he still eats at McDonald’s every day – do we think teens are suddenly going to become highly disciplined calorie-cutters? Or do we think they’ll get the message that it’s OK to eat even more fast food?

If McDonald's wants to post 540 Meals on YouTube or show it in movie theaters, that's the company's right. But it's our right as parents to keep this kind of aggressive fast food advertising out of our kids’ schools.

Does this keep other documnetaries (propaganda) such as Fedup, etc out of schools? If we have to gore someone's specific ox, we should probably get them all....am I right?

Goes to show calories a calorie.....and yes, being physically active does help a LOT....I didn't start seeing the scale move until I started being more active, and weighing my food that I eat.....

Love this. Whether you like McDonald's or not, the whole McDonald's made me fat thing is absurd. It's a silly excuse and I'm glad someone is taking the piss out of it.