Working at Mc Donalds

Their website is really good with providing the nutritional values, and most of the items are already in the database on here. Careful you find the right country though, the values can change.

I second the website - just visited there tonight. Also I love their food. I usually get the cheeseburger and a big diet drink - about 300 cals and fills me up for hours and hours

I've been working at McDonald's for over five months now and love it, I've had no problem maintaining my weight there and take advantage of their free food each day I work! As someone else mentioned, all of their nutritional information is available on their website and you can even customize it to see how many calories you'll save by modifying certain entrees. For breakfast my go-to staple are always the egg mcmuffins (usually I order it without canadian bacon since it's a sodium bomb and I'm very salt sensitive). I also enjoy the southwest salads a lot (despite the higher sodium content) and really you don't need dressing at all since the cilantro lime glaze it comes with is very satisfying in my opinion and it has so many other toppings. When I'm in the mood for a sandwich I adore the Filet-o-Fish sandwiches, and you can save quite a bit of calories by ordering it without the tartar sauce (although I know this is part of the experience for some people). If you order a sandwich, which may not be too filling, you could always order the side salad or the apple slices on the side to help fill you up. Both have about 15 calories (without dressing for the salad), and contain tons of vitamins to round out any meal.
I wish you all the best of luck, I'm sure you'll figure out something! Congratulations on the job, they provide some great benefits nowadays (especially with college)!!!

When I eat McDonald's, I order things a la carte as I don't really eat bread or fries, so I order my meat separately and some eggs to go with it.

You have the advantage that you have access to all the food in its separate parts so it can be easy for you to put together a meal that suits your goals.

Grilled chicken on top of a side salad with dressing on the side can make a nice, lower calorie meal.

Or now that they serve breakfast all day, you can get round eggs and a sausage patty if that's what you're into.

If you want an ice cream cone, go ahead...just fit it into your calories.

I know a couple tricks to shave off calories when needed. Don't add on walnuts to the fruit n but salad ( they have added sugar on them) leave off the tortilla strips on the southwest salad, don't use dressing or use only half packet or a 3rd, leave off bread on sandwiches, avoid breaded foods, avoid fries and get apple slices instead. Or get egg with no bread and salad mix.

I know you asked about lunch, but I usually get the sausage burrito for breakfast. 300 Calories.

Raptor2763 wrote: »

Keep in mind the salads are LOADED with nitrates (?) and salt, both of which act as preservatives but can also cause you to retain fluid, thus sabotaging your weight reduction efforts. You might have better luck with some grilled chicken sandwich thingy

Fat loss comes from a calorie deficit. Nitrates or sodium cause water retention but do not slow fat loss.

The best things are likely their salads and wraps, but ask for no dressing on them and bring your own low cal dressing and you'll be sitting pretty. Usually half or more of the calories are in the dressings.

I don't eat bread or fries either so my usual is the double cheeseburger no bun, no onion. Now that they have breakfast all day I sometimes add bacon, egg, and cheese to it. All that together is 460 calories and keeps me full forever. It's a lot of food.