brokenrobot

I'm sure I can answer this myself with sufficient time at McDonald's website... but anyone know if it's possible to eat three McDonalds "meals" a day and get under 2,000 (or 1,400) calories? It's quite possible to lose weight eating 1,400 calories of *anything* - even solid lard - but the simple fact that one can limit McDonalds intake to that number doesn't say much as to whether McDonalds' "meal deals" will make you fat if you actually treat them as meals... and it's pretty rare to see somebody order anything that's not one of the package deals. When I still ate fast food, I never got the meals, and I almost always had to walk the cashiers through how to enter my order, because they weren't used to people skipping the soda or asking for fewer fries... This is not to say McD's is wholly responsible for their custormers' health - but they could certainly do less harm if they re-examined their meal deals, as they did when they ended the practice of super-sizing at many restaurants after Spurlock's film came out.

brokenrobot

Less meat, for one thing... McD's uses soy protien to bulk up their patties. Not necessarily *worse* but certainly different from what most of us do at home.

Tec-9

She weighed 227 to start with. Which means she was probably eating 5000 calories of crap and junk every day. If you drop that to 1400 calories of crap and junk, OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT!

This chick is a moron.

SandySwimmer

Interesting discussion. Perhaps the woman who lost weight was finally paying attention to what went in, so she was probably eating fewer calories than she normally did . . . .like the Subway guy (though at least those subway sandwiches have real vegetables) . . . I think it was his walk to and from the store that did the most good for him.

I used to eat some fast food in graduate school, but even the things on the "healthy" menus have far too much sodium. Now, it makes me woozy. And, the french fries used to be made of potatos, now they have more sugar and trans fats in them.

Funny, I ate at a McDonald's in Austria. The French fries were organic home fries, the strawberry milkshakes had real strawberries, and the hamburgers looked like restaurant burgers (more like what we see in the photographs). Also, most of the customers biked to the restaurant, so they actually looked healthy.

But, my observation . . . people who WORK at fast foods restaurants never look terribly healthy, even in Europe.
Sandy