Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

I posted the McDonald's link to clarify that eating "bad" food doesn't prevent a person from losing weight.

It's interesting that his cholesterol improved eating Big Macs. I would have expected the opposite. Obesity is more dangerous than "bad" food. It's probably best to stop thinking of specific foods as good or bad, it's the overall diet that matters, and body composition.

I had gained some weight when I was younger and first came into the desk job world. It took longer than it should have to fix, because I believed the stopid crap people say about weight, like to just have to eat virtuous foods. If somebody had said "listen up, fat boy, it's just math" I wouldn't have spent a year being pudgy. As soon as I understood calories are the only thing that matters for weight, it dropped like a bad habit and never came back. I still eat junk food occasionally in small portions, and that probably makes it sustainable.