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Lose weight by eating every meal at McDonald's
Written by Philip Greenspun
After a month traveling, I've concluded that the best way to lose weight is by eating every meal at McDonald's.
Suppose that you go to a Whole Foods-style supermarket, at which all manner of incredibly delicious gourmet items are for sale. You spend $200 to stock the fridge. But really you ought to eat all the fruits, vegetables, and prepared foods while they are fresh. The result: massive gluttony and weight gain.
Suppose that you go to a reasonably nice restaurant, costing $20-30 per person. The menu will list an incredibly tempting array of food. It all sounds so great that you order an appetizer and a main dish. You have a tough time deciding among the main dishes and you're sad that you can't order two. The appetizer is actually big enough that you are beginning to feel full when the main dish comes. The main dish is heroic in size, the kind of feast that Homer describes the heroes at Troy as having consumed. You're not really all that hungry but you ordered it so you feel like you should eat at least half. The result: massive gluttony and weight gain.
Eat at home or eat at a restaurant. Either way you get fat.
The solution is McDonald's. If you can remember one piece of medical advice from my brother ("Don't eat anything a caveman wouldn't have eaten"), you skip the fries. For a beverage it is unsweetened iced tea or Diet Coke. So far, zero calories. All you need now is a sandwich. The bread isn't really on the Atkins diet but otherwise a McDonald's sandwich is vastly smaller and lower in calories than anything you'd get in an upscale restaurant. Best of all, the menu at McDonald's won't tempt you into excess. The sandwiches aren't all that delicious. If you're really hungry they can taste pretty good but have you ever been sad that you couldn't order both the Big Mac and the Quarter Pound with Cheese?
Market opportunity: write a book entitled "The McDonald's Diet" that explains how to lose 5 lbs/week eating only in McDonald's.
[This is not a completely original idea, of course. Don Gorske has been at it for 30 years, coincidentally only a few miles from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the site of the big airplane convention where this idea began to take shape.]
The original copy of the article is found
here(Philip Greenspun's Weblog).
MadeleineJoined: 28 Apr 2005
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Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:12 am Reply with quote
Madeleine wrote:
Although McDonald has included a variety of meal in its dishes whome they called fat consious meal but I just want to discribe here that there is no such thing as a "fattening food." Whether it is high in fat and calories or low in fat in calories, any food that contributes calories to your body is only fattening if you eat it when you have already eaten enough! You need to be aware of the balance between your calorie intake and your energy output...your Energy Balance. If you are eating more calories than you are burning off throughout the day the result will be that the calories will be stored as fat.
Telling you one thing that You increase your chances for obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases if you have a high-fat diet. According to the recommendations of The American Dietetic Association and the American Heart Association a healthy diet involves a reduced dietary fat intake to 30 percent or less of total calories and saturated fat to 10 percent or less.
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