The MacDonalds Test
Published by Diet Trials January 27th, 2006 in Golden Rules, Week 3I have a test that I will be carrying out over the next week or so when I get the opportunity to have a MacDonalds meal. Before the diet I probably would have had a MacDonalds every few weeks, mainly if we were out somewhere with the kids at the weekend and we would take them for a Happy Meal. It is certainly not a regular meal for me. One of the main complaints that I always have when I eat a MacDonalds meal is that they would never fill me up. This is something that I have heard a few people say especially men, who may end up having to order an extra burger or some more fries just to feel like they have eaten enough when they leave the restaurant.
So the test will find out whether the rules of the Paul Mckenna diet will change my outlook on having a MacDonalds. I reckon that the reason that the meal does not fill me is because I always eat a MacDonalds really quickly. It’s just something about opening the box up and smelling that juicy burger, you just can’t help stuffing it in as fast as humanly possible. So I will eat my next MacDonald consciously making sure that I smell my food and chew it properly and slowly, taking into account all of the flavours and textures that are part of each bite.
I strongly suspect, knowing that my meal portion sizes have been reduced by eating consciously that the MacDonalds will be able to fill me up if I eat it conscioulsy. I am more concerned to find out what a MacDonalds really tastes like. You are certainly more aware of salt levels in food when you chew it a lot…so I may even find myself being totally put off eating a MacDonalds!
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Fish and chips-MacDonalds–yummie, yummie! hard to resist the temptation. I wonder if you ate a MacDonalds slowly allowing it to become cold whether it would become totally unappetising! Anyway here we are again at the weekend–hope you’ve got plans to distract from the wandering and hoping to find a tasty treat. Good luck
if you just eat a MacDonalds burger without the bun it tastes like your chewing cardboard, no taste what so ever, I can’t imagine trying one cold
good luck with your test
Wow - when I hear McDonalds and Diet on the same page … I’m in. Conscious McMunching. I can handle that. Supersize me !
Well be sure of it I will let you all know how the MacDonalds test works out for me. Any normal diet would forbid you from going anywhere near MacDonalds, which is what I like about this diet, you don’t have to limit any food at all.
If you are anything like me, conciously eating means going off all the junk food I have been stuffing my face with for years. Have you noticed how greasy and salty it all is? ‘Course, I still eat it ;O)
i live on a staple diet of macdonalds along with all the other junk food on the planet, i havent eaten a healthy thing in my life!!
i still weight under 10 stone
keep tryin fatties
a mac aday keeps the rankies away :>
i disagree Mr Mac, my typical order from macdonalds comprises of the following:-
1 x large quarter pounder with cheese meal
1 x quarter pounder burger
1 x large frys
1 x large coke (none of this diet crap)
1 x large Big Mac meal
1 x big mac burger
1 x large frys
1 x large coke
4 x double cheese burgers
2 x boxes of 9 chicken nuggets
1 x bacon cheese burger
1 x apple pie
1 x chocolate covered donut to finish
on some rare occasions in a morning i might have orange juice with my bacon roll and hashbrown rather than a black coffee
and yes i eat all that and weigh 10 stone, i have a high metabolism which prevents me from gaining weight (some might think it a blessing, i think its a curse tbh)
and i still attract the occasional “rankie”
Coop Dogg
are you saying you order all of that and eat it for one meal or thats what you order at various times of the week when you visit Mcdonalds ?
Debbie, I think Coop Dogg is trying to be clever and obviously does not think that this diet is serious. If he/she hasn’t got a weight problem then he/she won’t understand what people have to go through to lose weight. One day his/her metabolism will slow down and he/she will start piling on the pounds.
Yes debbie that is my typical order at macdonalds, eaten in one sitting, the fact that a mcdonalds meal isnt filling in the first place is an insult as is being charged extra for a milkshake which is cheaper than a coke on the menu
Diet trials, i do understand what people have to go through, i watched my friend go deep into a state of depression because none of these “miracle” diets worked, i was a fixation for her due to my metabolism, she is now anorexic and on medication to try and solve this mess that the society of today, with its fixation on being slim, caused.
i will be glad when the day comes where i put on weight! i can buy jeans off the shelf that i dont need a belt to wear them (and they are 28″ waist too), jumpers that dont drown me and in general clothes that fit right first time, without being altered to suit me.
Wow you must be Mcdonalds best customer
Hi Coop Dogg
I apologise for getting the wrong impression of you. It is just hard to believe that anyone can eat that much food in one sitting. I take it that at every meal time you have to eat a huge amount to feel full?
Have you been diagnosed with anything that is causing this apart from an extremely high metobolic rate….and is there nothing that that can do to slow it down?
I have mentioned earlier in this blog that I have an under active thyroid which has caused my metabolism to slow down, and before I was diagnosed I was getting very tired and lethargic. I now have to take thyroxine every day to stabalise my thyroid. You may possibly have an over active thyroid which they can treat. It is easier to treat an over active thyroid as they are able to remove some of the gland which slows the production of thyroxine down.
Coop Dogg, I take it you do a lot of exercise to keep your weight down then ?
i eat like that all the time, at home or at a restaraunt or take away. i am not overly active and do no exersize. i work 40 hrs a week in a relativly active job.
when i saw the doctor i was told its a high metabolic rate and nothing to worry about, basically he fobbed me off, but i am fit and healthy (as far as im aware) if somethin serious happens to me, theres always A&E