Bashing McDonalds for their fatty foods is all the rage all the time. The movie SuperSize Me that came out a few years ago didn't help things any. Of course, it's a lot easier to blame McD's for selling you a 1500cal meal than it is to take responsibility for your own diet. That being said, I was honestly surprised to see how many items on McD's menu would fit within the 30g fat budget assuming you skip the fries and go for diet soda. That being said, it's time to add rule #2:
Total cals should not add up to more than 600-700cals/meal.
For starters, fries are huge limit busters - if slightly less than Jack in the Box:
Small - 230cal/11g
Medium - 380/19g
Large - 500/25g
Only the tiniest burgers and salads would fit under the fat limit even with the small fries. So, no fries for us this time.
While Big Mac is usually cited used as the stereotypical "fat foods are bad for you" example, the nutrition data shows surprisingly good totals of 540cals/29g fat. Holding the fries and going diet on the soda gives us a nice burger minus an extra pound of weight by the end of the week.
Just for laughs, here's an example of a real diet buster:
Angus Bacon & Cheese - 790cals/39g
Large Fries - 500cals/25g
Large Coca-Cola - 310cals/0g
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Total - 1600cals/64g fat
Even going medium on the fries and soda will only subtract 220 calories, but this is like taking a bucket of water out of an ocean in this case.
Crunching the numbers for a typical #1 Big Mac meal (burger + medium fries and reg soda), we got the following:
Big Mac - 540cals/29g
Medium Fries - 280cals/19g
Medium Coca-Cola - 210cals/0g
This adds up to a grand total of 1030cals/48g, with the glaringly obvious fact that the fries and the soda are only 50 calories short of another Big Mac burger.
To recap - hold the fries or get a small sandwich, go diet on the soda, and you'll shave off a good 400cals off your trip to McD's.
This concludes today's lesson!
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