Super Size Me

Hello

I loved the movie... I haven't touched Macca's since.
I'm trying to lose all my weight before my daughter is old enough to realise that mummy had to be on a diet... I want her to grow up in a healthy environment with lots of healthy home made alternatives....

well only 16 kilo's to go so i'm nearly done can't wait, i hope i'm finished by her first birthday which is in 3 months. i think I will yeah.....
cya di
 
americanwit said:
I liked it. My only problem with the movie was that Morgan Sperlock did not eat fast food before doing this. So of course it was a total shock to his system. I would have liked to see it with another perosn who did eat fast food on a regular/semi-regular basis to see if the results were the same.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. He was a vegetarian to start with, much less not even being a fast food eater. Then, he suddenly starts shooving fast fried animal products down his throat everyday. It's no wonder his system wasn't ready for it and he reacted teh way he did.

By the way, there have been others who have taken the "McDonald Challenge" (as it's come to be coined) who have lost weight by eating McDonalds 3-4 meals a day every day for a month.
 
The movie was good. I wanted to tell you guys I have discovered that eating healthy isn't that expensive. I can feed my family on ~60-100 a week and when I go shopping for our cheat day I will spend ~40-60 for a day. Now sometimes there is left overs sowe will eat them next weekend.

As far as the kids diet thing, my son is a different child now since he eats NO SUGAR,TRANS FAT, ENRICHED FLOUR,FOOD COLORING 6 days a week.
 
I think Supersize me was a rather drastic exaduratate which made its point.

I can live on McDonalds and still loose weight and be healthy.

The cost would be an ass though :D

All you need to do is ask for the mayo and cheese to be removed from burgers, or choose some of the healthier options (minus mayos and cheeses etc and various other sauces)

Get diet drinks instead of normal ones, water instead of milkshakes
 
As a teacher I must say that things are starting to get better in schools. Even though this is a slow process, I have seen a number of new vending machines coming into schools with healthier snacks. Another thing they do, is if they are having both healthy and unhealthy snacks together in vending machines, they will make the price a lot higher for those snacks that are unhealthy. Then students will more likely buy the less expensive and more nutritious item.

This may be a different story for schools in the states though - I'm not too sure. I teach in Canada, and the school systems tend to be a lot more advanced - including promoting healthy eating habits, and getting healthier snacks and mealplans into the schools.

I hope they continue with this transformation though!

Jaclyn
 
Mz_Charlie_B said:
Fast food does seem cheaper to me, and I have also noticed that poorer people are more obese because of it, at least that is the way it seems.
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It's cheaper than sit-down places, but not cheaper than making it yourself. I see poor people all the time go to fast food joints all the time, but I don't see how they can afford it. Even at $4 at a fast food joint, which isn't uncommon at all, that's $1,000 per year just for lunch for one person, just counting 5 days a week. That's insane. I've seen people who make 15 or 20 grand a year paying $5 a day for lunch.

Think about it. If you made $18,000 a year, you're in the 15% tax bracket. You take home 85% of that, or $15,300. Now if you spent $5 a day for 6 days of the week for lunch, you would spend $1,560 per year - over 10% of your take-home pay. How stupid is that?

For whatever it's worth, one trick that I've found helpful is that at night I cook the same amount of food that I used to, but first thing I do when it's finished is set aside enough for two lunches. I stick those in those sealed lunch plates and the next day or the one after that, that's lunch for both me and my wife. Keeps us from eating too much, plus it's like free healthy lunch. Saves time, saves money, and I get to eat something healthy.
 
I've been dying to watch this movie, unfortunately I just haven't had time to see it yet...

There really isn't much of an excuse for eating too much fast food, it can become extremely expensive, and even having the need to eat prepared food in a short amount of time, can be remedied by just making your meal the night before at home. :)

However, while eating fast food isn't cheap, the junky foods that alot of grocery stores sell are. I recently had a problem when I moved in with my fiance, (I had no job yet, and he was attending school for a job as a flight dispatcher, so he had to work less time than usual) where we had enough to pay the bills, but very little for anything else. Our grocery money was practically non-existent, and we were forced to buy some very unhealthy alternatives...So for that time period I really understood how hard it can be for underprivaledged families to eat healthy. Like a 5-pack of kraft macaroni and cheese is only 2 dollars, and a pack of nasty barely-meat hotdogs for 1 dollar can last for 5 days...I swear I'll never eat like that again, but sometimes those are the options people can be left with in an unfortunate situation. I'm not saying that's always the case, but it's something that I think many people struggle with.

(Myself, I'm just glad I'm able to afford my gym subscription, and healthy foods again! lol! :D )
 
I know that at Everett High, in Washington State(where I'm a junior), they've stopped all pop machines, and now you can only get water, milk, or juice. There is only 1 vending machine, and it's in a building that we share with the city, so there isn't a lot of control there. They also stopped making their french fries. (though, I don't see why, considering they make tater tots, pizza, burgers, and nachos and tons of other "bad for you food")

One thing though, is Juniors and Seniors are allowed "off campus lunch" because the school is spread across 3 city streets in the middle of Downtown Everett, and at lunch, the upperclassmen are allowed to leave campus and get whatever they want to get.

I think that they're trying to give us the chance of making the healthier choice, but I think that it was pretty pointless, cause now instead of us buying crap food from the school (with the money going to the various school clubs) we go somewhere else to buy junk food, and the school gets none of the money, and it's hurt the programs. Drama, music, and a bunch of other clubs had their alloted budgets cut in half because of losing the soda sales. At school's where there isn't an "open campus lunch" the cutting of soda machines have supposedly sparked an increase in test stores, and the ability of students to pay attention for longer periods of time.

Now, "Super Size Me" is part of the health department's ciriculum, and all the health classes watch it. I was shocked by the movie personally, and it's pretty much put me off fast food. (I only eat it maybe once a month...maybe...) The movie is a great eye opener, and it did stop some kids from eating the crap they sell in the cafeteria...:D
 
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blackwdw said:
I really wish he would have eaten fast food once or twice a day, though, so people could see that even smaller amounts of fast food are bad for you. It's too easy to look at him and say, "Well, I don't eat THAT much fast food, I'm sure I'm fine."
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This is exactly what i said when i saw it :)
 
The thing is, fast food may be bad for you in some forms. But in all seriousness, fast food in moderation or chosen right ISNT that bad for you.

Sure you dont wanna be eating KFC every other night, or McDonalds etc.
But for instance, drop the combo, just get the burger. The chips dont fill you up much anyway. Its a fairly well rounded meal. If you want to go lower on fat then take out the cheese and mayo and other creamy style sauce.

People need to learn moderation more than they need to learn 'no fast food ever again'
 
i agree with you wishes, but in my case - i'd go crazy and i'm a sucker for fries...ha! so, i think each person has to choose, right? but yeah - i agree.
 
I just recently saw this movie myself, I never really knew what it was about before. It didn't change my opinion of fast food as I had already done that months ago, but the things he felt, the depression, his personality changing, all those reminded me of me when I was a junk food junkie! I personally eat for convenience so fast food was the way to go for me so eating McDonalds everynight was nothing, until I weight 300lbs! If I go to McDonalds now usually I just don't want it or I can taste all the grease. If I do feel like a burger its plan with nothing on it and no fries! :)
 
jmnewsome said:
i agree with you wishes, but in my case - i'd go crazy and i'm a sucker for fries...ha! so, i think each person has to choose, right? but yeah - i agree.
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So have them then :)

Im a sucker for the fries myself. i eat them on average 3 times a week. The thing is, how many are you eating? and are you eating an extra large thickshake with that?

1 Small Fries 250kcal
1 Medium Fries 380kcal
1 Large Fries 570kcal
1 Supersize Fries 610kcal

That may seem a lot, but compare it to this

1 Large Triple thick shake 1110kcal

Calorie content taken from
 
Wow Wishes!!

I went to the McDonalds website to compare a "healthy meal" vs. an average meal.

So here goes

Big Mac
Large Fries w/ 1 pack ketchup
Large Coke
McFlurry
Total Calories - 2000

Vs-

Hamburger
Small Fries
Iced Tea, no sugar
Fruit n Parfait, no granola
Total Calories - 650

Vs-

Cesar Salad w/ Grilled Chicken
Newmans Own Low fat balsamic vinegarette
Water
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
Total Carlories - 410 (260 without the cookie)

You can do McDonald's healthy if you choose too, I think it is all a matter of will power.:rolleyes:
 
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gosh i must say this documentary really left me kind of disturbed haha.. i actually watched it three times! it shows an extreme form of fast-food addiction doesn't it.. and dont forget he also had a rule -whenever he is asked whether or not he wants to upsize his meal, he'll say yes.. and yeps i've heard of cases where people have lost weight eatin fast-food, which is really contradictory.. and i do have a friend who loves junk food and fast-food - the fried and unhealthy stuff, like macs, british takeaways (the sausage cheese and fried mars bars), burger king, etc.. and yet she's very skinny! she can just live on fast-food and still be so skinny.. i guess she's just blessed with high metabolism eh?
 
Hmmmm.. no matter what I still love my KFC! :p
I have it only once a month or less though...

But McDonalds?? I don't really have cravings for it. There are so many better ones there... even Burger King tastes better. And Carl's Jr. Subway is the best (as fast food, not junk food! ;) )

Over here we have Japanese variety like Mos Burger where the burgers are made of rice patties rather than buns :D .. There's also yoshinoya, another Japanese fast food.

Hmmm I suppose it MIGHT be cheaper to buy junk food from the groceries, but eating Macs is NOT cheaper than home-cooked meals, surely? From the postings I read above it doesn't seem to be that cheap. And you have to consider the long-term costs like medical/hospitalization costs associated with all the diseases/ health risks caused by eating too much fast food.

Btw if you want convenience, healthy food and at a low price, try visiting Singapore where meals at foodcourts or nearby hawker stalls costs anwhere between $2-5SGD, that's like ermm.. USD1.5-3.50!!

The flight ticket will cost you a bomb though! :D
 
Fast food= ugh

I basically gave up on fast food after watching that movie. I'll have it on very rare occasions such as during travel, but I think that won't last long now that I'm on this diet. It's like the more weight I lose, the better I eat and the more I exercise, the more horrible it seems for me to put that processed, artery-clogging garbage in my body. I've never felt better than I do now, and it's because of all the fruits, veggies and water- not fast food, soda and junk food. All those things do is slow you do and set you back. It's okay to endulge once in a blue moon, but just remember "A moment on the lips, forever on the hips." Because it truly does take a while to burn that junk out of your body if you eat more than just a little bit.
 
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