Poll: how many mcdonalds do you have a month?
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I love the taste of McDonalds burger & chips but I've been about twice in 5 years.
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Getting better.
Used to be BK every lunch time during week days, with two double swiss, large fries and coke. I used to just burn it all off untill I hit around 27 and went from 85Kg (32-34 inch waist) to 106Kg (40 inch waist).
After far too much of that I have cut down to 1 or 2 times a week but am working for a lower count as that is mainly due to lasyness or boredom of just eating veg for tea.
It is a little difficult as my older son will always hassle us for fast food, the little one is a fussy eater and loves fries, my wife also enjoys McDs or KFC and none of them put on weight. There is also an eating out culture here and the only other cheap places are the food courts or coffee shops which serve food which tends not to agree with me.
I will work back down to normal portions (standard meal, no upsize, no quarter pounders / big macs) and then work at getting every one else away as well.
I am now down to around 98Kg and lowering it but it takes a lot of hard work. There is a thread over in sports arena covering the progress and the ups and downs.
On thing I have noticed since limiting my intake is that I was getting very regular piercing headaches behind the right eye that would only go away with rest/sleep. Headache tablets would not work. Since my consumption of McDs has reduced significantly I rarely get them any more. The one time I did slip and fall to be old bad habits they came back again. I presume something in the food is building up and reaches an overload point with XXXX meals over XXXX days and sparks off an attack.
RB
Just wondering - what is Singapore like in relation to getting diet soft drinks? I've noticed here, there is hardly any choice in diet drinks - Diet Coke/Pepsi at the most - nothing else really. And places like BK or KFC don't have any diet drinks on offer (not that I've noticed anyway)
I've been here for a few months and my stomach is finally adjusting to the local food - for the first while, I had the runs a lot ! I think food here is very similar to Singapore (just a bit cheaper
, I think most things cost same here in RM as they do in SGD)
Don't bother - it's just the usual snowdog and his completely irrelevant to us discussions about how things happen in the Netherlands.
Pretty much the same here really. Not even sure I have even seen diet 7Up etc here. Singapore is only healthy as the majority eat the hawker centre / coffee shop foods which if not healthier in contents are certainly smaller in portions
. I've been here for a few months and my stomach is finally adjusting to the local food - for the first while, I had the runs a lot ! I think food here is very similar to Singapore (just a bit cheaper
After two and a half years here I finally discovered my toilet painting abilities were not a by product of my terrible diet (gained around 11Kg or just under 2 stone in that time) but when the junk was cut out, it would only occur when eating local food, chicken rice being a common one. Since cooking for myself and eating healthier there have been no issues
.Funnily enough I was through KL last weekend as I spent a long weekend at Genting with the wife and kids. Didn't eat at McDs or KFC but at the other fried chicken place (Malaysian brand ? - forget the name). Was a little surprised when they started taking the order down using a notepad from behind the counter, that and the two older Malay ladies who seemed to be trying to climb in to my shoes from behind
. Maybe a discussion for another thread though .RB
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Pretty much the same here really. Not even sure I have even seen diet 7Up etc here. Singapore is only healthy as the majority eat the hawker centre / coffee shop foods which if not healthier in contents are certainly smaller in portions
After two and a half years here I finally discovered my toilet painting abilities were not a by product of my terrible diet (gained around 11Kg or just under 2 stone in that time) but when the junk was cut out, it would only occur when eating local food, chicken rice being a common one. Since cooking for myself and eating healthier there have been no issues
Funnily enough I was through KL last weekend as I spent a long weekend at Genting with the wife and kids. Didn't eat at McDs or KFC but at the other fried chicken place (Malaysian brand ? - forget the name). Was a little surprised when they started taking the order down using a notepad from behind the counter, that and the two older Malay ladies who seemed to be trying to climb in to my shoes from behind
RB
Yeah, haven't seen any Diet 7UP etc. here at all, just Coke and Pepsi at some places.
Maybe you mean Kenny Rogers? Or there's another healthier one ... red/yellow colour scheme .. .can't remember the name
Started cooking for myself a lot more recently too , being diabetic I like to know what's in my food and makes it so difficult if I'm eating out a few times a day. Also the portions of rice they serve at the local places here are huge - and no one really does brown rice ... only white
.Just getting to grips with using more 'local' ingredients really, as when I start buying ingredients which I would cook with in the UK - it gets expensive very quickly.
At least things like fresh chicken breasts are fairly cheap from Cold Storage - equivalent to around £3 per kilo
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Yes you can.
You open it up, and shove it in yer gob.
This, you can eat anything in a car. How is fish and chips any different, unwrap it and chow down. If anything it's easier than a drivethrough meal because it's all in one place. You're not looking for space on the dash to store chips, coke, onion rings and whatever else you've bought.
Nope, I know Kenny Rogers restaurants, have one downstairs from my office. I think it is the red and yellow colour scheme one I am thinking of.....
. Name sounds like a homely American chain ('Ma Baker' or the like). Started cooking for myself a lot more recently too , being diabetic I like to know what's in my food and makes it so difficult if I'm eating out a few times a day. Also the portions of rice they serve at the local places here are huge - and no one really does brown rice ... only white
Same here, white rice is pretty dirt cheap but brown rice is fairly expensive. You can only buy for self cooking or have in expensive restaurants.
Well they are exotic here
. I couldn't get Bisto beef gravy anywhere here at Christmas. Could get Chicken or Onion but have never seen beef even in Carrefour or Cold Storage. I was gutted.Yep, if you can get them, chicken breast are pretty cheap, although they are also very small, as people prefer the thighs/wings.
I still find it bizarre they call Cornettos, 'drumsticks'. Makes me think of chicken icecream
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I voted none but in reality its a handful of times a year maybe. I haven't been since 2009 I don't think. Might pop into town later on and buy some fries as a treat.
The last thing I had was a burger from BK and that was beginning of May.
The last thing I had was a burger from BK and that was beginning of May.
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Yep, if you can get them, chicken breast are pretty cheap, although they are also very small, as people prefer the thighs/wings.
I still find it bizarre they call Cornettos, 'drumsticks'. Makes me think of chicken icecream
RB
My local supermarket doesn't actually sell chicken breasts and only thighs / wings , I prefer breast meat due to less fat !
Can't complain about the size though, they're always around 200G each which I find reasonable
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Mind you, I can leave my desk, get a sandwich from the local supermarket, and be back at my desk about ten minutes later, and that's without a car (I don't own one). Handy.
Not for long i hear they're employing security guards to watch the sandwich area after a spate of thefts
I'm a veggie and the spicy bean burger available is awesome! Probably one of the best burgers I've had (bar a few pretty incredible ones from one-off food places). An added bonus as a veggie is I don't have to worry too much about where the the contents of my burger has come from
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An added bonus as a veggie is I don't have to worry too much about where the the contents of my burger has come from
Surely as a veggie, you should be more worried about what is in your food.
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None , they dont go well with cardboard chips.