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Posted: Jun 19 2008 01:46 pm

Virginia man loses 86 pounds eating nothing but McDonald's: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=8391638&ch=4226723&src=news

Suck it, Spurlock. Suck it long and suck it hard, you worthless piece of shit.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 01:51 pm

he probably had aids

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Well, to be fair, a lot of the healthier options McDonalds has been offering (which allowed this guy to lose weight) was a reaction to Spurlock's documentary.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 01:58 pm

Make sure its not a rumor started by McDonalds. Also, you should note his general level of health, not just weight.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:02 pm

Tape worm.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:06 pm

He's going to gain all the weight back. 1400 calories is too little for a 275 lb man. His metabolism is probably fucked. but Spurlock is a pretentious prick, i agree.

Joined: Jun 04 2008 Location: Alabama Posts: 296

RobotGumshoe wrote:

Make sure its not a rumor started by McDonalds. Also, you should note his general level of health, not just weight.

He seems to cover that in the video, if only briefly. He basically went from eating 5000 calories/day to eating 1400 calories/day. That man has a lot more will power than I could muster.

What I don't understand is, If he's capable of that, why was he eating so much to start with?

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:28 pm

Yeah, McDonald's offers more healthy options than they did.

But you could do the same thing using longtime staples of the McDonald's menu.

You could eat a McMuffin and a Diet Coke for breakfast, a Big Mac and a Diet Coke for lunch, and a Big Mac and a Diet Coke for dinner, and do the same thing.

McMuffin: 300 calories
Big Mac: 540 calories
Diet Coke: 0 calories

Total daily calorie intake: 1380
The USDA recommended calorie intake is 2000. 2000 calories is the amount of calories that the average American metabolism will burn off even if you are completely sedentary all day. If you intake less than this, you will lose weight.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:42 pm

fuck mcdonalds

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:45 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Yeah, McDonald's offers more healthy options than they did.

But you could do the same thing using longtime staples of the McDonald's menu.

You could eat a McMuffin and a Diet Coke for breakfast, a Big Mac and a Diet Coke for lunch, and a Big Mac and a Diet Coke for dinner, and do the same thing.

McMuffin: 300 calories
Big Mac: 540 calories
Diet Coke: 0 calories

Total daily calorie intake: 1380
The USDA recommended calorie intake is 2000. 2000 calories is the amount of calories that the average American metabolism will burn off even if you are completely sedentary all day. If you intake less than this, you will lose weight.

The average male is 168-184lbs, not 275. They base the 2000 calorie diet off this. 1380 is actually deficient for a 170lb man. Most diets don't recommend going below 1500 calories for men, as that is a minimum amount used for basic functions.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:51 pm

Well, my 8th grade teacher lied to me. I hope she lied about cocaine too, cuz I've always wanted to try it.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 02:55 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Well, my 8th grade teacher lied to me. I hope she lied about cocaine too, cuz I've always wanted to try it.

She did. You won't swallow your tongue, and you help stimulate the Columbian economy.
She also lied to you about the Cocaine too, i'm sure.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

I thought super size me was the most entertaining documentary i've ever seen . . . of course its the only documentary i've ever seen.

So is this guy going to be McDonald's answer to Subway's Jarid?

Posted: Jun 19 2008 03:44 pm

Super Size Me is retarded, and there's an unbearable smugness to it. Oh, so you ate like 5lbs of McD's every day for a month, intentionally limited your movement so your muscles would atrophy, and you got really sick? NO FUCING SHIT.

If you're fat, it's not McDonald's fault, it's your own. There are, of course, certain genetic factors involved that might make it harder for you to lose weight or prevent you from ever being as thin as Kate Moss, but the fact remains that you control what you put into your body. I was overweight from probably about 6th grade - 10th grade, then I decided, hey maybe I should eat less. I still had a double quarter pounder with cheese every week, but the rest of the week, I ate less and I ate healthier.

It really fucking offends me when I see legislators pressuring the food industry to get rid of trans fats and whatnot. McDonalds, Hostess, and other companys are under no obligation to provide us with healthy food. Their obligation is to maximize profits, reduce costs, and make their shareholders a bunch of money. There are other companies out there that provide healthy food and people who want healthier food products know where to find them. But at the end of the day, it's my body, and it's my choice. I should be able to walk into a restaurant and order uncooked goose liver without some soulless pinko from the board of health coming in and shutting the place down. And if I want to eat trans fat, I should be allowed to do so. And by extension, if companies want to put trans fat into their products, they should be allowed to do so too. It's called fucking laissez faire.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:09 pm

I was forced to watch that piece of dreck in health class. That movie is a fucking joke.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:10 pm

I'm going to go on a Taco Bell diet so I can get a commercial deal with them and make a lot of money.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:11 pm

They do have that new Fresca "pay five bucks for a tiny-ass burrito" menu.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:12 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Super Size Me is retarded, and there's an unbearable smugness to it. Oh, so you ate like 5lbs of McD's every day for a month, intentionally limited your movement so your muscles would atrophy, and you got really sick? NO FUCING SHIT.

If you're fat, it's not McDonald's fault, it's your own. There are, of course, certain genetic factors involved that might make it harder for you to lose weight or prevent you from ever being as thin as Kate Moss, but the fact remains that you control what you put into your body. I was overweight from probably about 6th grade - 10th grade, then I decided, hey maybe I should eat less. I still had a double quarter pounder with cheese every week, but the rest of the week, I ate less and I ate healthier.

It really fucking offends me when I see legislators pressuring the food industry to get rid of trans fats and whatnot. McDonalds, Hostess, and other companys are under no obligation to provide us with healthy food. Their obligation is to maximize profits, reduce costs, and make their shareholders a bunch of money. There are other companies out there that provide healthy food and people who want healthier food products know where to find them. But at the end of the day, it's my body, and it's my choice. I should be able to walk into a restaurant and order uncooked goose liver without some soulless pinko from the board of health coming in and shutting the place down. And if I want to eat trans fat, I should be allowed to do so. And by extension, if companies want to put trans fat into their products, they should be allowed to do so too. It's called fucking laissez faire.

Ok, as someone who knows you and your eating habits, I have trouble believing you were ever overweight. I mean, you eat every scrap of food and even drink the condiments at restaurants and you're like 80 pounds!

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:14 pm

Well, I have a nonexistent breakfast and a very light lunch.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:22 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Super Size Me is retarded, and there's an unbearable smugness to it. Oh, so you ate like 5lbs of McD's every day for a month, intentionally limited your movement so your muscles would atrophy, and you got really sick? NO FUCING SHIT.

If you're fat, it's not McDonald's fault, it's your own. There are, of course, certain genetic factors involved that might make it harder for you to lose weight or prevent you from ever being as thin as Kate Moss, but the fact remains that you control what you put into your body. I was overweight from probably about 6th grade - 10th grade, then I decided, hey maybe I should eat less. I still had a double quarter pounder with cheese every week, but the rest of the week, I ate less and I ate healthier.

It really fucking offends me when I see legislators pressuring the food industry to get rid of trans fats and whatnot. McDonalds, Hostess, and other companys are under no obligation to provide us with healthy food. Their obligation is to maximize profits, reduce costs, and make their shareholders a bunch of money. There are other companies out there that provide healthy food and people who want healthier food products know where to find them. But at the end of the day, it's my body, and it's my choice. I should be able to walk into a restaurant and order uncooked goose liver without some soulless pinko from the board of health coming in and shutting the place down. And if I want to eat trans fat, I should be allowed to do so. And by extension, if companies want to put trans fat into their products, they should be allowed to do so too. It's called fucking laissez faire.

I completely agree with this, and that's why I hate those "Truth" commercials. I understand people got duped back in the day by the tobacco companies, but today if you don't know that tobacco is bad for you, then you are just fucking stupid, or were raised by wolves. People have all sorts of choices that effect our health, and if you think its smart to eat mcdonalds only, then you are stupid and deserve to be fat and all the consequental health problems that come with it.

Posted: Jun 19 2008 04:29 pm

ah, the good ol' eat once a day diet.

i was on that when i was taking phentermine.

and now i only eat twice a day but i started working out again since i feel im getting fat now that i dont ride my bike since i have no reason since i have no job

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Well, my 8th grade teacher lied to me. I hope she lied about cocaine too, cuz I've always wanted to try it.

She did. You won't swallow your tongue, and you help stimulate the Columbian economy.
She also lied to you about the Cocaine too, i'm sure.

Yeah but that's because of your frenulum. If you cut it out, you could swallow your tongue.

Oh... and this is a SAD moment in Google history.

A frenulum is a small fold of tissue that secures or restricts the motion of a mobile organ in the body.

That thing inside your mouth under your tongue that stops it from moving around... that's a frenulum.

Do a Google search (NOT SAFE FOR WORK) and you will be sadly presented with another of the body's frenulum's.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Frenulum

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

The movies about it have been entertaining, but lets be honest, just about any type of extreme diet is less healthy than a balanced eating habit.

Still, food effects everyone differently, but on the average McDonalds is not good for the human body if the goal is to live a long, healthy life.

Posted: Jun 20 2008 09:10 am

I thought Super Size Me was an interesting documentary, but only because it was cool to actually see what could happen to a person if they ate it that much.

Yeah, I knew what was going to happen, but it was cool to actually see it. What was lame however, are the people who sue McDonalds because they had heart attacks or died from eating too much. It clearly is a persons choice to do this, and stupid companies and lawyers who are fishing for money by forcing companies to "go green" or to make ridiculous health choices for us.

Posted: Jun 20 2008 09:49 am

Well said, Dorn.