People Try to Lose Weight at McDonald's

[deadparrot]

RALEIGH, N.C. - Inspired by the documentary "Super Size Me," Merab Morgan decided to give a fast-food-only diet a try. The construction worker and mother of two ate only at McDonald's for 90 days — and dropped 37 pounds in the process.

It was a vastly different outcome than what happened in the documentary to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who put on 30 pounds and saw his health deteriorate after 5,000 calories a day of nothing but McDonald's food.

Morgan, from Raleigh, thought the documentary had unfairly targeted the world's largest restaurant company, implying that the obese were victims of a careless corporate giant. People are responsible for what they eat, she said, not restaurants. The problem with a McDonald's-only diet isn't what's on the menu, but the choices made from it, she said.

"I thought it's two birds with one stone — to lose weight and to prove a point for the little fat people," Morgan said. "Just because they accidentally put an apple pie in my bag instead of my apple dippers doesn't mean I'm going to say, 'Oh, I can eat the apple pie.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fit_mcdonald_s_diets

[Massacure]

1. She needs a captain obvious of the day award.

Only eating 2,000 calories makes it easy to lose weight. The problem is people don't know that McDonald's burgers have 500 calories a piece.

A big mac, large fries, and large soda is 1/2 to 2/3 a persons daily needs in calories.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. "the little fat people"?! Will have to send this to

http://naafa.org/

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Oh for Pete's sake

What are "little fat people?" Now that she's dropped from 227 to 190, is Morgan a little fat person, a medium fat person, or a big fat person?

Sorry dearie, but you'd have a lot more variety on that 2000 calorie diet if you made your own food. I dare you to stay on your McDonald's diet until you get to your target weight. In fact, I triple dog dare you.

[mark11727]

5. When she said "little fat people," I immediately thought of...

[Incitatus]

4. Nutrition facts

2,000 calories a day off this menu? :rofl:

http://www.mcdonalds.co.nz/food_nutritional_guide_main.htm

[flvegan]

6. Ummmm...she limited herself to 2,000 then 1,400 calories a day there

and went from 227 to 190.

In 90 days, at that caloric limitation, considering the weight she stands to lose, AND as a construction worker (with the assumption she's an active one) she really should have lost more than that, to be honest.

Dumbass story.

[Incitatus]

7. When freepers eat too much McDonalds.

[DS1]

8. I think by the "little fat people" comment

she meant people in the sense of small groups of people without armies of lobbyists behind them. Or maybe they have lobbyists you just can't see.