Today was a typical day off from work, running here, running there, and I gave in! After weeks of healthy eating I caved to the kids and the request for "hot fries", golden arches here we come. A hamburger and medium fries later, and I'm suffering from, ummmmm, let's call it intestinal distress. I'm not blaming the food itself, I don't think it was bad or that I'm suffering from food poisoning. I think I'm suffering from eating junk when I'm not used to it!
Hopefully the end is near and all will be normal soon, next time I'll keep driving!
You're not alone.. last night I scoffed a handful of chocolate fingers I'd bought as a treat for the kids... should have known who would end up the eating them, the kids ate a couple and then I was left trying not to notice the still nearly full box
After a week of Atkins I'm now feeling a little bit of "intestinal distress" myself!
I'm sorry about your intestinal distress, but congratulations on retraining your body to reject junk food! When I used to stop there with DD I sometimes bought the grilled chicken Asian salad (skipped the dressing -- comes with a sauce). Pretty good -- both in calories and taste.
I remember the first time I realized the fries had more calories than the burger!
Don't let this derail you! You can get back on track. Moreover, see if you can figure out what you'd rather do in the future when that arises and get back on track!
Today was a typical day off from work, running here, running there, and I gave in! After weeks of healthy eating I caved to the kids and the request for "hot fries", golden arches here we come. A hamburger and medium fries later, and I'm suffering from, ummmmm, let's call it intestinal distress. I'm not blaming the food itself, I don't think it was bad or that I'm suffering from food poisoning. I think I'm suffering from eating junk when I'm not used to it!
Hopefully the end is near and all will be normal soon, next time I'll keep driving!
I feel for you. Been there, done that. I hope that you are feeling better.
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Originally Posted by JayEll
McD's hamburger (plain, no cheese) (not Big Mac, QP, etc.):
250 cals, 9 gms fat, 31 gms carb, 12 gms protein
Medium french fries:
380 cals, 19 gms fat, 48 gms carb, 4 gms protein
i only ever used to drink the strawberry milkshakes there....
but after finding the nutritional information i wont be drinking them very often at all....
once a year maybe!!....
Grease has always caused me 'intestinal distress' (a term I am very familiar with!) so I have never been a big McD's person. I do eat their salads or the grilled honey mustard wrap. The grilled asian chicken salad is 300 calories w/out the dressing (if I use dressing it's half the packet for another 45 calories; that's way too much dressing anway). The grilled wraps are 260 calories apiece (270 for the ranch) and it's just enough food with a Diet Coke or a sugar free vanilla iced coffee (90 calories) to call a meal.
Kind of makes you wonder what ingredients they really put in Alli
Ya know what? I don't think I wanna know.
Alli - oy.
danemom, all is not lost. I think you've learned a very valuable lesson for those 600 plus calories. It really could have been lots worse. Feel better.
Last edited by rockinrobin; 07-05-2008 at 08:59 AM.