How much McDonald's could you eat for tea?

[Laaaaa]

I thinking I'm setting a record!

Large Big Mac meal
Cheeseburger meal
McFlurry
Large milkshake.

No eaten all day and just scoffed all that. Can anyone beat me

@Workinghardeveryday

My exh once had an eating competition in mcds.

He lost but he did eat 13 large Big Mac meals (not all the drinks though). I think he cheated really because he didn’t get bacon on the Big Macs....😂.

Jesus Christ I'd have loved to wire him up for one of our training experiments to see what happened to sodium levels and all that . The physiology would be so interesting.

I love Man Vs Food, it's the only food show I've ever sat to the end of and this thread is a brilliant Mumsnet version.

I've been in fitness forever and honestly I love threads like this because to be healthy you know that part of being healthy is chilling out and just indulging sometimes. Not obsessing or feeling guilty, just sometimes letting go. It's so important to have that healthy relationship with yourself and your body. I hate when people try to sound devout or preachy. Just eat the food that sounds good, if you think you've overeaten, meh, workout and make healthy choices in the days that follow. Not to look good or obsess about fat, just to respect your body and make sure it's getting what it needs.

Got nothing against a McDs or anything else!

[quote frenchiemummy92]@pumpkinsandcoffee that's great for you! I'm 9 stone 2lbs and 5 foot 7. Exercise 5-6 days a week, eat healthy 90% of the time!

The point is one over eaten meal does not make you fat, people need different calories daily to each other. A skinny person that does bugger all all day will need less calories than someone who exercises daily and moves around a lot.

And I really don't think what any one eats is any of your concern. You all do realise if you don't like it you don't have to actually comment? You can think to yourself but keep your mouths closed. Fat shaming people does not work in their favour and often damages people more. Well done though on being so perfectly perfect that you all have the right to judge other people 👏🏻 [/quote]
Same here, I'm a shortie and 8 stone, always have been, and exercise is like a limb for me, it's such a big part of my life. It'll be a cold day in hell before I fat shame anyone or judge their diet though.

@Polkadots2021 I loved man vs food too. I don't think I'd manage any of the massive dishes, but I'd smash the spicy challenges I follow a British competitive eater called Kate Ovens who is amazing at putting away obscene amounts of food. Its fascinating but horrible to see the comments that say she must be bulimic as shes so slim

I miss man v food. He had such a great rapport with the chefs and an obvious love for great food.

My normal order is 9 nugget meal large with a triple cheese burger and whatever cheese side is currently on, washed down with a McFlurry lol

I am greedy

what is "junk" about (for example) a side salad with grilled chicken and a bag of apple slices.

Depends on where you get the salad. McDonalds salads aren’t particularly healthy from the amount of calories and fat listed for them.

Mcchicken sandwich meal and a plain double cheeseburger. Some cheese melts too if I'm feeling extravagant! And a sweet chilli dip 😋

@PurpleDaisies

An interesting question would be how often people are actually eating this sort of blow out meal. For me it’s a rare treat.

Getting an Indian or Chinese take away doesn’t seem to attract such hate when I can easily imagine the healthiness of those are pretty similar.

Yes and when you ask what people get from the Chinese it's always something like 'spring rolls, crispy beef, lemon chicken, chicken fried rice and chips' and no one bats an eye.

I find it really hard to believe some of these claims!

Yes and when you ask what people get from the Chinese it's always something like 'spring rolls, crispy beef, lemon chicken, chicken fried rice and chips' and no one bats an eye.

Generally becayse it’s not positioned as one person eating several meals to themselves at once . More it’s a selection for trying different things, and then leftovers eaten the next day. If it was the same as this and someone was claiming to eat three or four full meals to themselves in one sitting, with sides them of course the reaction would be the same.

This isn’t about it’s McDonald’s, I’m surprised anyone is confused on that, people are commenting on the sheer volume of calories and fat people are saying they eat in one sitting. It’s excessive bingeing.

Some of the claims on the sheer volume of food people want to eat in one sitting is disturbing. It doesn’t matter if it’s McDonald’s, Chinese, Indian, home cooking, or buying four double sandwiches from the service station and eating them followed by a six pack of donuts chaser

It’s not about it being McDonald’s, it’s the sheer volume of bingeing.

Generally becayse it’s not positioned as one person eating several meals to themselves at once . More it’s a selection for trying different things, and then leftovers eaten the next day. If it was the same as this and someone was claiming to eat three or four full meals to themselves in one sitting, with sides them of course the reaction would be the same.

I think that’s a bit disingenuous. The portion of food most people eat as a take away from an Indian or Chinese is several times more than if they were cooking a mid week curry and full of ghee/oil unless you’re deliberately trying healthy options. An Indisn/Chinese take away dinner is going to be comparable in terms of calories to some of these big meals.

What about what people eat at a bbq? That’s often several burgers/hot dogs/ribs/wings etc with not exactly healthy sides, puddings and booze?

Nobody is pretending this is a healthy meal. As a rare treat on the background of an otherwise healthy diet it’s not exactly going to be a disaster.

I don’t eat more on a take away than a curry I’d cook at home and I certainly don’t eat enough that it would the same amount of calories or fat as three large McDonald’s meals with sides and I don’t know any one who eats like that.

I also don’t know anyone who eats several burgers and several hot dogs and sides and pudding at a bbq, I’ve never seen anyone eat like that.

So maybe our points of reference are different.

The drinks in OP’s post come to 1.4l. Not including the McFlurry that will probably have melted by the time they get to it! I can’t imagine that once the drinks have been drunk there can be any space left in the stomach for anything else. Maybe I’m underestimating the stomachs ability to stretch? I’m pretty small so maybe some people just have much larger stomachs.

Any way, the other think that this thread made me think was, wasn’t it pretty cold by the time you got to the second meal? Or was it a staged order?!

I do agree with those that are saying this is binge eating. Which can be in eating disorder in its own right. I guess that depends on frequency though.

@AtleastitsnotMonday

The drinks in OP’s post come to 1.4l. Not including the McFlurry that will probably have melted by the time they get to it! I can’t imagine that once the drinks have been drunk there can be any space left in the stomach for anything else. Maybe I’m underestimating the stomachs ability to stretch? I’m pretty small so maybe some people just have much larger stomachs.

Any way, the other think that this thread made me think was, wasn’t it pretty cold by the time you got to the second meal? Or was it a staged order?!

I do agree with those that are saying this is binge eating. Which can be in eating disorder in its own right. I guess that depends on frequency though.

I think this is important. You can't comfortably eat that volume of food, let alone drink as well unless you regularly over eat. This is normalising binge eating behaviours.

I came back to this thread to drool over more McDonald's meals and see it's turned into an argument 🙄

@professionalcockney of course it would turn out like this! 🙄

@professionalcockney

I came back to this thread to drool over more McDonald's meals and see it's turned into an argument 🙄

You can still read the first hundred or so posts and drool over the excessive eating on those?

@Bluntness100 I've already read them 💁‍♀️

I wish there was a thread like this for every type of takeaway 🤣

Honestly there generally is. Advanced search is crap though on here. 😂

@Bluntness100 have you been drooling or are you just triggered by the thread? burger 🍔 🍟 🤤

I absolutely love McDonalds, i have the same every time:

Large quarter pounder with cheese meal, 6 Nuggets, Sprite and a McFlurry. YUM!

The last McDonalds I had in 2015 at a rest stop off the M4 and it was magnificent. I was hungover and managed a Big Mac Meal, chocolate milkshake and apple pie.

I don’t live in the UK and we do t have McDonalds where I live (shit ton of BK and a Wendy’s though).

Definitely couldn’t have done more than that though!

Thought of this thread yesterday. Had big Mac meal large for lunch (drive through). They got the order wrong. Much to my delight when we realised when we got home they had put an extra Big Mac in!!

I ate 2 Big Macs, large fries, dd’s fries she left (most off large), 4 chicken nuggets, 2 big bites of a big tasty, washed down with a Diet Coke 😁.

Was a bit full after though... was lovely!!!

Oooo could just eat it again now.....

Forgot to mention to those who think I regularly over eat, I don’t, not in the slightest. Average height, not overweight, don’t binge eat - I just like being greedy sometimes - what’s wrong with that?!!!

Large Big Mac meal
2 double cheeseburgers
Large fries
Vanilla milkshake with a double espresso in it.
Large Coke Zero.