To think I can eat junk and not gain weight?

[CherryPeakerr]

Ok so say if I was 9stone and I needed 1,300 calories to main that weight (not lose or gain).

What if I ate:

6 x McDonald's chicken nugget (300 calories)
1 x medium fries (300 calories)
2 x chocolate bar (400 calories)
1 x soda (100 calories)
1 x bag of crisps (200 calories)

That's 1,300 so surely I'd stay the same weight despite having a poor diet?

disclaimer these calories are not accurate

Maybe you'd get skinny fat!

God almighty, how vile would you feel on that diet? I mean, it might be years before you experience serious health issues as a result, or then again it might not, but even if you were able to keep to that, which I doubt, living off a restricted calorie diet in which every calorie is nutritionally void sounds like a recipe for sluggishness, depression, and constantly falling ill. Why would anyone want to do that to themselves?

Skinny people who eat tons of crap certainly exist, but they're not also living off restricted calories - and research is pretty clear that they can pay a steep price if they don't exercise and change their diets as they get older.

You could. There are plenty of skinny people with crap diets.

You would almost certainly be setting yourself up for health problems though. Heart disease, diabetes and some cancers can all be triggered by poor diets, regardless of whether you are fat or thin. And probably many more diseases, including mental health issues may have a dietary link.

Just reading this makes me want some broccoli, like, now.

I think after a few days or so of that diet, you'd be craving a salad or something - as you often do after Christmas when you've been eating chocolate all the time.

Antiopea has the right idea. If you want to eat junk, limit it to odd occasions or just have one day a week like that.

Did you ever watch supersize v superskinny?

The super skinnies would often live on chocolate bars and caffeine to get them through the day. One really thin woman had 1400 cals of crap, and no good food, and was incredibly thin.

I have seen inside someone who was actually skinny fat. Diet of McDonald's, normal-low BMI, but so much yellow fatty tissue under there. Extraordinary.

No reason you wouldn't stay slim.
It's not healthy, though tbf I have no idea what is anymore, but calorie wise, you shouldn't gain weight.

I was going to say watch Supersize Me!!
Agree with others that it's a shite diet and you'd feel like crap on it.

Yep you could. I think some woman in the States has already done this, She ate cheeseburgers ( the small ones) and counted calories.

Salad and cabbage is barely anything calorie wise so I think you could easily do it.

Some people DO eat that in a day. Just a question of not having anything else except veg and salad.

I remember supersize vs super skinny - there was a 'skinny' woman whose breakfast was a Mars Bar, but then she ate nothing else all day until having a sandwich in the evening. Also some 'skinny' bloke who's 'breakfast' was a pint of lager .

whose, not 'who's'

Yeah you'd lose weight or stay the same but you'd be hungry by 1pm and clawing the walls until your next burger at breakfast time

You wouldn't get scurvy, potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin C. But you certainly would be lacking a great deal of other vitamins.

I've lost weight by not eating properly and eating shit. I'd worked really hard to get my BMI up into healthy range before I started my fertility treatment, and got up to BMI of 19, by eating really healthily but loads of it. Turned out the reason I couldn't gain weight wasn't because I had some mega fast metabolism - it's because I just didn't eat enough. I was massively underestimating how many calories I would eat in an average day. When I started tracking with MFP, I couldn't believe how much I had to eat in order to get 2000 cals a day!

After multiple rounds of IVF and miscarriages, the stress killed my appetite. I basically stopped eating - the only stuff I could basically face has been snacking on crap. Someone who sees me at work will think I must have hollow legs as I'm always eating chocolate. But lunch is pretty much the only proper meal I eat - I haven't eaten a proper dinner regularly since before my second miscarriage last Sept. I'll eat junk, but I don't eat proper meals. So my calorie intake is vastly under what it should be, and that's meant my weight has plummeted back down and I'm now underweight and BMI hovering around 17.

I really really need to start making myself eat, even though I have no desire to, as the more I eat the more I'll hopefully stimulate my appetite. But to do that I'll need to stop eating so much junk and start eating actual meals

So yes, it is possible to lose weight eating junk, but I wouldn't recommend it

I'm basically exactly what @INeedANameChange describes. I'm a super skinny who eats shit. It's not healthy and I need to start eating properly again

Plenty of exercise freaks eat a diet of junk food. Not ideal, though.

I used to live on wine and pot noodles so very possible.

But it'd definitely catch up with you at some point.