The weird stuff about Mcd’s

[Crimboisonitsway]

Anyone else think it’s just odd food at McDonald’s?
It tastes so bloody good…like magic good…what is in the mayo type sauce etc 🤷🏻‍♀️
But…why does it fill you up, then an hour later you’re hungry again etc?
For example, Burger King is good also, but it proper fills me up and feels like proper food, Mcds doesn’t but it tastes so good 😫

It fills me up.

i agree, im hungry after about an hour.

I'm stuffed for ages after McDs but it makes a lot of people hungry quite quickly. It's because it's heavily processed with lots of sugar which goes straight into your bloodstream. You then crash a few hours later and crave more.

I get a mctummyache after a McDonald's. Doesn't stop me wanting them though.

I'm always full, but have the vegi deli wrap, fries and a coffee. I wonder if that makes a difference?

Well it's full of sugar and fat without actually having much nutritional content.

Your body deals with it very quickly because there's not much substance there. The energy from all the sugar/ fat is easily available, so your body absorbs that and the rest passes through your system very quickly.

If you eat whole foods, like porridge oats/ nuts/ seeds for example, the sugar isn't as readily available - your body has to break them down to get to the nutrients, so it takes longer, and sits in your stomach/ digestive system for longer.

The fat/ sugar in white bread, processed meat, oils and fries will all be absorbed pretty quickly so it is moved straight through.

It's also designed to make you crave more, so once the sugar rush wears off you have a dip and want more.

It sates me when I have it.

Depends on what you consider filling.

I get a medium fries, an apple pie and share a 20 piece nugget with my two sons. My husband gets medium fries, two different types of burgers and a medium drink. He’ll eat an hour or so later but he does that anyway.

I'm always stuffed for ages after a McDonald's. If I have one for lunch I don't tend to need any tea.

It is just chemicals, that food is really heavily processed so has been engineered to trigger your brain, hormones etc.

It is absolute crap.

The 'weird' stuff about macdonalds to me js that they market 'happy meals' to children with little toys inside and it's all part of this giant propaganda we've been, well, fed since a young age to make us think that these cows lived a happy life and died happily or 'humanely'.

And as adults we still go into these places and buy this shit and never truly connect with what (no, tbf, with WHO) we are eating because we've been lied to our whole lives. Trained not to look and not to ask questions.

It doesn't fill us up for long because it's not supposed to. It doesn't fill us up for long fir the same reason there companies enslave, torture and kill billions of animals every year. And for the same reason they tell lies to us about it - profit.

I have never associated happy meals with happy cows. That's a load of bollocks.

Fills me up, but that's probably because it's one of the rare times I drink coke and I always drink it quickly and then feel it swilling around afterwards.

Probably because we just don't think about cows when we're eating them tbf. We're all so detached from the process of how our food gets to our plate. My point is that these industries want it to remain so because otherwise we'd probably never eat a burger again xD

I think it's the sugar. You spike and crash again pretty fast.

When I was pregnant I had gestational diabetes and tested out a maccies (wishful thinking) and my blood sugars went crazy off it (not surprisingly) oh, Chinese food, the highest reading I've ever got

One takeaway type food I could eat without a problem was Indian 🥳

I would have assumed

Brave of you to admit to feeling hunger on mumsnet. But yeah I know what you mean. I get a mcmuffin for a treat every now and then but I'm always ravenous by lunchtime

Sorry posted too soon. I would have assumed they filled them out woth sawdust or sine such stuff. But who knows.

My sons do the most rancid farts after jt

I had a McDonald's breakfast this morning, and I'm still full up now! Okay I may have had two muffin meals 🫣😬

McDonald's gives me the shits. Still eat it and love it.

That's not specific to McDonalds, that's any outlet that serves meat.

Plenty of people who don't eat meat still eat at McDonald's and still have the same feeling the OP describes.

DP and I are convinced they put McCocaine in everything 🤣
Just reading this had me ordering a big mac...

Yes, because its about profit. They'll likely have a bunch of people in white jackets testing it going 'hmm let's go with one with the additives that made us hungry an hour later'.

But yes, all meat industries are concerned with making profit.

I'm just also using ops post to highlight how detached we are from what we eat. And how we should probably consider more thoroughly, the ins and outs of such things.

Brave of you to admit to feeling hunger on mumsnet.

Admitting to hunger, having a McDonald's and then feeling hunger AGAIN.

It certainly doesn't feel to me as satisfying as having 1,000+ calories of something more nutrtitionally balanced.

I always feel uncomfortably stuffed and then ravenous an hour later.