How to Eat at McDonald's and Still Lose Weight

You want to lose weight and you are trying to lose that 20 pounds or that 100 pounds. You are doing pretty well in your weight loss attempt and then it happens. Your group wants to go out and eat and you pull into a McDonald's fast food restaurant. You think all is lost for your diet but that is not true. We are here to tell you that you can go to a McDonald's and eat some food and not have to blow out your diet. If you think this is not true then chances are you are not doing too well on your "diet" and have been struggling for quite awhile to lose the weight. If you fall into this category then read on and learn how to break away from the diet madness and get off the merry-go-round of trying to lose weight.

If you think you cannot walk into almost any restaurant and order healthy food then you have not fully grasped the entire driving elements of true and pure healthy weight loss. If you truly want to lose the weight you need to change your mind set. You need to break the pattern of all your prior "diets" and stop looking at losing weight as something that happens only during a set time period on the calendar. You need to stop thinking that you need to lose those 20 pounds to go to that wedding or go on that vacation. You are hesitating to go to that reunion because you have gained too much weight and now you want to lose it fast. This demonstrates a complete lack of understanding how weight loss really works. If you were to go on a weight loss crusade and starved yourself into losing 20 pounds you will end up gaining more than 20 pounds after you end your diet. The reason is basic human physiology. Your body has a defense mechanism that when your body is starved for food it will stop burning the fat and start burning muscle. Sure you will reach your short term weight loss goal but when you start eating normally again you will not only gain the weight you lost, but will pack on a few pounds to help you if you are to experience the issue of starvation again. This is when your body will think it has to overcompensate in case the reasons for your prior drastic weight loss were to happen again. This is one major reason why you keep gaining weight slowly over the years. This is an issue of yo-yo dieting.

If you want to really lose the weight you can eat at McDonald's or pretty much any other place you stop at. This is because one meal is not going to make you gain 20 pounds. The 20 pounds you are trying to lose have been gained by months of poor eating choices. If you really want to lose the weight then you need to skip the "diet" and start a "live-it". This may sound corny but it is the truth. If you were to embark on a life long journey you would be able to enter a McDonalds and eat decent food choices that will not cripple your weight loss. If you entered McDonald's and ordered a grilled chicken sandwich and a parfait and water you would only consume 580 calories. If you went further and asked for no sauce and used ketchup you would even have less calories. You could also choose a salad and have an even healthier meal choice. If you are now sitting in front of your monitor thinking I do not want to choose that I want (need) to have a burger, fries and a soda. If this is how you think then you may have revealed your true cause of your weight problem. You just may not be ready to commit yourself to weight loss. If you are not ready then do not beat yourself up over the issue. If you truly want to lose the weight you must know that in order to really be able to lose the weight you need to lose no more than an average of one or two pounds a week. This way your body does not really notice it is happening. This way you will lose the weight and you will be able to keep the weight off for the rest of your own personal forever.

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