As much as I love my kids and enjoy seeing them happy, the thought of a room full of them screaming and running around like lunatics makes me shudder.īeing at the party hasn't helped my weight loss efforts. Today I find myself supervising my son at a children's party. Its one of the hardest things I've had to admit to in my life! I'm a mess, but with all of the aforementioned, I can become a little less of a mess in time. Motivation, dedication and the support of those around me are what will get me through this. I've heard it all, and yes, it sounds so simple, why didn't I think about that? Unfortunately, until you've been in mine or any other obese person's position or suffer from another addiction you'll never know what its truly like to be this way. "Stop being so lazy and just stop eating crap", "why don't you just not eat the rubbish and exercise more". The confessions of a fat bloke! I read day in day out people scolding obese people for the cost to the NHS and the drain on resources. This is sure to help raise endorphin levels and make me feel slightly better. I'm not proud of it, and I'm not saying I won't do it again, but what I do need to do is get myself back into the swing of dieting again and increase my activity levels. This week has had several of those days and all I've done is eat crap. But when a bad day comes along, all I want to do is eat myself into a stupor, curl up and shut myself away from the world. Yes, the last few months were spent pretty much rock bottom, but now I have much more better days than I do bad days. The only thing with depression is that it seems to come and go as quick as flash with me. Fast forward 3 months, a few visits to the local mental health unit and GP's, regular antidepressants and a schedule to start cognitive behavioural therapy and I'm starting to get better. To begin with I was ashamed to admit I had a problem and took on the whole male macho setting, believing it was just an episode that would pass in a few days. Over the past few months I've been battling with depression and intrusive thoughts. I've told very few people this, but I feel now is the right time to explain it. Normally I'd have the ability to bounce back and just write-off that episode and continue on the diet as normal, but that has proved difficult and I've felt incredibly low. I've found it so difficult to battle my addictions and have failed on several occasions. Things have been tough these last few days. There was a time when the Big Mac was the most caloric burger on McDonald's menu, but now, there's the Double Bacon Smokehouse Burger that clocks in at 1,130 calories-about twice the calories of the Big Mac.Its been a few days since I updated my blog so just thought I'd let you know how things were going.
Walsh affirms that both of these burgers are not the absolute worst fast food options you could order. "Even a four-piece chicken McNugget or chicken tenders starts at about 200 calories for four pieces, and that's before you have dipped them in anything," she says. This way you can still enjoy the burger, sandwich-style, without consuming an excess amount of carbs. One such tweak the dietitian likes to make to burgers is to scoop out the excess bread in the bun, too. "Considering a Garden Chicken salad from BK comes in at 520 calories and at McDonald's a Bacon Ranch Grilled Chicken Salad comes in at 320 calories before dressing, (so let's round up to 500), your best bet would be to stick with the Whopper and Big Mac-just tweak a few things," says Walsh. Is there an even healthier option to order? RELATED: The easy way to make healthier comfort foods. Whopper: 250 calories, 18 grams fat, 3 grams carbs, 20 grams of protein If you do that for each burger, the calories drop quite dramatically.īig Mac: 240 calories, 16 grams fat, 5 grams carbs, 18 grams protein Also, ask to have the condiments removed as well.
If you want to make each burger healthier, Walsh suggests swapping out the bun for lettuce instead.