Should I eat McDonald burgers ?!

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I think every now and then it's okay. Moderation is key... don't overfill on that stuff.

LoL plastic bread, well you can balance out healthy with unhealthy. It's unhealthy when you only eat fast food everyday all the time (chips, soda, fried chicken, fries, fried everything, burgers, hot dogs, corn dogs and everything else unhealthy) because then you won't be able to go to the bathroom. I can't imagine, eating a salad for breakfast, lunch and dinner either everyday. You can pick a day of the week to eat a burger (and it doesn't have to be specifically from McDonald's i don't really like their burgers) and eat steamed vegetables, and drink water the other days. One or two cookies one day of the week won't hurt you but eating an entire package of cookies in a day as well as drinking a 2-liter likes it's a 20 oz soda will affect you. So key word- BALANCE :)

maybe you should try something else then. i hate burgers from mc donalds, when i go there i only eat their nuggets, the taste sucks, like you said plastic bread. but if you feel like eating it, if you eat every ONCE in a while, its ok...

Regard them as a treat, I doubt if I would have more than 2 a year, each time enjoying the taste to begin with but afterward am disappointed.

I do not as no mater how they look on TV they never look or taste anywhere as good

Don't eat it. Get some fresh hamburger meat and throw it on the barbecue.

Yeah, try it out man. They are delicious and I have them all the time.

You'd better eat it less

I would do it

you are just making excuses for yourself, stop with that nonsense. I seriously can understand how hard it can be to quit an addiction though, and I applaud you for taking the first initiative into a healthier lifestyle. When I was a young kid I used to eat McDonalds ALL the time. I stopped it wasn't easy but today I am CONSTANTLY pushing the boundaries on new and exciting diet challenges. You must realize, though, that in order to get to where you WANT to go, you have to, FIRST, start at the very bottom, set a REALISTIC goal for yourself to where you are and don't look at other people who might seem to be ALOT healthier than you are, you will get there too, but if you try to, overnight, just give up the unhealthy stuff (MSGs, High Salts, High Sugars etc.) then you will burn out quickly (possibly you will actually eat MORE of it because when you cave in your body will crave it TOO much and EVEN IF YOU DO REACH THAT GOAL OVERNIGHT, it will be premature, so you will find that, once you reach it, you will quickly fall back because you have not built into your lifestyle, and there will be nothing left to work for) instead a goal might look like this

say you eat ONE cheeseburger or the like a day

a realistic goal might be, I will ONLY eat ONE of those every SECOND day,

then, after you feel comfortable with that, I will ONLY eat ONE of those every THIRD day

and so on

Encourage yourself, frequently, don't make it into excuses, but if you have progressed even by a fraction from where you were before, pat yourself on the back. (maybe even use the thing you are trying to get rid of, as a reward for not eating it. Say to yourself, "If I do NOT eat McDonalds for (twice the amount of time that you usually eat it in) then I will reward myself with a nice, big, juicy, big mac." you will find, if you can put it off for long enough, you will lose the desire to eat in the first place (after you have done this for a long enough period).

Don't be too hard on yourself, but realize when you need a scolding, if you are TOO hard on yourself, say you miss your total goal but you make SOME progress, then still be VERY proud of yourself for achieving what you did, and proceed with the above advice. If you feel yourself caving though, scold yourself, say you start eating it more and more often, do not reward yourself for excuses. Two steps forward one step back.

If you feel yourself slipping too much, reenforce what your goal is in your mind and start from where you are at, not where you were. In this case you should be hardest on yourself.

Try to establish some concrete reason for why you do not want to eat or do that particular thing. I quit McDonalds and those sorts of foods because I am acne prone and I wanted to have the VERY LEAST (not total anillation) of it as possible. I went vegan because I think that dairy is an exploitation of the very precious gift of a mothers milk, and that meat (although it should be eaten OCCASIONALLY to continue the food chain cycle) people eat it TOO much and by not eating it you are respecting it as a living creature and that respect, I believe, is fundamentally important.

Finally, the forbidden foods can be quite appealing, I am a vegan but, occasionally, I will enjoy a nice piece of cake or something that I know has an egg or some milk in it. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS OCCASIONALLY!! Just be aware of when you eat and how often you eat it and if you feel yourself slipping then pick up the same process above and you will find that you can enjoy these foods, but be very healthy and happy at the same time

*Just so you know, McDonalds fries have butane (lighter fuel) in them, not very healthy I should say :)

**Good Luck, and again I am very proud of you for taking this initiative. :D