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Makes me laugh as well, but as others have pointed out what one person considers healthy is not what others may consider healthy.

What is right for a person depends on goals, gaining weight, losing weight, adding muscle, adding strength, getting ripped, maintaining, etc etc all require a different diet. Plus peoples bodies will react differently to different diets and everyone has different food preferences. I don't really like stuff like chocolate, chips and junk food anyway, just does not appeal to me, does nothing for me, so these people suggest I am missing out on something by not eating McDonald's make me laugh. It makes me dry reach just smelling Mcdonald's most of the time.

Had some Macca's a few weeks ago as I was on the road for work and it was all there was, bought a double cheese burger meal, ended up taking a bite from the burger and I threw it back in the take away bag, ended up eating the chips and having the drink (got a shake), the meat in the burger is just vile, tastes like pet mince with sugar on top. Not sure how anyone can suggest that it is food.

I personally think most people that eat this rubbish have no taste buds left, and their taste has been killed by the processed foods they eat, as the McDonald's sugar buns just taste horrible mixed with meat, it like sugar on mince meat.
 
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I personally think most people that eat this rubbish have no taste buds left, and their taste has been killed by the processed foods they eat, as the McDonald's sugar buns just taste horrible mixed with meat, it like sugar on mince meat.
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I thought the buns were off last time I tried maccas, all soft and sugary as shit. But then my friend who loves this crap tasted it and said it was all right. Unbelievable.. it really did remind me of mince sandwiched sponge cake.

Tried HJ's.. same sort of deal. KFC, had 9 pieces for $9, then spent the rest of the day sculling water cos all the salt made me thirsty as hell.
 

I can eat 2000 calories at maccers and be hungry an hour later....

Il eat 300g chicken breast with home made mushroom sauce and a salad and it keeps me going all night without even thinking of another meal.
 

Mick you don't like Maccas. We get it, who cares, you must feel so awesome and above anyone who likes Maccas. Good for you. We all like different foods, that's why there are so many choices for all of us.


Also if you knew you didn't like maccas then why did you go full retard and buy it. Seems like a waste of money to me.
 
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Again you must have not read my post as it explained it quite clearly.
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What so you were going to starve to death. Clearly not because you threw it in the bin. If you don't like the burgers why the fuck buy them. I didn't think It would be that difficult. It must be that common sense being rare thing you keep talking about.
 
Probably not to death, but I was tied up with work, had not eaten for 4 hours or so, was starving, Maccas was there nothing else around, no prospect of food for another 4-5 hours, so it seemed like an option for a quick feed on the run.

Obviously has reinforced my lesson to pack my lunch box with some food and take it with me, which I usually do, can't even remember why I had no lunch with me that day.
 
This is how I see it. If you have ever at any point counted calories or calculated your daily macro-nutrient (protein, carbohydrates, fat) requirements then you are inadvertently fitting macros. IIFYM has recently become a term more widely used throughout the industry. IIFYM is the concept of allowing you to utilize what is referred to as flexible dieting, stepping away from the dogma extremist bodybuilding mentality of “you gotta eat chicken, broccoli and rice 6 times a day if you wanna get lean.” It’s no longer, certain foods are always “bad” and certain foods are always “good”. Notable that it is very possible to get fat eating chicken, broccoli and rice. Though as with most things people will take it to the extreme, it is these very people misusing and taking advantage of its actual meaning that has lead to its negative stigma. It has been touted as the ‘lazy’ way of dieting/living. As I see it statements like these couldn’t be further from the truth. What's so lazy about calculating macro set ups and weighing everything you put in your body.

IIFYM originated in an American forum sub-section of Nutrition. It was simply a phrase/meme that somebody made up. In this Particular forum many people would post up questions such as “can I eat cheese?”, “will eating Hot Chips ruin my diet?” So the phrase came about, “If It Fits Your Macros, Eat That Shit”.
The idea of discretionary calories has been around for decades. Mike Mentzer was well known for eating ice-cream every day, even in the last weeks of competition preparation. The idea of flexible dieting has also been around for quite some time. Experts who specialise in the field of nutrition and body composition have been discussing and recommending this long before the term IIFYM.
 
The term IIFYM was started by ErickStevens on BB.com as a quicker way to answer the question of "can I eat XYZ food?"

Hope that helps.
 

Fantastic post mate and it does explain alot and pretty much gets to the core of the questions I raised - it is refreshing to hear someone explain it without a underlaying attack on other ways of dieting/eating - as some members here and on fb/other forums do.
 
Thanks man that means a lot, I like to think I have a no bullshit approach to lifting / dieting which I am sure you do as well. I really don't know why people are so far in either corner, or if they are why they need to attack other people about it. Just let your results on stage, in the gym or on the platform do the talking not your keyboard hey!

Now it's time to go bench!
 

Totally agree.

I'm all for IIFYM but you can't disregard micros and fibre. When you think about them also, the majority of your diet tends to come from whole unprocessed food unless you are a massive unit bulking
 
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