It’s Coca-cola made with cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
Why the name?
Because the Coke that’s sold in Mexico is still produced with sugar. We’re often able to get it at small, local grocery stores in New Mexico.
So an Egg McMuffin is white bread, American cheese, processed pork, and an egg…not great, but not a terrible thing in itself. There’s undoubtedly a whole lot of sodium in the sandwich, and if you’re eating nothing but Egg McMuffins, you’ll suffer from a lack of fiber in your diet. Maybe you could eat a Caesar salad now and then? Or even substitute the oatmeal with fruit or the yogurt and fruit parfait? And if they have whole wheat muffins for the egg white version, I’m sure you could order a regular one on whole wheat instead.
Or, you know, pick up some fruit and vegetables to eat for lunch instead of fast food. If you did that and had water instead of the Coke some of the time, you could do okay.
They come from Mexico.
LOL. Ok, but they are available in the U.S? Do they go by a different name maybe here?
I’m 5’10 200lbs, I don’t know my basal metabolic rate.
Nah, in Florida. I get the coke at the dollar store next door to work.
Yeah, they are available in the US. I imagine in Mexico they would just call it “coke”. The labels are in spanish and they come in the old school glass bottles.
I’m in Arizona and you can buy Mexican Coke by the case at Costco and Home Depot. You can get singles at almost any grocery store. Other Mexican sodas like Squirt and Fanta and other flavors aren’t hard to find either.
Because you get it in Mexico. (Or Latino neighborhoods in the US. (Or Jewish neighborhoods during Passover.))
Yes - you would lose weight. You’d need a multivitamin if you wanted to do this long term. Just cause something is “processed” doesn’t mean it is bad for you. People have lived for years in comas on what amounts to “processed” food. Granted there is evidence you’ll live longer on a diet with more “whole foods” - we don’t REALLY know why that is. It isn’t due to malnutrition - at least as the term is commonly used.
There is nothing wrong with an egg mcmuffin - but it isn’t going to meet all your nutritional needs.
There was a film made by someone who ate all fast food for a month, mainly McDonalds, and lost weight. I haven’t seen it, but he published his food log.
The ingredients for a McDonalds English Muffin are listed in this PDF.
A professor of nutrition did an experiment a little similar to this, where he ate junk food but restricted the number of calories he took in per day. He lost 27 pounds in two months.
I think a lot of the trouble with this idea is that the monotony would make it hard to stick to this as a diet. No diet is ever going to work if you can’t stick to it. You can’t expect to diet for a while, lose weight, then go back to eating the way you were before the diet and keep the weight off. It just does not work that way.
In that case, I have no doubt you would lose weight, probably at a rate of about one and a half to two pounds a week. I also think you would get quite sick of that diet quickly.
With statements like “The ‘cheese’ has more in common chemically with a plastic gas can than a block of real cheese,” I think you were already in the Bizarro World. Are you a member of that “one molecule from plastic” crowd?
I think the worst thing about this diet may be the sky-high sodium content. Find out whether you have (or are prone to) high blood pressure before committing to this diet.
The question was not if this would be healthy as a long term nutrition plan or how easy or hard it would be to stick to the diet; it was just that if someone actually did do that would they lose weight.
And sure, an average adult male would lose weight eating just 1260 calories per day.
Would many feel satisfied eating that? Would it be healthy over any reasonable length of time? Those are different questions not asked in the op.
An egg mcmuffin has exactly 33% of the daily recommended allowance of sodium. It’s high considering 3 would put you at 100%, but I’d wager that a significant portion of Americans go over 100% every single day. Sky High is probably the wrong adjective.
Supersize Me really did tick me off. If you eat 5000 calories a day at a pretentious, snobbish foodie establishment you’ll get fat too. Everyone seems to enjoy slamming McDonalds but I vastly prefer eating at fast food vs. sit down, and I don’t think McDonalds is any worse than a lot of what’s out there. Eating an entire sit-down sized meal can’t be that good for you vs a McDonalds burger or an Egg McMuffin.
A guy I know eats nothing but Big Macs and drinks nothing but Coca-cola or water. He’s stayed healthy and is fairly slim. He’s been on this diet for about 40 years now.
Metabolisms vary but using an average and assuming your burn rate is approximately an average of 12 -13 cals per lb of body weight per day for an adult man with moderate activity you’d need approximately 2400 - 2600 calories per day to maintain that weight.
Assuming you did a coke + McMuffin combo for each meal = 450 calories you would need approximately 6 of these meals per day to maintain your 200 lb weight.
Adjusting for daily calories your McMuffin centric diet would be giving you about 400% more cholesterol and 200% more sodium and about 130% of the daily saturated fat and half the required fiber relative to your recommended daily requirements. I don’t know how to quantify what the 240 grams or just over a half lb of sugar a day via the cokes would be doing to you.
So … good luck with that diet.
Here is the nutritional profile for an egg McMuffin (percentages based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 300
Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.0g 18%
Saturated Fat 5.0g 25%
Cholesterol 260mg 87%
Sodium 820mg 34%
Total Carbohydrates 30.0g 10%
Dietary Fiber 2.0g 8%
Sugars 3.0g
Protein 18.0g
The small MCD coke has 150 calories. It’s effectively just 40 grams of sugar + water. The small is 150 calories and 40 grams of sugar.