Oddly, calorie counting seems to be the enemy of diet food companies.
Mcdonalds Double Sausage & Egg Muffin and Hash Brown = 690 calories.
Slimfast (Or similar) shake, meal replacement bar plus three snacks (Their recommended daily intake before dinner) = 725 calories.
If I have McDonalds, I feel full until dinner (I won’t have lunch) and have the energy to do a good 45 minutes of hard exercise around lunchtime. If I have Slimfast I’m left feeling hungry all day and may end up snacking, plus I’ll lack the energy and motivation to get any exercise.
I had McDonalds this morning. I am yet to find a drawback to this plan.
A (very slim) friend has advocated the chocolate diet – simply replace your normal calories with chocolate calories.
I get headaches if I pig out on chocolate, so I’m not sure that would be a good idea.
But I suspect head pain would distract me from hunger and eating!
Apparently the key is to skip the normal food, rather than eating it in addition.
Personally McDonalds always makes me feel dodgy and nonfull.
It’s only really the breakfasts I find filling.
It might be that the Slimfast has not enough protein to make you feel full. I was listening to a podcast about this at the weekend. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news-archive/news/2410/
That could fit with my lack of satisfaction – I’m sure the veggie McD options don’t have much protein.