FATKINS DIET
YouTuber ate only McDonald’s for a week in Super Size Me-style experiment… and LOST weight
Mike Jeavons, 33, ate McDonald's three times a day for seven days - and astonishingly managed to drop 5lbs in the process
A BRITISH YouTuber only ate McDonald's three times a day for a week in Super Size Me-style experiment - and was astonished to LOSE weight.
Mike Jeavons dropped 5lb after surviving solely on fast food, spending almost £100 in a week.
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The 33-year-old ate at the fast food restaurant 21 times between March 21 and 28 this year – snacking on everything from bacon and egg muffins to quarter pounder cheeseburgers, and spending around £99.
Explaining how he first got the idea, and freelance social media professional Mike, who lives with his wife Grace, 28, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, said: “I’ve done a few week-long eating challenges in the past and I’m always thinking about what I can do next.”
He added: “I’ve done a week on baby food, a week on canned food, a week on Iceland frozen food, which involved eating some crazy stuff like chicken tikka lasagne.
“The worst had to be a ‘drop a stone in seven days diet,’ which involved, basically just eating boiled eggs and grapefruit non-stop.”
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After watching the documentary Super Size Me earlier this year – in which filmmaker Morgan Spurlock only eats McDonald’s food for 30 days, documenting the drastic effects on his body – Mike decided to stage his own version of the challenge.
He said: “I thought the documentary was a little sensationalised. If you’re eating about 5,000 calories a day, then of course you’re going to put on weight and find your well-being affected.
“But I wanted to stick to the daily recommended amounts of things like calories, fat and salt, to see if I could have a balanced diet eating at just one outlet and still end up happy and full at the end of it all.”
Endeavouring to keep a food diary, recording the nutritional value of everything he ate, Mike began his challenge last month.
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Mike said as he and his wife are fast food fans, he was excited but it "wore off quickly" because while breakfast wasn't too much of an issue rotating eating muffins, bagels and porridge, he struggled with lunch.
“I knew I’d be having a big burger for dinner, so I wanted to stick to something like a salad or wrap,” he said. “But I’d get these major energy slumps afterwards."
He added: “Then, by the time I had dinner, I’d feel almost euphoric afterwards. It was like a drug. I had a strange relationship with food that week. It was an odd mix of really not wanting to eat more of the same, but also looking forward to my next burger.”
By day three, he began having stomach problems, due to all the fat he was consuming – which he believes was exacerbated by the fact he was washing it all down with fizzy zero-calorie drinks.
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He said: “To keep everything in line with the recommended daily allowances, I had to save calories where I could,” he said. “Because I was eating so much fat, zero-calorie drinks were a saviour – though they did make me feel ill after a while. By the end, I felt pretty sluggish and would get major slumps.”
As the week neared an end, Mike began craving healthy food – eyeing his wife’s freshly-cooked dinners with envy.
But he saved his largest meal – a quarter pounder with cheese – for last.
And weighing himself at the end of the week, he was astonished to find he had shed 5lb, going from 15st7lb to 15st2lb.
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Uploading the experiment to his YouTube channel, he was met with a flurry of positive comments from fans.
“People think it’s great, and are asking what I’m going to do next,” he said.
“I’ve had a few comments saying they wish I’d pushed it further and done a month, like the real Super Size Me, but that’s been done. You can’t please everyone.
“This has shown me you can eat a weeks’ worth of McDonald’s – even though they’ve never advised you do that themselves.
"There’s a chance to try new things. I think I’ve been through the whole menu now. That said, I don’t want to go near a burger for the foreseeable future.”
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