The anti-Spurlock

[Queasy]

heh

Chris Coleson battled his weight for years, but when he had trouble sliding into a restaurant booth it boosted and fueled his desire to drop the excess pounds.

But rather than try conventional diets, which had failed him before, the then 276-pound Coleson opted for his own "realistic" solution in December: he'd only eat at McDonald's.

After six months on his McDiet, Coleson lost 80 pounds and dropped 14 pants sizes. His waist went from 50-inches to 36.

"I didn't make my goal of 185, but I've made some great lifestyle choices and I'll make that goal," the 42-year-old said on "Good Morning America today.

Supersized Slim Down

Coleson's goal was to hit 185 pounds by his wedding anniversary, which is Saturday. Today he only is five pounds short of the goal. His weight loss marks several major milestones in his life.

For the first time in seven years, Coleson said he is able to wear his wedding band.

"I put the ring on [my wife's] 40th birthday [in April]," he said.

It helped keep him motivated and so did the thought of his two children, eight-year-old Meghan and six-year-old James.

"I tried to pick small milestones," Coleson said.

Besides wanting to slimdown to his wedding-day weight, Coleson's supersized slimdown also was sparked by his family's history of heart disease. Heart disease killed his mother at age 62 and his father suffered a major heart attack at age 39.

"There were nights I'd go to bed and I worried I wasn't going to get up," said Coleson, who admitted his weight was due to overeating.

"I would literally sit at the refrigerator and just eat out of the refrigerator," he said. "I would attack the kids' school lunches that [my wife] had prepared the night before."

Coleson said he was eating 5,000 calories daily when he was at his heaviest. When he decided to get in shape he relied on a simple idea: "calories in and calories out ? I figured it was a simple principle."

When Coleson told his wife of his plans to shape up by consuming only two McDonald's meals a day, she was skeptical.

"I initially thought he was crazy," said Coleson' wife Patricia Sumner, on "Good Morning America" today.

But the 40-year-old came around when she noticed her husband getting slimmer and even tried it out herself. To date, she's dropped 30 pounds and someone called her "McFit" at her daughter's recent softball game.

Coleson lost his weight by regulating his caloric intake to only 1,400 calories a day. That's well below what doctor's would consider safe for a man his size.

Coleson said he was able to lose weight by avoiding the fast food restaurant's extremely popular French fries. He said he never had them once.

"I stayed away from the fries," he said.

What he did eat were the salads and on occasion he would integrate a hamburger patty on one.

"I might break it up and turn into a steak salad," Coleson said.

The Virginia man also would eat grilled chicken salads and sandwiches, walnut salads, and apple dippers sans the caramel sauce.

"[The wraps] were a favorite of mine," he said.

Though Coleson did say he began to get bored with meal plan until he noticed how well it worked for him.

Coleson regulated his caloric intake to a mere 1,400 calories a day ? what most doctors would consider unsafe for a man Coleson's size.

In fact, Dr. Christine Gerbstadt, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, called Coleson's a "starvation diet."

Coleson also would skip breakfast on his meal plan and kept daily journal, as well as receipts from his exploit, both to keep himself on track and to prove to others that he had actually lost the weight with McDonald's.

Coleson also began exercising a few times a week, which he was not doing prior to the McDiet. In fact, he said he used to get winded after climbing four steps.

McDonald's has not released a statement about Coleson's triumph, but the company did tell ABC News "We applaud his efforts and his results."

Today is the last day of his Golden Archathon, which has lasted 200 days. To celebrate his new look and life Coleson changed his license plate.

The plate used to read "Old N Fat" and now it says "McFit."

Good for him. :thumbsup:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

He ate once a week.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
He ate once a week.

 

[Red Dawn]

I applaud him but you can't say he lost weight eating typical McShit food. Hell he could have fixed those same meals at home and saved a lot of money.

 

[yhelothar]

Spurlock's film is dumb and fucking pointless anyways. Who the hell eats the largest, and greasiest meal at McDeez for all three meals EVERY DAY? That accounts for probably less than 0.001% of mcdeez' customers.
If you go to any restaurant and stuff your face like that, you're going to get fat. Just because one guy chooses to stuff his face at Mcdonalds, it doesn't make mc donalds inherently bad. That guy's diet choice is fucking bad.

 

[bonkers325]

diet != starving

 

[oddyager]

Proves our bodies are unique from one another and there is no one set diet that works for all. That said, McDonald's is still disgusting.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: astroidea
Spurlock's film is dumb and fucking pointless anyways. Who the hell eats the largest, and greasiest meal at McDeez for all three meals EVERY DAY? That accounts for probably less than 0.001% of mcdeez' customers.
If you go to any restaurant and stuff your face like that, you're going to get fat. Just because one guy chooses to stuff his face at Mcdonalds, it doesn't make mc donalds inherently bad. That guy's diet choice is fucking bad.

The main problem with his approach is that he forced himself to eat 3 meals even when he wasn't hungry. His results would likely have been different if he only ate until he was full and skipped meals when he wasn't hungry.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: oddyager
Proves our bodies are unique from one another and there is no one set diet that works for all. That said, McDonald's is still disgusting.

Yeah, I don't know if my tastebuds changed or something but around the time I hit college I just couldn't take McDonald's food anymore.

 

[Mrvile]

lol...after reading what he actually ate, he actually didn't eat at all.

 

[Aikouka]

While I don't agree with eating so few calories a day... the guy got what he wanted. I tried a diet where I ate mostly low fat or not fat foods and it actually worked out fairly well, but I got so bored with the same food that I couldn't stand doing it. Although at least this guy had some variety, as I literally ate tuna fish sandwiches (substituted low-fat mayonnaise dressing (the stuff you use in pasta salads) instead of Mayonnaise and used no-fat cheese) every day for every meal (except breakfast, which I never ate). Well, I think I also stopped it, because I brought my lunch with me to work, but I made it the night before. The cheese always "melted" or oozed into the sammich, which left a weird taste with it.

EDIT:

Although I forgot to add... 5000 calories a day and only 270lb? That's kinda surprising there.

 

[minendo]

Anyone can lose that much weight only taking in 1400 calories per day.

 

[nakedfrog]

What he did eat were the salads and on occasion he would integrate a hamburger patty on one.

"I might break it up and turn into a steak salad," Coleson said.

I guess if you can delude yourself into calling that a steak salad, you can delude yourself into anything. Cheers for him, I guess.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Yeah it's not like the guy was ordering your typical mcdonald's fare either. I'm sure that the salads are relatively low-cal, even with "beef" broken up over it like he said.

 

[Mani]

A starvation diet is not exactly sustainable. That guy's going to gain a significant portion of that weight back, if not all once he inevitably returns to his old eating habits.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
Yeah it's not like the guy was ordering your typical mcdonald's fare either. I'm sure that the salads are relatively low-cal, even with "beef" broken up over it like he said.

That's why I called him the anti-Spurlock. Whereas Spurlock basically force fed himself large sized meals three times a day (more than any human in his right mind would do), this guy went to the opposite extreme.

 

[potato28]

Hmm... surprised he didn't die from starvation. But that said, only 1400 calories a day? Man I probably eat 5000 calories a day, but I do a lot of physical activities in my day too.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: potato28
Hmm... surprised he didn't die from starvation. But that said, only 1400 calories a day? Man I probably eat 5000 calories a day, but I do a lot of physical activities in my day too.

And by "physical activities" I assume that's your NFL off-season workouts???

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1

Originally posted by: potato28
Hmm... surprised he didn't die from starvation. But that said, only 1400 calories a day? Man I probably eat 5000 calories a day, but I do a lot of physical activities in my day too.

And by "physical activities" I assume that's your NFL off-season workouts???

No doubt. Do you realize what sort of effort it takes to consume 5000 calories?

 

[MiniDoom]

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1

Originally posted by: potato28
Hmm... surprised he didn't die from starvation. But that said, only 1400 calories a day? Man I probably eat 5000 calories a day, but I do a lot of physical activities in my day too.

And by "physical activities" I assume that's your NFL off-season workouts???

No doubt. Do you realize what sort of effort it takes to consume 5000 calories?

a 3-4 hour bike ride will do it.

 

[MikeyLSU]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I applaud him but you can't say he lost weight eating typical McShit food. Hell he could have fixed those same meals at home and saved a lot of money.

I could say the same about Jared and Subway. You are not going to lose weight eating a footlong meatball sub every day. Only if you eat a 6inch healthy sub.

1400 calories is not that little.

I went on a diet and ate 1300-1400 daily, also tried to keep my fat intake down. I still ate plenty of food each day, it was just a little less and a lot more healthier items. Like salad or cereal without the milk for a snack and such.

 

[sygyzy]

He figured out the simple foundation of dieting (caloric intake). However, it's very worrysome how he basically starved himself.

 

[Yreka]

So how is this different from Jared and subway ? Have they ever disclosed his diet, and caloric intake ? I know they mention what sandwiches he ate, but if he were only eating 3 of those per day it would be about the same thing.

And they turned it into a nationwide ad campaign on how healthy they are. If anything its more of a smack in the face to them.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Originally posted by: rdubbz420

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1

Originally posted by: potato28
Hmm... surprised he didn't die from starvation. But that said, only 1400 calories a day? Man I probably eat 5000 calories a day, but I do a lot of physical activities in my day too.

And by "physical activities" I assume that's your NFL off-season workouts???

No doubt. Do you realize what sort of effort it takes to consume 5000 calories?

a 3-4 hour bike ride will do it.

or maybe he's on massive eating. http://www.johnberardi.com/art...on/masseating_rl_1.htm

 

[vi edit]

At 270 this guy isn't ultra obese (unless he's like 5' tall). But bariatric physicians will issue strict calorie restrictions for morbidly obese patients to get them trimmed down in a hurry. One of the physicians I know sets his at 1200 calories a day. Some don't agree with him, but it works.

The true trial for this man will be long term lifestyle changes. He's going to have to incorporate enough activity in his day that he can start phasing back in calories to bring up his calorie intake to a more normal range.

And then comes the true trial of keeping his calories in that range without snacking his way back to where he was.