I Ate McDonalds Today…Again

First I want to thank everyone who has written to me. Your feedback and encouragement is inspiring and keeps me going. It is for you that I admit the following:

I’ve been eating at McDonalds. For the past three days I’ve eaten two cheeseburgers and a medium French fries. Why? I am not sure.

While eating there yesterday I recalled fond memories of eating at McDonalds with my father when I was a kid. He still stops there regularly and it occurred to me that I have an emotional connection with the golden arches. Oh how proud they must be in the McD’s marketing department!

Still, at the end of the day, today, I found myself floating into the restaurant and ordering up 2 burgers and fries. My theory was that, from a sugar standpoint, fast food was safe to eat. But while biting into my burger, thoughts of sugar content in the bun, ketchup, and fries began to make me feel as if it was all wrong. (Yet it felt so right!)

According to McD’s website, a cheeseburger holds 8 grams of sugar. I had two so that’s 16. A medium fries have no sugars. Hmmm…Is that just the meat? What about the bread and ketchup? How can this be true?

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