Do you mean a Big Mac meal? First result in google claims a happy meal is 520 calories; I ran 13 km recently and Strava tells me that this burned almost 1,400 calories (it’s true I am a big fellow, but not that big…)
millie st murderlark
So what you’re saying is Janet is a peddler of lies.
LIES JANET DO YOU HEAR?
Janet, I ate my avatar
I hear, small Happy meal 520 calories
30 minutes of running will burn 280 aprox depending on your weight and speed in fairness, so looking at at least ten
but let’s face it most people get the large coke and cover the chips in mayo and ketchup, so yeah it’s an exaggeration but that crap isn’t leaving your system anytime soon
millie st murderlark
I know. It’s shocking crap.
A friend of mine ate nothing but McDonald’s for the entirety of her pregnancy using the old ‘cravings’ excuse and she now questions why her son eats nothing but shite.
Dub Spot
The latest calories counter for the McD’s Festive season is here:
I ran the Dublin Marathon (42.195) and Strava said I burned 3,291 calories. Unlike you I’ve never run a “mini-marathon”.
Janet, I ate my avatar
well done, Paris and Connemarathon myself
hope you enjoyed as much as I did :)
I admit I have a bee in my bonnet about poison sold as fast food, calories or not
Janet, I ate my avatar
never ran a mini either, you have no idea how much I wish I didn’t feel the need to type that
Damn you running ego .. ;)
Janet, I ate my avatar
oh Dub spot do I remember having the chats with you before about running where you run down everyone doing less distance ? I hate the word of mini marathon for short distance you gotta earn that word but don’t belittle others efforts or assume because I mention a 10 km that that is the height of achievement, it makes you look like a Willy ;)
Dub Spot
@janet – if you love other runners you haven’t run enough.
Janet, I ate my avatar
I like other humans ( most of the time)
maybe you have ran too much :)
Janet, I ate my avatar
fair play rob ! in fairness there are a lot of factors, heart rate etc… nice work
Dub Spot
A 10 km is not a run, yet alone a mini-marathon . Parkrun? Running around the same 5km and getting a t-shirt with 100 on it is not for me. Done Paris marathon three times – and the Paris/Versailles and Fitbit Semi. Love the Paris marathon – especially the bit where you run through the Pont D’Alma tunnel where poor old Diana, Dodi and Monsieur Henri came to grief. L,enfer, c’est les autres.
Janet, I ate my avatar
well we may even have ran the same races then, done the Fitbit many years too, it’s in my hood, Paris Versailles too :) that hill :)
funny most successful runners I train with have a little more humility and humanity,
yes we can knock out a 10k easy and dismiss it but don’t belittle others who work up to that, it doesn’t make you superior. Never been injured ? Never had a bad run ? I’m not buying that. I find an extension of loving running is encouraging others to get out there and steadily build up, increasing heart lungs fitness happiness, you’ll get old and taper too my friend.
Janet, I ate my avatar
are you arguing with yourself Dubby
no one said it was
Rob_G
“A 10 km is not a run…”
That’s stupid. That’s like saying that you, Dubspot, are a better runner than Usain Bolt, because he runs 100m and you run 42,195m*
*really, really slowly
Steph Pinker
Rob-G; if you’re a ‘big fellow’ Lord Lucan and Shergar are living happily together on a Caribbean island.
George
There is no standard relationship to distance run and calories used.
Dub Spot
(+ my 11.75% lean body mass.)
Especially when you don’t run at all. Pick excuse from:
A) my knees
B) my back
C) Munching in WoW burger thinking up excuses about A) and B)
Janet, I ate my avatar
Dub you sound a bit tense
may I suggest a run ?
cackles
Brother Barnabas
11.75% lean body mass = 92.25% body fat?
not surprised you can’t touch your knees, mate
George
A happy meal is 470 calories.
An average man should consume 2,500cal and an average woman 2,000cal.
You don’t need to run 0km.
Janet, I ate my avatar
quality of calories plays a huge part too,
someone eating those fast sugers and nutritionless crap isn’t going anywhere for a long time, smelling nice or feeling good imo
Eoin
Yep, €2.90 for a “wrap”. That’s €2.66 after VAT
After ingredients and cooking, staff and overheads, all the corporate stuff including the cost of the defaced ads above, not to mention corporate tax, McDonald’s makes around 50c net profit on that “wrap”. How much for the ingredients? Probably 40- 50c. You couldn’t pay me to eat it.
realPolithicks
“a second on the lips a lifetime on the hips”
Janet, I ate my avatar
I’m still hearing twice on Sundays….
Brother Barnabas
and as for a rainy easter monday
Janet, I ate my avatar
we should do that word game in a thread, you say rainy Easter, I say first thought in my mind, chocolate eggs etc
Brother Barnabas
nah
I’d only disgrace myself
Janet, I ate my avatar
that’s what I was looking forward to..
Brother Barnabas
sure it’s old hat at this stage
Janet, I ate my avatar
if de cap dem fit
it sweet me
Janet, I ate my avatar
Chocolat bunny
realPolithicks
“and as for a rainy easter monday”
C’mon Brother, once a year, you can do better than that!
Janet, I ate my avatar
twice on Sundays… swoon
Brother Barnabas
I’ll have you know RP that once when I was 13 or 14 and was home sick from school and bored, i did it 9 times. i kept count. beat that (so to speak).
Bertie Blenkinsop
I’m not one for nostalgia but that’s very impressive.
realPolithicks
Sure what else would you be doing of a Sunday?
realPolithicks
Was that when you were home sick for a month Brother?
Brother Barnabas
alas, RP, you credit me with greater moral fibre than I’ve ever possessed
postmanpat
I hate graffiti ..but I don’t hate this…
Starina
poop in, poop out.
Cloud
Oooh you’re ‘ard.
George
It’s a refreshing change from being told to eat poo, to be honest.
Riz
McDonald’s is grand. It’s only bad for you if you pummel it into your big fat gob on the daily. As a treat it’s fine and it’s not that bad quality at all.
Janet, I ate my avatar
a treat ?
champagne is a treat, a fabulous cheese is a treat, crab claws in butter, perfectly cooked steak
Mc Donald’s nope :)
presentation alone is desperate
bisted
+1
SOQ
You Frenchie you.
I am very wary of the whole calories thing mind. It is a base metric which means very little. Nutrition is way more important. Once you start really looking at food as fuel then everything changes, like day to day how it makes you feel.
But marketing is catching up. We are told that gluten free is a good thing but most don’t even know what gluten is let alone why (or if) we should avoid it. Likewise vegan, lots of products on sale now but half of them are just as much poo as their flesh counterparts.
The best dietary advice I ever heard was from Boy George. Don’t eat anything with a label on it. Sometimes simple statements ring true.
Janet, I ate my avatar
well said Queen
if it didn’t come out of the ground or used to breath don’t stick it in your pie hole
:)
rotide
Nearly everything in McDonalds came out of the ground or Breathed at one point.
Think SOQs advice is better, if less tasty.
Janet, I ate my avatar
that’s just not true, the tiny percentage of real food left in that processed nonsense is miniscule…it won’t even rot properly
Janet, I ate my avatar
I fairness I should have finished that statement came out of the ground etc with ” the least amount of tampering “
rotide
Stick to calling it poison.
That’s bound to work.
Janet, I ate my avatar
:) I’m taking my sanctimonious botty off to bed…. POISON !
rotide
Enjoy!
(I’m off for a big mac)
Janet, I ate my avatar
hahahaha :)
Dub Spot
Surely “Don’t stop beefeatin’.”
Ted
Really is some amount of snobby gits on this site. In moderation McDonald’s is fine, probably healthier than running marathons which puts a huge amount of strain on your heart. Also mcdonalds won’t turn you into an absolute w**ker like running marathons does to people
Janet, I ate my avatar
I’ll admit I’m a full on snob about food, if enjoying quality ingredients properly prepared makes me a snob.
Marathons are only bad for you if you are not properly prepared with the surge in popularity so many people just are not.
Ian-O
I fully support McDonalds right to make this poo food and I fully support peoples rights to shovel it down their gob.
Doesn’t take away from the fact its pure poo all the same.
The only thing I ever liked about McDonalds was their coffee (really nice) and the fries.
Mum…. ??!?!?
But it’s all so delicious…
1 happy meal is 21 km to run off
Worth it.
Do you mean a Big Mac meal? First result in google claims a happy meal is 520 calories; I ran 13 km recently and Strava tells me that this burned almost 1,400 calories (it’s true I am a big fellow, but not that big…)
So what you’re saying is Janet is a peddler of lies.
LIES JANET DO YOU HEAR?
I hear, small Happy meal 520 calories
30 minutes of running will burn 280 aprox depending on your weight and speed in fairness, so looking at at least ten
but let’s face it most people get the large coke and cover the chips in mayo and ketchup, so yeah it’s an exaggeration but that crap isn’t leaving your system anytime soon
I know. It’s shocking crap.
A friend of mine ate nothing but McDonald’s for the entirety of her pregnancy using the old ‘cravings’ excuse and she now questions why her son eats nothing but shite.
The latest calories counter for the McD’s Festive season is here:
http://www.mcdonalds.ie/content/dam/ireland/Docs/Final%20Festive.pdf
I ran the Dublin Marathon (42.195) and Strava said I burned 3,291 calories. Unlike you I’ve never run a “mini-marathon”.
well done, Paris and Connemarathon myself
hope you enjoyed as much as I did :)
I admit I have a bee in my bonnet about poison sold as fast food, calories or not
never ran a mini either, you have no idea how much I wish I didn’t feel the need to type that
Damn you running ego .. ;)
oh Dub spot do I remember having the chats with you before about running where you run down everyone doing less distance ? I hate the word of mini marathon for short distance you gotta earn that word but don’t belittle others efforts or assume because I mention a 10 km that that is the height of achievement, it makes you look like a Willy ;)
@janet – if you love other runners you haven’t run enough.
I like other humans ( most of the time)
maybe you have ran too much :)
fair play rob ! in fairness there are a lot of factors, heart rate etc… nice work
A 10 km is not a run, yet alone a mini-marathon . Parkrun? Running around the same 5km and getting a t-shirt with 100 on it is not for me. Done Paris marathon three times – and the Paris/Versailles and Fitbit Semi. Love the Paris marathon – especially the bit where you run through the Pont D’Alma tunnel where poor old Diana, Dodi and Monsieur Henri came to grief. L,enfer, c’est les autres.
well we may even have ran the same races then, done the Fitbit many years too, it’s in my hood, Paris Versailles too :) that hill :)
funny most successful runners I train with have a little more humility and humanity,
yes we can knock out a 10k easy and dismiss it but don’t belittle others who work up to that, it doesn’t make you superior. Never been injured ? Never had a bad run ? I’m not buying that. I find an extension of loving running is encouraging others to get out there and steadily build up, increasing heart lungs fitness happiness, you’ll get old and taper too my friend.
are you arguing with yourself Dubby
no one said it was
“A 10 km is not a run…”
That’s stupid. That’s like saying that you, Dubspot, are a better runner than Usain Bolt, because he runs 100m and you run 42,195m*
*really, really slowly
Rob-G; if you’re a ‘big fellow’ Lord Lucan and Shergar are living happily together on a Caribbean island.
There is no standard relationship to distance run and calories used.
(+ my 11.75% lean body mass.)
Especially when you don’t run at all. Pick excuse from:
A) my knees
B) my back
C) Munching in WoW burger thinking up excuses about A) and B)
Dub you sound a bit tense
may I suggest a run ?
cackles
11.75% lean body mass = 92.25% body fat?
not surprised you can’t touch your knees, mate
A happy meal is 470 calories.
An average man should consume 2,500cal and an average woman 2,000cal.
You don’t need to run 0km.
quality of calories plays a huge part too,
someone eating those fast sugers and nutritionless crap isn’t going anywhere for a long time, smelling nice or feeling good imo
Yep, €2.90 for a “wrap”. That’s €2.66 after VAT
After ingredients and cooking, staff and overheads, all the corporate stuff including the cost of the defaced ads above, not to mention corporate tax, McDonald’s makes around 50c net profit on that “wrap”. How much for the ingredients? Probably 40- 50c. You couldn’t pay me to eat it.
“a second on the lips a lifetime on the hips”
I’m still hearing twice on Sundays….
and as for a rainy easter monday
we should do that word game in a thread, you say rainy Easter, I say first thought in my mind, chocolate eggs etc
nah
I’d only disgrace myself
that’s what I was looking forward to..
sure it’s old hat at this stage
if de cap dem fit
it sweet me
Chocolat bunny
“and as for a rainy easter monday”
C’mon Brother, once a year, you can do better than that!
twice on Sundays… swoon
I’ll have you know RP that once when I was 13 or 14 and was home sick from school and bored, i did it 9 times. i kept count. beat that (so to speak).
I’m not one for nostalgia but that’s very impressive.
Sure what else would you be doing of a Sunday?
Was that when you were home sick for a month Brother?
alas, RP, you credit me with greater moral fibre than I’ve ever possessed
I hate graffiti ..but I don’t hate this…
poop in, poop out.
Oooh you’re ‘ard.
It’s a refreshing change from being told to eat poo, to be honest.
McDonald’s is grand. It’s only bad for you if you pummel it into your big fat gob on the daily. As a treat it’s fine and it’s not that bad quality at all.
a treat ?
champagne is a treat, a fabulous cheese is a treat, crab claws in butter, perfectly cooked steak
Mc Donald’s nope :)
presentation alone is desperate
+1
You Frenchie you.
I am very wary of the whole calories thing mind. It is a base metric which means very little. Nutrition is way more important. Once you start really looking at food as fuel then everything changes, like day to day how it makes you feel.
But marketing is catching up. We are told that gluten free is a good thing but most don’t even know what gluten is let alone why (or if) we should avoid it. Likewise vegan, lots of products on sale now but half of them are just as much poo as their flesh counterparts.
The best dietary advice I ever heard was from Boy George. Don’t eat anything with a label on it. Sometimes simple statements ring true.
well said Queen
if it didn’t come out of the ground or used to breath don’t stick it in your pie hole
:)
Nearly everything in McDonalds came out of the ground or Breathed at one point.
Think SOQs advice is better, if less tasty.
that’s just not true, the tiny percentage of real food left in that processed nonsense is miniscule…it won’t even rot properly
I fairness I should have finished that statement came out of the ground etc with ” the least amount of tampering “
Stick to calling it poison.
That’s bound to work.
:) I’m taking my sanctimonious botty off to bed…. POISON !
Enjoy!
(I’m off for a big mac)
hahahaha :)
Surely “Don’t stop beefeatin’.”
Really is some amount of snobby gits on this site. In moderation McDonald’s is fine, probably healthier than running marathons which puts a huge amount of strain on your heart. Also mcdonalds won’t turn you into an absolute w**ker like running marathons does to people
I’ll admit I’m a full on snob about food, if enjoying quality ingredients properly prepared makes me a snob.
Marathons are only bad for you if you are not properly prepared with the surge in popularity so many people just are not.
I fully support McDonalds right to make this poo food and I fully support peoples rights to shovel it down their gob.
Doesn’t take away from the fact its pure poo all the same.
The only thing I ever liked about McDonalds was their coffee (really nice) and the fries.