Unfortunately the digital data for days 28 through 30 was lost before I could write the final three days of posts. All data on hardcopy (food receipts, nutrition information and the final medical testing information) still exists and whatever was able to be scannable I have posted below. I’ll eventually format this into a table, but for now the images will have to do!
The results of my blood tests at day 0, day 15, day 30 and day 45 (15 days after returning to a normal diet) are posted below. McDonald’s did not have any significant effect on my blood levels, though working out at such a high intensity across the month certainly had some impact, though nothing unexpected according to the doctors.
The killer finding turned out to have nothing to do with health and everything to do with cost. McDonald’s is expensive! It cost me about $750 to eat at McDonald’s for one month — and I’m just one person! This explodes the myth that “poor people are fat because they have to eat at McDonald’s”. It appears more like that poor people who eat at McDonald’s are poor because they throw their money at nonsense luxuries like McDonald’s instead of saving it and cooking at home!
~$750 for one person for one month! AH!
Wow…$750 for 1 person. I will stick to my beans, rice and frozen veggies lol. Good job getting this though and I am surprised at how your liver enzymes went down in the 3rd test instead of up. Maybe it had to do with being sick?
Yeah, it was surprisingly expensive for one person. Shocked me how much it costs to eat out like that three times a day, especially with that much volume. As for enzyme levels — no idea, but it certainly could have had something to do with getting sick right in the middle of it.
I hate being sick. It turns me into a meanie.
Hey! Are you still around?
Why yes, yes I am!
I’m very busy with a few other things at the moment, but still very much alive.
I dont get notification on here but Ill check back from time to time.
Have you gotten any blood work recently? Anything change? Also, did you see Morgan Spurlock died?
My most recent blood work was a few months ago. Pretty much the same, with slightly lower creatinine levels because I haven’t been lifting heavily the last year.
Actually, this is interesting: I feel less well than while I was doing this McDonald’s experiment, but I’m eating much, much more healthily. Why? Because right now I am in a huge production crunch (startup company), writing enormous amounts of code every week, not sleeping enough, and barely working out. It’s horrible!
Two scenarios:
1. I have plenty of time to wrestle, lift, run etc. every day but I have to eat McDonald’s all the time.
2. I can have the best diet in the world but I have to stay inside and write code for 10 hours a day.
Given these two options, I would pick the first one, confident that it would actually be much more healthy. I might change my mind if the requirement was to eat, say, packaged food all the time (like stuff that stays on store shelves for years with lots of science names in the ingredients list and made mostly out of sugar and wax and whatnot) instead of McDonald’s.
Anyway, this has not changed my blood levels. Ideally I’ll be out of this mode by mid-January and can have more time to train again. It is definitely a lot less comfortable than getting the post-workout high several time per day!
Spurlock… yes, I heard he died. I also heard he was an alcoholic since adolescence, which goes a long way to explaining the results he got from the doctor. Sad situation. Also sad that his most famous work is an anti-capitalist propaganda piece disguised as a documentary — but that was his career: being a socialist agitator for the proto-woke Leftoid brigade. Unfortunate.