Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
Both are OK as long as you don't put any of that red or brown gloop on it that has the main ingredient of sugar. And go very easy on the butter or margarine. Or don't use any at all.
Britain is overweight.
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BiMGuy
LIV Bot, (But Not As Big As Mel) ?
A sausage egg McMuffin is nicer than any bacon sandwich I’ve had at a golf club.
bobmac
Major Champion
One is a roll and one is a muffin.
I don't play golf every day.
If I want a bacon roll before golf, I'll have one at home.
I also have coffee.
I guess I'm just the old fashioned type who has breakfast before leaving home.
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Neilds
Assistant Pro
For me, the bacon butty before golf is part of the whole golf experience. Time to catch up with the rest of the guys, find out who still has a dodgy handicap, who is on fire and likely to shoot 4 under (then won't
) and time to talk down my own game before (hopefully) winning the sweep. Breakfast at the club is as much part of my round as the drink afterwards.stefanovic
Medal Winner
Most people here don't seem to want to lose weight and that is their choice.
Food retailers don't want them to, either.
If you do want to lose weight you could try the Robert Atkins' diet.
But he was clinically obese when he passed away.
You could try Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin method.
But images of him suggest he is at least a bit overweight.
So what works? There are just one or two things which are so simple they are easy to overlook.
Reduce your input of calories.
Try to catch up with your sleep.
Food retailers don't want them to, either.
If you do want to lose weight you could try the Robert Atkins' diet.
But he was clinically obese when he passed away.
You could try Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin method.
But images of him suggest he is at least a bit overweight.
So what works? There are just one or two things which are so simple they are easy to overlook.
Reduce your input of calories.
Try to catch up with your sleep.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Nothing at all wrong with butter but margarine is to be avoided.
Foxholer
Blackballed
H'mm. Not certain about that!
As ever, generalisations are unreliable (including this/these one/s!)!
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Rooter
Money List Winner
My money is on the sauces. But agree, Fat gets a bad rap. Sugars are my nemesis for sure.
Rooter
Money List Winner
Hmmm, probably very little!
in fact, lets go, from Myfitnesspal (only quite basic, and I never fully trust MFP, no sugar numbers on the carb breakdown which I like to see, also Fat Vs Sat fat)
Mcdonalds Bacon Roll with Ketchup
319 cal
43g carb
8.4g fat
18g protein
Greggs Bacon Roll
337 cal
36g carb
13g fat
19g protein
Club option (1 x sourdough roll, 1 teaspoon butter, Bacon 2 rashers, 1 tsp ketchup)
210 + 80 + 80 + 20 cal 390 cal
40g + 0g + 0g +5g carb 45g
2g + 9g + 7g + 0g fat 18g
5g + 0g +5g + 0g protein 10g
Foxholer
Blackballed
Not unusual/unexpected. Sugars are recognised and processed by various the body (at least normally). Many 'fats' are simply passed through!
All about having an 'appropriate' diet imo.Yours will almost certainly be vastly different to mine!
Foxholer
Blackballed
The environment and the anticipation!
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
Nicely done! Point taken on MFP validity. McDonalds take their nutrition reporting seriously because if they get it wrong they're an easy litigation target. Sad, mad and true unfortunately.
Here's McDonald's Nutrition breakdown for comparison with MFP.
- Energy (kJ) Energy in kJ 1397
- Energy (kcal) Energy in kcal 332
- Fat (g) Fat in grams 9.2
- of which saturated (g) of which saturated in grams 2.8
- Carbohydrate (g) Carbohydrate in grams 40
- of which sugars (g) of which sugars in grams 7.4
- Fibre (g) Fibre in grams 2.2
- Protein (g) Protein in grams 21
- Salt (g) Salt in grams 2.2
Foxholer
Blackballed
A question for you - that you may have documented in the past, so apologies for being a bit lazy....
You seemed to have become a bit of a fitness and food content 'fan' or even 'fanatic'. Was there a specific reason - that you can share? Or a thread you can point me to to avoid repetition?
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
I do just that.
However, I was considering keeping the calorie count down. The bread and bacon contain enough fat and carbohydrate, hence no need to add more sugar and fat.
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Nothing is 'wrong' with either. I firmly believe that no food is 'wrong', you just need to be sensible and have things in moderation. A bacon butty or Mcmuffin once a week before your weekly medal is fine, 1 a day is less so and you should have a word with yourself. I also believe that those who weigh their portions and get hung up if they eat 0.1g too much of protein/fat/sugar should get a life and live a little!
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I certainly thing a bacon sarnie is fair game when you're about to do 3.5 to 4 hours of walking. I'm usually starving again by 9 holes.
Edit: This time of year is the worst though. On Tuesday night I had work drinks, on the way home I had a Greggs and a Burger King. Awful decision-making.
Edit: This time of year is the worst though. On Tuesday night I had work drinks, on the way home I had a Greggs and a Burger King. Awful decision-making.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
It's not a generalisation. There's nothing harmful in butter.
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Seriously do you not consider 14 stone being overweight for 6 foot ?
Im under 13 stone and consider that I am carrying alot of excess fat and fairly active(not muscle bound or big boned
). How peoples outlook of what is thin/normal/fat has changed in 2 generations, its a massive problem.
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For me weight, has always been reflective of how much I eat.
There is a sweet spot that my weight basically doesn't vary (around 1750-2200 calories a day). If stick with that range, then weight does not vary over the course of a week or month or year. Lockdown killed my weight but lost it all now, would like to lose a bit more, but with all going on Ive maintained status quo.
Below those calories the weight falls off and above those calories the weight piles on ('almost' irrelevant of the exercise level).
There is a sweet spot that my weight basically doesn't vary (around 1750-2200 calories a day). If stick with that range, then weight does not vary over the course of a week or month or year. Lockdown killed my weight but lost it all now, would like to lose a bit more, but with all going on Ive maintained status quo.
Below those calories the weight falls off and above those calories the weight piles on ('almost' irrelevant of the exercise level).
Orikoru
Tour Winner
My problem is that I could have 6 good days in the week of low calories, one takeaway and a couple of beers on a Saturday, and end up 2 pounds heavier. Life's too short to forgo the beers and takeaways completely though! In fairness though I generally stay the same as you said. I'm also 6 foot, weighing around 12 stone 10 at the moment, ideally I would like to be closer to 12. But as long as I'm not over 13 it's not the end of the world.
