You will never find a nutritionist or doctor telling you how to lose 10 lbs in 2 weeks eating fast food. However if you can manage to eat a 1350 calorie a day mix and match weight loss plan using healthy choices that you can pick up at a fast food joint then you will still lose weight.
The reason this can work is because it is all about expending more calories than you burn, no matter what you eat. Ultimately this means that you do not have to kiss your love of fast food goodbye forever.
In this article there are suggestions as how to lose 10 pounds in two weeks by eating minimal calories while at the same time enjoying junk food.
Breakfast Choices Under 300 calories
Dunkin’ Donuts – The low calorie choice is a multigrain bagel with reduced fat cream cheese at 300 calories and 13 grams of fat.
Jamba Juice – Get a blueberry and blackberry oatmeal at 290 calories and 4 grams of fat.
McDonald’s Egg McMuffin – This is a good choice at 300 calories and 12 grams of fat. The yogurt and fruit parfait is only 160 calories.
Starbucks – The egg wrap with roasted tomato, spinach and feta is your best choice at 270 calories and 11 grams of fat. The instant oatmeal with mix-ins is under 200 calories as well.
Lunch and Dinner Choices Under 400 calories
Arby’s – The ham and swiss melt sandwich has 358 calories and 7 grams fat.
Burger King – The veggie burger without the mayonnaise is best bet with calories at 410 and the fat at 9 grams. The Whopper with no may and no cheese is 310 calories. The Tendergrill chicken garden salad without cheese is 300 calories.
In n Out Burgers – Their hamburger without mayonnaise or cheese is 350 calories.
Jack in The Box – The Asian chicken salad with grilled chicken strips is 160 calories with 1.5 grams of fat. The chicken fajita pita has 300 calories with 9 grams fat.
KFC – A grilled chicken breast and green beans is 250 calories.
MacDonald’s – The southwest salad with grilled chicken is only 420 calories which is low considering that calorie count includes the dressing. The premium Asian salad with grilled chicken is only 300 calories.
Subway – The six inch oven roasted chicken breast sub is 410 calories and 6 grams of fat. The spinach chicken salad with red wine viengarette for dressing is under 200 calories. The soups at Subway tend to be under 160 calories each.
Taco Bell – The chicken burrito supreme clocks in at 320 calories and 12 grams of fat. A great choice is the crunchy beef taco fresco style which is only 150 calories.
Wendy’s – The small chili is only 220 calories and full of fiber. The child size frosty is a wonderful treat at only 160 calories. The Ultimate chicken grilled sandwich is only 320 calories.
Try Intermittent Fasting
If you must eat this way to lose weight then it might be a good idea to try some intermittent fasting. Every three days take a day off eating this junk food fast and instead don’t drink anything but water, juices and green tea for a whole day. This will help cleanse out any of the toxins you are getting from eating your low cal junk food diet.
The fact is that even though you are eating less calories you will still be ingesting some chemicals in the refined junk food that is not so good for you. That is why this type of diet is only recommended for people in a bit of an emergency situation. You should probably never be on this diet for more than the two weeks it actually takes for you to strip the weight off.
About the Twinkie Diet
There was a diet that the press made a lot of fuss about last year called the Twinkie Diet. Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University ate everything that would be absolutely taboo on every other diet including Hostess Twinkies, powdered donuts, Little Debbie Snacks, Oreos, Doritos chips, and sugary cereals in his quest to lose weight.
Over a period of eight weeks he did prove that as long as your caloric intake was kept very low you could lose weight and that the type of food you eat did not have that much to do with it. He proved it by eating mostly Twinkies all day but keeping his intake to 1800 calories a day. Given that there are 150 calories in a single Hostess Twinkie you might only be eating ten of these a day if subsisting only on Hostess Twinkies is your goal.
To mitigate the negative nutritional effects of eating Twinkies all day Mark’s diet also included eating a cam puff green beans every day as well as three or four celery sticks and a high quality vitamin.
Critics of this way of losing weight have noted that there would be way too much sodium in this diet, especially in the can of green beans. There is also a debate about whether he got enough nutrition from just swallowing a vitamin pill.
However to be safe on this type of diet it would not hurt you to take a multi-vitamin as some of these meals really are deficient in nutrition. A liquid vitamins supplement might be best. Make sure you get enough vitamin B and C as these junk foods are very deficient in those nutrients.
Only Do This If You Don’t Have Other Choices
The suggestions when it comes to how lose ten pounds in two weeks in this article are only recommended for people who really are too busy to eat in a healthy manner. Sometimes you end up in another city and are in a hotel without a kitchen and are dependent on junk food to subsist while travelling. In these cases a diet like this starts to seem like a good idea.
