your first reaction to cals in fast foods.

What was your first reaction when you first discovered how many cals was in your favorite fast food meal? I was shock because like everday I used to eat about 3 double cheese burgers from mcdonalds with fries and a drink, not only that I still ate later on. Some how I never was over weight, My heightiest weight was 185 and I'm 6ft1 so thats average. I lost about 20 pds after I cut all the fast food crap out.Guessing my old cal intake it had to be between 3000-4000 WOW, huh

I am surprised sometimes at the calories in some of the large salads especially some of the dressings, one has to be careful! Of course there are many reasonable ones.

Even before coming to this site I had lurked thru many of the fast food pages and was shocked at the amount in the Taco Bell salad that I like so well ! I still buy it occasionally but make 2 meals out of it.

Crazy right, Please don't get me started on tacobell, so many burritos

I have never been a big "fast food" person and I am not as suprised by that as I am by other foods such as salads and other meals in restaraunts that on surface would not seem like it was so many calories... I used to eat salads in restaraunts all the time thinking it was a healthir choice to then realize 900 or more calories later it is not the wisest choice... We are eating more at home now than we ever did.

the salad dressing calories are what threw me for a loop....now I opt for vinager on my salads.....which is just as tasty.

Betterbe, I'm with you. I use vinegariettes. The serving size is 2 tablespoons but I use one tablespoon vinegariette and one tablespoon balsamic vinegar. The result is delicious (I love balsamic vinegar). And it cuts down on the calories of the vinegariette.

I like 'Newman's Own' low fat balsamic vinagrette only 40 calories per pkg. from Mc Donald's (of course you want to check to make sure you get the one you order before driving off :) )

Over 700 calories in my zesty chicken bowl with dressing. Oh, how I miss this dish.
And McDonald's Shakes ... oy, over 400 cal in a SMALL! The Shamrock shakes just came back. Even though it's so many calories, I'm goin' to HAVE to get one (just one) before they go off the menu again. Mmmmmm minty icecream goodness ::drools:: I'll just have to make a cheat day out of that one and eat better the rest of the week.

I always knew it was high in calories but never realized just how many. I always ordered small fries or smaller burgers but still crazy!!They should really require labels on the wrappers of these things..it would make people stop in their tracks.

Lol mjtoto, why do you think they DON'T label the wrappers with nutrition information?

I know, I know ...but it would be nice...a girl can dream! lol