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This fast-foodie refuses to get “supersized” by his dubious diet.
While most people are cutting back on snacks in the New Year, competitive eater Zach Zona is undertaking an extreme McDonald’s eating binge to prove he doesn’t gain weight.
Known for his feats of speed eating, professional burger gobbler has pledged to consume foods from the Golden Arches every day for 100 days. He regularly chronicles his quarter-pounder pilgrimage for his over 22,000 followers on Instagram, where he goes by @zonaeats.
After starting the fry-athlon in November, the culinary crash test dummy is around halfway to his goal.
Zona recently celebrated day 40 of the diet by housing a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a McCrispy Deluxe in his car. “Gotta get this down, it’s a real late one today,” he declared before Pacmanning up the fast food two-fer.
The goal is to prove that he won’t pack on the pounds despite eating nothing but burgers and fries. It’s essentially the reverse of “Super Size Me,” where independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarked on a monthlong McDonald’s marathon to illustrate the adverse effects of fast food.
Perhaps the one major difference — aside from the length of the feat — is that Zona is working out fanatically during his Fry January.
Not only is Zona refraining from amassing flab, but he’s allegedly losing weight on the burger regimen.
The competitive eater posted a video of him weighing himself on day 18, which showed that he was actually down four pounds from his start weight.
Nonetheless, Instagram viewers were skeptical of his so-called immunity to the fast food offensive.
“You can stay the same exact weight and still clog your arteries to the point of a heart blockage,” cautioned one commenter.
Another wrote, “You don’t gain weight in 100 days on McDonald’s, not straight away but you do long-term damage to your metabolism by harming your gut bacteria with all the additives and chemicals in it and that is not reversed easily.”
“Just bc you don’t gain weight doesn’t mean your liver, kidneys and heart aren’t working harder than needed,” warned a third. “Internally things are changing. Be mindful.”
Indeed, the negative effects of McDonald’s extend beyond simple weight gain and can include high blood pressure, inflammation, a higher risk of heart disease, and even greater chances of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, health experts warn.
That being said, dieticians say that some McDonald’s dishes do more damage than others while some aren’t half-bad for your health.
Kristen Carli, owner of Camelback Nutrition & Wellness, claimed that the best McDonald’s lunch order for weight loss — a seemingly paradoxical phrase — is the McDonald’s Classic Burger with a side of apple slices and an unsweetened iced tea.
“Opting for a basic burger, such as a McDonald’s hamburger or cheeseburger, provides protein and some carbohydrates without excess calories from cheese or mayo,” she declared.
