Man Drops Pounds With McDonald's-Only Diet

(AP)  A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's.

Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes. Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.

Chris Coleson tipped the scales at 278 pounds in December. The 5-foot-8 Coleson now weighs 199 pounds and his waist size has dropped from 50 to 36.

The 42-year-old businessman from Quinton says he chose McDonald's because it's convenient.

His inspiration came from his two children and from the story of a blind war veteran who rode a tandem bicycle cross-country.

Coleson says his goal is to get back to the 185 pounds he weighed when he married Tricia Summer. Their 10th anniversary is Saturday.

[toolmangler-2009]

If you work off what you stuff in your mouth + one Lb a day, as of this date you would have lost 174 lbs since the first of the year

[cfin5]

Well, I''m glad what he did worked for him. But I can''t help wondering what his diet consisted of before this? I mean, I eat NOTHING considered as diet food,...butter fried potatoes, bacon, real eggs, whole milk, fruits and vegetables and all organic to my affording. The "four-square diet" like they taught me in Elementary School. I''m taller than him and only 10 pounds heavier. That junk food should be banned,.....BLECH!

[bhappy2-2]

If I had to eat the garbage mcdonalds calls food I would rather starve, too.

[slim1h2o]

So why are they showing a picture of a Big Mac?

It''s not what the guy ate. But then again, this the network that put the "BS" in CBS

[shoppingnut-2009]

Take that all you health nuts who think everything at McDonald''s is bad for you.

[simpsonman19]

I think McDonalds should sue those people who sued them because they got fat and demand their money back.

[sociald63]

yeh right - now can your wife do the same thing