15 Most Unhealthy Fast Food Items to NEVER Order 

I played victim for the longest time, claiming there was nothing I could do to loose weight no matter how hard I tried. Had to be blunt with myself and get educated on everything i put in my mouth. Started this year at 230, now down to 195. Not stopping! Thank you!

Was 268lbs. Subscribed to Thomas, 175lbs.

I'd love to see you rate the MOST unhealthy foods marketed as healthy... maybe vegan junk food or keto bars or something branded as healthy. And Starbucks drinks!

Visited my doctor 2 months ago and my weight was 249 and my glucose level was a 196. Tried making some drastic changes since as I'm trying not to become a diabetic and dependent on medications. Your channel has helped tremendously as I'm down to 231 now, still dropping weight. Thanks for uploads. They really help.

Even though I never eat this crap, I guess I watch videos like this to reaffirm why I don't eat this crap. Like a sober bartender constantly seeing reasons why they're sober... thanks for the video

You got me with the in in out. My favorite cheat meal. Sigh of relief.

You just saved us HOURS trying to get ourselves informed - this is why I'm subscribed ❤ Thank you, team TDL!!

Thomas looks great! Thanks for the info again. Also I like that the videos look so much smoother or something recently.

Glad you weren't too hard on In N Out because that's my cheat spot to eat lol.

Thank you Thomas. Can’t remember the last time I ate fast food. But, in a pinch, I now see which to totally avoid and which might be an option.

You broke my heart with the bloomin onion. I've only had it twice in my lifetime, but its so good.

IN-N-OUT well done triple meat(no cheese) mustard, grilled onions protein style(no bun) is my go to! Hard to not get the cheese and spread(cuz they taste so good), but it is about the cleanest burger option in So Cal.

I've been a health-conscious person for years now, but you still managed to blow my mind with this video.

So I'm a truck driver and eating out is the way. I listened to your videos about eating protein when eating at fast food places.

Hello Thomas, I LOVE your channel! You give honest and informative info about foods, topics and products that I would've never given a second thought about and now I question everything...I'm 52 yrs old, 6ft tall, an 8yr Marine Corps vet. and currently a 25yr veteran police officer. I started my weight loss journey just after Thanksgiving 2022 at 385lbs. My biggest vice I'm ashamed to say was Mountain Dew soda pop...I mean REALLY, I was drinking 2-3 2 liters a day sometimes 4 on my off days from work for probably the last 23 years. When i was in the Corps I was 190-205lbs when i started with my police depth. in 98' I was 230lbs and well u know the end result. I made the decision to quit my liquid crack cold turkey after Thanksgiving due to my increasingly bad BP and knee pain. just from stopping the soda pop from then to late February I lost 25lbs. I don't really eat bad (as in fast foods, desserts or candy) or eat a lot of different meals everyday, but my thing was I would eat HUGE portions of whatever 1 meal I would eat that day. I then decided to go on a smoothie meal replacement diet for breakfast and lunch and have a moderate dinner at night...which was how I discovered your channel looking for smoothie recipes and discovered using liquid monk fruit and stevia powder as sweeteners. I am glad to say that the info I have gotten from your vids have changed my outlook on a wide variety of things and I can't thank you enough for that! As of this posting I am down to 320lbs and that's just from the elimination of sugar in my diet, my smoothie/meal plan and of course drinking at least a gallon (sometimes 2) of water everyday. I just had to find a way to make water work for me cuz I ALWAYS hated drinking it, especially room temp water, just not gonna do it! When I was in the Corps in Desert Storm, they used to have us line up and drink a whole canteen of warm water 4 times a day. I think that psychologically put me against water at all after that! I got myself a 1 gallon insulated steel jug, cut up a whole Cucumber, orange and lemon, throw them in the jug and fill the rest with ice then add the water. It's like a refreshing sports drink to me and i just refill it with cold water that i keep in the fridge so the ice lasts a couple days. I take that jug with me everywhere. My goal is when I get down to 300lbs I will then start a light cardio and stretching workout regime that I know I will stick with and slowly increase its intensity then later incorporate some weightlifting. I really didnt mean to type all this but something said for me to share, in fact my original comment after watching this video was gonna be to ask you to do a pizza restaurant chain / store bought brand best/worse comparison (PLEASE, I think that would be a good vid) KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK YOURE DOING!!! Thanks sincerely from a grateful Jarhead!!!

In a nutshell: Just don't go to fast food places.

In the mid 1980's I read about partially hydrogenated oils (now known as transfat) and did everything possible to remove them from my diet and my family's - glad I did.

thank you for doing these videos, it really helps put things in perspective and know exactly why we should avoid these foods. it feels like the most self harming thing to do.

Up until about 2 months I used to consume fast food for every meal of the day. I’m a truck driver and so it was very difficult for me to eat anything else. However, 2 months ago I just started eating less and less fast food gradually and stopped snacking so unhealthily in between meals and have gone from 222lbs down to 200lbs. That’s 22 pounds in 2 months and I have not made any drastic changes to my diet. I still eat fast food but on significantly rarer occasions (maybe once or twice a week) and I also don’t exercise whatsoever. Not even walking. I know I should but with my depression and with my job, it’s extremely difficult to make myself exercise. I share my story because I was someone who never thought they could stop eating fast food. I would always say it’s impossible and make up every excuse in the book. But I’m telling you, it’s so incredibly easy to start trimming weight once you take that first step. I’ll tell you exactly what I do: Breakfast 8:30am: Jimmy Dean breakfast bowl (500 calories or less) Absolutely no snacks or anything in between breakfast and lunch. Lunch 1:30pm: Usually either a grilled chicken bowl or grilled chicken salad (500 calories or less) Maybe 1-2 100 calorie or less snacks before dinner. Dinner 8:30pm (I get home late every day from working 11+ hours): Anything under 500 calories. Absolutely no fried foods whatsoever. Following this every day has led to me losing an average of 11lbs per month without any exercise whatsoever and I still eat the foods I want, just watch the portions and caloric intake. I still drink beer regularly as well. You CAN do this and you WILL lose weight.

The worst thing is, whenever someone eats at a fast food place, they rarely only eat a burger or fries bny their own, but they combine them with various sugar and fat laden sauces, large cups of sodas and/or milkshakes plus sweet desserts! So for a full fast food meal, people are really overdosing on fats and sugar in combination, sending their digestive system and metabolism straight into distress!

For the mushroom burger, mushrooms soak up lots of oil so possibly they're using not a good oil

Great content, thanks for your efforts!

Wow very informative 👏 thank you, explains so much

Great video today Thomas! You are my favorite nutrition expert in the world. Everyone inherently knows that fast food is bad for them, but do they really KNOW? I’m becoming somewhat of a food and fitness buff just going keto 3 years ago and following Thomas and others, but even I don’t realize some of this stuff. If we who geek out on this content don’t know, how are others rolling up to the drive thru gonna know? My Lord, food is KILLING people, when it should be mere sustenance. Think about that. This should be criminal.

Great to see more of these informative videos coming in. Would love to see Thomas go through Costco's ORGANIC food offerings and critiquing them.

good job thomas! love your work

I signed up for the VSHRED program! Saw some of your vids and decided to take the dive and buy your commercial one

Here in Sweden its forbidden to use trans fats since 15 years ago i think.

Culver's single Mushroom & Swiss Butterburger is my jam. It's not healthy at all, but I don't eat sweets, don't drink, and otherwise do all the exercise and fasting needed to keep me in good health. If I die 4 months prematurely due to this delicious habit, then that is a FAIR exchange. 😅

Thx Thomas definitely we all need to know this fast foods do’s and don’ts 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Great content. Thank you 🙏🏽

If I knew I only had one more day to live, I would dive right into that Seafood Platter😋🤖

Would love to see a video of your healthiest fast food choices when we’re in a pinch and have to eat on the go! Thanks 😊

Very informative thank you

Thank you!!! This info is priceless

I just gained 8lbs listening to this !😂

Thomas can you please do a video on this new study released about sucralose being “genotoxic”

More videos like this. Really eye opening!

While I derailed from keto, craving on the bad food, I stopped at McDonalds as I was hungry 🤤 I ate a triple cheese 🧀 burger and went for a walk. Over 3 weeks ago getting back into keto, I ate the same triple cheeseburger 🍔 took of the bun and ate only the burger. 10 minutes later I had a terrible stomach upset 😭. Since then I never 👎 ate another cheeseburger 🍔

The hardest thing about eating healthfully is finding places that serve single ingredient foods without salt-sugar-fat! I literally feel like I am imprisoned and keeping myself from harmful/toxic food keeps me home! But since following you I’ve lost 53#’s so far! TY❤

Videos like this are golden and help u with decisions

Thanks! Are there any fast foods you recommend? I have chronic health issues so I want to know if there are any affordable fast foods (or freezer meals) that would be healthy to eat on days when I am not up to cooking.

In Canada, A&W is pretty solid going on a full tilt healthy fast food pitch in recent years with a menu very different from A&W USA. Still fast food but better than many of the other options. Although they’ve cut some things like they had KFC / Popeyes style fried chicken options but ditched that a few years ago at most locations. They recently upgraded many locations to have frozen root beer and other drinks but it’s basically a glorified slushy from 711, and it’s made fresh to order but it’s like frozen while being made? It’s weird… it’s not fast. I had to wait for mine and had finished my burger dining in while still waiting for my drink. They also got rid of the floats which was root beer with a scoop of ice cream in it, which was always much quicker to get. Although more often lately I just get water instead of soft drinks / soda popz

Amazing science. I couldn’t believe the thick shake with 1800 cal!! So much bad stuff can be hidden in purchased food. Here in New Zealand we have similar problems with fast food as the USA. Our MacDonalds at least use grass fed beef which may be the lesser of some evils. BTW the Outback Onion things are not really Australian 🇦🇺. Australians also don’t actually drink Fosters beer 🍺 either. Lol 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 🇦🇺

Thanks Thomas! 💪 What about the “Heart Attack Grill” in Las Vegas? 🍔

Great Video! Thanks!

OMG!!! WTF...I know I've been out of the drive thru/fast food eating business for 15yrs or so but darn it has gotten worse! How are these horrible things being allowed to be sold to people. And the addiction levels are off the charts. Oh my word 😥.

It baffles me how many calories these places can pack into a meal. Thank you Sir for outlining this.

Best thing I’ve done for my diet is totally stop eating fast food and only eating at restaurants a couple times a month

Thank you for the information

Thomas, a similar video delineating fast food breakfast items would be awesome!

Wow shocking stuff. Thanks for the breakdown. I never eat fast food items but it is good you showed the details

please keep making videos like these. This was a wake up call and reminder to not making it acceptable to eat fast food every week.

Your video on make your own pre-work out is the best!!!

Very Informative!!!!

That Bloomin Onion is toxic. Years ago, I had a gift card to Outback Steakhouse. Went with a girlfriend, got the Bloomin Onion. Stomach was so messed up we both ended up taking a sick day. Still call that place 'Outhouse Steakhouse'.

I think sonic uses some kind of hydrogenated oils in their burger patties, Like actually mixed in with the meat before they cook it, so that it appears juicier or something. I get burger patties from Wendy’s quite a lot because it’s the only common fast food joint that uses straight up beef and nothing else for their patties and I travel all over the nation so a lot of the time I’m in hotels and can’t cook. I try to get hotel rooms that have kitchenettes but a lot of the time I can’t get one

Loooooooove this videoo It’s super fun, watched while fasted!

WOW! Thank you for sharing brother.

Yep this is correct. Actually I noticed this 2 decades ago when I was researching low carb as part of the Atkin's Diet I was on for a spell. It seems at the time researchers noticed that men who consumed large amounts of fat and carbs had the highest incidence of CVD. They surmised that the issue was both fat and carb together is what was wrong with the standard western diet. If you picked just one to be high and then leave the other low, you were ok. Of course the issue with low-fat is satiety or the lack of. I tried low fat many times years ago and yes it worked, for a time. I starved most of the time, was always hungry and it forced me to add a thermogenic supplement to kill my appetite. I never stayed on low fat and gained back the weight faster than I lost it. It wasn't until I found keto that the weight came off and permanently. It's insane to see the amount of fat and carbs in some of these meals. That french toast at CCF is a perfect example. The one I make that tastes pretty much as good has about a tenth of the calories with 2 net carbs per slice of toast. It has about 6 gr of protein per slice with 8 gr fat (mostly from the eggs I use). There's no reason to add sugar and I sprinkle ground cinnamon which is a known anti-inflammatory spice. This is the primary issue I have with Southern cuisine - the use of sugar on everything. You want a bowl of turnip greens, make sure they leave off of the quarter cup of sugar they add to every bowl.

I wonder how much common stock of these companies are owned by Cardiologists, Heart Surgeons, and Oncologists.

A Freddy’s Burger commercial broke into this video, love it.😂

Hi thanks for the information Butter what do think of Kentucky fried chicken? Is it a good option?

Great post, Thomas! Would be nice to talk about KFC too. I’m curious about them… keep up the great work! 👍

I may be wrong, but as I understand it the bread and buns in most fast food joints contain more sugar than average so that when they toast them they form a hard crust that keeps the condiments from soaking in. We have a local chain in Washington state called Taco Time that has some decent options . I still love a Whopper with cheese every so often

Butcher Block good. Don't overlook sources like Costco....Kirkland 100% grass fed ( not the more common grass finished) frozen burgers. There' s decent stuff out there if you look. You are doing a great information service. Really respect your mission. Thanks.

Thomas, you are looking great, with your full summer tan on. My diet greatly affects my physical performance. I can't imagine eating fast food on a regular basis in middle age, and not affecting my metal performance also. Great video!

I Gained Weight Watching This Video

Still pumping out videos? Yes. Still helpful wherever you are on your fitness and anti-inflammatory journey? Yes. Still never paid a penny, but have shared and sang the praises of your content to everyone that will listen. Thank you for your help.

Oh wow some of these I’ve never even heard of before, and I’m a fast food connoisseur lol great vid now I know what else to avoid.

Thanks for the video I'm grossed out. This should keep me away from fast foods for a while if not forever. I've been following you for a bit and I actually know where I can go to get better quality food if I'm in a pinch.

Between the pandemic and inflation many fast food places have gourmet food prices now, especially McDonalds. The only two I would consider eating at are Burger King or Taco Bell, but only with a coupon or discount.

I clicked on the link simply to note what I should have for lunch the next month. Thanks for the information. L8

Very good video. Someone should make a video about top 10 healthiest food you can eat when ur on the go

Thank you for the reality check! I cast this video to the tv so my husband could hear this. We have the captain D's, Bojangles etc and I wanted him to see just how bad the menu items are and he really liked the way you explain everything. This is huge coming from him. He said you should have your on show on prime time like Dr Oz. did, and I totally agree! Long time subscriber and down 50 lbs. Thank you for all you do.

Would like to see one on all these "Healthy Choice" microwave dinners. Looked at some the other day and they claim low calories but all the sugar and carbs etc don't make sense. I bought a couple to try...one of those on the fly things...and they tore up my gut all day.

The Shake you mentioned about extreme sugars & fats Id like to hear more about that & Saturated & Trans Fat - Great Video - Thank you

The seafood joint looks like long John silvers here in the west coast.

Man, I have stayed away from fast food for well over a decade now, because I knew it was just low quality food, but jesus. These stats are ridiculous. No wonder everyone is huge.

Now I'm fantasizing about fast food.

I’ve only been able to refer one person to Butcherbox in over a year but I highly recommend it too. That was good to see in your video.

Much appreciated!

Thomas, one of many things I really appreciate about you is that you focus far more on substance (aka internal health) versus superficial things (like outward appearance). Nevertheless, as always, you look tremendous! You appear to be someone who has obtained optimal human health! So, let's say that you decided to only eat keto for the rest of your life....Would that augment your already great health, or do you think it would negatively impact your health?

I´m really enjoying this video! Often you are so crazy serious, but you were really funny here, specially on number 6... great to watch

Oh man, I used to get a Dave’s Triple protein style, mustard instead of ketchup, for lunch, thinking I was mostly in the clear. Never checked the specs on trans fat. Oof. Thanks for this one!

The 3 main reasons most food in the USA and the west has become un healthy is. #1 The change from frying in lard to grain oils. Before 1970 most food was fried in LARD which is more stable than grain oils and has less trans fat. #2 Most beef before 1970 was at least grass fed until finishing. All this beef will have higher Omega 3 oils and more vitamin D. #3 GMO wheat flower. The current GMO wheat flower has a much higher gluten content of one type of gluten that keeps bread soft. It also sticks to the veins and arteries and is vary hard to digest.

This video is very informative. I had gallbladder removal surgery after gallstones were found in there after a trip to the ER. My body has had trouble processing fats and certain oils. Good to know what specifically to avoid whenever I do eat out which I don't like to often

Just don’t eat fast food period. And if you do once in a rarity it’s fine.

800-900 calories 'nightmare' he says.... me over here doing OMAD and thinking "oh that would help so much!"

I admit that it’s nice to have info on fast foods. Many mainstream restaurants that are chains have zero info available about nutritional information, places like Cactus Club, The Keg, Earls, Milestones, etc as found in Canada…

All I can say is wow 😮Thanks for the info.

McDonald's puts sugar in EVERYTHING. The buns are full of it..

Wow, the calorie content on some of those items was way more than I expected. That seafood platter is more calories than I've had in the last 2 days but it really doesn't even look like that much food. You are right, you can't stress enough how bad trans fats and hydrogenated oils are. These corporations add cheap unhealthy fats to reduce costs and make their food more addictive; your wellbeing is the least of their concern. You simply cannot leave your health at the mercy of these companies.

Good job!

I was 185......subscribed to this guy....now I'm 300lb. I really like his videos

All I can say is 😳😲 wow I can imagine how the customers look

It is just crazy to me how so many establishments use hydrogenated oils instead of other options that do not contain trans fat, I did not realize how prevalent it was until watching your video and doing some more research.

I love your shirt! God Bless

Could you please do a segment on same theme but for vegetarian options bad to worst. Ty😊

Great video! This should be broadcast around the US to everyone. It is painful driving by a McDonald's or BK at lunch time and the drive-thru line wraps around the building. But it's all good they get a diet coke with it.