McDonald’s all day breakfast is bs because there’s no all day lunch, like it’s 10:54 LET ME HAVE MY BIG MAC IM STARVING AND MCMUFFINS WONT SATIATE ME

Any updates on Nick and Louis and baby Joe? I keep thinking about them on my way to work, so thank you for sharing your head-canons with us!

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN ACTUAL SCENE???? I have two full scenes now, which is miraculous for a number of reasons, the most important being that I have forgotten how to write. However, I have scene one (where they meet) and now I have scene two (where they meet again, so that Nick can pay Louis back the £1.50 he owes Louis for paying him on the bus). Baby Joe is still a baby bump. 

“You do realise this costs more than me putting you on the bus, right?” Louis says, eyeing the McDonald’s bag dubiously. He’s more obviously pregnant today, but the weather’s better and he’s not zipped into a puffa jacket like he was on Thursday. His tummy is a little round swell beneath his hoodie, his jacket open, his hand splayed across his bump.

“It’s a thank you,” Nick says. They’re back in the same park they met in, and Nick’s brought them both Maccy D’s from the McDonald’s on the Strand. Two Big Mac meals, two large fries, and a Fanta for Louis and a Diet Coke for Nick. “Didn’t know if you could have caffeine or not, like, with the baby and everything, so I got you Fanta.”

“I can,” Louis says, “but I like Fanta.”

Nick grins. He sits down on the bench next to Louis and puts the bag down between them. “Thought it’d be nice,” he says. “Proper thank you for being my knight in shining armour on Thursday.” It’s Sunday, and Nick normally has plans, but he’s ignored texts from his mates in favour of getting Louis to come meet him in the park instead.

Louis peers into the bag. “No one’s called me that before.”

“They should have done,” Nick says stoutly. “Proper saved my life, you did.”

“I put you on the bus.”

Nick’s happy to see that Louis’s flushed a little pink. They’ve been texting since Thursday, on and off, and Nick’s learnt that Louis:

A) works a shit temping job in an office, moving bits of paper from one tray to another and answering the phones,

B) got let go from his last shit temping job - and home of the baby daddy - one day before he reached his three month anniversary there, at which point he would have been eligible for the same rights and money as any of the permanent staff,

C) lives in a crap flat that he can’t really afford, which has something to do with a crap ex-boyfriend, and,

D) loves the shit out of his baby, and can’t wait to meet them.

It’s endearing, and Nick’s charmed.

“My blisters thank you,” Nick says. “Would have had to walk miles and miles home. I would have been dead miserable. And don’t forget you got into my bottle of Coke. Can you imagine how shit I would have felt if I’d had to walk all that way home, and not have any Diet Coke?”

Louis is still a bit pink. “You didn’t have to get me all this, though. Whole Big Mac meal? Better than a bus fare.”

“Nah,” Nick says. “This is as well as the bus fare. This is just, like, an I hope we can be mates thing.”

“Okay,” Louis says, after a moment.

“Okay to the mates thing?” Nick asks. He doesn’t normally have to make friends like this. Normally it’s all friends of friends and parties and stuff. This is the first time in ages he’s done anything like this. Primary school, maybe, when he took James Harrison a packet of chocolate animal biscuits he’d filched from the cupboard at home. James had eaten them and then gone off to play football like normal, and they hadn’t ended up best friends like Nick had wanted.

Louis shrugs. “Suppose,” he says. “Depends on how many socks you’re wearing today, if I’m honest.”

“Is two better than zero?”

“So long as it’s not one,” Louis says. “One made you a bit weird.”

Nick nods. “I can see that,” he says, and then he tugs at the ankles of his skinny jeans so that they ride up over the top of his high tops. Blue and grey striped socks. Two of them. “Two. Like a normo.”

“At least there’s that,” Louis says, and leans over to pinch a chip from Nick’s bag.

“Oi. You’ve got your own.”

“Nah,” Louis says, and steals another one. “We’re mates now. What’s yours is mine.”

Nick doesn’t mean to grin, but he can’t fucking help himself. This, he thinks, could be the beginning of trouble.

“Anyway,” Louis says, “my baby likes chips.”

Nick tries to look solemn. “Babies love a McDonalds.”

“They do,” Louis says, and he bumps his elbow into Nick’s. “Mates. All right.”

Yeah, Nick thinks. Trouble.

🐟Breaking down a fish burger. - 🐟A lot of positive feedback on the last post breaking down coffee, so I thought we'd continue the journey into one of my favorite fast food chains, McDonalds! - 🐟Let's use the filet-o-fish as today's example, I use to always choose the fish burger thinking that it was "healthier" than a big mac and so I'd lose more weight. Over time I ate so much fish burgers that I ended up kinda really loving it. - 🐟A upsized fish burger meal is roughly 1200kcal: - 🐟Fish burger - 379kcal 🐟Large fries - 510kcal 🐟Large coke - 310kcal - 🐟Yep. A almost a day's worth of calories. Feels like you should just give up McDonalds right? - 🐟Actually, not at all - 🐟Y'see if you simply go for the normal non-upsized meal, it already makes a significant difference. A regular fries is about 310kcal, while a regular coke is around 150kcal. That's immediately 360kcal less. A 1200kcal meal becomes 840kcal by going from upsized to regular size. - 🐟What if you had coke zero instead of regular coke? Minus another 150kcal. The whole meal now drops to 690kcal. More manageable than the full 1200kcal upsized version. - 🐟You could also just go for the burger itself. No fries. A lone burger. A lone filet-o-fish is 379kcal. - 🐟From 1200kcal, little tweaks here and there it becomes 379kcal or anywhere in between. - 🐟No, I'm not recommending you to go eat McDonalds, not at all. I'm just breaking it down to show you it's possible. It's absolutely possible to include fast foods into your daily diet and still be progressing towards your goals, while also eating mostly nutrient rich whole foods throughout the day. - 🐟Maybe you don't have it everyday, maybe once a few days, once a week. Having fast food doesn't automatically make it a 'cheat' day. - 🐟It takes time to figure out a diet or routine that suits you and your lifestyle. It's not gonna feel great overnight, it's not gonna feel seamless immediately. But when you constantly try and adjust, over time... - 🐟... you'll figure out the best diet for you. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzxNq4PHeQ4/?igshid=ba5dkoi7o2u7