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New Documentary Of McDonalds-Only Diet Released

Filmaker Says She Lost 18 Pounds Eating Under Golden Arches

POSTED: 2:03 pm EST February 25, 2005
UPDATED: 5:00 pm EST February 25, 2005

On Sunday night, Hollywood honors the best in film at the Oscars. Among the nominees for best documentary is "Supersize Me." The film follows one man's month-long McDonalds-only diet that led to extreme weight gain and illness.

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NewsCenter 5's Mary Saladna reported Friday that New Hampshire filmmaker Soso Waley is protesting the nomination with a documentary of her own dining experience under the golden arches.

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's transformation from excellent health to horrific malaise after eating nothing but McDonalds for a month is both funny and frightening. He gained 25 pounds and his organs started failing.

But Waley says that "Supersize Me" is one-sided and a big fat fraud. Her film "Me and Mickey Dee" takes on the food police.

While lunching, Waley explained that for the documentary, she ate nothing but McDonalds for two months, and she lost 18 pounds.

"I had to eat everything at least once from the single menu items," she said.

The difference, she says, was that Spurlock gorged.

"Spurlock was getting value meals. He had to super size it if they asked him if he wanted to," she said. "He manipulated the whole thing. He ate a lot of food in order to gain weight to show a certain result. I ate healthy, and I had no problems."

No problems because she added some ingredients: self-discipline, common sense and moderate exercise.

"It's a matter of how much you're eating, not the food itself. I have a hamburger one day, and a piece of chicken the next," Waley said.

On Oscar night, Waley will be watching, diet Coke in hand, hoping "Supersize Me" gets its just desserts and loses.

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