I compared it to sticking your head in a dumpster and then eating everything in sight.
This is such a great analogy! I'm going to remember this the next time I want to hit the drive-thru. I'm not saying that fast food is evil or that everyone should avoid it, but personally I know it is my Achilles' heel.
I don't eat any fast food, just because I don't. I didn't grow up eating it, and it's just not something I ever developed a taste for. BUT, I understand completely. For me, I have to ban candy, literally. I just can't eat a little, it always ends up being a lot, and then starts me down a road of hunting out more and more sugar. I feel like it would be easier if I just mainlined sugar, IYKWIM. If I just don't eat it, then I stop wanting it...
Well, just to play Devil's advocate, it is possible to eat a reasonably healthy fast food meal, if you order the right thing. I have never been much of a fast food person, but occasionally, if I'm on the road or whatever, I will pick up a grilled snack wrap from McDonald's (260 calories) for lunch. Or I order the grilled Southwest salad, which is about 350 calories, I think, and I only use maybe half the dressing. Their sugar free iced coffees are lower calorie than Starbucks iced lattes as well, and cheaper too.
I sometimes get a turkey or roast beef sandwich from Subway, and that's only about 300 calories because I don't ever, ever eat mayo. I also like the suggestion above about making your own taco salad from a Taco Bell taco.
I'm just saying that all fast food isn't inherently evil, it's just a matter of planning ahead and not ordering the stuff that will trigger old cravings.
I forgot to mention that I'm not eating it because I felt so sick and sluggish afterward. It's not for me. Plus, I think I went a second time because I got the taste for the greasy processed food. Ugh. No more. Not for me.
Really, I stopped eating processed foods when I realized a lot of it came from the fast food industry. And even the "good" processed foods would sneak in crap in their ingredients list like corn syrup, etc.
Don't beat yourself up on the fast food binges.... just get back on track with your next meal as a healthy choice and go and do your next workout routine as usual. You can do it!
I'm a pescatarian (no meat, only seafood) so I naturally don't eat at any fast food places besides Taco Bell, and also because the fish sandwiches at fast food places are just simply disgusting. I tried the fish filet at Carl's Jr, ate two bites and threw it away.
anyways, i agree with what tinycities said. The only way you'll not want to eat a food is if you become totally disgusted by it. Like with me with meat. You might end up sabotaging yourself, so don't be so strict with the ban, allow it once a week or twice a month.
I've last been to a fast food when I was 7, which means in 1993...that was Burgy times, the pre-MacDonald's age, at least for my country.
Anyways, I've not gone there since that time so lol, I'm definitely boycotting them!
I too am on a no fast food quest. It's just something that I personally have to do. Otherwise I would eat it every day. I am also not working so I have to save money in as many ways as possible.
Becoming vegetarian makes it easier to boycott fast food. When I was eating meat I could get chicken on salad and feel pretty good about it. But there's not much high veggie, whole grain, some protein kinda stuff going on in fast food.
It's a baseball stadium that ow has a 4,800 calorie burger. My question is, why is something like this even legal in the US? Why isn't it this sort of thing banned becausei t's a health risk? I just don't get it. And I'm so glad many of you are with me on this boycott of fast food. I am seriously so done wasting my money and calorie intake on garbage. Even the "salads" are questionable. ........ I've always taking a like towards fast food. It's very addicted for me, but this little incident I had this week has done it for me.
You might end up sabotaging yourself, so don't be so strict with the ban, allow it once a week or twice a month.
But why? Why would you want to eat something once a week or twice a month if it makes you sick and sluggish, like glitterducky said it did to her? Why?
Why would you want to eat something once a week, if you're so repulsed by it, you liken in it sticking your head in a dumpster?
Why would you want to eat something that makes you miserable right after eating it?
Why would you plan to eat something once a week or twice a month that you've vowed NOT TO?
It's not like giving up high quality, nutritious, valuable, vital to living food. It's giving up worthless and in fact HARMFUL food, for all intents and purposes - garbage. Glitterducky, I think you've come to a great realization and I'm EXCITED for you. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Last edited by rockinrobin; 03-30-2009 at 12:40 PM.
Thank you glitteryduck for even suggesting this...It certainly makes for a good challenge...I could certainly eat every hot wing, cheeseburger and fries in sight and don't get me started on Penn Station!!! Then afterwards I just want to throw up..This is most def a personal choice for me and I just don't need that stuff or to drop dead of clogged arteries at 35.
rockinrobin: You have great points!! Why allow it?! I believe if you allow it once then it could also set a ball in motion where you eat more and more and pretty soon you're stuck in the same mucky muck of the fast food eating cycle.
That's why I'm boycotting. I believe after a couple of weeks of going without it, it will get easier (the first week or so will be the hardest for me)...and pretty soon it won't even be a challenge to go without fast food...I hope!
**Next on my list is to cut out soda...but I'll hold off on that boycott for now**
I'm definitely on board with this. I recently rented Supersize Me, which I highly highly recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it yet, and I'm totally of the belief that fast food is evil and should be boycotted. The movie makes a very compelling argument, and when its over you have to consider whether it's child abuse for a parent to take their child to McDonalds.
Don't feed it to your kids, don't feed it to yourself, throw it out as an option. No couple of times a month for me, I don't care how good it tastes. That stuff is garbage.
........ I've always taking a like towards fast food. It's very addicted for me, but this little incident I had this week has done it for me.
