I had no idea how shitty fast food (McDonald's, KFC etc) was making me feel until I recently gave it up. I'm trying to eat healthier (and vegan-er) so the first thing I did was give up my fast food habit. A few things I found interesting about the process:
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Holy shit is this hard. I don't know if I'm just weak-willed or they put some seriously addictive stuff in there but the cravings are almost unbearable.
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Other than that I feel amazing after only a month. I have more energy, a better mood, my digestive system is better, I look healthier. All this makes the cravings worth it and those are slowly getting less terrible.
I highly recommend giving up fast food.
and all the fast food places spend more money on making their food shittier and more addictive than paying the workers who are actually making the money!
Legitimately engineered to hijack your body's mechanisms for detecting satiation to be as addictive as possible
i've always been told they put addictive shit in it. i know the sugary buns of burgers are to make them addictive.
But after cooking all week I’m exhausted and don’t feel like prepping and dicing and baking or whatever. Fast food sucks and is terrible for you but the convenience.
Almost like these cheap and fast food items are purposely loaded with addictive and pacifying chemicals/ingredients for some reason. If only I could remember who said this and where
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I recommend simple soups as a good lazy food. Buy what you like together and chop into the pot and cook.
I very seldom eat fast food, and it makes how wretched it is abundantly clear. If I do break down and get a baconator or something, I feel like I've been poisoned. Just completely fatigued.
I used to eat fast food multiple times per week in high school. After I moved to college, I was eating in the dorms and eating take out from local places that were delicious but not national chains. I went to BK as a lark with some friends on a roadtrip and felt in immediately sick afterwards. Queasy, headache, everything.
Its a pretty weak documentary by 2021 standards, but check out Super Size Me if you haven't. The documentarian goes into detail about the shit they put in fast food and how it turns him into an objectively less healthy person over the course of a month eating it straight.
Didn't the host become a child molester, and co-hosts with Jared Fogle at one point? We watched it in my high-school health class so it's been a while
super size me and bowling for columbine were the go-to documentaries at my high school. i feel like i saw both of them every dang year
i weened myself off of it over time in addition to soda. still get a pizza or some chinese takeout once a month. basically the same thing i did with nicotine and i guess opiates (still at stage kratom but feels like seltzer to soda) but you are absolutely right it seriously has some drug like effects. even crappy home prepared food is better.
It's also really expensive for what you get. You're also paying for the "fast" service and supply chain too in the price.
Like a burger, fries, and a drink goes for $9 to $11 for one meal for one person.
Getting takeout from a cheaper local restaurant will go farther and possibly less likely make you feel like you have a lead ball in your stomach.
One of the few positive things about the pandemic has been that I've greatly reduced the amount of fast food that I eat. Before I was eating fast food everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. Early on I just stopped eating out. I gradually started eating a bit more, but no where near as much as I used to.
I went thru a very similar journey... I still get cravings but knowledge of how I'll my stomach is post consumption is a good reminder.
Pre covid I would do grocery store salad bars for a quick convenient meal.
Oh yeah you'll get over those cravings too, and then you'll wonder why you ever ate that shit in the first place. I did the same thing with soda and wow, when I do have it when a friend offers or something it just tastes like sugary battery acid. I'm starting to feel the same way with Chinese food, but damn it it's convenient!
I can't eat fast food anymore. Used to all the time, then I got a job working in a kitchen and started cooking my meals at work and sneaking them home. Went back to McDs after about a year off and almost vomited lol.
I more or less had to give up fast food because most of it completely disagrees with my digestive tract. If I keep it simple, in a pinch I can still eat fast food and be alright. Taco Bell bean burritos never gave me a problem, for instance. A Wendy's Baconator will leave me hugging my stomach and moaning while sitting on the toilet, praying for it to be over. The kind of shitting when you take your pants completely off instead of leaving them around your ankles.
The kinda shit where you start sweating like a mf and fear you might actually faint sitting on the toilet
Ever had White Castle?
Only fast food that's ever given me the "fast food bowels" that everyone talks about.
Yeah fast food is like once every couple of months for me. I remember once years ago in a class I was taking how expensive fast food is for me. It never fills me up or I don't have enough money to do this.
I gained a little weight this year after I stopped working out as much but I wouldn't say I'm overweight.
As someone who just ate a single burger king burger this evening and threw it up 15 minutes later, I second this
