Eating Fast Food

So I have been eating healthy and preparing my own meals for about a month now.... and have avoided fast food and soda.... benefits are that I've lost about 7 pounds... I've been exercising more and feel more energized. :sillySmiley:

Today I woke up late and didn't have time to prepare my lunch so I went and got In-N-Out cheeseburger meal w/ soda.

I now remember why it's important to stay away from fast food.... I feel tired and sluggish and too full after eating this meal.... :sad5:
I didn't finish the soda, threw 1/2 of it away.... I don't miss that stuff....

What a difference the food you eat makes! I wish I would have had more money to buy something healthier... but I just had enough change on me for that meal... and accidentally left my purse in the office... lol

Anyway... I can't believe I used to eat a lot of junk food... I was just poisoning my body... eating healthy is the way to go... preparing your own meals... you make them just how you like them and the amount you like.

I wish there was a bed here so I could take a nap...

Carol, I've heard that when you cut out most junk food from your diet and then go back and have some, it doesn't taste as good and you feel exactly like you are feeling. Good for you with your lifestyle changes!! You'll be healthier and lose weight...how cool is that!!

Carol, you may just inspire some of us to change our evil eating ways.

I don't eat a lot of fast food, if I do, I try to get a salad. The junk they put in the food is awful for you.

Instead, I buy salad makings on the weekend, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, a brocolli coleslaw (shredded brocolli, carrots and purple cabbage), sunflower seeds, and dressing. I wash the lettuce, pat it dry and tear it up, toss the brocolli coleslaw in it, shake it up and put it in 5 plastic bowls with lids. These go in the fridge. Then I grill some chicken breasts, chop them into bite size pieces and put them in another container. Each night, I chop the tomato and add it to the lettuce, add the shredded cheese and the chicken. When I come home for lunch, I put in the sunflower seeds and por the dressing, toss and eat........I never have to worry about not having a good healthy lunch to eat because it is always made up ahead of time.

As part of the Nutrition class I took in the Spring, we had to watch the documentary, "Supersize Me". Where the director at nothing but McDonald's for 3 meals a day, for a full month. After watching that, you would never want to touch fast food again. It was unbelievable the changes this man's body went through in just such a short time. Not only gaining weight, but health problems too.

If you have a spare hour and 40 min.

Supersize Me Video

*LOL* We didn't get to see the end. I'm watching it now. I'm almost afraid to watch!!

Never eats fast food and never drinks soda. I eat a little of all things: cow meat, poultry, vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, pizza (homemade...It's delicious); sushi, pasta, desserts, juice fruits, , beer, liquor and wine. All in good proportions and without eating or drinking too much.

My health is in excellent condition until today.

No; I've never eated fast food...but rather I ate my food-fast! (And I'm slim)

Vanesa.

I forgot to say that I like fish in an exagerated way, and that I always crave for yogurt with granola in it. I always made my own yogurt. And I'm crazy for salads. I think I could eat tons of it, well dressed with lemon, salt, pepper and good olive oil...Hmmmmm. I'm hungry now!

Vanesa.

wow,thats really great guys u eat health...

I LOVE healthy food, it tastes so much better, once you eat healthy, fries really don't taste that appealing anymore. :P
I love fresh fruit, especially catelope!

Mmmmmm, Vanesa, I love salads, too! And yogurt . . . . We used to make that all the time, but haven't in quite a while. My favorite nighttime snack is grapes. I absolutely love crunchy, sweet grapes.

Carol, that's great that you're making such an effort to eat healthier!

I love grapes. And white ones are better than black ones for me. They are fresher. Mmmmhh. They are really tasty and crunchy. Grape juice is excellent to depurate the body, as well as apple juice. I think that you, American, has a popular dictum who saids that an apple a day keep the doctor far away, or something over the lines of it...And it seems it is true! Apple keeps your liver, brain, kidneis , stomach and teeth in excellent condition. Eat apple, people!

As for fried stuff, it is not bad twice a week or so. A doctor told me that what it is bad is what he calls "exclusive diets". This mean one-side diets. For example, people who eats only meat, or only vegetables, or only fried stuff, etc, etc. For him, human being is omnivorous, and he must eat everything in an equlibrated way. He saids: "Do you wants to eat a steak? Good! But assure you to add some salad to go with it! Do you want to eat some meal that is really fat? Don't worry, add vegetables to it and some wine. It will burn the grease away. Do you want some cream, some really sweet dessert? Good to. But drink some juice fruit after it..and NO PROBLEM".

I've read that Americans eats great quantities of fat meals; the same quantity of French people. But Americans dead more frequently of heart and brain attacks and have a lot of cholesterol problems, while French people doesn't have these troubles...What was the secret? They takes wine with meals and not soda. Wine kills grease. Of course, you must not drink so much you get wasted! :gross: And the same article assured that beer is god taken in not so high quantities. Wine is better than beer, for beer is like liquid bread.

Saying it in a nutshell: equilibre is the word that will keep our health O.K.


Vanesa.

Well I do have to say that when I lived in El Salvador, I ate a lot of vegetables and would even eat a tomato like if I was eating an apple... lol
But when I came to the States I was in awe of the McDonalds Happy Meals and all kinds of restaurants here that I stopped eating most of my vegetables :shy:

I'm not blaming America though, lol... it was my choice to eat that way... but there is a huge abundance of food here and quite easy to obtain... versus what I had in El Salvador which was more home cooking... we would eat out too but only about once every 2 weeks maybe.... but 95% of the food I ate was home cooked

People in the neighborhood would sometimes sell corn tamales and chicken tamales or popusas... which would be the type of food I would get at a restaurant here ... the difference was that in El Salvador, I knew the people who cooked this food... I sometimes would go to their house and play w/ the kids there while the food was being prepared...

It was actually like a big party... lol Someone would say she would sell Tamales and so she had several women come and help her, music was put on, us kids were running around playing and the towards the end of the day, the lady would always give me a one free tamale, then I would run home and tell my parents the tamales were ready for buying LOL They were soooo goooood! What times... :sillySmiley:

I try to cut out a lot of junk food, but IN-N OUT is still a favorite of mine. I also suggest going to Organic Milks. Because of my bag gallbladder i had to cut out a lot of foods and fats. My husband and I decided to try the organic mild ( 1%) and it tastes a LOT better. When I have milk at my work it tastes HEAVY.

My, Carol! I'm craving for pupusas now! I made them for the first time last year and I found them simply amazing. All people must try them!

Vanesa.

wow we eat healthy too! once in a blue moon we will go to mcdonalds or something but my mom and dad go to this lady and she said that it does effect your health