Fast Food

97i9y3941

Ok is there anyone addicted to it or is it just me,im not obese person but i cant help eating the stuff,i mean,i dont like eating chicken,beef,but i like eating pizza,lasange,potatoes,noodles,and i would have breakfast ceral in the morn,but sometimes during the week i would go to the chipper,and might go there aswell at weekend,feel guilty as afraid this will take a toll on me,is there anyone else same as me?

tribulus

No.

I like pizza and love chinese but I certainly don't find it hard to not eat it all the time. Chances are you come home from work hungry and rather then cook something up you take the easy option and get a takeaway. If you prepare food in advance for the next day you might find it easier to avoid fast food.

Malteaser!

You sound like me about a year ago. Eventually I got sick of the blandness, the lack of choice and my expanding waistline.

You're right too, it wll take its toll on you. That much fastfood isn't good for anyone. I'm not saying you have to cut it out completely, god knows I still love to have a chipper or Macdonalds every now and again, but moderation is the key.

You'll probably find that if you cut it out for a week or two you won't even crave it anymore!!

jd83

im the same op decided to try get fit a few months ago and joined a gym, have been going all the time and begining to see results but cant stick to the diet side of things i love fast food too much to give it up.

funkycat83

yeah it can be hard not to order in after a long day at work/college and come home to nothing in the fridge! addicted to fast food myself but trying to wean myself off it at the moment! however for some reason I only crave chinese when im hungover! tis bizarre!

estebancambias

My biggest crave is Pick N'Mix. I eat so much of it.

I'm lucky I hate pizza and take away.

tribulus

estebancambias wrote: »

My biggest crave is Pick N'Mix. I steal so much of it.

I'm lucky I hate pizza and take away.

Tell me you don't pay for it! It's obscenely expensive for what you get!

I used to work in a cinema and what never ceased to make my day was a guy on a date paying for food and the widening of his eyes when he saw the price of it all.

EileenG

Gotta say, I love my food. But since I cook so much of my own things, I find the stuff you buy in fast food places are bland and usually too salty.

It's usually possible to cook a healthy version of most of the things you like. Tasty food doesn't have to be junk.

estebancambias

I wish I could. But where its situated its impossible to.

RacoonQueen

You can prepare a healthy tasty meal just as quickly as you'd spend waiting for the delivery guy to arrive.

Malteaser!

mp1972 wrote: »

You can prepare a healthy tasty meal just as quickly as you'd spend waiting for the delivery guy to arrive.

For me it wasn't the time, it was more the effort that was involved!!

Hanley

Malteaser! wrote: »

For me it wasn't the time, it was more the effort that was involved!!

Even putting some peanut butter onto bread is too much effort right now. I'd rather drive to MaccyD's.

Fcuking diets.

blah

It's true that if you just eat completely healthy for a few weeks you'll lose the craving for junk food and you'll actually crave healthy stuff, if at all. But you have to put in that effort. Helps to be prepared, cook meals and freeze them, make your lunch for work in the morning.

FunkZ

For around the last five or six years I'd get about 2 or 3 pizzas a week. But since January 2007 when I started trying to lose weight it's become easier and easier to resist these foods. I'd still probably get take away twice a month but I can say no when my friends and family are getting it.

I like food like vegetables and salads now, never thought I'd see the day!

Gumbyman

My only advice is that when you get the craving, think of how bad you will feel about it in the morning if you give in, and think how good you will feel if you don't. Same as any addiction!

c - 13

I used to love it, not so much anymore though. My company basically hands you a load of menus for the lunch, pick what you want and the company pays - generally stuff like KFC, Subway and so on.

I dont even look at the menus and bring my own lunch, of course theis being the equivalent to friday at home every bastard here has got KFC and the smell of it is bloody lovely. Thankfully I didnt order any ...

PrettyInPunk

blah wrote: »

It's true that if you just eat completely healthy for a few weeks you'll lose the craving for junk food and you'll actually crave healthy stuff, if at all. But you have to put in that effort. Helps to be prepared, cook meals and freeze them, make your lunch for work in the morning.

+1

Just try cut it out, junk food is SO addictive its unbelievable but if you have enough willpower you can stop eating it. After you cut it out you will crave it loads but dont give in to the cravings, you will soon learn to be satisfied with a meal that is healthy instead of a takeaway.

And just from personal experience i find if i eat some pizza or chips, for the following few days all i want is junk, and i have the real 'well ive eaten SOME junk i might as well eat more' attitude. To get past this i just dont eat it, instead of a dairy milk i have some dark chocolate, instead of a takeaway i have a toasted sambo and so on, find treats that wont make your belly expand that you like.

hunter164

Jaffas are my downfall.

Sangre

The way I see it is the effort you save in ordering a take away is no where near the effort it would take to burn it off in the gym.

BraziliaNZ

Come on Subway isn't junk food! Ok the bread is probably empty carbs but you get a whole salad in it and if you don't pile on the fatty sauces it's low calorie too. I get subway if I have to grab something fast, or else just some chicken strips from KFC. I went off pizza, especially the american style ones. The thin crispy ones you get in Europe are delicious though.

Xavi6

I just had a Red Rooster for lunch. You folks in Ireland don't know what you're missing. So good!!!

I'd eat junk food like that once a week. I do vigerous exercise probably 4/5 times in that same period so all good in this hood.

BraziliaNZ

is it better than KFC? I've seen a few around

Xavi6

Faaaaaar better than KFC. Double cheeseburger combo FTW

BraziliaNZ

ok i'm there!!

c - 13

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Come on Subway isn't junk food! Ok the bread is probably empty carbs but you get a whole salad in it and if you don't pile on the fatty sauces it's low calorie too. I get subway if I have to grab something fast, or else just some chicken strips from KFC. I went off pizza, especially the american style ones. The thin crispy ones you get in Europe are delicious though.

Yeah but the bread, sauces, dressings etc all add up so i'd rather go home and make something home made and have that instead, much for filling in the long run and tasty too.