How bad fast food really is for you.

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  • Tori_356
    Tori_356 Posts: 510 Member
    I eat fast food from time to time. I never really cut it out completely. Sometimes when I eat it, I'll get really sick...other times, i'll be just fine. i never really understood that. and i've even been sick from the salad at a fast food place so I really don't think it has to do with what you have. It's just low quality and your body will probably react to that if you're not used to it.
  • lbetancourt
    lbetancourt Posts: 522 Member
    i guess that would be a good thing. But, i hope i never experience adverse effects from eating buffalo wings. love my wings & beer.
  • karijoeide
    karijoeide Posts: 103
    About the only thing I can eat for fast food is modified, I like the Burger King chicken broilers, no mayo, I asked for them to sub a whopper jr bun instead of cibiatta bread and asked for a honey dipping sauce. At McDonalds I get the grilled chicken snack wrap no sauce and ask for my own honey mustard dipping sauce...
  • sleepyjean88
    sleepyjean88 Posts: 180 Member
    I feel like this now when I eat something naughty I feel disgusting and horrible afterwards, its no fun but teaches me a lesson lol.
  • taylor5877
    taylor5877 Posts: 1,792 Member
    I don't look at "fast food" as all that bad. You CAN make good choices at almost any place.

    Grilled chicken sandwiches with mustard, grilled chicken salads with lowfat dressing, and chicken soft tacos with pico are foods you never have to feel guilty about.
  • Marcillene
    Marcillene Posts: 484 Member
    I don't look at "fast food" as all that bad. You CAN make good choices at almost any place.

    Grilled chicken sandwiches with mustard, grilled chicken salads with lowfat dressing, and chicken soft tacos with pico are foods you never have to feel guilty about.

    Definitally agreed!! Sonic's grilled chicken sandwhich is on wheat. Mcdonalds grilled chicken salad with lowfat italian is great! (never done the tacos thing but now I want it lol)
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Lots of people have digestive trouble when they switch to a diet of mostly vegetables, too. It's not because your body is rejecting unhealthy food, it's just that some people get used to eating a certain way and find it more difficult to adapt. You're probably reacting to the high fat content.
  • Kara_xxx
    Kara_xxx Posts: 635 Member
    I always loved fast food. It was convenient (especially for me working 2 jobs with a baby). An plus who COULD beat A $ONE DOLLAR cheeseburger! Lol.

    But I have been off of fast food for about 2 months now. I tried to eat a slice of pizza, because lets face it, pizza is amazing. I felt nauseous for 2 days! Thought maybe it was just the pizza. NEXT week I tried to eat an order of buffalo wings. same thing. Sicker than s*** feeling.

    One your body gets rid of all of that crap, is it tough on your body unless it gets use to it again? Man, I am basically done with fast food for good, because I hated feeling like that!

    ANY input?

    I pretty much had the same experience. Once your body is detoxed from the stuff you respond quite differently to it. I can't eat anything that's deep-fat fried anymore, I just want to chuck it up. My local Indian take away, I used to eat it all the time, but last time we had it, and I had been eating quite clean, it was just so oily, it made me really unwell.

    I think with these foods it's the same as with, for example alcohol. Someone who is used to drinking 5 pints of beer in one go with no ill effects will think there is no problem. Make someone have 5 pints who never drinks alcohol and they will be very sick.

    I think bodies can get used to a lot of crap, but why make them?
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,659 Member
    i ate extremely healthy for months then had an arbys sandwich and threw up.... fast food is toxic!! haha... but delicious

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    bet it didn't taste as good coming up :drinker:

    My husband & I eat out regularly ...... any "extreme" food (too greasy, salty, sugary) makes me feel peculiar, so we go to places where I can get a decent meal, as long as I make decent choices .....

    But there are places I won't even walk into ..... and a few others I'll only get a cup of black coffee from (even then I worry LOL)
  • cmeade20
    cmeade20 Posts: 1,238 Member
    Depends. Stuff like KFC, Taco Bell, McDonalds makes me puke now. But I seem to handle pizza,potato skins, chinese etc ok.
  • Freyja2023
    Freyja2023 Posts: 158 Member
    How do you make up for your lost nutrients without eating any dairy? I have been thinking about cutting out dairy myself but don't know how to go about it.
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    (sorry I don't know how to get the little quote box yet still new to this)

    Actually you can get a great amount of calcium without eating any dairy at all. Spinach, chard and even lettuce are great sources of calcium and nutrients. Most all of your green veggies, the greener the better are full of calcium and nutruients. Broccolie too. And most people think of yogurt as dairy but it is a lactose free product. I have a lactose intolerance that I have had all of my life so I get all my calcium from green veggies and yogurt. I don't buy frozen yogurt but I will take a pack of Activa and put a popsicle stick through the top and freeze it like that for a treat, and I buy my children yogurt Tubes and freeze them for them and they love it. Also Almond Milk, almonds are just full of calcium and buying or making your own almonod milk is a great sub for cows milk.
  • Kara_xxx
    Kara_xxx Posts: 635 Member
    Almond milk, a very recent discovery for me. Lush stuff!!!! :bigsmile:

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