fast food

lol.

don't eat at chain restaurants. the tgi thing was my son went to the store picked it out and cooked it for me when I was sick and no pizza hut. makes me sick. went to a mom and pops pizza place where they make everything and just tracked a high calorie slice of pizza. yea.. i'll never go to arbies again first and last time. ate about half a sandwich.. french dip i think and I was sick from it. Chinese food. I order a pint of something and it lasts me 3 meals. that's my boyfriends vice.. not mine, but i eat it with him.

I'm looking at the *health* of it.. not the calories. The 500 calorie salad isn't 500 calories because it's loaded with healthy stuff. It's loaded with garbage and chemicals and that's the reason you can't lose weight. not because of it's calorie content. I'm usually looking for higher calorie stuff, because I don't eat enough, that's why i track everything. I find it funny that people say oh i can't lose weight and i feel so crappy, then they go hit a drive though. Everyone knows how bad it is for you.. then why do it and if you do it why complain?

The thing is... you riled so many people because you're doing a "Do as I say, not as I do." I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt because you're newer here, and I generally hate when people attack someone's diary when he/she wasn't personally complaining about their own diet/progress (which is, to a point, where you're coming from: talking about people who complain about their diet/progress, but happen to eat fast food).

That being said, I also noticed you have logged fried chicken multiple days... but in another post, mentioned you can't stand fried food. Huh? You have pizza from multiple places tracked (regardless of if they're really from there, because I get that understanding of "Tracker higher to be safe"), you have Chinese takeout way into December, Jimmy Dean sausage, Clif bars... I mean, that is all technically processed with added sodium, chemicals, etc.... but you think people who eat fast food are eating more poisonously than you? You say you track everything... but you admitted in this thread, and another, that you never track alcohol. Say what? Nothing seems to be lining up here.

I don't really care what you eat, or what anyone else eats, because frankly you, and other people, have clearly lost weight so far... but I can very clearly see why you've gotten the response you've gotten.

mmmmmm Carls Jr

I'm surprised someone as brilliant as the OP even needs to use a health and fitness website.

Mickey D's fries are irresistible.

(1) Banana peels don't rot either if you let them dry, nor does fresh salmon, nor do lots of other perfectly natural foods. That is all that happened to that oh-so-famous McDonald's hamburger. Drying is a well established method of food preservation.

(2) The number of calories in a salad has little to do with how healthy it is. I can easily make a 500 calorie salad, full of greens, veggies, raw seeds, avocado, beans, maybe even some whole grains--a salad that is beautifully healthy; full of micro-nutrients, healthy fats, fiber, and protein. The problem with most fast food salads is that most of the calories come from (a) fried meat, and (b) the saturated fat-filled dressings.

I have no desire to defend fast food, I don't eat it, nor do I have any particular urge to do so, and I agree that the vast majority of offerings are unhealthy, but before you go attacking things, at least have a well-reasoned, accurate, argument.

"The (below) study’s explicit goal was to see if the metabolic response to a fast-food meal would differ to a ‘healthy’ meal of similar macro-nutrient and caloric value."

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/hormonal-responses-to-a-fast-food-meal-compared-with-nutritionally-comparable-meals-of-different-composition-research-review.html

Interesting study before blaming and flaming every fast food restaurant in the world.

I would have to agree with the original poster today. Had 4 White Castle burgers last night and was throwing up within 4 hours and then all night long along with watery diarrhea. I eat fast food occasionally but am wondering now. I believe it was food poisoning. Please be careful with White Castle. A friend of mine got it two weeks ago from an Indiana White Castle. I am in the western suburbs of Chicago; the Carol Stream restaurant. Ugh!

I eat once a year. Only to realise again how much I don't like the taste. Everything tastes so weird. If I make french fries at home that tastes so real, but at Mc* it just tastes... plastic.

If I want to binge I'd much rather go to a proper restaurant recommended by the Gault Millau than to a junk food place...

Here Here!

Arby's Curly Fries . . . YUMM!