I Eat Fast Food and It's Ok

I wish McDonald's sandwiches tasted as good as it smells. I'm always disappointed. I WANT to like it. And why can't their fries taste good 30mins after they've been fried? It's not even like they don't taste AS good...they go from tasting delicious to tasting like cardboard!

... i think thats because their actually more cardboard then food

Can someone explain to me why I'm supposed to care what someone else eats? Not my body, not my business.

so you can judge them

It's all about moderation. Eating fast food for most of your meals is literally going to kill you from the inside out.

What you eat does not determine when you die.

Tell that to my brother who died of a heart attack at 24 years old. His veins were plugged from high cholesterol.


Not joking.
Not responding to any smart *kitten* troll responses to this.

LOLz
Scared of fat, eh? Sounds legit.
I had 3/4 of a pizza and cheesecake for dinner. I eat a half pizza at least once a week.
A) I am surely rotting on the inside.
OR
I'm actually really healthy, strong and pizza-fueled for an awesome run tomorrow.

I have low cholesterol, low blood pressure, healthy digestion, dense bones, a high LBM, lots of energy, no diabetes or insulin resistance, a high VO2max, good CV endurance, and I've been able to get off depression medication in the last year. There's even some anecdotal evidence that increasing my fat consumption has helped my underfunctioning thyroid- though I would not be so bold as to say that there's direct correlation there.

I'm leaning towards B.

ETA: I also put tons of salt on everything I eat, including pizza. You didn't mention the sodium, but I have a feeling you have problems with it, too.

Well, erm.. that's great... I guess?

Kind of feel like I'm being laughed at here, which isn't exactly fair. Maybe I'm wrong.

To many people, especially myself, junk food and fast food alike aren't worth it. When I was over 200 pounds, I did not care what I ate. My favorite thing was a big mac from McDonalds, and I had that whenever I felt like it. Pizza and wings a few nights a week with my boyfriend, endless call of duty, and all it came to was a huge gut and feeling like a buffalo. Sure, I could eat half of a pizza in one sitting, but to me it's not worth killing myself over at the gym to burn all of those calories off. I enjoy eating fiber and lean protein, portioning it throughout the day so I never feel hungry and turn to chips because that's my absolute favorite thing to eat. If I were to have my big mac meal (clocks in at around 1200 calories, 150 less than my target) then I would have no room in the day to eat chicken, tuna, whole grain rice, hummus, etc. It would literally be the only thing I can eat that day, except for my exercise calories that normally equates to 400.
Maybe I came off as rude in my previous comment, which I really don't see, but to me, junk food is just that. Junk. If I want to lose weight and maintain my body, I have to do the opposite of what made me fat. That, for me, is to steer clear away from all of this crap.
Anyway, my homemade hamburgers and such taste better than what I can get at these burger joints anyway, so I'd rather those.

Also, somewhere on this thread I think someone might be accusing me of calling someone 'obese', which I actually didn't write. Want to clear that up, too.

LOLz
Scared of fat, eh? Sounds legit.
I had 3/4 of a pizza and cheesecake for dinner. I eat a half pizza at least once a week.
A) I am surely rotting on the inside.
OR
I'm actually really healthy, strong and pizza-fueled for an awesome run tomorrow.

I have low cholesterol, low blood pressure, healthy digestion, dense bones, a high LBM, lots of energy, no diabetes or insulin resistance, a high VO2max, good CV endurance, and I've been able to get off depression medication in the last year. There's even some anecdotal evidence that increasing my fat consumption has helped my underfunctioning thyroid- though I would not be so bold as to say that there's direct correlation there.

I'm leaning towards B.

ETA: I also put tons of salt on everything I eat, including pizza. You didn't mention the sodium, but I have a feeling you have problems with it, too.

Well, erm.. that's great... I guess?

Kind of feel like I'm being laughed at here, which isn't exactly fair. Maybe I'm wrong.

To many people, especially myself, junk food and fast food alike aren't worth it. When I was over 200 pounds, I did not care what I ate. My favorite thing was a big mac from McDonalds, and I had that whenever I felt like it. Pizza and wings a few nights a week with my boyfriend, endless call of duty, and all it came to was a huge gut and feeling like a buffalo. Sure, I could eat half of a pizza in one sitting, but to me it's not worth killing myself over at the gym to burn all of those calories off. I enjoy eating fiber and lean protein, portioning it throughout the day so I never feel hungry and turn to chips because that's my absolute favorite thing to eat. If I were to have my big mac meal (clocks in at around 1200 calories, 150 less than my target) then I would have no room in the day to eat chicken, tuna, whole grain rice, hummus, etc. It would literally be the only thing I can eat that day, except for my exercise calories that normally equates to 400.
Maybe I came off as rude in my previous comment, which I really don't see, but to me, junk food is just that. Junk. If I want to lose weight and maintain my body, I have to do the opposite of what made me fat. That, for me, is to steer clear away from all of this crap.
Anyway, my homemade hamburgers and such taste better than what I can get at these burger joints anyway, so I'd rather those.

Also, somewhere on this thread I think someone might be accusing me of calling someone 'obese', which I actually didn't write. Want to clear that up, too.

For starters, I know you had nothing to do with the obese comment, that was someone else and it was bizarre and I know you didn't say it.

Re: your reasons for not eating junk: That's all fine, your choices are your choices. I was responding to the part of your quote that I bolded:

Staying within your calories is fine if you have a pizza, but for 40 grams of fat and all the other awful things that come with it.. yeah, you can be 'small' but you'll be rotted on the inside.

Where you insinuated people that eat pizza are rotting on the inside. I eat a lot of pizza. I am not rotting on the inside. That was my point.

I just finished dinner- guess what it was? Yep, pizza.
1,120 cals, 40P, 116C, 56F
I'll credit you, I worked out hard today, ran 7 miles. I understand that not everyone wants to do that. It affords me some nutritional leeway. But the point is, the rotting on the inside comment is pretty baseless.
And, I already made this point, but I ain't scared of no fat- I actually think it's beneficial.

Context and dosage apply here to everything I'm saying. A full diet of pizza would be unhealthy.

You cannot take my curries away from me! NEVA!

From Mcdonalds.com/nutrition:

Egg McMuffin® 4.9 oz
(138 g) 300 110 12

300 cals, 110 fat cals and 12 g fat

could do much worse when on the run.

But P.S. I do think eating fast food regularly is morally wrong. It's bad for our small family farms, uses way more fossil fuels than eating locally, contributes to the use of antibiotics and hormones in the food system, etc. So if all that is good with you on a regular basis, go for it.

But P.S. I do think eating fast food regularly is morally wrong. It's bad for our small family farms, uses way more fossil fuels than eating locally, contributes to the use of antibiotics and hormones in the food system, etc. So if all that is good with you on a regular basis, go for it.

In Australia, fresh food is not taxed..one of the many reasons I prefer it..sticking it to the man. But, coach I got what you said about compound interest. Wish I'd have got it at your age. Even though i ate healthy and would have reached my macros etc..i ate a lot of junk too. When i started, i didnt worry about calories...i just cut out all the crap processed stuff (which also i realised aligned with my principles) and lost 16kg...granted less cals a factor too.. But i also read somewhere that some obese people are malnourished and it was a liight bulb moment as well as my doc saying at my age everything starts to break down. I decided there and then i had to make nutrition count and began training as well to see me through to grandchildren. I get arthritis..haven't had a flare up in
months until I ate pizza (and a week of slightly increased processed foods...there's an accumulating effect - sometimes the reaction
is not instant). I was reminded how powerful food was to the body regardless of calorie allowance.

It's ok saying well I eat junk etc but follow it up with how hard they workout too at least so the full picture is there. When they start
out..it confuses the hell out of someone who is just beginning and makes them feel crap about making a good choice about
gradually eating cleaner. Some people don't want to work their butts off in the gym so eating predominantly clean is better surely
considering they don't have leeway?