fast food help

In one meal at some fast food places you can easily hit your daily calories....with just ONE meal.
I don't know, you'd have to be very strict with what you ate and where you ate.
Which doesn't seem fun to me.

I cook quite a bit at home, but understand when you're busy or tired and just don't want to and sometimes..just don't know how. I go for a Healthy Choice can of soup, a lean frozen meal, or a easy to make sandwich at home. It takes a few minutes to heat up or prepare and you can eat MORE food in place of one burger. It may have more sodium then if you chose to cook that meal yourself, but it's still better then a Big Mac.

I think that you can eat anything you want and lose weight as long as your stay in your calorie zone, but is it healthy? All the fat that is in fast food will go straight to your arteries, clogging them up. You will lack the proper nutrients and your body will react to that.

Have fast food ocassionaly and try to prepare and freeze meals ahead of time on your days off. This way, all you have to do is heat it up when you get home.

I still eat fast food, especially on the weekends. The sodium content is no good... I eat up retaining water pretty badly by Monday.

Look up the menus for all the fast food places. Look at the caloric content of the foods and try to figure out what you'd like to eat that will keep you in your calorie zone. I think the Big Mac has about 350 calories, and a medium fry has about 350 calories too. It's a hefty meal if you are only eating 1200 cals a day (for example). You may decide to eat a Big Mac but pair it with a side salad and low cal dressing instead, or do a really high impact workout to combat that meal!!

It's really a matter of choices. Over time, my mind is taking control. I no longer want high calorie meals (fast food or sit down restaurant) because I realize two things, #1 how much I love losing weight, and how that food hinders me, and #2, how long it will take me to exercise off that meal in order for it to not impact my weight loss goals.

Stick with eating within your alotted calories and exercising like you are supposed to, and I'll bet that over time, you find yourself not wanting as much fast food, and being happier with whatever you can throw together quickly at home instead.

If you want to have a Big Mac every week or so, that's fine. Shoot, if you don't care about the possible health effects and you are only concerned with weight loss, eat one every day. No food--regardless of the fat content or anything else--will automatically stop your fat loss if you're in a caloric deficit. If that were the case, peanut butter would be THE worst food to eat, but table sugar would be fine, and obviously it doesn't quite work like that.
That said, a Big Mac would use up a lot of calories for just one meal, and you could do better to your blood sugar by opting for something with whole grains. But in the end, a Big Mac is just a fatty meat on a bun. Not a big difference between that and tuna salad on white bread, but it sure looks worse because it's from Mickey D's.

Yes, you can loose weight even eating fast food. However, you will have a difficult time, in my opinion, sustaining the weight loss. Most fast food is empty calories, you get a lot of sodium, fat and refined carbs but very little nutritional value. So even if your stomach is stuffed, your body is malnourished. If your body is malnourished you will continue to crave food and it will be very difficult to resist those cravings. Sooner or later your calories will begin creeping up to take care of those cravings.

My advise, allow fast food occassionally for convenience or just because you like it and it's a treat but don't allow it more than about once a week.

Part of this journey is a lifestyle change and that means changing your relationship to food and how you think about nourishing your body. It's time to develop better, healthier eating habits, including doing a little cooking. I think you'll find that most of us on this site have begun to recognize the value in decreasing our reliance on fast food and overly processed foods.

Honestly, it doesn't take that much time. I spend 15 minutes a night putting together my lunch and snacks for the next day (if that much time). You can make a healthy dinner is 15 to 30 minutes.

Fast food is never good, however, I feel you shouldn't deprive yourself. Your body can be allowed such foods maybe once or twice a month. The rest, stay within your calories and try to make a healthy choice whenever possible. All this said, has anybody tried the new mcdonalds spicy chicken sandwich? Looks yummy!!!!