Giving up Fast Food...Is hard to do

I don't give it up. I make it fit within my calories for the day. I don't drink, I don't smoke but my weakness is McD's. I still managed to lose weight while indulging and I'm well aware it's bad for me.....I have fast food (eat-in) approx once/week. I eat healthy the rest of the day/week
If I give everything up that I adore...I won't stick to any change of eating plan (I didn't say DIET...lol)

Don't give it up, just fit it into your daily calories. That's what I do and I'm losing weight.

Maybe she got upset about being flagged.

the only way i can beat fast food is to eat so much healthy food thatr i physically could not fit another morsel in my mouth! eat breakfast - 6 eggs, and porridge or pancakes every day then in the day every 3 hours - 150g clean protein, 50g rice, and 100g of veg mid morning, lunch the same qwith no rice, mid afternoon with the rice, dinner - sweet potato with some more clewan protein - bed time protein shake - every 3 hours without fail ! your body will hurt like hell for 2 weeks then you will be fine!

McD's really misses me now that I've started MFP. I used to be there most mornings for a coffee drink and sometimes a breakfast item, and now I make my own even though it takes more time. After about the first 20 days or so (I'm at 150+ now), I find the quality of food at McD's to be not good enough to merit the calories. You can safely go to Taco Bell and order a couple items if you want, but I'd rather save my calories for a Five Guys Little Bacon Cheeseburger when I'm craving a protein treat. Or, I have found an excellent local bagel joint, and I splurge on a late morning bagel and shift calories from lunch.

Concentrating on quality calories (aka, good tasting, higher quality meat, etc.) has been very helpful. If I'm dying for a burger, I find a really excellent quality burger and fit it in.

Good luck!

i would say the best idea is to avoid it through the week and allow it on a sat or sunday if you have been keeping it clean through the week.

Rebeccabecca1985 wrote: »

Its too easy to get bad/yummy/cheap food through the drive through these days! Any insight?

It's just as easy to get good/yummy/cheap food via the drive through or a convenience store or whatever. The food retailer is pretty irrelevant. Just learn enough and be disciplined and pick stuff that fits your goal.

EZ Rules of thumb:
1. no sugar soda
2. no fried potatoes (hash browns, fries)
3. ditch buns for extra awesome. Bread has very little nutritional value.

When starting on the path of calorie counting one year ago, I realized the only way to significantly reduce my calorie intake (which was humongous) required me to make “healthy” choices to ensure proper nutrition. I also knew fast-food was a trigger / slippery slope for me.

I still do NOT deprive my wife of her favorites. She does not have a weight problem – I do. I will buy her occasional chocolates, ice cream, pizza, chips and McDonald's etc. and have none of it myself. She has always had those things in moderation and it helps me condition myself. Just because you walk into a bar, it doesn’t mean you have to drink.

I no longer “crave” or have much interest in fast-food, but do order a “planned” piece of fresh haddock from the local fish store once a week or so. When I say “planned” that means I have adjusted calories / choices for that day accordingly.

I "personally" am thrilled about my decision "for me". I was tempted the first month, but it got easier every week. After all, the first McDonald’s “DRIVE-THRU” wasn’t even created until 1975 and I predate that event. LOL

Good luck to you – no matter what you decide.

i have tried to do what i have done without making drastic modifications to my diet. It seems that in the past, i would cut out foods only to a) ultimately binge and b) consider myself a failure and the diet over once i did. which led me back to my overeating.

i needed to do this in a way that i could live with forever. because it's not a diet for me. so i still have my fast food, chicken wings, beer, cookies, pizza, and cake...but i do it in a more responsible and knowledgeable way.

with continuing to eat the evil, bad, crap, poison food: my cholesterol dropped from 213 to 169, and my glucose dropped from a pre-diabetic 97 to 82. and i've lost the 55 lbs.

Believe it or not, once you stop eating it for a while, fast food starts to taste and sound really gross and you stop craving it.

I know there's no "bad" food and sure, you could keep eating it in moderation. But if you're really having a hard time with it, sometimes the best thing to do is just to force yourself to go cold turkey on fast food for a set amount of time, say, 30 days. It'll be rough and you'll hate it, but it will get a little easier each week. By the time the 30 days are up, you'll probably wonder how you ever ate most of it in the first place, because your brain will look at it and think "no thanks!"