So how did you all fix your cravings for fast food?
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again - Reading is good. If you read my post, you will note i specifically state commercially processed. If you think the commercial processing of any food is the same as what you're doing at home, you're not very bright. But then you can't read, so uh, nevermind.
I'm sure someone pointed this out already but not true. The celery, potatoes, fresh tomatoes, beef, broth, turnips, carrots, and parsnips that I will put in my stew tonight are ALL processed. They picked the celery and bagged it. They cleaned off those potatoes by running them through a machine and bagged them. They picked those tomatoes turnips, carrots, and parnips and packaged them. They killed that steer, cut it up, and put it on Styrofoam for me (and I imagine did a few other things in between that I'd rather not consider). All PROCESSED.
Umm, no, not everything is processed technically. If you eat all whole foods you cook yourself, you're not eating commercially processed foods.
Unless I shot that steer and butchered it myself and GREW all those vegetables and harvested them myself.... it's processed.
ETA:And first by the way, I do cook food from my own garden, or my root cellar, or my canned foods,
Pst...canned food - PROCESSED
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Buffalo chicken cauli only plz.
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I downsize to a kids meal if I really, really need it0
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There's two things I've done to help myself quit fast food.
1- I told myself every day for three weeks that I would not eat processed or fast food of any kind. Then at the end of the three weeks, because I was successful, I went to Taco Bell and told myself that I could have a taco. Since I had had no processed or bad saturated fats in my diet, I was sick all night. That cured me instantly. No food that is healthy for my body should do that.
2- I've developed a relationship with myself. And that relationship comes out of a place of love. I am my own best friend and first place mate. I'd never stand my boyfriend up on a date or do something to hurt him. I'd never tell my best friend that I am going to show up or feed her something that will make her feel bad. And so I apply that to myself. When I don't want to go to the gym, I say, "Hey, I said I was going to go to the gym. So I'm gonna go." And when I feel a craving coming on for fast food, I say, "Hey I promised that I was going to eat carrots instead of fries today, so I'm going to eat carrots!"
Honestly, my diet has become so clean over the past few years since I started MFP that when I get into bad bouts and eat fast food a lot, I can feel it coursing through me. I feel crappy, I sleep crappy, I'm grouchy. Eventually you will get there. A commitment to love yourself enough to quit feeding yourself the things you already don't want to eat is the first step. Being able to keep that commitment is difficult, but stumbling every once in a while isn't bad.
You can also make moderate changes to help with the problem. I happen to know that I'm more likely to eat fast food on weekdays, when I don't work out, when I'm tired, and because I get off work later than I'm supposed to. So I talked to my boss about what I'm trying to do and we worked out this: I work 8am-4pm. They count 30 minutes exercise time as work time, so I actually go home at 3:30pm. I eat my lunch at my desk while I work so I don't have to add in lunch time. That way, I get home earlier in the day and have time to relax, unwind, do errands, and cook a healthy meal. It's done wonders for me!0 -
Why are these goddamn threads the ones that get so many responses. Hey, is it possible to eat whatever I want AND have it fit in my calories? Could we debate the meaning of processed to a ridiculous degree?
Anyway, I have no life, so...0 -
again - Reading is good. If you read my post, you will note i specifically state commercially processed. If you think the commercial processing of any food is the same as what you're doing at home, you're not very bright. But then you can't read, so uh, nevermind.
I'm sure someone pointed this out already but not true. The celery, potatoes, fresh tomatoes, beef, broth, turnips, carrots, and parsnips that I will put in my stew tonight are ALL processed. They picked the celery and bagged it. They cleaned off those potatoes by running them through a machine and bagged them. They picked those tomatoes turnips, carrots, and parnips and packaged them. They killed that steer, cut it up, and put it on Styrofoam for me (and I imagine did a few other things in between that I'd rather not consider). All PROCESSED.
Umm, no, not everything is processed technically. If you eat all whole foods you cook yourself, you're not eating commercially processed foods.
Unless I shot that steer and butchered it myself and GREW all those vegetables and harvested them myself.... it's processed.
ETA:And first by the way, I do cook food from my own garden, or my root cellar, or my canned foods,
Pst...canned food - PROCESSED
For the record, the following is the list of ingredients in Del Monte's Blue Lake® Cut Green Beans:
Green Beans, Water, Sea Salt
Sounds like some incredibly evil stuff as a result of "commercial processing" but I assume they don't have to list demons or imps as they have no calories.
ETA - I await the insults to my intelligence...0 -
VryIrishGirl76 wrote: »I downsize to a kids meal if I really, really need it
I've done this too. Plus getting a toy is a nice added bonus haha0 -
As long as you can fit it into your calories, I don't think there's anything wrong with indulging. My experience has been that as I've cut back on it quite a bit, I've seen better results as far as losing weight/inches, and that motivates me to cut back on it even more, if that makes sense.0
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Whoa, nastiest thread I've seen in a while.
Anyway, on to the question:
OP, if you focus on "what you can't have", you probably won't last long-term. As you pointed out, restriction of foods you love leads to binging.
Feed the cravings. If you want a cheeseburger or fries, go ahead and have it. Log it and work it into your calories.
Over time, you'll find that sometimes you really want it, and you'll eat it. Sometimes you'll find that a substitute will do just as well, or that you're satisfied with a smaller portion (e.g. cheeseburger instead of Big Mac or just-the-fries instead of a whole meal).
And sometimes you may find that the food you used to "crave" is now just not appealing, as you eat it less frequently and get more used to lower-fat, lower-sugar, lower-salt food.0 -
Wow, look! A thread about fast food that turned into a dumpster fire.
Let's just go with this violation:
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