Don't eat fast food

I’ve been packing a lunch daily and cooking dinner nightly. I’ve also been getting to the gym far more regularly, and when I do that, I don’t want to offset any benefits by eating a greasy burger. So, I’ve been doing great!

Today my daughter and I did got to Subway, but I don’t consider that fast food. I had minestrone soup instead of chips, and it was actually pretty good!

Side bonus… I’ve saved a lot of money this week. :)

In 2007 I made it my new years resolution to not eat fast food at all. I did not have a single thing from any fast food restaurants for 9 months! Then, during a road trip with my husband, I fell off the wagon… or is it got on the wagon? Either way, I ate Jack in the Box. Since then my fast food visits have slowly increased. I have to get off of it, and I’m goin’ cold turkey. Here are my guidelines:

-If it has a drive through and its NOT a Starbucks, I won’t eat there.

-If I am out to eat I cannot have any fried foods (those are still considered fast foods even if you are dining in and have a waitress).

I hate fast food. Sometimes it’s a must, sadly. I hate all that grease/oil nastiness! I just don’t watch them because I will lose my appetite.

this is my problem, im trying to lose weight but i eat to much fastfood like mcdonaaalds..im starting a diet tomro 9/21/08 no more fastfoooood.

one day about 2 1/2 years ago i decided to quit eating mcdonalds. not because it is bad for me but because its not good. then a few weeks later i had burger king and it was gross so i decided to just give all fast food up for good. havent had it since. now i see people with a cup or fries or something and i wonder why people eat that junk. although i will eat jack in the box when they come to town. once or twice.

of no burgers, fries, or fried food. That doesn’t mean fast food is totally out of my life, I’m just choosing healthier options.

One thing that would make this easier (making the healthy choice) is for me to make a list of the acceptable options at each fast food place I frequent and choose ONLY those options. I think I will leave this on my list until I complete that.

until I hit Day 30 without fried food. And that will be about 70 days without burgers or fries. I’m looking forward to crossing this one off my liset.

In 10 more days I can say I have not had a burger or fried food in 30 days. It has been going fairly well. Now that I’m paying more attention to not eating fried food I am seeing all the other ways I could eat better. Goals for tomorrow.

No burgers or fried food. If I can make it to day 30 I think I will mark this fast food goal complete.

After my restart on 6/23 I am back up to day 9 of 30 days without fried foods or burgers. I am actually surprising myself with how well I’m doing on this one. It’s just one small category of food, but it was such a big part of my diet before.

There are many other areas of my diet in need of improvement, but if I can conquer this one I will feel a little more like a success and a little less like a failure and hopefully that momentum will carry me forward on other things.