I had no idea how shitty fast food (McDonald’s, KFC etc) was making me feel until I recently gave it up. I’m trying to eat healthier (and vegan-er) so the first thing I did was give up my fast food habit. A few things I found interesting about the process:
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Holy shit is this hard. I don’t know if I’m just weak-willed or they put some seriously addictive stuff in there but the cravings are almost unbearable.
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Other than that I feel amazing after only a month. I have more energy, a better mood, my digestive system is better, I look healthier. All this makes the cravings worth it and those are slowly getting less terrible.
I highly recommend giving up fast food.
i’ve always been told they put addictive shit in it. i know the sugary buns of burgers are to make them addictive.
i weened myself off of it over time in addition to soda. still get a pizza or some chinese takeout once a month. basically the same thing i did with nicotine and i guess opiates (still at stage kratom but feels like seltzer to soda) but you are absolutely right it seriously has some drug like effects. even crappy home prepared food is better.
Its a pretty weak documentary by 2021 standards, but check out Super Size Me if you haven’t. The documentarian goes into detail about the shit they put in fast food and how it turns him into an objectively less healthy person over the course of a month eating it straight.
Didn’t the host become a child molester, and co-hosts with Jared Fogle at one point? We watched it in my high-school health class so it’s been a while
I very seldom eat fast food, and it makes how wretched it is abundantly clear. If I do break down and get a baconator or something, I feel like I’ve been poisoned. Just completely fatigued.
I used to eat fast food multiple times per week in high school. After I moved to college, I was eating in the dorms and eating take out from local places that were delicious but not national chains. I went to BK as a lark with some friends on a roadtrip and felt in immediately sick afterwards. Queasy, headache, everything.
But after cooking all week I’m exhausted and don’t feel like prepping and dicing and baking or whatever. Fast food sucks and is terrible for you but the convenience.
Almost like these cheap and fast food items are purposely loaded with addictive and pacifying chemicals/ingredients for some reason. If only I could remember who said this and where
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