If anyone takes away my fast food, that will not only depress me, but it will make me very very very very very very very very very very VERY angry!

Dont mess with my fast food. It makes me happy!

Now I'm hungry for McDonald's.

you are what we eat!

I rarely to never eat fast food. I almost never eat anything from a box at home. It was a hard habit to make, but now that its been made, im glad for it.

That's been the best thing about not driving anymore. I don't (can't) go to Burger King of McDonald's whenever the craving strikes. And since I've not had either for so long I don't get the cravings anymore. It was rough right at first but it was so worth it. Now, I'd probably explode if I ate that stuff!

We don't eat the "fast food" per se very often, like Wendy's or McDonald's, etc. But we do eat a LOT of prepared foods, frozen meals, pasta/rice mixes, chicken nuggets, etc. We try to eat the healthier frozen meals (relatively speaking, of course), but we eat our share of frozen pizza also.

I try to balance it out a little with salads, veggies such as spinach, carrots...and my husband eats oatmeal with fruit (strawberries, bananas, raisins) every morning. Of course, he then eats half a bakery muffin...oh well.

At this stage of the game, I think I'd be more depressed thinking I had to put out the effort involved in eating healthier. If we were 20, 30 years younger, it might be more of an issue.

Exactly y'all.. I don't eat a steady diet of any one thing, even too much brocoli could kill you. And I can't get to the taco bell or mcds anymore.. and.....I'm too old to GAS (give a s***) .. I like that it spells gas, how apropo..

I like my fast food. I dont eat it every day, (used to, when I worked for McD's for 8yrs in the early to mid-90s) but when I want to eat it, I'm going to go hit the drive thru. It's a comfort food.

I have a lot of comfort foods. Asparagus and Brussels sprouts are two of them, but so are McD's fries and McNuggets with sweet & sour and barbecue sauce. The trick is to not go nuts and gorge yourself on whatever food it is that you're hungry/craving at any particular time.

now I've just made myself hungry for Brussels sprouts by thinking about them. I wonder if I can talk my dad into making me some for lunch...

I ate a BK Tender Crisp, no mayo, 5 days/week, Mickey D's the others. Over those past 2 yrs, I pushed wheelchair 280 miles, swam 2,800 laps.
Hate to be the fly in ointment but, it makes me strong & puts a smile on my face For $$ reasons, this yr i'm lucky to get any of the above 2x/week. Still happy

Just take a handfull of antioxidants and then pigout all you want.

jackD



[Eating High-Fat Meal Raises Blood's Proinflammatory Factors;
Vitamins E and C Counter that Response

06-17-2002

SAN FRANCISCO-In a series of studies designed to define the
role of dietary macronutrients in the initiation of arterial
inflammation that predisposes a person to atherosclerosis,
University at Buffalo researchers have found that a high
intake of glucose, or eating a high-fat, high-calorie
fast-food meal causes an increase in the blood's inflammatory
components.]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0617074033.htm

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I believe this...I noticed after being off of chocolate a couple of weeks, when I had a few handfuls of M&Ms, the next day I was a bear...I always wondered if milk chocolte was affecting my mood, making me cranky & very depressed.
So I have stayed off of all milk chocolate and only have a piece of Dove dark chocolate once in a while. No cookies, cakes, etc. the past few weeks. While I am weepier after being taken off of Nudexta, I don't feel as cranky or depressed...far from it, actually.

It is so difficult giving up something you crave...chocolate has been a drug for me. Oh well...gotta grow up sometime

I also have watched "Supersize Me", where Morgan Sprulock ate nothing but McD's for 30 days. He became extremely depressed...wonder what's in fast food that would be a mood changer?

If all you had for 30 days was McD's food, that would make anyone depressed because there's not that much variety. The human body gets bored. That's why they say "everything in moderation". Eating MickeyD's every day for 30 days is not "in moderation...".

I worked for McD's for 8yrs (and BK for two) and while I did eat a lot of McD's food, there were days that I didnt eat at work just because I was so bored with the food. (drank water those days instead) At least, when I was hungry and ate at work, I was allowed to cook it myself, so I'd get a little creative. (cut up a hamburger patty, cooked it on the grill, cooked it with a packet of fajita sauce in the meat and then put it on a tortilla from the breakfast burritos...viola! Tacos!) We used to make strawberry shortcake out of the biscuits at breakfast...put strawberry sauce and ice cream on a warm biscuit. Mmmm!!