Current Events > How do I break a fast food addiction

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Literally every single day, once I think of it I cant not get it. This shit is bleeding me dry.
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Start lifting
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How is fast food bleeding you dry? Getting groceries and eating at home is cheaper
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Probably has more to do with the people around you and your environment than your "lack of will power"

Locus of control can be internal or external
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Just order your least favorite items off the menu and eventually you won't want to get it anymore.
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Cold turkey. I don't think there's an easy way out of a food addiction. I think quitting fast food was much harder than quitting cigarettes.
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Do you get a soft drink? Start by substituting that with water. Then drop the fries. Then drop fast food all together.

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stop eating it
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Do you know how to cook? The easiest way is just cutting it all out and limiting it to like once a week. Once you've successfully built momentum it gets easier trust me.

How much do you spend on food every two weeks? Figure that out and then spend the exact same amount of money on groceries and make your own breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Figure out how to live off those groceries for the full two weeks and only allow yourself to eat twice maximum. You may find you probably can survive off that food in two weeks with a lot of food left over that maybe can last a third week... your wallet/bank account will thank you, and fast food will taste 4x as tasty when you finally have it.
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Conflict posted...

Get into cooking

People eat fast food so they dont have to cook...
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Drink a ton of water to flush your system of all the junk, if you crave soda, drink juice or eat an apple, eat lots of vegetables, I've found sweet potatoes and squash to be really good at suppressing appetite. Drinking lots of water is the most important. You also need protein, fish, steak, skinless chicken, eggs and milk are all good sources of protein and vitamins. What you're craving from fast food is probably the salt and greese, a 1 gallon jug of water from Walgreens for $1 will help you kill that urge in one day. Try to drink it all in 2 days.

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

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Get into cooking

People eat fast food so they dont have to cook...

People eat fast food because they don't know how to cook.

I think you're using anecdotal evidence
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Conflict posted...

People eat fast food because they don't know how to cook.

I eat fast food because it takes less time and I don't particularly enjoy cooking

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Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

Cant find stove
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Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

That's just not true. And this is coming from someone who loves cooking.
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Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

What if I don't have meat at home. Have to factor in the time to go to the grocery.

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Try meal prepping ahead. Every Sunday prepare all your meals for the week. Do a turkey burger and baked potatoes to start.

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TheAnthraxBunny posted...

Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

That's just not true. And this is coming from someone who loves cooking.

Okay, maybe if we're talking best case scenario. If you already happen to have premade patties and toppings ready to go in your fridge, you might be able to cook and assemble a burger in the amount of time it takes someone to run to a fast food joint and back. But people typically don't just happen to have these things available unless you prepare ahead of time. The people who are obsessed with fast food don't like to prepare, they just want their food available to them with minimal effort. The spontaneous, quickness and easiness ties into the fast food addiction as much as the food itself.
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It isn't a financial problem for me as much as it is a health problem. For once in my life what I eat affects how I feel. If I'm all bloated from eating Taco Bell and shit then I feel like shit mentally.

Blue_Target posted...

Try meal prepping ahead. Every Sunday prepare all your meals for the week. Do a turkey burger and baked potatoes to start.

This is where I want to get at. Where I can go to the grocery store and say "Monday I'm eating this for dinner". Structure is key to mental health.

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Conflict posted...

That would just prove my initial point even further...

I don't get it. People who don't have meat at the house at all times, don't know how to cook?

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I absolutely eat it bc I do not know how to cook or have time to

Should also note Im not overweight in the slightest, just eat very very poorly and starting to feel the consequences
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Conflict posted...

We're talking about people who are addicted to fast food

They are because it's easy and they don't know how to cook/are intimidated by cooking. Especially college students. There are going to be people that have a grasp on it but will eat fast food but aren't in the mood to cook, but I very strongly doubt most people that are addicted to fast food and eat it every single day fall under that category.

Bonus points if you only know basic recipes and get tired of eating the same stuff but don't have the drive to learn more complex recipes.

This is how I am, I live alone, and even when I didn't live with them, I used to live close enough to my parents where I would go eat dinner with them 5 times out of the week because it saved me $ and a lot of times it is easier to cook for 3 than 2 people when my mom doesn't eat a lot. And my also I like my dad's cooking.

I'm too lazy to cook and living alone it is hard to cook for one a lot of times and not have ingredients spoil unless I cook a big batch and can eat leftovers. I actually know how to cook, I worked as a cook in 3 different places for a couple years of my life.

It is good that I like BBQ though because I live in Memphis and there is some damn good barbecue here.

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butthole666 posted...

I absolutely eat it bc I do not know how to cook or have time to

Should also note Im not overweight in the slightest, just eat very very poorly and starting to feel the consequences

At this point you might as well start learning to cook. Look up beginner meals on youtube and spent one day making that dish. At the meantime, try buying bread,veggies, and cold cuts to replace burgers. That will take less time than ordering your food.

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TheAnthraxBunny posted...

TheAnthraxBunny posted...

Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

That's just not true. And this is coming from someone who loves cooking.

Okay, maybe if we're talking best case scenario. If you already happen to have premade patties and toppings ready to go in your fridge, you might be able to cook and assemble a burger in the amount of time it takes someone to run to a fast food joint and back. But people typically don't just happen to have these things available unless you prepare ahead of time. The people who are obsessed with fast food don't like to prepare, they just want their food available to them with minimal effort. The spontaneous, quickness and easiness ties into the fast food addiction as much as the food itself.

Yeah but if you go grocery shopping you should have your ingredients already in the fridge and if you already have an idea of what to make, it can be just as quick as fast food with minimal effort.

Here's a week of easy as fuck grocery shopping for the talentless cook that wants quick meals:

-buy bread: sandwich bread, hotdog buns, hamburger buns
-buy a pack of boneless skinless chicken thighs
-buy preformed patties of ground meat of your choice
-buy bratwursts or any other kind of hearty sausages
-buy one or two seasoning shakers of different flavors (ie: mccormick grill mates)
-let's assume you have condiments and sauces of your choice
-let's assume you have basic seasoning such as salt pepper
-let's assume you have basic cooking fats like butter OR olive oil OR canola oil, etc
-buy premixed spring salad/spinach or veggies of your choice. you can even buy frozen mixed veg

Pick your protein. If a sausage, slap it on the grill or pan with oil, brown it, and eat with hotdog buns. Eat with veggies.

If the chicken or patties, season however you like, throw it on the grill or pan with oil and cook through. Throw on bread. Eat with veggies.

If you buy a small rice cooker and a 3lb bag of rice you suddenly have a staple carb that can be used as a main carb in all your meals.

If you buy a baking sheet buy some premade biscuits or crescent rolls and throw em in the oven and suddenly you have variety in carbs.

You end up with such little dishes that these easy meals are brain dead easy and hard to fuck up and honestly take such little time to make. If you're too lazy to make one, have a frozen pizza in the freezer and limit yourself to one pizza dinner a week to buffer in between cooking. Make a lot of food so you have left overs to eat for lunch. And eat simple breakfasts like oatmeal, cereal, or eggs and toast.... make extra eggs when you do make eggs and pack with rice and cut up sausages for lunches.

it isn't until you're making more involved dishes that fast food should be considered a more appealing option but if you're lazy then there is easy ways for the lazy person to cook and for much cheaper than fast food.
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Conflict posted...

It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

I dunno, cleaning can be a b.
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DevsBro posted...

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It would take less time for you to put meat on a grill than it would for you to go to the store and order food

I dunno, cleaning can be a b.

If you let it pile up yeah, but if you wash everything as soon as you're using it you're fresh af.
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