Believe it or not, fast food is ok for weight loss
I think that fast food joints get a bad rep and a lot of this is deserved. There is no denying that ideally, we would all get to eat home-made organic salads and steamed vegetables for every meal. But for most normies, this simply isn't possible. We are too busy or too lazy to prepare for this sort of thing every day of our lives.
Of course it would be better for you to not eat at Burger King or McD's but it's just so easy isn't it. In my diet that resulted in me losing more than 50 lbs in a year and keeping it off, guess what I had plenty of? Fast food. I still eat fast food several times a week and i'm here to tell you, that you can lose weight if you use fast food intelligently.
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Now I realize that there are a lot of things in most fast-food that are bad for you outside of what I am focusing on. Primarily I am referring to sodium when I say this. I have to admit that while I realize that sodium is bad in high amounts, I am not focusing on overall health, I am merely focusing on weight loss... we can get to health later but for most normies, the main focus at the start is going to be weight loss and if you can achieve that, your distancing yourself from obesity is probably going to outweigh the negative aspects of high sodium intake and therefore I think it is ok.
Also, if you are a fat, ass, the way that I was a fat-ass, then you are probably already eating fast-food anyway. You don't need to change that. You just need to change WHAT fast food you eat or more importantly, what you DON'T eat.
I lost all of that belly while enjoying a regular diet of KFC, Burger King, and McDonalds... it is possible
The main problem with fast food is the extremely high levels of carbohydrates, especially sugar, that is contained in a lot of their items. One sure-fire way of avoiding almost all of these carbs is to skip 2 items that are all but forced upon you when dining in most of these places: Fries and sugary drinks.
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When losing weight on the normie diet, carbohydrates are enemy number 1 and coca-cola and all the other sodas are absolutely loaded with them. Fries (chips), as much as I love them, are one of the "vegetables" in disguise that can destroy a diet. In my youth I was told that fries are bad because they are fried, but that isn't the case at all, they are bad (from a normie diet perspective) because they are loaded with carbs.
As much as it pains me and many others, the fries can not be a part of your diet anymore... but you know what can be? Almost all of the burgers.
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The Whopper is one of my favorite things to eat. it is filling, it has 30 grams of protein (which is what we are looking for) and this burger tips the carb scales at 49 grams, which is actually a bit too much. However, around 5 of those are from the ketchup. Ideally, this burger is not the best choice but if you wanted to be a carb-nazi the way that i was, you just ask for no ketchup and no bread. Then the carbs almost completely disappear. Bread is the enemy. You might feel like a weirdo eating a burger with no bread, but hey man! do you want to lose weight or not?
If you were the type of person that would get a value meal with fries and a coke anyway, and instead you just went for the whopper on its own, you are reducing your carbohydrate from over 200g to less than 50g. Your body will notice the difference and you still get to eat fast food.
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The best fast-food restaurant that is available pretty much everywhere in the world is KFC and I eat there on a regular basis. Get the original recipe and these pieces of chicken are from 6-11 grams of carbs per piece. They are also loaded with protein, which is what we are looking for.
So go ahead and continue to eat at fast-food restaurants, I did and it worked out for me. This idea that we have to eliminate all good tasting things in order to lose weight is nonsense, and it leads most people to quit trying.
I am not a weight-loss professional / nutritionist / or trainer. I am merely recounting the steps i took and choices I made that resulted in me losing over 50 lbs in a year and keeping it off. I believe it will work for other people as well
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fast food gets a bad rep for very good reasons but some is worse than others. I remember watching some sort of documentary, it might have been fast-food nation... i don't remember exactly but they interviewed the CEO of Hardy's / Carl's Junior and he said something along the lines of "we have healthier options on the menu, but people don't order them" and also "the idea that we intentionally spike the food with unnecessary sugar and salt is ludicrous."
I eat fast food all the time but also skip the soda and most of the time the fries too. I haven't had a full-flavored soda in years. The amount of processed sugar in that stuff is astounding.
I've gradually made modest changes over recent years to eat better. I eat fast food less than I used to and I opt for sweet tea vs. soda if I get a drink. Okay, still not great but better than soda.
The easiest way I reduced my intake of soda was to stop buying it at the grocery. I still occasionally drink a soda but it's fairly rare. For instance, I'll still buy a coke and popcorn when I go see a movie but that's probably less than once a month on average. However, now that many theaters have started serving beer, maybe that's a healthier alternative. :)
you ever consider switching to diet soda or for me I usually keep soda water in the fridge and also these zero calorie fruit flavored waters that probably have magic chemicals from space in them that will give us cancer or something.
I guess I was lucky. As a kid my parents severely limited out soda intake and eventually we switched to a now gone product called Pepsi-Free which was sugarless. I guess I never really developed a taste for it.
Sweet tea is tasty but since I was a kid in the mid-west, unsweet tea was the norm!
It is a good plan to not keep soda in your house though. When I was in college a roommate of mine kept Dr. Pepper in the fridge constantly. Wow those are tasty.
I drank tons of soda when I was a kid but I was always skinny then too. I've never liked diet soda. Periodically they come out with new 0 or near 0 calorie sweeteners that are supposed to taste more like the real thing but they all have that diet aftertaste to me.
Mostly what I drink at home these days is either water or iced green tea. The grocery store I go to (Publix) sells it by the gallon. It's somewhat less sweet that than the regular (black) sweet tea that they sell (though I could always make my own) and partially sweetened with honey. I'll sometimes have regular soda when I eat out but more often I have water or sweet tea. I never developed a taste for unsweetened tea either though it is probably higher on my list that diet soda.
haha! This is quite interesting as it is like a hope for so many people including me :p. As the very first gip everyone suggests is to stop eatinfg fast food like seriously that is the only thing we can't stop eating.
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keep eating it but just be smart about it. It is difficult to financially justify skipping the soda and fries because the last time i was in Burger King and Whopper on it's own was close to $5, but with fries and a drink it was $6.
To quote Jim Gaffigan: "I don't want to lose money on this!"
But you gotta if you want to lose weight, that is the reality :)