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6/15/2010 11:45:03 AM

cool post bro

6/15/2010 11:45:26 AM

Ok I already failed this today...I was about to go to the range so I wanted to grab a double cheeseburger from mickey d's for the ride out there...they're like "cash only" so I say fuck the drivethrough and go inside...I hit up the ATM, buy a drink from the convenient store, and walk into the McDonald's...I'm about to order, but theres this little kid right there, so I nod like "you go ahead" and he's like "I want an Apple Pie"...so old girl rings it up and its like $1.11 or some shit...THIS MOTHERFUCKING KID just starts pulling pennies out of his pocket...nothing but pennies...not even one fucking nickel...this little motherfucker is buying his apple pies with 100% pennies...so it takes the cashier like 3 minutes just to count them...god dammit

6/15/2010 5:40:18 PM

I'm in, except for taco stands, I love me some taco stands.

6/15/2010 6:06:21 PM

I'm winning this thread so far.

6/17/2010 1:01:26 AM

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"I get your point, but I cannot count on being near a kitchen or microwave three times a day. Nor would I want to. That sounds really, really dull."

my wife and I do all the meals at night. We come home and cook dinner together and then when dinner is done we pack our breakfasts and lunches for the next day and put them in the fridge. That is the only time we are spending time in the kitchen for all 3 meals of the day. Works out pretty well for us as it is healthier and saves a lot of money. I understand everyone's situation is different though, but that is just a suggestion on how it can get done without having to be in or near a kitchen or microwave 3 times a day.

6/17/2010 7:56:48 AM

^ I pretty much do the same thing. I usually cook a lot of food once or twice a week and then supplement it with sandwiches, soups, etc. to add a little variety.

I don't find it hard to cover 85% of my meals that way, but sometimes there are exceptions. The last fast food I ate (a couple weeks ago) is probably a good example. I fixed breakfast at home and brought lunch to work, but it was a little slack because I didn't have any salad to bring. I ate lunch around noon and a small snack sometime in the afternoon. By 5:00 when I got off I was really hungry. I had a two hour drive ahead of me and no food waiting at my destination, so I decided to hit Cookout on my way out of RTP. It just works out that way sometimes. The real challenge for me will be finding a decent healthy option when I'm in that kind of situation.

[Edited on June 17, 2010 at 10:52 AM. Reason : s]

6/17/2010 10:48:45 AM

^that describes a situation when I might eat fast food. Other times, like 12-1 in the afternoon on a Saturday/Sunday after a night of partying I'm just too lazy to get something together or might not have anything on hand. I'd just rather go out and grab some yummy fast food.

6/17/2010 11:17:56 AM

2 weeks down

50 to go

how's everybody else doing with the Challenge?

6/28/2010 11:41:46 AM

i'm a pro at not eating food from a fast-food venue.

cook out milkshakes happen a few times per week, though.

6/28/2010 11:43:31 AM

I had a double bacon cheeseburger the other day while my friend got a garden salad with tofu

I felt like a million bucks and he felt like a fag

6/28/2010 11:43:35 AM

that's the coolest story i've read all day

6/28/2010 11:45:06 AM

I have had no fast food.

6/28/2010 3:38:26 PM

6 weeks down

46 weeks to go



[Edited on July 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM. Reason : math]

7/29/2010 11:46:42 AM

This kid is retarded.

7/29/2010 12:01:38 PM

fast food is not the problem, YOU are.




and you were only 235? way to slim it down though man

[Edited on July 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM. Reason : f]

7/29/2010 12:02:34 PM

i have much, much fatter pics than that

7/29/2010 12:13:25 PM

<---Still no fast foods.

7/29/2010 12:14:15 PM

no way I could do this... well fast food part I could do, but preparing all your own shit, I am WAY too social to not go to restaurants to eat/drink for a year.

7/29/2010 12:24:16 PM

do you have to eat when you're out drinking?

7/29/2010 12:25:38 PM

if you dont want to look like a bum or a tool

7/29/2010 12:26:14 PM

at a restaurant I agree - if you are with a group of people eating dinner you kinda look like a bum if you dont order a meal.

But at a bar? I rarely ever order food when I'm out drinking at the bar unless I'm there all day, or get the urge to order some wings or mozzarella sticks to munch on

7/29/2010 12:32:16 PM

french fry wrap...tuff not to order while drinking

7/29/2010 12:39:14 PM

fatty wrap... say it riiight..

7/29/2010 12:43:12 PM

^^^^I don't think most people are counting restaurants or bars as "fast food", thus doesn't count against this so it wouldn't affect your social life. sure a lot of it is unhealthy, but the intent of this thread is about not eating crappy food when you could have made something healthier, tastier, and cheaper yourself, not avoiding any unhealthy food period.

anyway to comment on what you brought up: Yes not eating at a restaurant is silly. Not eating at a bar when you're out drinking? I am hardly ever eating at a place where I am actually out drinking (and not just having a drink with dinner) and neither are the most the people I am with. Different social circles I suppose.

[Edited on July 29, 2010 at 12:51 PM. Reason : ]

7/29/2010 12:43:17 PM

since i'm very calorie-conscious, i can't justify drinking 1000-1200 calories worth of beer AND eating 1000 worth of wings/nachos/burgers

consuming the entire day's calorie limit in a span of 3 hours, especially after 9pm, is a bad idea

7/29/2010 12:48:41 PM

I don't think I could ever go no fast food, because its just too darned convenient & enjoyable to completely remove from the equation. I've only had fast food twice this summer (although once school starts in a few weeks that will probably change). I think of it like dieting, a super strict diet with no way to occasionally break the rules without feeling bad is a pretty sure way, for me at least, to fail at the diet pretty hard.

A no fast food for a year challenge is something I could never do, but if it was no fast food more often than once a week, or twice a month, or once a month... some version with built in allowances so that you don't have to give up a food completely, the I could probably do it. Fast food fries & tacos are never as appealing as they are when you know you can't have them any more.

7/29/2010 12:51:32 PM

yea i don't put any hard limit on it; I just don't eat it but a few times a year.

7/29/2010 12:56:42 PM

well, I should note that the part of Atlanta I am doesnt have a lot of pure bars, its mostly higher end restaurants that also have bars in them... so its usually go out to one of them, eat, drink, then go to an actual bar afterwards and continue drinking

7/29/2010 1:08:05 PM

It hasn't been difficult for me. I normally don't eat much fast food anyway. There have been probably five or six times that I would have bought fast food and I didn't, but I've been on the road a lot more than usual over the past 6 weeks so that number is higher than it normally would be.

Most of the times I've just held out or grabbed cashews and a diet Mountain Dew from the gas station to hold me over the ~2 hours until I got to my destination. Twice I've gone into the grocery store and grabbed some food from the deli (my latest purchase was a whole rotisserie chicken, lol). I'd say things got much easier after employing those two means of quick food and now I'm not really worried about whether I "could" cut out fast food completely. It's more of a matter of whether I choose to.

7/30/2010 1:36:12 AM

I can't do this. My body demands too many calories.

7/30/2010 1:38:31 AM

2+ months and still holding strong

how's it going for the my fellow Challengees?

No Fast Food 6/14/10 - 6/14/11

ncstatetke
qntmfred
McDanger
Skack
Minkagrl01
iheartkisses
GGMon *
Placidus

8/19/2010 8:47:50 AM

None here. I barely even think about that stuff as an option now. I was a little tempted last weekend though. Driving to Cape Hatteras and I was starving...Kept looking for a place to grab a bite and then I passed a Bojangles with about 100 trucks in the parking lot that was looking pretty good. Ended up finding a Seafood place not too far from Plymouth though and ate there instead. Probably no healthier than the Bojo option, but overall I'm glad I have forced myself to seek out other avenues when I needed a quick fix. The vast majority of the time I've been much happier with my decision not to eat fast food.

8/19/2010 8:56:44 AM

Quote :

"^ gimme $40 a week and I'll do all of your shopping for you and prepare you 3 healthy meals a day"

Examples of healthy meals?

Sometimes I travel for work and 'fast food' is about the only option while we're in the field. If that's the case I try to get the salad, or grilled chicken option, or something along those lines. I'm definitely trying to cut down on my bad habit of eating crappy food.

8/19/2010 10:39:40 AM

Quote :

"I can't do this. My body demands too many calories. "

8/19/2010 10:42:21 AM

Fuck this...I'll deal with moderate obesity. Besides, I've been called hot by numerous women...that's enough for me, lol.

8/19/2010 10:44:10 AM

^

I like this.

8/19/2010 10:45:56 AM

i'm joining this

8/19/2010 - 8/19/2011

8/19/2010 10:54:05 AM

i did this for 3 weeks (actually i completely stopped eating out for 3 weeks but we partied on wednesday night and ended up at coney island at 2am to grab a burger)

gonna continue doing it with similar exceptions

8/19/2010 10:58:21 AM

^ Cloos? I don't know if I would consider that to be fast food. Sure it's a greasy burger joint, but if you have to sit down and wait 5-10 minutes for it to be cooked it kindof negates the benefits of a quick drive thru meal. I'm sure everyone has their own definition and that definition can change over time though.

When I think fast food I think of Wendys, BK, Hardees, Bojangles, Cookout, etc. I cut out Smithfields BBQ, but I've had Ole Time BBQ a few times.

Maybe Cloos & Ole Time aren't the healthiest options out there. Maybe the fried seafood I had last weekend was no better than the Bojangles I passed up (from a health perspective), but it's not like you couldn't eat at home and do just as bad or worse. I've found this experiment has led me to eat either healthier food, less food, or better quality food on the occasions where I pass up on the fast food option. In addition, it has made me open my eyes to just how many other options are out there which is difficult to do when you're used to keeping your eyes peeled for the big friendly recognizable sign on the side of the road. So there are some benefits that go beyond just health.

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 5:24 PM. Reason : l]

8/19/2010 5:19:13 PM

Quote :

"how's it going for the my fellow Challengees?"

not as flawless as i'd hoped, but i'm still onboard

probably settled for fast food 3 or 4 times in the last 2 months.

8/20/2010 10:26:00 PM

i've only had 2 burgers from mc'd since the 19th of june... so almost 2 months save those slips

8/20/2010 10:29:10 PM

I don't even think about eating fast food anymore.

also...I've only gained like 8 lbs since I started doing this.

11/4/2010 12:27:05 AM

I'm still going fine without fast food, but I have a question, Do frosties count? I ended up having a one or two last month when the people I was with we're all like OMG let's get frosties, and I was oh yeah omg they make them with chocolate chip cookie dough now I have to have one and then I did. Then I did again when I was with another friend who didn't know about the chocolate chip cookie dough frosty and then a day or two later I was thinking, do frosties count as fast food????/

yeah, so do frosties count as fast food?

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 12:18 PM. Reason : do not does]

11/8/2010 12:16:11 PM

I've been 8-9 YEARS without any fast food burger or pre formed chicken.

I don't eat a lot of fast food but sometimes i like the fries and chicken stips.

I don't trust the meat and am very picky. This was all due to reading Fastfood nation back in Highschool

11/8/2010 12:18:29 PM

ha ha, i've read fast food nation and watched the documentary, along with a couple other industrialized food documentaries. the only thing i took away from them was "huh, we sure have a screwed up system. oh well, you can't fight city hall...yes, I'd like a number 2 combo, no cheese"

I do try to pick healthier options when i go out to eat and sometimes get on a kick where i'll go for like 2 weeks eating on food cooked at home. But i'm not going to pretend that i'm too good to eat a cheeseburger and wash it down with a coke either.

11/8/2010 6:16:03 PM

^^^ for the purpose of this thread, and for the competition, I'd say that a Frostie is indeed fast food...just the same way that a McBlizzard and a Blizzard are considered fast food

11/8/2010 6:22:21 PM

Damn you Frosty! Damn your beguiling creamy goodness

11/10/2010 1:14:11 PM

I still don't understand how that is fast food and deep fried buffalo wings or a greasy burger from a dine in place isn't..

[Edited on November 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM. Reason : X]

11/10/2010 1:24:24 PM

By that logic a salad from Wendy's or Chick-Fil-A is fast food.

ice cream =/ fast food
salad =/ fast food

11/10/2010 1:33:22 PM