Fast Food - What Should You Be Eating?

By: Owen Scott Click author's name for more of his/her articles

Fast food is not good for you. Even the healthiest fast food can easily be outdone by preparing some fast and easy meals you can take with you wherever you go. If you do find yourself inside a fast food restaurant, should you eat or not?
It's actually much better to make a good choice at a fast food restaurant than not eat at all. But, you shouldn't have to make that choice most of the time!
It's very easy to plan ahead. Take a few minutes to think about the upcoming day. If you're going to be away from home for extended periods of time, take some quick and easy meals with you. Take enough with you so you can eat a full meal once every 3 hours or so.
Some quick and easy meals that you can take with you are shaker bottles filled with whey protein and ground oats. Add a few baggies of walnuts and you've got some awesome fat burning and muscle building meals. They only take a few minutes to prepare and eat!
I'll also take some baggies full of veggies that I quickly cut up - some broccoli, green peppers, carrots, and cucumbers. Quick and easy meals - just like fast food except much, much better for building muscle and burning fat.
If you failed to plan ahead (try not to), you'll need to make the best decisions when you're ordering fast food. Let's say you're at McDonald's, what are you going to order? The french fries are out. Never order or eat french fries. You don't need them. Never order the fatty hamburgers and the white bread buns. That's about the worse combination is is sure to make you fatter.
The best choice would be a grilled chicken salad with lots of vegetables and about a half pack of ranch dressing. Don't get extra packs of ranch and pile it on your salad. And always drink water with your meals and nothing else. A no calorie lemonade is good too.
If you know you're going to be eating fast food and have no other choice, get nutrition facts for that restaurant and make a good choice before you go. Then, you won't be tempted to order anything else. It's actually better to check nutrition facts and make yourself a little list at what you can have from certain fast food restaurants. Make sure what you choose fits your meal plan.
Trust me, you DO NOT NEED fast food. Yes, it's quick and easy but so are some of the options I've already given you. You'll get faster results, better results, and you'll feel much better. I went without eating fast food for several years, and I felt much better without the fast food. Eating healthy tastes much better and feels great!
When you eat healthy foods, you WILL have higher energy levels for lifting weights. You'll create the OPTIMAL muscle building and fat burning environment. Your metabolism will be higher than ever. And your body will reward you with higher levels of muscle mass and lower levels of body fat.
I wanted to mention Subway because most people believe it's healthy. I'm sorry, but Jared isn't much healthier than he used to be. Sure, he lost a lot of body weight but he lost lots of muscle in the process. You can already see that he's easily gaining fat back and soon he may be in worse shape than before. Stick to the grilled chicken salad loaded with veggies at Subway. Stay away from most of the other stuff.
Prepare your meals at home. It's easy to make fast and healthy meals at home. For example, I can fix a quick taco salad with lettuce, lean beef, fat free cheese, salsa, and fat free sour cream in less than 5 minutes. It's very easy to make quick, easy, and great tasting meals. All it takes is a little planning. That's it!

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