Growing
up around age ten I don’t remember eating fast food a lot. My mom would cook
breakfast and dinner for us. Sometimes we would go to my grandma’s house to
eat. I’m sure once in a while we would go out for some fast food. Not until I
got into high school fast food became weekly food for me. I remember my parents
getting divorced when I was fourteen. My dad hardly cooked so we always ate
out. Then he remarried and my step mom’s cooking wasn’t all that great. Lets
just say my dad was a better cook than her. So when she would make dinner I
would go get Carls Jr. After high school I started working and making my own
money so that made it that much easier to just go get food instead of asking my
dad for money every time. I would go to pretty much every fast food restaurant
there is, mostly Carls Jr and In-N-Out. I spent more money in a month on fast
food than I did on my truck payment and my phone bill put together. Around that
time I had girlfriend too so I would spend double the amount almost every time
I would eat because she would be with me. I didn’t realize how much I was
eating fast food, I never got fat, and I never ran out of money, I never got
tired of it.
It
wasn’t until I started to work out about two years ago I changed my habits with
fast food. I paid more attention to my online banking account and actually
added up all the food I was eating in a month that made me realize as well. I
was trying to bulk up for baseball because I was going to be trying out for the
Oxnard college baseball team. I was still eating a lot of fast food, not as
much as before, and I notice I was getting somewhat stronger, but not the
results I wanted. The more I worked out I would learn new things about
exercises, protein shakes, etc., I was doing all of that except one thing, I
wasn’t eating right. When I would go to In-N-Out I would get two double
cheeseburgers, fries, and a drink. Sometimes I would even order a shake on the
side if I was really hungry. For me I thought to get bigger you just have to
eat so many calories and work out so much which is true, but the food you eat
has to be healthy. I learned more about eating right by looking online at
websites and videos. So now I completely changed my diet. I make myself
breakfast and lunch almost every morning. Dinner is harder because I come home
tired from school, baseball, and the gym so my sister will make dinner
sometimes or I will go to my grandma’s house to eat, which is the best food in
the world. The taste of fast food now isn’t the same anymore because I know it’s
not healthy for me. I’ll admit I still get an urge to get fast food just
because it’s so much easier than cooking and faster, but I don’t give in.
