Cut the Fast Food

Let's cut to the chase... This week's addition to My Best Me is to cut fast food down to two times a week maximum.

I know. I can hear it now from all my friends at Powerfit Personal Training. "Two times a week? How many times are you eating fast food?" The answer to that is "too many." There are a variety of reasons; working away from the home and being on the road a lot, it's super convenient, I'm not a fan of making lunches, and I just plain like it. Curse you Taco Bell!

The upsides to this kind of addition to My Best Me are many. We are trying to buy a house soon, so the money saving is clearly a benefit. I'm not going to calculate it, because I think it would be too painful. The obvious primary improvement here is the lack of nutritional value in that stuff. I've been eating very poorly all year and it's time to start moving in the right direction again.

One qualifier. The nature of my work leads me to meetings at restaurants quite often. This weeks' addition is explicitly to deal with fast food places, such as Taco Bell, Arby's, etc. It is not intended to reflect on nicer "sit-down" places to eat. I know, I know, it sounds like a cop out, but between you and I, let's just agree that when I'm at those better restaurants I'll make better decisions. Besides, this whole weeks addition will most likely be a mute point in a few weeks when we really start to change up some dietary stuff.

So stay tuned!