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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1711362  Canada11/29/2012 05:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've moved out of home into my own condo in the middle of the city. There are fast food restaurants almost on every block and I just cant seem to control my desire to eat unhealthy fast food. I've always eaten healthy at home, by force I might add, since my parents wont even dream of touching anything from McDonlands or KFC. As kids I would daydream of going to McDonalds. Once my brother sneaked in some and we had a blast but the nanny discovered the apple pie and fries under our bed and informed my mom who went total nuts on us. Now that I've turned 18 and moved into my own place I cant seem to get enough of fast food. So far I've tried almost all of them but I fear I've become addicted to KFC. All I can think of every single waking moment is KFC KFC KFC. I've never had acne before but now I do. I also have dark under eye circles now and am 20 lbs heavier than when I moved out of the house. When I'm not sitting my ass down in a fast food restaurant, I'm ordering over the phone or the internet. I just cant stop. I thought of going to professional therapy but my parents would find out. I also turned away the cleaning lady in fear she might discover all these empty boxes here and would tell my mom what I'm upto.  |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 05:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1465586 United States11/29/2012 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If empty boxes are laying all over the place, you have more problems than just eating too much -- you're also a lazy slob. Throw the empty boxes out for crying out loud. Have some self respect. Go to the grocery store and buy some food, and make it yourself. What the hell is wrong with you?? |
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| AtsuiPanda o.o User ID: 16510251 United States11/29/2012 05:29 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ^^^^  If you're going through hell, keep going. "Dude sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something - Jake the dog" However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha |
| Leslie Zevo Commander and Beef User ID: 17090286 United States11/29/2012 05:31 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ^^^^ Haven't had any for 6+ years. Cold turkey is the only way to go, man. You actually go through withdraw for a bit but you're okay after about a month or so of eating good home cooked meals. I am a son of Earth and starry sky. I am parched with thirst and am dying; but quickly grant me cold water from the Lake of Memory to drink. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 05:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If empty boxes are laying all over the place, you have more problems than just eating too much -- you're also a lazy slob. Throw the empty boxes out for crying out loud. Have some self respect. Go to the grocery store and buy some food, and make it yourself. What the hell is wrong with you?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1465586 Its because the maid does it but now there are like 30 boxes and if she sees them she's gonna tell my mom and I'll have to hear this 3 hour lecture on food and stuff and she'll discover I've gotten fat. That would be like worse then discovering I've gone gay.  |
| scorpio66 User ID: 2453057 United States11/29/2012 05:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | try looking up some recipes and learn how to cook if you don't already know. watch some youtube videos if you need to or ask your mom to go over the preparation of some of your home meals. cooking can be very enjoyable, even just making a simple meal. but, pick a few recipes, make a grocery list, purchase groceries, make food. give yourself a treat day that you eat out so you don't feel completely deprived. you're skin will clear, you'll have more energy, you'll feel satisfied and probably shed those extra pounds without too much trouble. i would add you'd save money, but honestly grocery shopping is expensive now too. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1711599 United States11/29/2012 05:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've moved out of home into my own condo in the middle of the city. There are fast food restaurants almost on every block and I just cant seem to control my desire to eat unhealthy fast food. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1711362 I've always eaten healthy at home, by force I might add, since my parents wont even dream of touching anything from McDonlands or KFC. As kids I would daydream of going to McDonalds. Once my brother sneaked in some and we had a blast but the nanny discovered the apple pie and fries under our bed and informed my mom who went total nuts on us. Now that I've turned 18 and moved into my own place I cant seem to get enough of fast food. So far I've tried almost all of them but I fear I've become addicted to KFC. All I can think of every single waking moment is KFC KFC KFC. I've never had acne before but now I do. I also have dark under eye circles now and am 20 lbs heavier than when I moved out of the house. When I'm not sitting my ass down in a fast food restaurant, I'm ordering over the phone or the internet. I just cant stop. I thought of going to professional therapy but my parents would find out. I also turned away the cleaning lady in fear she might discover all these empty boxes here and would tell my mom what I'm upto. Pretty funny, OP. Doesn't sound like you're ready to be on your own yet. First, throw away the damn boxes. Are you waiting for your mom to haul them out for you?! Second, get a grip. Contemplate this: You are the ruler of your own life. If you really WANT to eat fast food, DO IT!! Right now it sounds like you're rebelling against your parents who wouldn't let you eat it. If you want to, get it out of your system -- gorge on the shit, throw up! Whatever. When you're ready to man up and live your own life, look at your values. Do you really want to be fat, sick, and full of zits?! Didn't think so. Read an inspirational book like "Primal Blueprint" or something that will make you crave to eat clean and healthy food. Imagine yourself lean and fit. Picture yourself shoving KFC into your mouth and then having people point and laugh because you're so fat. If you want a good book on breaking addictions, try "Stand Up!" by Bucky Sinister. He was an alcoholic punk poet, but not even as pitiful as you might be unless you start living your own life! Good luck, OP. You'll be cool when you grow up. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've moved out of home into my own condo in the middle of the city. There are fast food restaurants almost on every block and I just cant seem to control my desire to eat unhealthy fast food. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1711362 I've always eaten healthy at home, by force I might add, since my parents wont even dream of touching anything from McDonlands or KFC. As kids I would daydream of going to McDonalds. Once my brother sneaked in some and we had a blast but the nanny discovered the apple pie and fries under our bed and informed my mom who went total nuts on us. Now that I've turned 18 and moved into my own place I cant seem to get enough of fast food. So far I've tried almost all of them but I fear I've become addicted to KFC. All I can think of every single waking moment is KFC KFC KFC. I've never had acne before but now I do. I also have dark under eye circles now and am 20 lbs heavier than when I moved out of the house. When I'm not sitting my ass down in a fast food restaurant, I'm ordering over the phone or the internet. I just cant stop. I thought of going to professional therapy but my parents would find out. I also turned away the cleaning lady in fear she might discover all these empty boxes here and would tell my mom what I'm upto. Pretty funny, OP. Doesn't sound like you're ready to be on your own yet. First, throw away the damn boxes. Are you waiting for your mom to haul them out for you?! Second, get a grip. Contemplate this: You are the ruler of your own life. If you really WANT to eat fast food, DO IT!! Right now it sounds like you're rebelling against your parents who wouldn't let you eat it. If you want to, get it out of your system -- gorge on the shit, throw up! Whatever. When you're ready to man up and live your own life, look at your values. Do you really want to be fat, sick, and full of zits?! Didn't think so. Read an inspirational book like "Primal Blueprint" or something that will make you crave to eat clean and healthy food. Imagine yourself lean and fit. Picture yourself shoving KFC into your mouth and then having people point and laugh because you're so fat. If you want a good book on breaking addictions, try "Stand Up!" by Bucky Sinister. He was an alcoholic punk poet, but not even as pitiful as you might be unless you start living your own life! Good luck, OP. You'll be cool when you grow up. Well I made a big fuss and gave a lengthy speech to my parents on how I could live all on my own now and I'll show them how its done and etc etc. But now that the holidays are here and I have to visit home soon and they'll find me with this double chin. All my relatives would be there, all my cousins, ughhhh! This would be so embarrassing. I rather shoot myself!  |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24425839 United States11/29/2012 06:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. |
| ParallaxPam User ID: 15366249 United States11/29/2012 06:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24425839 You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. I don't think OP is paying his own bills. He has a freaking cleaning lady! Tell mommy and daddy to cut you off from the trust fund and just pay your rent and nothing else. I guess you are in school? So, stock up on beanie weenies and Ramen Noodles like the rest of college students and STFU. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7419205 United States11/29/2012 06:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well why don't you just consider how disgusting fast food is and how extremely bad it is for you to eat fried chicken on a regular basis. All those Saturated/trans fats.. you're building a ticking time bomb. Learn how to cook for yourself, there's plenty of info on the net to help you with that, and nothing beats fresh, healthy meals that you prepare for yourself, they taste better and are more rewarding. Incorporate some exercise along with that and trust me, the more GOOD you start doing for your body the more you'll become addicted to wanting to keep that up. Which of course is a good thing. =) |
| Generation Doom User ID: 20816248 United States11/29/2012 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You're addicted to the carbs from the crispy fried skin and carbs in whatever else you order. Go low carb and you won't crave them anymore. The problem with carbs is you can eat and eat them, but you never really feel full for long. High fat food that's low in carbs will satisfy you for a longer period and is healthier. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 06:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24425839 You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. Hmmm...this is some great advice but I dont have a job. My parents bought the condo for me closer to university and the accountant pays all the bills. But I think what you said above makes total sense. Maybe I need a job so I make my own money. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 06:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You're addicted to the carbs from the crispy fried skin and carbs in whatever else you order. Go low carb and you won't crave them anymore. The problem with carbs is you can eat and eat them, but you never really feel full for long. High fat food that's low in carbs will satisfy you for a longer period and is healthier. Quoting: Generation Doom You're right. This food especially KFC makes me feel happy for some reason then after like 2 hours I'm craving it again. Its weird. Its like I'm on a drug. While eating it I feel on top of the world but then I remember what would happen if my mom finds out and then I feel sad and want even more. Its a vicious cycle!  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22054163 United States11/29/2012 06:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is not an addiction it is a luxury.... It is so much cheaper and easy and darn well delicious to just drive by the window at KFC and take my boxes of yummy yummy chicken liver home.....we me.....all mine ...mine mine mine. They are a luxury to me I like them with a biscuit and even some mash potatoes..I like them alone.....I like them and they are what my body craves terribly. They help my blood they helped me grow back bone....they have been support for my life and body. Why would I got to the grocery store buy them pack them home use my oil flour and seasoning to crispy fry them....when KFC has them perfectly prepared no mess no time and cheaper than making them at home. They are even better livers then the store sells. This is such a luxury to me I have made enough biscuits and liver and chicken even pot pies to know a luxury when I get one. Saves money time while getting what I would have made my own self only better. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1711599 United States11/29/2012 06:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24425839 You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. Hmmm...this is some great advice but I dont have a job. My parents bought the condo for me closer to university and the accountant pays all the bills. But I think what you said above makes total sense. Maybe I need a job so I make my own money. OP, you sound convincing. If you're really not a shill -- just jerking us around for the fun of it -- then you need to confront reality. Try reading a book on urban survival, for example. You might find some other changes to make in your life besides quitting fast food. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 06:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24425839 You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. I don't think OP is paying his own bills. He has a freaking cleaning lady! Tell mommy and daddy to cut you off from the trust fund and just pay your rent and nothing else. I guess you are in school? So, stock up on beanie weenies and Ramen Noodles like the rest of college students and STFU. If they find out what I'm doing here they'll definitely cut me off. Right now they think I'm spending all the money on chicks. But I've become more obsessed with real chicken. I know if I ever go back home I'll never get to eat it again. |
| Old MacDonald Let's Go Buff-a-lo !!!! User ID: 28707337 Canada11/29/2012 06:49 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do they know you like balls on your chin too? Or haven't you come out of the closet yet? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1465586  BOB! Bitches "Socialism always Results in the Death of a Society as well as it's People" - Me "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" - Winston Churchill. What Part of "Shall Not be Infringed" Don't People Inside or Outside the U.S. Understand??? "Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." -- Heinrich Himmler Sixty years later not much has changed. "I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers." --Allan Rock (Liberal SCUMBAG) |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21926154 United States11/29/2012 06:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is the truth... and so you probably won't like it... Fast food addiction is really sugar addiction. The sugar stimulates the 'reward center' in your brain. The ONLY way to kick an addiction like this is to replace the stimulus to the reward center. This is why drug addicts go from one drug to another. We simply have to have that reward center stimulated, or we are not able to function. There are only two healthy ways to kick it. 1. Fast. Like going cold turkey. But of course... you wont be able to function at all. This is why celebrities go into rehab centers, etc. 2. Replace the chemical stimulation of your reward center with a psychological one. When you stand in a room of peers and they smile and clap and root for you... your reward center is stimulated. This is why AA and those type of things are based on group support. For most of us... we don't have time to fast. And society is falling apart. If you see a group of people, they will more likely mug you then root for you. But just to get you started in the right direction... If you are on GLP, that says to me that you are an open minded, truth seeking, individual. My kind of guy. So I'm rooting for you. Good luck. |
| geminilion User ID: 12895036 United States11/29/2012 06:52 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You can stop..that stuff is crap. Learn how to cook, you can make stuff that's better tasting and better for you. ..."The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way." Heraclitus |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1711362 Canada11/29/2012 06:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best way is to not be able to afford it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24425839 You are 18 and paying your own bills. Create a budget that covers you fixed monthly expenses and includes your gasoline. Everything else, you put into a Savings Account. Assume you are working. You could ask if your employer has a 401k. If he does, he may give you EXTRA money over what you currently make now if you put some of your money into the 401k. This is a retirement fund that YOU can NOT touch until you are 59 1/2 years old. People your age will NEVER receive any social security, so it will be up to you to save for the future. If they don't have 401k, then keep the money in savings account until you have at least $2,000. Then you can start investing in a ROTH IRA. Which is another retirement type account for your future. Allow yourself amount to splurge breakfast, lunch and dinner one day a week. Good luck. Hmmm...this is some great advice but I dont have a job. My parents bought the condo for me closer to university and the accountant pays all the bills. But I think what you said above makes total sense. Maybe I need a job so I make my own money. OP, you sound convincing. If you're really not a shill -- just jerking us around for the fun of it -- then you need to confront reality. Try reading a book on urban survival, for example. You might find some other changes to make in your life besides quitting fast food. I'm sorry but why would I be a shill about fast food addiction. I think its a real problem and I'm sure there are other folks out there suffering from it as well beside me. |
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