I ate an unhealthy fast food meal for lunch and I feel terrible

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Anonymous wrote:First time in years. Burger with curly fries. Since then I have had an uncomfortable stomach, unpleasant time in the bathroom, feeling very sluggish and lying down. How do people survive eating this regularly? Luckily it was the weekend so I could be lazy. If I had to work I would not have been able to be productive. I am by no means the world’s healthiest eater, but I think I will never do this again.

This might be the most passive-aggressive, judgmental, pat-yourself-on-the-back post, all rolled in one, that I've ever seen on here.

Seriously op? Do you have any friends or hobbies in life? I don’t eat fast food but don’t need to coke on DCUM and humble brag/shame others. What were you hoping to accomplish here? Make others feel bad about themselves? Single mums working 3 jobs who don’t have time to go home in between jobs? People who can’t afford gourmet and pick up a dollar menu meal? I hope you get the sh*ts for 3 days.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, this is why I avoid fast food like the plague. Go ahead and call me a snob…I don’t care.

Avoiding it doesn't make you a snob. Announcing your aversion does. It also proclaims your privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Still cheaper than buying salmon, salad, and rice from even the cheapest of grocery stores....and obviously fast food fills you up and is satisfying (unlike, say, a lighter healthy meal).

No it isn’t. If you make your own meals at home, you’ll know it’s so much more cost-effective than the crap available outside.

Agreed

at McD’s in DC with the app you could get two cheese burgers (or mcchicken) for $3.50 and $1.20 for large fries and $1.40 for large soda, so just under $7 with taxes included. I’m curious what you could make with $7 in DC area?

Black lentils at whole foods are 3 bucks. It could last you a while instead of a 1-time reflux inducing meal.

I can find red lentils for $2 but black lentils in LA are at least $10. I will try Whole Foods, thank you!! Thoughts and prayers to op.

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Hi Op!! I’m a nanny who works 60-80 hours a week for 4 different families. I don’t have any days off, because I’m saving up to go to school. Some days I don’t have time to cook or meal prep or being meals. I am so tired. I buy $2 tacos on the app from Taco Bell because sometimes that’s all I have time for. I’d love to have a meal delivery service or afford grocery delivery or prepared healthy meals. I’m just trying to get by. Maybe think before you speak because some of us are just doing our best. We don’t have your privilege of having the time or money to eat healthy.

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Just drink some water and eat a piece of something fresh (fruit/veggies).

You'll survive.

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Anonymous wrote:First time in years. Burger with curly fries. Since then I have had an uncomfortable stomach, unpleasant time in the bathroom, feeling very sluggish and lying down. How do people survive eating this regularly? Luckily it was the weekend so I could be lazy. If I had to work I would not have been able to be productive. I am by no means the world’s healthiest eater, but I think I will never do this again.

If you aren't working on a weekend you are already sluggish. It has nothing to do with fast food.

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Still cheaper than buying salmon, salad, and rice from even the cheapest of grocery stores....and obviously fast food fills you up and is satisfying (unlike, say, a lighter healthy meal).

No it isn’t. If you make your own meals at home, you’ll know it’s so much more cost-effective than the crap available outside.

Agreed

at McD’s in DC with the app you could get two cheese burgers (or mcchicken) for $3.50 and $1.20 for large fries and $1.40 for large soda, so just under $7 with taxes included. I’m curious what you could make with $7 in DC area?

Black lentils at whole foods are 3 bucks. It could last you a while instead of a 1-time reflux inducing meal.

cooked or raw?

Black lentils take about 20 minutes to cook. I'm making some tonight for a gathering and I'm going to add some pickled beets and goat cheese and coat the black lentils with my homemade black garlic and basil dressing.

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Still cheaper than buying salmon, salad, and rice from even the cheapest of grocery stores....and obviously fast food fills you up and is satisfying (unlike, say, a lighter healthy meal).

No it isn’t. If you make your own meals at home, you’ll know it’s so much more cost-effective than the crap available outside.

Agreed

at McD’s in DC with the app you could get two cheese burgers (or mcchicken) for $3.50 and $1.20 for large fries and $1.40 for large soda, so just under $7 with taxes included. I’m curious what you could make with $7 in DC area?

Black lentils at whole foods are 3 bucks. It could last you a while instead of a 1-time reflux inducing meal.

cooked or raw?

Black lentils take about 20 minutes to cook. I'm making some tonight for a gathering and I'm going to add some pickled beets and goat cheese and coat the black lentils with my homemade black garlic and basil dressing.

Did you do physical labor all day?
Did you work more than 10 hours and feel too mentally exhausted to do anything?
Do you have a car to go shopping?
Or do you live walking distance from a store that sells healthy food?
Do you have a home with a nice kitchen that you have time to clean?
Do you have dishwasher to wash the dishes you’ll use?
Were you raised with enough money so that your emotions about it don’t cause you to be foolish with it?
Same question but substitute food for money?
Do you have so much stress about money and health and safety and feeling disrespected by the world that your energy for planning and self-care is totally depleted?

Honestly, the way many of you are discussing the good choices of people who are poor is what I would expect of a high school student or child. Are you honestly not able to see the many ways in which people’s lives are different than yours? Unless the person who posted what is posted above is 13 years old, there is no excuse for her. From now on, if I catch myself being arrogant or self-centered, I will mentally refer to it as a “black lentil and basil dressing moment.”

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^ food choices

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Still cheaper than buying salmon, salad, and rice from even the cheapest of grocery stores....and obviously fast food fills you up and is satisfying (unlike, say, a lighter healthy meal).

No it isn’t. If you make your own meals at home, you’ll know it’s so much more cost-effective than the crap available outside.

Agreed

at McD’s in DC with the app you could get two cheese burgers (or mcchicken) for $3.50 and $1.20 for large fries and $1.40 for large soda, so just under $7 with taxes included. I’m curious what you could make with $7 in DC area?

Black lentils at whole foods are 3 bucks. It could last you a while instead of a 1-time reflux inducing meal.

cooked or raw?

Black lentils take about 20 minutes to cook. I'm making some tonight for a gathering and I'm going to add some pickled beets and goat cheese and coat the black lentils with my homemade black garlic and basil dressing.

Did you do physical labor all day?
Did you work more than 10 hours and feel too mentally exhausted to do anything?
Do you have a car to go shopping?
Or do you live walking distance from a store that sells healthy food?
Do you have a home with a nice kitchen that you have time to clean?
Do you have dishwasher to wash the dishes you’ll use?
Were you raised with enough money so that your emotions about it don’t cause you to be foolish with it?
Same question but substitute food for money?
Do you have so much stress about money and health and safety and feeling disrespected by the world that your energy for planning and self-care is totally depleted?

Honestly, the way many of you are discussing the good choices of people who are poor is what I would expect of a high school student or child. Are you honestly not able to see the many ways in which people’s lives are different than yours? Unless the person who posted what is posted above is 13 years old, there is no excuse for her. From now on, if I catch myself being arrogant or self-centered, I will mentally refer to it as a “black lentil and basil dressing moment.”

You know, it’s possible to both have compassion for someone and still recognize that they have agency over their own lives and could make different choices, even if they are harder in the moment.

Nice try. If having healthy food depended on having a lots of money, a large kitchen, a dishwasher, and a car, almost no one in the world would eat well.
And yet, in most places, even those lacking large kitchens and cars and dishwashers, diets are healthier and people are not fat.
It is about habits.
It is not reasonable to expect someone who does manual work to subsist in salads. But there are a lot of things between a plate of lettuce and a McD’s combo.

I do feel for those who lack both time and money by working 80 hours a week, but this is an exceptional situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Update: still some symptoms this morning. I skipped dinner, just had some plain yogurt.

On the bright side, I will never eat fast food again!

I normally have a strong stomach. It never bothers me other than the once a year I catch a bug from my kids.

Good for you OP! I’m shocked how Americans justify eating so much crap. No wonder the rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer are so high in this country.

I agree. We have family in the Midwest and they looked at me with two heads when I grab a carrot to snack on instead of Cheetos.

Maybe because you’re making a show of performatively “grabbing a carrot.” You were trying to make a passive-aggressive point about their bad dietary habits, and you succeeded. Congrats!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I empathize with you. Some people can handle eating FF. I am NOT one of those people. As a kid, I might have gone to eat FF once or twice a year. When, I first graduated from college, my place had no kitchen so I had Wendys once a week. Now, I cannot eat FF. I like the smell, but if I eat it, I will be running to the bathroom. I think the quality of the food is much worse.

I bet you can’t sleep of someone puts a pea under your mattress? It’s so hard being a super-sensitive and refined person. The peons just don’t understand.

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Anonymous wrote:First time in years. Burger with curly fries. Since then I have had an uncomfortable stomach, unpleasant time in the bathroom, feeling very sluggish and lying down. How do people survive eating this regularly? Luckily it was the weekend so I could be lazy. If I had to work I would not have been able to be productive. I am by no means the world’s healthiest eater, but I think I will never do this again.

Mmkay. Here’s that attention you ordered, you Goddess of Nutrition.

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Dollar menus exist. Nice try though.

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Anonymous wrote:Different people are different. Some people “survive” eating like that regularly be abuse they don’t feel what you felt when you ate what you ate.

Or you know, what’s all they can afford / that’s all that’s in their neighborhood.

Yeah because fast food is so cheap now. (Nice try though)

Still cheaper than buying salmon, salad, and rice from even the cheapest of grocery stores....and obviously fast food fills you up and is satisfying (unlike, say, a lighter healthy meal).

No it isn’t. If you make your own meals at home, you’ll know it’s so much more cost-effective than the crap available outside.

Yes, it is, unless you’re eating beans and rice at home.