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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been eating takeout like this for years due to a busy schedule. I credit massive weight gain to it. [/quote]

You are not alone, it’s happening to millions of Americans.

I gained a ton of weight working a high stress long  hours job and eating takeaways the majority of the time - I could afford it and I tried to pick healthy options, but I just didn’t fully understand the calories and bad ingredients even in the healthy options. Restaurant food is not for a regular diet unless you want metabolic disorder which you will develop whether normal weight or overweight.

I’m working on losing that weight now that I have fundamentally changed my life in a number of ways, including prioritizing sleep and stress management. Learning to cook most of my own meals at home has been key to losing and feeling healthier. I don’t spend a huge amount of time cooking and I don’t cook most days, I make a quiche once a week that takes care of breakfast and I frequently make things like curry or stew or soup in large batches that will feed me for days or can be divided up and frozen for future meals. I do still occasionally get takeout but it’s at most once per week.

My food prep days are something I really enjoy now - a few hours making delicious food, usually listening to music or watching a movie or a couple of episodes of a show while I chop and dice and whatever - and then having a fridge packed full with wholesome options so anytime I am hungry I can reach in and find something tasty and healthy and no need to fall down the rabbit hole of takeout menus. Yes it takes time and planning but once you have a repertoire of things to make it becomes second nature and is not all that difficult.

And again - if you don’t teach your kids what eating whole food at home looks like, when will they learn it? Does anybody even teach or take home economics in school anymore (I took it in junior high, in the 80s - and honestly it wasn’t that useful)? In recent years I’ve been learning to cook entirely differently from how I grew up, which was a lot of processed food and boring not terribly healthy typical American food of the 70s/80s - my working mother really embraced convenience foods not realizing she could make healthier stuff without much more effort. She hated cooking and resented the obligation but I think when you have kids, you should feel obligated to do more than just put calories into growing bodies - you should be setting the example for a lifetime of healthy eating habits which a great many parents are not doing today. [/quote]

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