Without going into details, I ended up at Burger King for lunch today. I got a kid's meal: cheeseburger and fries. When I got back to my classroom, I googled it for Nutrition information. OMG! Calories really weren't too awful considering all the other awfulness - 570. BUT... My KIDS meal had half your daily sodium and 29 grams of FAT - that's half your fat too! I didn't even look at saturated fats or any of that other stuff. I can't believe the kids meal was that bad. People feed that crap to their kids. I have never really liked fast food, except for Sonic. But even then, I would get moz sticks, my child would get a grilled cheese kids meal, and we would share both things. Still pretty awful - 530 cals, 27 g of fat, and 1300 mg of sodium - this was with the meal split in half. THis makes that meal actually just as bad as what I got today. It just gets me to think that people eat a meal twice as large as mine today all by themselves, and sometimes several times a week. I am incredibly overweight, but it was not caused by fast food or fried food- I was actually never worried about my weight because all my blood tests would come back normal; I started this look better and feel better about myself. Before my diet started, I would eat fast food occasionally: probably about 10 times a year. My weight comes from sweets, breads, and laziness. I had never really looked at these fast food menus before. It scares me what America is putting into their bodies. I know I am ranting, and I know that I am not a person to judge what other people eat, considering I was 87 pounds overweight, but it makes my stomach churn just thinking about it. My biggest concern about all this is the complete lack of veggies. I don't think oil-saturated lettuce shreds count as a serving of veggies.
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Without going into details, I ended up at Burger King for lunch today. I got a kid's meal: cheeseburger and fries. When I got back to my classroom, I googled it for Nutrition information. OMG! Calories really weren't too awful considering all the other awfulness - 570. BUT... My KIDS meal had half your daily sodium and 29 grams of FAT - that's half your fat too! I didn't even look at saturated fats or any of that other stuff. I can't believe the kids meal was that bad. People feed that crap to their kids. I have never really liked fast food, except for Sonic. But even then, I would get moz sticks, my child would get a grilled cheese kids meal, and we would share both things. Still pretty awful - 530 cals, 27 g of fat, and 1300 mg of sodium - this was with the meal split in half. THis makes that meal actually just as bad as what I got today. It just gets me to think that people eat a meal twice as large as mine today all by themselves, and sometimes several times a week. I am incredibly overweight, but it was not caused by fast food or fried food- I was actually never worried about my weight because all my blood tests would come back normal; I started this look better and feel better about myself. Before my diet started, I would eat fast food occasionally: probably about 10 times a year. My weight comes from sweets, breads, and laziness. I had never really looked at these fast food menus before. It scares me what America is putting into their bodies. I know I am ranting, and I know that I am not a person to judge what other people eat, considering I was 87 pounds overweight, but it makes my stomach churn just thinking about it. My biggest concern about all this is the complete lack of veggies. I don't think oil-saturated lettuce shreds count as a serving of veggies.