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All my college friends knew me like a crazy chicken nugget lover. No, not tender (and healthier) tyson chicken nuggets, I'm talking about McDonald'snuggets.

I was a student-athlete student at college and even after a race test that forced me to make inhuman quantities of sprints in crazy intervals, you know what I thought a reward after a reward After a workout as hard? Nuggets. The people of the Drive-Thru knew me by their name and my boyfriend at the time even bought us the box of 20 pieces for our Valentine's Day dinner, what romantic?

Plunge a little more deeply at the beginning of my desires, grow, I was not really allowed to have food fromPopular fast food staches. I've hadthis Mom who would say "there is food at home" every time I saw bright golden arches while we led through congested traffic.

When I told my family and my family, my first job would work on a health-based site and nutrition, they all gave me the same excitement mixed with a look that seemed like it was as if c 'Was saying "why are you" for me. It was not secret that I had liked to indulge in a Taco Bell Bell $ 5 french box, the $ 5 Go Biggie Bag of Wendy's or a McDonald 2 business for $ 5 Mix & Match Deal a few times ... a week.

I wanted my eating habits to change because for the first time in my life, my mind was still wrapped around the next chance of eating something. My snacking habits were uncontrollable because fast food was not as satisfied as "real food". I would wake up absolutely hungry after a night of Wendy, and I will make a bowl of cereals, granola bars in the office, chips I bought in our lobby down, or all I could have the hand on that seemed good.

By entering this challenge to abandon fast food for 30 days, my body was clearly changed from abs tones and legs that I had once. I did not have a "big" in my eyes in my eyes, but swelling on my face, the stomach and even the legs showed. The way I knew it had to become bad regarded the photos and seeing the small differences in swelling on my face. In addition, I also felt Gundown and tired all the time. My goal was to reset my desires forfast food And get a better understanding of the frequency to which I have consumed. See what happened when I dropped fast food for a month.

What I ate

I left Cold Turkey. That's right. No more baconators, nor tacos de Locos Doritos, or my beloved chicken nuggets for 30 days. However, I did not go fully cabbage-and-eggs-with-lemon-diet water with bat. I still eaten the foods I normally enjoy, but I tried to make healthier adjustments.

Instead of a fried buffalo chicken sandwich with fries, I had a buffalo chicken salad and shared fries with the table. I bought southwestern Joe's style salad mixtures instead of Taco Bell when I wanted something spicy. I drank more tea than soda coffee or sugar and creek, because I wanted something sweet and caffeinous, but without so much sugar, dairy, grease or carbonation.

Instead of a pizza slice every Friday from Joe's on my corner, I treated myself once in the 30-day set to the delicious fat slice. I made a beef and broccoli homemade from a frozen trader joe bag instead of a takeaway option. I do not consider Asian outstanding to be in the same category as fast food, but I wanted to see if there was a version that made me feel less bloated.

While grocery stores shopping, I bought versions of whole grains of breads and pasta and even versions of Mac and cheese gluten, because I noticed that bread gave me this feeling of bloat. When I came out to eat, I ordered Kale salads whenever I was lucky (with steak at the restaurant or chicken for the construction of your own places) and added my favorite kinks in Kale. At the end of the month, I really wanted the choumage salad that became a breakfast option "Treat you" at the base of my half-sandwich half sandwich, half mac and my cheese combo tray.

At mid-term, I naturally went to Soda and I wanted to have citrus water. I am usually dehydrated unconsciously, and now my skin feels very good. Now, be hydrated is something I do not think even more. I used to go hours (sometimes days) without anything water, and now I appreciate hydration with a few glasses before noon.

How did it feel my body

AClean diet is a real thing. I can honestly say that I felt "clean" all month. I was much more energetic. My schedule remained pretty much exactly as possible during the previous months, but I had an unexpected extra energy. Enough to even participate in some workouts!

When I eaten essentially fast food, any physical activity did not last long because I would get tired and stopped. After being forced to do training throughout the university, I promised myself to no longer work because I was so burned. This month, however, I got out of my way of finding activities to participate in it would allow me to become tired by a more vigorous activity instead of everyday turmoil in the soil.

My desires become fewer and less frequent, and I crocketed the good taste of clean foods I made myself eating. The only desire for fast food that I kind of cavity wasChipotle. But I did not have any extra queso or cheese, and I changed my bowl to a salad with the same fillings, but there was more lettuce. I copped to feel full but not "stuffed" and I did not force myself every bite of my meal unless you really behunger. This challenge taught me howEat more with. It's crazy how even themanner You eat your meal can determine how your body will treat it, both physically and taste.

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How did it change my emotions

The only time I was really helpless to this cleaning, it's when the Fast Food was presented to me for free. Working in food media allows me to try free food, but even after being acknowledged afree Wendy's gift card and meal, I managed to do all day with the reputation of my cleaning unscathed.

Mymood changed in some ways too. I noticed that I slept much more deeply this month. I woke up more refreshed and not as tired. This caused less gray behavior and less irritability when something frustrating happened at work or my personal life. The food can certainly change your mood and my best eating habits have resulted in a more positive mood.

How did it change my appearance

I remember my hair and skins sometimes felt a little faster during my fast food ginges. Surprisingly, my skin was much drier this month. I do not know if it had to make my diet, but I had the faces, arms and legs the most rigid throughout the month. Nothing a small lotion did not repair, but it was as if my body had nothing to expel through my pores. In the right direction!

I noticed at the end of the month that swelling on my face, arms, stomach and legs had diminished. My jaw was just as it was before the Blous is perceptible, and the training I made, as well as the diet without swelling, gave me my flat belly. I even noticed that my leg muscles become more defined and the swelling of my hips has come down.

How did it feel fast food after 30 days

You want to know what happened when I ate fast food after the 30 days? I was completely sick at my stomach. I was so excited to come back to my nuggets of sauce and fries of sauce, and to my fries and polish this with a bacon mini burger and a fanta of orange. There is no denying the satisfaction of a huge meal for only $ 5. But the body feeling of "satisfaction" had definitely changed.

I was only half the fries when I started feeling full. I took a break and I went back to fries. Had to take another break to eat the nuggets. Successful to descend a little bit of my glass, but I felt, in a certain way, vanquished. My new diet has no way to eat more food. I was ate just more satisfying food. The food I was eating had no problem making me feel full. But I could not help but feel angry that I was going to lose money on my delivery of food, so I took another break to go to the hamburger. A meal that I had once at least three times a week was now impossible to finish. One day after the meal, I felt the same block as I felt for a few months immediately before my own.

The day after fast food, my face and my hair was fat again. I was freshly shifted and clean, but I did not feel. I felt horrible and went down. My body literally wants these clean foods, something I never thought would write. I believe that red meat and bread had a big part in the sick feeling because I had almost completely cut for the whole month, and I certainly can not feel again to feel again at any time soon.

How I will implement these changes forward

I learned a lot about my diet and what the body can do with the fuel you put in. I'm kidding about the phrase "You are what you eat", but now I know it's true. I was swollen and I felt fat, and it's because my body was trying to tell me not to eat as many of these foods.

Now, I do not think people should never eat fast food, it's not my point. But for me, the bloating effects of a fast diet were hard to live and I needed a change. It's just something I was not sure I was aware and continued to give it to my body. Yet I had no idea of ​​a simple change in my diet could improve my global mood and motivation. The food I ate - and loved you really shocked.

Going forward, I will try to keep me eating fast food once every two weeks, or when it's necessary and I need something cheap and fast.fast food It's really something I appreciate and I do not expect to abandon it again from Cold Turkey.

I am a young woman entering my 20 years and I want to fully live their potential, while eating what I want. Sometimes it's French fries with a down sauce. Sometimes it's a curly cabbage salad. Who knows, maybe I'll change my wedding reception dinner chicken nuggets with vegetable nuggets one day?