Every year I tell myself that I will stop eating fast food or that I will try to round out my diet a little more to include additional fruits and vegetables. I might begin such resolutions with the full intent of completing them, but every year I find my hands dipping into the golden arches of gluttony.
Favorite Redding Breakfast – All Images Captured on my Canon 60D
Fast food exists everywhere, even in our quaint little Chinese city. But don’t let me mislead you, there is only one such restaurant and it’s called Dico’s. They primarily serve fried chicken sandwiches and bean paste ice cream. To their defense, it’s really difficult to leave there feeling full. This is an uncommon feeling in American fast food joints, as I always leave looking like I swallowed a 3rd grader.
My great eastern diet has one simple ingredient- living in rural China for three months. This gives me the advantage of not being able to pull up to a taco shop, pizza parlor or gut truck and swallow two days worth of calories in five minutes. To ingest the same amount of calories I’d have to plant myself at a noodle shop for 4 hours straight.
Now comes the hard part. After having the ability to use a drive thru and get my caloric fix at a moments notice, my body is going to crave all the lazy deliciousness they had me hooked on. Simple sugars and saturated fats… More addictive than crack. I guess China is my fast food rehab. I don’t intend to make myself sound morbidly obese. I’m still fairly active and manage to keep most of the pounds off. But, as I’m sure everyone knows, a few less pounds wouldn’t hurt.
Here are a few of my recent favorite dishes. Click one each photo to enlarge.
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- Smothered & Covered Fries
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- Lulu’s Country Fried Steak
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- Tucson Sandwich Courtesy of FDS.
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- Pizza
Chinese fast food can be strangely addictive as well, but much less sugar typically!
Getting your daily supply of fruits is always a problem. We know we need this to stay healthy but in the fast lives we lead we don’t do it. My wife and I now use a juice product that gives us all the fruits we need every day. Contact us for more info.
Morning. When we are in the states and trying to be healthy, I will sometimes use a juicer. Love the thing but hate the cleanup.
Nate-
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Bean paste ice cream? This I have to try. If you want to avoid fast food, don’t come to London. Just down my street is a McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Subway, and I know I’m forgetting at least one. I try to avoid, but when I’m coming home late from the pub I’m snacky.
I’d be 300lbs. by years end. The wife wants to spend christmas in London, we’ll see if I can avoid the fast food.
Nate-
London is beautiful over the holidays. Cold, but beautiful. If you are here, I recommend popping into Hyde Park to visit Winter Wonderland. It’s a Christmas festival and they have rides for the young and adults. Be warned though, the grilled sausages and mulled wine are so good and too hard to pass up. But it’s Christmas, how can you not.
I certainly will. I can feel myself getting fatter already.