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In reply to the discussion: How often do you eat fast food? [View all]Silent3
(15,909 posts)Chipotle once or twice a week. Panera maybe once per week. I had been getting an Egg McMuffin at McDonald's about once a week, but lately that's only been about once every two-four weeks. Over the summer, when they had sweet potato fries and wheat buns available, I was eating at Burger King about once per week, but now that's much less frequent.
Since I've lost 72 lbs since last April, and still dropping, I've apparently done a reasonable job of figuring out how to choose the healthier options while eating out, fast food or not.
Given 21 meals in a week, if I eat 3-5 as fast food, I'm eating about 20% fast food. Since breakfast (generally my lowest calorie meal of the day) is the only meal I typically eat at home, I'm eating out around 70% of the time, with 20% fast food, and 50% left to divide up between the cafeteria at work and "sit down" restaurants, mostly not-too-expensive chain restaurants given that it's already crazy enough how much my wife and I spend eating out as it is.