Fast Food

            Growing up I didn’t really eat a lot of fast food. The main reason for that is because my parents couldn’t afford for us to go out to eat, and when we did go out, I would share a meal with my mom. So up until Jr. High I was pretty good at not eating fast food. Then once I entered Jr. High, for some reason I started eating fast food more often. It was a mixture of McDonalds, Jack in the Box, Burger King, and a bunch of Mexican restaurants. Then all of a sudden I started gaining a little weight. I didn’t think much of it, and neither did my parents. So we kept out bad eating routine going, and as the months went by, I gained more and more weight. Pretty soon I was a five-foot tall seventh grader weighing 125 lbs. I can honestly say that for a while there I had no neck. I started eating not just a lot of fast food, but a lot of junk food at home as well. I didn’t think it was a bad thing but looking back now, it most certainly was. Then when I entered high school, I started getting a little healthier with my eating habits. I never completely took fast food out of my diet, I just tried eating it less often and throwing some healthier foods in my diet.

             Now that I am older, I try even harder not to eat a lot of fast food, but sometimes it’s hard. Being a college student and having a job doesn’t really give me a lot of time to whip up a meal at home. So I do rely on fast food a little more then I would like to. The fact that I am earning my own money now doesn’t help either. Sometimes I wish I had bills to pay so that I wouldn’t be able to afford going out to eat so often. But despite eating out every now and then, my eating habits are much better than they were when I was a child. I ate a lot more fruits and vegetables and drink a lot of water. If I could just get fast food out of my life, I think I would be a much healthier person.