68/365 Crap Food = Crap Feeling

Friends and Fitness Enthusiasts,

Though I enjoy going on road trips, I do not enjoy the feeling in my stomach and bowels after eating road trip food. Like the title indicates, crap food makes you feel crappy. Though there are healthier options out there, if it's from a fast food place (or even a restaurant), more likely than not it will not be as good for you as it tastes.

From my perspective, as someone who eats healthily regularly, I think that people who eat and enjoy fast food have become insensitive to the poor ingredients in fast food. They get complacent with that bad feeling and simply choose to ignore it. Partially hydrogenated oils and those that are made of trans fat are unnatural and absolutely unhealthy for you; they are often featured in fast food chains. They increase LDLs (bad cholesterol) and decrease HDLs (good cholesterol that clears out LDLs). Your system doesn't know what to do with them. Something very high in fat is not easily digested in your intestines. Your body just wants to get these foreign things out of your system as fast as possible. Enter yuck feeling in your bowels.

Plus, my mood changes depending on the food I have eaten. When I eat healthy foods, I feel light. I feel energized and ready to go. When I eat crap food, I feel like sitting, sleeping, and sometimes vomiting. Food is energy; it's meant to make you move (not the BM kind unless of course it's high in fiber). If your food doesn't do that, I hate to break it to you, it's probably not food.

I'm not saying you can't eat fast food once in awhile. I just caution you that you will probably feel yucky, especially if you eat too much. Crap food=crap feeling; remember that.

In health,

Lauren