10 Tips to help you avoid eating fast food

The dreaded fast food temptation. It's one of those distractions that is always around
us, luring us away from our healthy diets and weight loss goals, right?

Here are some tips you can use to avoid the lure of the greasy fast food joints out to rob your wallet and balloon your weight.

Tip 1

Eat before you go out. If you know you'll be out all day, have
some lunch at home beforehand. When you drive past all those
signs, you'll not be hungry.

Tip 2

Think of it as something bad. Set your mind to associate
anything fast food related to being negative (which is most
definitely is, for health reasons alone). Think of the amount of
grease used in cooking and the sloppily put together burgers.
You may then be turned off from eating...it's pretty disgusting
when you see the grease, fat and salt that goes into one sloppy
bag of junk food.

Tip 3

Gain some will power. Continue to tell yourself not to eat it.
Believe in yourself. The rewards of fighting the crave will
brighten your day. Trust me, looking in the mirror and seeing
yourself getting visibly thinner each week is a far greater buzz
than a greasy little hamburger or chicken wing can give you.

Tip 4

Have a house full of healthier snacks. If you have snacks
waiting for you at home, you may easily drive by fast food
locations. Make sure your snacks appeal to you, however. Canned
fruit in syrup is a sweet alternative that will satisfy your
cravings.

Tip 5

Reward yourself. It won't hurt you to have a nice little reward
after awhile. Whether it being treating yourself to a movie or
having a candy bar, the reward will be well deserved if you can
fight your temptations.

Tip 6 Keep busy. If you keep your mind focused on other things,
you won't even think twice about stopping...particularly if you
can spend some time exercising instead.

Tip 7

Have someone else drive. If someone else is at the wheel of the
car, they won't feel the need to pull over and get some food.

Tip 8

Pack some snacks with you. If someone happens to want to go to a
fast food restaurant to eat, you'll be prepared with something
healthier.

Tip 9

Set goals. If you choose to not eat at these bad places for a
set amount of days, by the time you return, you may not even
want it anymore!

Tip 10

Experiment with cooking/learn to cook. This will keep your mind
off of eating out and you will learn along the way. 

These tips should help you to start looking the other way when
it comes to fast food. 

Just remember, you don't need to be completely against the
stuff, you just need to see it as a lazy and weak option, not a
forbidden sin. Once you see it as something you can either take
or leave, you'll find it easier to walk straight past.