Spring Grades Are In & 64 More Days

[MassNole]

And I will have one gone one full year without fast food. I promised my wife for our anniversary that I would go one month without McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's (not counting salads), Taco Bell, KFC, etc. and after the first grueling month and some major withdraw (sadly I am serious) I decided to drop it for the year and likely for good. Needless to say I have lost a ton of weight in the process as well. Just thought I'd share.

In other good news for me, I got my Spring grades back and for the second straight year I am above a 3.0 gpa at my law school. Hopefully that makes the job search better next year. Here were my grades for the year and semester.

Fall '05
Criminal Law - 79
Constitutional Law - 90

Spring '06
Property Law - 82 (and I had the flu during the final)
Evidence - 86
Business Organizations - 89
Insurance Law - 84
Professional Responsibility - 85

My cumulative is somewhere around an 88 overall right now, down a little from last year, but this was my first year going full time so I can live with it. Add to that, I got the Qualified Writing Course I wanted (think of it as a thesis type of course, 30-50 page paper).

[ExtremeGamer]

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I've cut most fast food out, only thing I really eat now is Subway.

[MassNole]

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I've cut most fast food out, only thing I really eat now is Subway.

I don't really count that as fastfood personally, at least on the level of the other places. Although their new garlic bread spread and chicken parm is certainly on the line of fastfood.

[mjb2124]

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I've cut most fast food out, only thing I really eat now is Subway.

Same here. I don't miss fast food one bit.

[nyisles16]

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i am trying too.. gotta get healthy & stop putting grease into my body

(Subway is good though )

[ehh]

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Once you get off of fast food for a month or so, you wonder how you ever ate it to begin with. The stuff is disgusting. I'll eat Wendy's a few times a year out of neccessity (if we're on a road trip and I'm not driving, etc) but I never eat it by choice.

I do eat Subway and D'Angelo's a lot, but I mos def do not consider that fast food.

[Vince]

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I workout a minimum of 5 days a week, cardio and lifting weights, so I can eat anything I want. I'll eat fast food once in a while, though.

[Fiddy]

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And I will have one gone one full year without fast food. I promised my wife for our anniversary that I would go one month without McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's (not counting salads), Taco Bell, KFC, etc. and after the first grueling month and some major withdraw (sadly I am serious) I decided to drop it for the year and likely for good. Needless to say I have lost a ton of weight in the process as well. Just thought I'd share.

you just inspired me lol (seriously)

i have been saying at work i should quit eating fast food. starting right now, no more fast food for me!! (other than subway) all the people i work with eats fast food, i think thats why i do it.. i bet ya i could lose 10 pounds in a few weeks by not eating that crap..

"we dont ride subways we just eat subway, the best deal in our town is on a tuesday"

[nyisles16]

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question.. is it still "fast food" if you get a salad from places like McD's, BK, etc.. ???

[ESPNdeportes]

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question.. is it still "fast food" if you get a salad from places like McD's, BK, etc.. ???

well, if you get a chicken strips salad loaded with cheese and dressing (or a salad of that variety), you're probably looking at nearly 1,000 calories for a salad. So, whether its fast food or not, it's not that good for you.

Congrats on giving up fast food, thats really great and it takes a commitment, especially if your life can be hectic (as I'm sure it is for a law student) when its convenient to swing by Wendy's or something on the way home rather than preparing something.....

[MassNole]

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The first month was the hardest, I would actually taste the food in my mouth at times and would be miserable. It really scared me at to exactly what McDonalds and company put in their food if that sort of physical response was occurring 2 weeks after not eating it.

As for the salads, Wendys' salads are okay with me so long as I use dressing at home and get grilled chicken instead of fried chicken. I don't even go near McDonalds or BK anymore, so I don't know how I'd classify their salads, but IIRC they probably would fall under my definition of fast food given the stuff they use.

It was also hard to not stop there, especially when I had class until 9:15 three nights a week. Now I get a sandwich or salad at school earlier or have something small when I come home.

One exception we did make was Pizza, but that is eaten in accordance with our Weight Watchers diet, so it works out okay as we only have it once a month at most.

[mjb2124]

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I workout a minimum of 5 days a week, cardio and lifting weights, so I can eat anything I want. I'll eat fast food once in a while, though.

Your still young!

I'm the same way in terms of working out and cardio. I do both 5 days a week (cardio for 45 minutes), but the weight is harder to hold off when you get older. Sitting in an office for 8-10 hours doesn't help.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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I don't eat fast food beyond two or three times a year, but could never give up pizza. I don't eat the chain pies (the Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc. crap is awful), but if I ever had to give up my nice hole-in-the-wall NY pizza I would DIE!

[dieselboy]

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I still eat fast food about, twice a month.

I eat Subway, like twice a week.

[ExtremeGamer]

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I actually just got Subway on lunch, it was so tasty.