Fast Food Fast

How to complete Fast Food Fast

This is about cutting the drive-thru and chain fast-food reflex for a month, the meals you grab because they're fast rather than because you chose them. Removing that default forces a backup plan and quickly reveals how often convenience, not hunger, drives the order.

1. Decide the boundary clearly: chains, drive-thrus, and grab-and-go counter meals are out for 30 days.
2. Identify your usual fast-food moments (late commute, skipped lunch, tired evenings) and pre-plan a meal for each.
3. Keep fast backups on hand: frozen home meals, eggs, canned beans, pre-washed greens.
4. Carry a snack so hunger never makes the drive-thru the only option.
5. Pick two or three go-to 10-minute meals you can make on autopilot.

Tips

• The danger window is when you're tired and unprepared; solve that with food already in the house.
• Reroute your commute to avoid passing your usual spot if the cue is strong.
• A sit-down restaurant meal isn't the target here; the reflexive fast option is.

What counts as done

Thirty consecutive days with no fast-food or drive-thru meals logged.