Traveling into fast food danger

Since I have been home it has been easier to eat healthy. I am eating less processed and/or canned foods and more vegetables. When I was driving a truck over the road I ate fast-food 2-3 times a day. This was due to lack of cooking facilities on truck(no stove or refrigerator) and difficulty of maneuvering the tractor trailer into places. Many places you can go in a small vehicle on trips to find healthier food choices are unavailable to tractor trailer drivers. In addition more and more of the truck-stops have fast-food restaurants instead of the sit down menu style. You can sometimes get a somewhat healthy meal at fast-food places, but it is much harder.  Also you must really be careful with fast-food in that some of your choices are not as healthy as you think. One fast-food chain has a salad that has more fat and calories than their "Big Mac". If you are aware of the fast-food pitfalls to avoid that is good but it is better to totally avoid fast-food if possible. Many sit down menu style restaurants have healthy choice selections and if you order properly by having them hold certain items it can be even healthier. This trip was unplanned and I found myself eating at a fast-food restaurant for dinner and even though I made healthier choices than I did in the past; I still consumed more calories, fat, and sodium than I would have eating the same type of food at home. An occasional trip down the fast-food highway is forgivable as long as you eat moderately and get back to the safety of home cooking as soon as possible.

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