This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Fast Food Ain't It

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

When you talk about diet and confess to eating a lot of fast food. From our episode with Robin O'Grady

Unfortunately, my diets consist of a lot of fast food. I'm not going to lie. But once in a while, I'll just do like one or two meals a day. I'll do a buffet and just eat one big meal. That's sometimes enough to get me through the rest of day. Yeah. But are there some keys for just good eating? Yeah, you know, my philosophy is very much the same as with movement.

Simplify it. Just get back to what makes your body feel stronger and feel healthier every day. I can tell you, honestly, fast food is not it. But there are better options now than there used to be as far as getting stuff on the road, you know. So think about when you're eating. just bring it up to your conscious mind when you eat. And so you're more just aware instead of that mindless eating that we tend to fall to because we're busy, right? So we're busy.

So we just grab something on the go and off we go and we head out, you know? And we think, okay, this is good, this is good. And really, we are not even taking any time to enjoy the food that we're eating because we're just eating to get to the next meal. So some people like to do intermittent fasting. people like to do, you know, there's all kinds of different diets out there that are trending right now and people just choose all these different options that they want. If you feel like following a diet is the right thing for you, okay, cool, find one that suits you and feels good in your body. But at the end, the outcome should be that you have good amount of energy every day, that you feel strong

in your own body. If you're tired all the time, if you feel like, drowsy or the word lazy is coming to mind, but this is not quite the word, but not strong. If you're not feeling good in your own body, like you can't accomplish that. You can't get up the stairs. You can't do those things. Nutrition is part of that. So your movement is a part of that, but nutrition is part of that too. So if you're fueling your body in a poor way, the outcome will be that poor thing.

So you have to fuel your body in a good way. and what that looks like for each individual is different. So I wish I could put a diet out there that would work for everybody. I would be a millionaire, multi-billionaire, if I had one diet that worked for everybody. What will get you the best results is to really pay attention to how you feel after that meal. So if you go to a fast food place, I don't want to give any of them any credit here by saying your name on the podcast, but if you go to a fast food place and you eat the food and then after you feel tired and you feel a little bit like yucky, now you know, that's probably not the best meal for you.

The truth is that in North America, we're educated, we're not dumb. You know that a hamburger is a different nutritional thing than a cucumber, right? You know that if you eat a chocolate bar is probably not the best thing for you. I'm not telling you never to eat a chocolate bar because sometimes we have to fill our soul. So sometimes we eat the chocolate bar, but be aware of it. Don't just shove it in for no reason. Have it because, you know, if you're out with your friends and you're having a great dinner and then you have dessert with your friends and it's part of the environment,

eat the cake, have the pie, eat the ice cream, enjoy it in that moment. But if you're sitting at home alone and you're sad and you're cranky and then you pull out a tub of ice cream, maybe not the best choice. So just pull yourself back up to a conscious space and stop letting your lizard brain dictate what you're eating every day. Listen to this and much more on this podcast is uncalled for. Available now wherever you podcast.