A Personal Experience on the Effects of Fast Food

For the last few months I have been eating dinner at Jollibee or Mc Donald's because it was the only open restaurant near my office area that is more or less better than the cafeteria food we have at the 4th floor (READ: Dell's).

During those months I noticed some changes in me that reminded me of the documentary "Super-size Me". I started to notice that all my clothes were "shrinking". Its so hard to pick clothes that will not show my tummy nor make me look like a native delicacy (READ: suman!!!). What made it all worst was when I experienced burning pains in both my legs whenever I touch them or it bumps into objects. I asked my doctor friend (she's a doctor at PGH) and showed her my legs. She said that my varicose veins were inflamed that is why it was painful. She advised me to take on a diet to loose weight and stop eating fast food. She also advised me to buy the over the counter drug Hirudoid to help with the swelling.

I did all she told me. First I bought the medicine to ease my pain. Then I stopped eating at any fast food joint. Lastly, I went on a diet. My diet was eat less food frequently. I was lucky because during that week I also got sick (sinusitis) so I was just eating soups and had no appetite. Amazingly, after only 1 week, the pain in my legs were gone (although I only used the medicine for 3 nights). I also lost some weight. Although I never measured my weight loss progress, but I'm certain I lost some weight because I can now wear my shirts and blouses that did not fit me a week ago.

Its amazing how one week can make a difference in ones body. This experience made the bad effects of fast food in the body as solid as a rock to me. I know I cannot totally remove this in my diet but I will try to limit it as much as possible if I don't want my varicose veins to act up again.