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Speaking for myself, I don't eat fast food as often as some of my American counterparts, bu I also know americans who almost never eat fast food at all. I've noticed that the amount I eat fastfood seems to follow a pattern. I wont have any for weeks, but then I will get some either due to a time constraint or a craving and then I'll end up getting fast food again maybe 2-3 times over the next 2 weeks.

Yesterday I ate chik fil a and now im craving more chik fil a or pizza or a bacon cheeseburger but Idk if i'll get any.

Edit: adding onto that to answer your question: Both my older sister and I experienced a period in our early 20s where fast food was all we ate for months. When you are young and maybe dont have a fully equiped kitchen or have  a busy schedule it can be hard to find time to cook.

On the other hand, growing up my mom would only ever let us eat fast food 2-3 times a year and it was a special treat. My mom still doesn't eat fast food. If she's in a senario where she is having a busy day and doesn't have time to go home and eat she will use all the money she saves from not having her children live with her more to go to a slightly more expensive restaurant over a fast food place

It largely varies region to region. The US is quite large, and different mindsets and practices formed within each state as subcultural norms. 

While fast food and Walmart are available almost everywhere here, places like the West Coast for instance will instead be going nuts about the health food trends while Midwesterners will embrace the drive thru, showing very different average weights and body shapes as a result. 

I'd say we have just as many healthy options as we do unhealthy ones, but it's also an odd economic problem. Unlike most of the rest of the world, our veggie meals are often more expensive than our unhealthy indulgent fast food options. To be able to eat healthy is actually a passive sign of social classism, while eating unhealthy is otherwise accepted, and is backed cooperatively by things like the beauty industry. 

Then we have the FDA having their pockets lined with bribes and interests from the Salt, Caffeine, and Sugar industries. Our food is chock full of the stuff to highly unreasonable degrees, and even I partake in two out of three of the above acceptable edible addictions. In other countries they tend to do more reasonable balances between Sugar and Salt, some even using different forms of it that are more naturally found, and caffeine laws vary from place to place (Thailand straight up outlawed it). 

It's also nice for the battle of health versus convenience that calories have become more commonly displayed on restaurant menus, unlike how the very same businesses practice in other countries: 



By design we're meant to be foggy and confused while being thrown back and forth between different company interests. It's an odd man-made ecosystem of businesses that produce the problems we're saddled with now. By the laws and practices established by past business trends, we're held liable if we use their services to harm ourselves as long as it has a disclaimer, something Heart Attack Grill likes to jab at through taking that notion to it's extreme. 

I'm usually at a Starbucks drive thru buying lunch ngl 

Alright so theres certain jobs where you wake up work 16-18 days get home shower and dont really think about lunch, you just shell out some cash at the food truck- usually burgers, Chinese, pizza and burritos wash it down with monster energy drinks because its convenient and we're lazy so yeah typically eating fast food straight on for the week is seen as pretty normal. 

When I was doing office work it was less likely youd see someone go make the drive for fast food but there was still  plenty of unhealthy choices being made 

Learning to cook your own food, hitting up farmer's markets or otherwise healthier options, and packing it into a lunchbox of some kind is basically the only workaround both economically and conveniently speaking. As a poor person, I've seen my wallet slowly fattening up in spite of this from realizing that making your own stuff saves a ton of cash through sheer volume (that and real food's significantly more filling). 

I'm slowly replacing a lot of my old habits with healthier ones, like having squeezed juices instead of store bought swill and cooking my own pasta instead of microwaving some Stauffers. Generally speaking, salt is used too strongly as a preservative for store bought food, especially if canned or frozen, which causes physical problems through how much is typically eaten... and typically leads to their increased thirst drinking caffeine, yet another diuretic. 

You don't just taste the difference either, you actually feel it. There's so much filler and weird shit in our convenience foods (Ice Cream bars have wood pulp, Taco Bell claims they're 88% meat and 12% "other", McDonald's Frosties don't even have dairy in them, drinks have dyes in them that do odd reactions to people, it goes ON). I hadn't really known the difference until I was exposed to it, and now that I have been it feels like I'm in a land of rotten food, which is actually the reality as I learned at my old grocery job (orange juice is fucking wrong with how they make it, and many absorbent fruits end up not only aging, but absorbing tons of water from how it was preserved for transport). 

Sugar's been my hardest one to drop or manage. I straight up need candy or I'll not be doing well at some points. Still, I've significantly curbed it by comparison to my college days where I'd eat a tub of dense frosting every day or two. 

The system as it's designed here is such a trap of convenience. 

i eat more off of food trucks nowadays i ussually only eat fast food like once or twice a week

I definitely eat out way more than I eat in, but fast food particularly is like once a week, maybe more depending on how busy/weak I am. Seems low among people my age I know though. I know like 5 professional white collar type people who eat fast food every day, weirdly common. None are fatties.