Reflection

After doing a project like this, I finally was able to feel  a change in my life. By this, I don't mean I am a different person and I am going to become a healthy freak, but it showed me that I really won't die if i don't eat fast food everyday. I was going from eating fast food literally everyday, to once every two weeks (these are counting my cheats), and it felt great. I liked to believe that "oh it's lunch time, that means we HAVE to get fast food, because it's tasty and fast", but there are SO many other ways of buying food without having to be unhealthy. There were some cons to this project in a little way, as I was not able to go out with my friends most of the time, because I knew I would end up in a fast food restaurant. As well as me being late to school a couple of times  because I was taking too much time to make my lunch in the morning. However, the pros definitely overpowered the cons. In one way, I felt MUCH more healthy, my stomach isn't as large either, and I was able to eat some different foods. I saved an extremely large amount of money, which is a great thing knowing prom is coming up really soon, which means spending somewhere from $500-$700. That was definitely a great thing about it. There are a bunch of other good things about not eating fast food, such as not wasting gas to go all the way to a fast food restaurant, and instead just eat our lunches in the school parking lot. Littering is also a huge con to fast food, and by not eating any fast food, I did not have to worry about that. Another thing i noticed recently, which I thought was quite funny, but a majority of the people (g.12's) had began to make there own lunches. This also may have been due to the nice weather outside, and the fact that people would rather enjoy eating in the school parking lot, rather than waste most of there lunch time driving to a fast food restaurant and not being able to enjoy the nice weather. While doing this project, a majority of the time I couldn't stand not eating fast food as all my friends around me were, but I would have to eat my own lunch, which wasn't as comfortable. I am glad this project is done with, because I wont have do be doing that anymore. HOWEVER, this does not mean I will continue to my old self, and have fast food everyday. What I came up with to prevent me from eating too much fast food was I set a rule for myself. I can only have fast food once a week, and IF I am with friends I can make it to two times a week. Anymore than that, will make me feel uncomfortable. Colin Beavan's, now that i have done this project, in my opinion is an extremely goal oriented guy. And seeing what he has done, which is extremely hard, has influenced me in a way. I mean, if he can do something which is far more harder than what I had done, then why can't I at least reduce it? This will help me in a million ways, as appose of me continuing my fast food ways. In conclusion, the “No Impact Man” project was a great way for me to realize that not eating fast food, or reducing the amount of it is not only good for the environment, but also it's great for me. AWESOME PROJECT