Just a few things off the top of my head:

1. Read Fast Food Nation

2. Watch Fast Food Nation

3. Watch Super Size Me

4. Read Health Reports from inside fast food restaurants

5. Replace your craving with some other types of stimulus.
Source(s):
http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-Eric-Schlosser/dp/0060838582/ref=pd_...

http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-Wilmer-Valderrama/dp/B000MEYKAU/ref=...

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Size-Me-John-Banzhaf/dp/B0002OXVBO/ref=sr_1_1?i...

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By experience that I observed with my hubby. When he's single he could easily drive thru' and grab his foods from the fast food shops. Now we're married, he was still craving until he was committed to have his nutritional cleansing program that helped him a lot! Result, he's more fit and no cravings much of fast foods & sweets. It really depends on your commitment to something that may change your habit on foods. Natural cleanse is an option to get rid off built up toxins in our body and there are nutritional cleansing out there you can choose. I can suggest you one, if you're interested.
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A tough question. The way I did it (for over a year!) was to stop eating at the chain altogether (the golden arches, fyi). Once I started putting some weeks behind me, and then months, it never occurred to me to even consider them as a source of food. It also helped me resist going to other chains, as I had developed some preparation and eating patterns that obviated the need to getting food "fast." I knew that fast food was bad for me, but I never gave myself the time to find alternatives, like making and bringing a lunch with me to work, and prepping foods for breakfast that I could eat in the car.

Once I put effort into developing the habit of prepping my own food, I didn't need to bother with getting fast food. In the rare situation I was truly strapped for time or circumstance prevented me from prepping ahead, I would compromise and eat at something like Subway or Quiznos, which is healthier than a Big Mac.

Then I had my daughter, and my eating habits went to heck. I need to get back to my no-fast-food lifestyle so I can stay a happy and healthy dad for a long, long time.
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Personally, I found my craving was mostly for carbs. I use the system of only having carbs for one hour per day, the other meals I focus on protein, fiber, etc. I also am more rigorous about buying foods that are healthy, easy to prepare, and keeping them at home. Often, I'll prepare meals on Sunday and eat during the week. If I have something at home, I'll go home and eat it, but if not, I'm likely to give in to the fast food instinct.
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I hear ya. Start by choosing pizza, and taco joints in favor over burger joints and KF* type joints. Look and compare the length of boxed food labels at the store. The longer the label compared to other packages, the more you should consider eating less of that particular preservative-lush food item. Some of those compounds could and are the same additives they add to FF burgers, etc. Ultimately, stop eating at burger chains and know that burgers, fries, and most other foods you make yourself are much healthier, tastier, cheaper, and in larger portions at that!
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What works for many is an approach that deals with the main reasons people eat fast foods: convenience, cost, and addiction.

To deal with the first two at once, plan your meals. The easiest way to do this is to use a mealplanning service like http://www.thymeforcooking.com or http://www.savingdinner.com, where weekly you get your menu, with recipes and a coded shopping list (so you know which ingredient is for which menu). This way you can go to the grocery just once (convenience), spend almost no time thinking about what you're going to eat, and eat a whole lot cheaper than having to eat out (unless you only get one sandwich off the dollar menu and nothing else).

Doing some kind of internal cleanse also can help. Fast food often contains a lot of MSG, which is known to be addictive. 1 Getting the MSG out of your system will mean reading labels and eating almost no processed food, since almost everything found in typical stores contains it.

It's also a good idea to check and see if it's really the carbs you're craving. A lot of the time they're in the same food. Eating fresh food you make yourself from scratch, using a time, thought, and energy saver like a menu planning service can help you break these addictions.
Source(s):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16463577?dopt=Abstract

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