KFC is it worth it?

I am a personal trainer in Los Angeles and was low on groceries and only had two days of lunch and dinner left for the week.. I had a craving for KFC. I ordered 8 pieces of Original Recipe Chicken, 4 Biscuits, 2 corn on the cob and coleslaw. I highly regret getting KFC because the instant side affects were a crash of energy and feeling of sickness. The food is so loaded with salt and preservatives it sucked the life right out of me. The preservatives are meant to preserve the food, so naturally there is some resistance once it enters your stomach to being digested.

Maybe it is because I am not used to Fried and Fast foods but I had some seriously terrible feelings after eating it. I listed the ingredients below and there are a lot of them. When I make chicken... There is normally only 4 or 5 ingredients (chicken, salt, pepper, onions and garlic). The same with coleslaw and biscuits... Below I list the ingredients and there are a minimum of 10 ingredients/menu item. The staple ingredients in all of the items are salt, sugar and flour.

If you look at the complexity or simplicity of a piece of salt, sugar or flour VS say any other natural whole food ingredient it is much smaller and broken down. There is no nutritional value from any one of these. We do need sodium, but the amount eaten from natural foods is more than enough for us. One piece of chicken has more than 700mg of sodium. The RDA's (recomended daily allowance) is 2400mg but in Canada it is 500mg/day.

Biscuit
Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel, Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Buttermilk, Sugar, Baking Soda, Salt, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Nonfat Milk, Sodium Caseinate, DATEM, Whey Protein Concentrate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Whey, Wheat Protein Isolate, Natural Flavor. Liquid and Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Salt, Soybean Lecithin, Natural and Artificial Flavor, TBHO and Citric Acid Added to Protect Flavor, Beta Carotene (Color), Dimethylpolysidoxane, an Anti-foaming Agent Added. 530mg sodium/biscuit.

Cole Slaw
Vegetables: Chopped Cabbage, Carrots, and Onions. Sauce: Sugar, Soybean Oil, Vinegar (Distilled Vinegar, Corn and Cider Vinegar, Malt Vinegar, And Natural Flavors), Water, Salt, Whole Eggs, Modified Corn Starch, Mustard Flour, Xanthan Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Paprika Extractives, Paprika, And Caramel Color.
Contains Egg. 180mg or sodium/serving of coleslaw.

Original Recipe® Chicken
Fresh Chicken Marinated With: Salt, Sodium Phosphate and Monosodium Glutamate. Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Sodium Chloride and Anti-caking agent (Tricalcium Phosphate), Nonfat Milk, Egg Whites, Colonel’s Secret Original Recipe Seasoning. 710mg sodium/piece of fried chicken breast.

I thought that KFC for lunch and dinner 2 days in a row would save me time, money and satisfaction. It resulted in a loss of time because I had less energy to accomplish what needed to be done. Extreme lethargy and a feeling of disgust. I had woken with stomach and back pains. As a result, I could have bought a broiled chicken, a bag of potatoes, ingredients for a salad, saved 5-bucks, felt a lot better and most importantly been able to enjoy my life.

This may be surprising to think a personal trainer can be so silly... But we all make mistakes and I was unaware it would affect me so drastically!