How many calories did you used to eat?

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  • MainahGirl
    MainahGirl Posts: 282 Member
    A million-gazillion! Let me just put it this way. I used to eat at McDonald's twice a day, everyday. The people working in the drive thru knew my voice and my order everytime. Convenient, sure... Disgusting, most definitely.

    And each visit consisted of a Big Mac, a McChicken, a large fry of course a DIET Coke.

    And those were just snacks.

    So sad....
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    I maintained around 1700-1800 average. So the occasional holiday and celebration meal slowly crept my weight up over the years. I wish I had been eating 3000-4000 a day, then I could have created quite the deficit and be at goal by now. But I guess I also would have been an extra 100 pounds or more overweight, so it all evens out.
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    I'm not really sure because I wasn't paying any attention at all before I decided to take charge and get fit again.

    I was overweight, but not by more than 10-15 pounds or so and it had taken me a several years to get there.

    So I suspect calorie wise I was eating about as much as I am now. But less healthful foods and with basically zero exercise.

    I'm currently at 2500/day which is a few % under TDEE if I stick to my workout program.
  • hollyscofield7
    hollyscofield7 Posts: 11 Member
    I think I'll plead the 5th on how many calories I eat in a day. It's working for me, 35 lbs in 6 weeks is pretty good but they'd probably kick me the heck off of here if I said how I do it. My advice, do as I say, not as I do. It depends on how active you are.
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    I was eating out about twice a day. Sucking down about 5-6000 cals a day. I went back and charted out a typical day after I had been here a month. I was drinking about 1500 cals a day in sweet drinks (included in that other total).

    I did ZERO exercise, took a long nap every single day and slept until about 11 am.

    Is it any wonder I got huge? Oh, and I would get up at about midnight and have a full meal.

    I got started because my husband caught our nine year old eating a full meal at 2 am (and we had discussed this, it was a continuing nightly thing with her). He told her, "If you keep eating late at night, you will weigh 400 lbs like your MOTHER."

    Well, that was when the fight started. But really, he was dead on. (And he admitted that he needed to lose weight, too and is now on MFP, too.) I didn't want our little girl eating at night and although I was not 400 lbs, I was close to 300.

    The truth hurts.

    And it heals.

    Now I have lost 17, I swim an hour a day (1.8 miles in laps) and I eat right. Praying I can stay steady and knowing that with MFP in my life, with you encouraging people, I am on a path toward health for myself and all of my family -:heart: -:heart: -> husband included!
  • febes1972
    febes1972 Posts: 24
    Most days it was anywhere from 3000 to 4500 depending on where (fast food) we went for lunch. Now I am 1200 to 1400. We still fast food for lunch (most of the time) I taught myself what to eat and how much. I have totally stopped eating chips and started eating low calorie snacks (most of the time from Special K).
  • hollyscofield7
    hollyscofield7 Posts: 11 Member
    Sounds like you are doing great! I LOVE to bake, but don't have any now. I just bake and my husband and son have a few and then I bring the rest into work, and send my husband to work with some. Keep up the great work!
  • hollyscofield7
    hollyscofield7 Posts: 11 Member
    Keep up the good work. Stay focus and dedicated. You can do it!
  • ZombieEarhart
    ZombieEarhart Posts: 320 Member
    I occasionally make an 'old me' entry in my diary (usually just skip back a year) and I find it very enlightening/motivating. It's amazing to see 3K calories with almost no vitamins.
  • Lbf321
    Lbf321 Posts: 81 Member
    I ate about 2000-2500, and then I found love for lindt truffles. I blame them since I could go through a bag a day and my husband showed his love by bringing me home a bag as a surprise every couple days. Those little balls from heaven are around 300 calories each and I think there's 9-12 truffles in the bag. And besides doing very light housework I would read books 24/7, I'm a stay at home mom and so can do as little or as much as I felt like. I was also tired ALL the time and so I sat around even more.

    I have since cut out the chocolate mostly and I stay on feet cleaning inside or doing yardwork for most of the day, I'm on my feet moving from 7 a.m. to about 6 p.m. and eat 1700-2100 calories. I feel awesome and I'm nicer and have ton's of energy. And I feel like I'm making great progress, I've gone from size 17/18 to 12/14 in 2 months.
  • Espressocycle
    Espressocycle Posts: 2,245 Member
    I shudder to think. I'm guessing close to 3,000 calories.
  • newcs
    newcs Posts: 717 Member
    I did a baseline before I started cutting down my calories. I was around 3,000. I'm 5'2. How I wasn't far more overweight, I have no idea.
  • Darius66
    Darius66 Posts: 62 Member
    This is shocking to me.... I used to eat between 3,000-4,500 a day !!!!
  • JasonT1973
    JasonT1973 Posts: 229 Member
    I figure I was eating 3700 - 4200 a day... sadly that wasn't even the real issue. It was what I was eating: cheese steaks, strombolis, pizza after pizza after pizza, alfredo pasta, ben & jerry's, drive through burgers and fries, cheese fries with bacon and bleu cheese... so i was basically doing high calories, empty foods with triple or even quadruple daily sodium levels. I have no idea how I am still breathing.
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    Well on average I ate about 1200. Maybe a little more some days. However, I drank about 1000-1500 calories worth of juices, sodas, and lemonade. And that isn't counting days when I went out and drank liquor.
  • stinasn
    stinasn Posts: 14
    Most of the time probably around 2000 kcal, I've really only gained weight in few rather short periods, 20 pounds when I was an exchange student at 17yo (and I gained those in like 2 months or something equally ridiculous) and then another 20 when I was pregnant with my first born. After that I've really just hovered around the same weight for 10 years or so.
  • Inshape13
    Inshape13 Posts: 680 Member
    I would have to say that after I downed a 32oz frozen cappuccino daily at QT that my breakfast including that and a donut was easily 1,100 calories and that was before I moved on to Coke. I would make a guesstimate of 3,500 a day and now I am at 1,600-1,700 and then I exercise 500-800 and don't eat most of them back.
  • JCThayer85
    JCThayer85 Posts: 21
    Somewhere between 2000 and 2500 of all the wrong foods.
  • Yooperm35
    Yooperm35 Posts: 787 Member
    I honestly have no idea. I would guess at breakfast I was eating 4-5 servings ('only' 2 bowls) of cereal - right there, probably 700-800 calories for breakfast alone. i had NO IDEA what a serving was. I assumed it was my bowl. Unaware that 'my bowl' is actually about 2½ servings. When I started weighing and measuring food I had a real eye opener. Then I realized how I got fat! I was a lunch skipper - so I'd snack on chips right out of the bag- probably 3-4 servings at a time. My coffee consisted of 3-4 servings of creamer per cup- and 2-3 cups of coffee . . . Oh boy, shakes my head in shame. I know exactly why my over weight friends are over weight, but they don't want to hear it, they just want to complain that they can't lose weight.
  • ZombieEarhart
    ZombieEarhart Posts: 320 Member
    I used to bake 4-5 times a week and every meal had rice pasta or bread. I loved making creamy foods too. We also had a store on the corner so that meant daily trips to buy chips, cookies and ice cream. We would eat out for dinner alot too and i usually ate almost a box of cheez its before bed too. Hmm u do the math. Lol

    No corner store anymore, all meals pretty much prepared, baking only once every couple of months, creamy foods only on a cheat day, not many carbs with meals anymore and have only had cheez it's twice in 6 months now. Yay

    Oh my gosh, the corner store alone used to account for 600 calories almost every day! They probably think I've moved, haha.
  • rose228822
    rose228822 Posts: 186 Member
    Well I used to have one of my favorite meals...a big mac with extra extra sauce and of course ex large fries and so on...now I write down everything little thing I eat and drink and even though I'm eating less I'm staying full because I'm eating right:)
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    About 5250/day.
    Now 1920/day...
  • MelissaL582
    MelissaL582 Posts: 1,422 Member
    I would have to guess atleast 2500. On the days that I do not log, my choices are horrible.
  • Thena81
    Thena81 Posts: 1,265 Member
    lol i have done this and was astounded by what i found, never will i ever go there one mo 'gain!! lol
  • joekleinert
    joekleinert Posts: 23 Member
    I did a my fitness paypal entry in my diary one day to replicate what a standard lunch used to be. Lets just say my lunches used to be more than my entire 1400 calorie day is now and it was usually breaded boneless buffalo wings, chicken strips, etc. I haven't had fried food going on 4 months now. I'm sure my entire body is thanking me for this new lifestyle.

    It feels good to sit here and known how much I've changed my diet and excercise habits. A complete transformation.

    No looking back!

    Joe
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    Probably 5,000-7,000 on most days. My first semester at college, I put on 35 lbs in about 3 or 4 months time.

    This is like me but I did 10 lbs every term (3 months) for 9 terms while I was doing my degree. I went from a size 6 (130lbs) to a 22 (at 190) and just kept right on truckin.

    My average day was about 2800 calories and probably closer to 4-5000 if I ate out. Most of that was actually 'normal' food (not junk) .. I just ate a lot of it!
  • aloranger7708
    aloranger7708 Posts: 422 Member
    God I can't even imagine... I didn't even know what a calorie was back then. I'm going to assume 2,500-3,000 on a normal day, but if I went out t dinner or something I was probably tipping 3,500-4,000. :'(

    Same.
  • cherryd69
    cherryd69 Posts: 340
    Id say my old eating habits would have been 2000+ a day, nothing weighed... lots of junk food.

    I used to skip breakfast and lunch and only eat an evening meal, that was a heaped plate, then id sit in front of the tv all night and eat junk food. My excuse would be 'iv been on my feet all day, so im gonna sit here all evening'


    Im finding some habits are dieing hard, the lack of lunch has been replaced with a piece of fruit, i still cant manage to eat and smoke haha. Although on my days off, im managing a bit more with lunch, but i do have to force myself to eat it.. even if it is just a piece of fruit.

    Late shifts for me used to be the worst, id get up have breakfast, not eat anything for lunch, then get to work and have sandwiches with the residents.... then on my way home id nip burger king and get a bacon double cheese xl, large fries, large coke, or id ask the hubby to order a kebab with chips.... then we would go bed an have chips an dip (doritos with houmus) and peanut m&ms or chocolate and marshmallows



    Sitting here thinking about it now makes me feel ashamed at what i could tuck away.
  • arl1286
    arl1286 Posts: 276 Member
    I could have easily hit 3000 in a day. Until college though, I regularly worked out (played on multiple soccer teams, etc.), which is why I guess I never started gaining weight til I went to college.
  • mandasalem
    mandasalem Posts: 346 Member
    Oh, geez. I just tried it out and on a day that I would have considered "not good" but also "not bad," I would have put in upwards of 4,000 calories. I used to eat like that in college and not gain a pound, but it's easy to see why that didn't stick with me. Yikes.

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