no wonder i was/am fat...

megsta91

i was just thinking of the ridiculous habits i had before starting this weight loss journey..

like eating an entire stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut in one sitting.. two times a week!

lol can't believe admitted that. obviously that wasn't the only thing i did wrong (hello 100 pounds overweight).

does anyone else have any funny recollections about bad eating habits they would like to share?

ColinsMommaOC

Footlong Subway sandwich with double meat and avocado... and calling it healthy because its Subway after all /facepalm... I looked up the cals for it and nearly choked the other day

spoonyspork

Remember the 'double decker' pizza hut pizzas? Yeah, my loose belly does! XD

(to be fair, that's ALL I ate all day when I'd have one. But I'd wash it down with a two-liter of sprite!)

obscuremusicreference

Constant grazing and drinking my calories got me to where I am today. It was so dumb, I never realized how much I was eating. I even had my thyroid/blood sugar tested. I had a job that was constantly active and I volunteered at a park and food bank and I didn't understand why I was fat because I never ate a whole pizza/bag of chips/anything else in one sitting.

So dumb.

Roxiegirl2008

lots of beer followed by an entire pizza at 11:00 p.m. thanks to delivery. HAAA

megsta91

spoonyspork wrote: »

Remember the 'double decker' pizza hut pizzas? Yeah, my loose belly does! XD

(to be fair, that's ALL I ate all day when I'd have one. But I'd wash it down with a two-liter of sprite!)

dont remember the double decker.. but boy does it sound delicious! im a pizza freak!

tpulliam381

Burgers, fried wings, and soda all week long. I'm glad to but alive after thinking about it.

Deedee1111111

loads of beer, wine, whatever, and eating out! and an embarrassing amount of chocolate.

ewhip17

Yeah all these things but what always strikes me as funny (sad) are those times where I told myself "but I don't eat any differently than a fit person....." Ha.

megsta91

ewhip17 wrote: »

Yeah all these things but what always strikes me as funny (sad) are those times where I told myself "but I don't eat any differently than a fit person....." Ha.

yes! and i was also known to work out super hard for 2 weeks, all while eating my entire pizzas, and wonder why i wasn't losing.

bookish33

I once at five McDonald's double cheese burgers in an eating competition with a best friend in college. I was proud, so I definitely get that feeling.

MindySaysWhaaat

I once bought a little caesars $5 dollar pizza and ate the entire thing on the way to work after I had already eaten dinner at home (I worked midnight shift for a while).

On Saturdays when my shift was 6pm-230am I would regularly stop at a White Castle's on the way home and buy myself a 10 piece mozzarella cheese stick and a large strawberry shake.

There's a few other not so great things, but those are some of the worst.

segacs

I'd eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream right out of the carton.

I'd sometimes sit down with a box of cookies and, an hour later, realize I'd eaten half the box.

I'd buy a roll of pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough and eat the entire thing in one sitting... raw.

A night out for drinks would involve not one or two beers, but five or six. (I'm a 5'1" woman.)

I'd buy a wedge of cheese from the local cheese shop, and eat the whole thing on the walk back to my office. It'd be gone before I made it back to my desk.

I'd lie to myself and say things like "life is meant to be enjoyed", or "you don't live longer, it just feels longer". I'd pretend that I was so much happier than all those people watching their food intake or counting their calories.

I made being a chocoholic part of my identity, and used it as a sort of defense mechanism to ward off comments about my weight. I'd fight against size-ism and discrimination, and take down anyone angrily for judging people for their weight. All of which is true and important, but I also used it as an excuse of why I didn't have to lose weight.

That was then. This is now. No more excuses.

RavenaRae

An entire jar of caramel ice cream topping with a spoon, weekly almost! Scary thing is that even making huge progress (lost 40 lbs before joining MFP) and knowing how wrong it is, I could totally do it again. ugh!!

sbrocka222

Grazing all day, snacking and eating large quantities at supper - no matter what we had for supper. And beer. I like beer still, but decide to make room for it within my calorie goals now. My worst habit is midnight snacking. I do not need to shove food in my face at 3am!

a_stronger_me13

I think I would have saved myself at least 10lbs in college by switching to diet soda instead of regular soda.

segacs

Oh, and who could forget, I'd buy the store-bought icing meant for cakes (Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, whatever) and eat the ENTIRE THING with a spoon.

Yes, really.

alykat_89

When I was around 13-14, I would often eat those triple decker burgers at Burger King. Just thinking about it just... ugh.

xcalygrl

Before deciding I had to make a change, I would drink 2-liters of root beer almost everyday. (Some days I didn't finish the bottle, but I was still averaging at least 4 each 2-liter bottles of root beer a week.)

Ni_kki

Dr Pepper... root cause of my fatness.

Scott_2025

Typical day 2 years ago. Bacon egg and cheese bagel breakfast meal at Mcdonald's, 4 coke's, 4 snickers bars and a couple bags of chips at work. Bacon cheeseburger and fries for lunch. Driving home snack, two cheeseburger value meal at McDonald's. Then dinner.... I am positive I ate 6000 calories some days.

I'm doing better now.....

missloo12

3-4 in n out burgers in one sitting, 5 corndogs a day for lunch, mashed potato sandwiches. I got soooooooooo many bad habits in high school.

yourradimradletshug

Eating at restaurants every day Mondy-Friday for lunch at work. Or getting a sonic blast every Friday just to treat myself for no reason.

Jaulen

When I was a teenager, I'd eat an entire box of Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls. Then get sugar sick.....I leared if I FROZE them, I could eat TWO boxes before I'd start feeling ill.

And wash them down with a diet coke of course!

lemon629

• 1-2 pints of Ben & Jerry's S'mores ice cream in a day (and if the first store was out of it, I'd go to another and sometimes even a third store in my quest to satisfy my craving). And this was downsized from a half-gallon of rocky road ice cream. This amount of ice cream almost always gives me painful diarrhea, so I think this was an exercise in self punishment.
  
• An entire key lime pie in 1-2 days.
  
• A whole box of Girl Scout cookies in an hour.
  
• A block of port wine cheese and an entire sleeve of wheatsworth crackers in an hour with 1-2 Cokes.
  
• An entire box of Twinkies and 3-4 Sprites in a day.
  
• A whole medium pizza with lord knows how many Oreo cookies.
  
• 3-4 servings of macaroni and cheese (homemade).
  
• Entire box of Kraft macaroni and cheese (mixed with the cheese dust, butter, and milk, of course).
  
• 2-3 servings of pasta loaded with butter and Parmesan cheese.

It is interesting how specific my cravings were.

Once I stopped eating massive amounts of food like that, the weight started to drop off. I wasn't counting calories or denying myself, I just no longer had the cravings, I think because the counseling I had been in had finally taken firm root. It was amazing and felt magical. After the first 20 pounds, I did start working at it, though. I am a bit annoyed with myself that I engaged in emotional/impulse eating again and slowly gained back half of the weight I lost back in 2008-2010, but oh well, it is what it is. I guess I had not finished learning my lesson.

annaskiski

I have to say eating out a lot.
To be fair, before they started to require restaurants their nutrition information, it was impossible to know how much you were eating.
Case in point: Uno's INDIVIDUAL sized deep dish pizza:
Cheese and Tomato: 1750 calories, 119 g of fat
Chicago Classic: 2300 calories, 164 g of fat

I remember passing out when I first started counting calories and having access to that info....

rachaelgifford

I guess I could say that when I binge, I binge. We could be talking 2-5000 calories on top of my normal daily eating. The worst thing is that I don't really remember the act of going out and buying all the junk (I don't keep it in the house) or in fact eating all of it. I sort of remember the craving to buy the food, and finishing the binge coupled with the stomach pain and sick feeling.

Weirdly, when I am not middle of a binge, my diet is actually really healthy - however my weight has crept up to 13st 7lb due to an almost month long binge.

emmooney235

I went from working the paint/home decor department, and sometimes outside garden, of a big box store (carrying cases, 4gal per case, and 5gal pails of paint up and down ladders, 72 inch wood & faux wood binds up and down ladders, hauling pallets of paint with a manual pallet jack) to a front receptionist job and didn't change one thing about my eating habits. For whatever reason I didn't think it would be a big deal changing from doing all that sweaty physical work and walking to being chained to a desk. <sigh> It's hard to break those long time habits (15 years) but I'm plugging along.

RoxieDawn

Ice cream with banana's, strawberry topping, pineapple topping, fudge and whip cream...

I think they call this a banana split??

Not to mention Blue Bell Banana Split and Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream... Om Nom Nom!

Half gallon never enough! LOL

BeTheChange352

I've struggled a lot with binge eating over the years and that's definitely contributed to my major weight gains. in college, after I had lost a bunch and was at a healthy weight for a while I would go to Dairy Queen on the weekends and get a LARGE blizzard just for myself and I'd eat the entire thing. those are easily 1000+ calories a piece. now I'm about 50 pounds heavier but the smalls are just perfect, and even though I still love ice cream to death the thought of anything more just makes me really queasy.

terar21

Dominos hot wings...dominos hot wings....

Other than that, the point at which I realized I might have a slight issue was when I noticed at lunch, I filled my plate up double what my male coworkers had (at 5'2" with no exercise, that's not a recipe for success).