How much calories were you eating before?

Mandy72CM

Did anyone log their daily calorie intake before trying to eat healthy?

Unicorn_Bacon

For a lot of people who put weight on slowly, their calorie intake probably wasnt much over their maintenance, it only takes 100 calories more per day for a year over your maintenance to gain 10 pounds..

lgfrie

I've made several attempts with spreadsheets to "reconstruct" my pre-diet life to see how many calories I was eating. It was hard to do, because the range was anywhere from pretty normal eating some of the time, to serious binging a few times a week, and it was hard to pinpoint what a "typical" or average day looked like, or if there was such a thing.

But I came up with 3,200 - 3,400 as a typical number for when I was neither paying attention to eating well nor going crazy with junk food, and binge days clocking in at around 5,500-7,000 calories. There were a lot of binge days. At my peak I was 330 lbs and that didn't come from eating carrots and celery

Too, I had quite a few years when I was drinking more than "a glass of wine with dinner", and that added about 400-500 cals/day, on top of the above numbers. I had to quit drinking to get serious about losing weight, one of the best decisions I've made in my life.

midlomel1971

easily over 3000

Leticiafiona

No less than 2500.

DancingMoosie

Idk. I never thought about it. But my husband used to make fun of my lumber jack portions and that I must have a hollow leg or something in order to eat as much as I did.

LaReinaDeCorazones

Lol probably 3000+

WillUK5

I was probably clocking in like 3500-4000 calories a day, started dieting seriously about 3 months ago now, spent the first two months going gym constantly but now obviously the gyms are shut so I've moved onto a lower calorie diet. On average I'm on like 1500cal a day now and have lost 2 stone