What did you eat to get heavy?

Amy3935

I didn't eat that differently than I do, just ALOT MORE of it. I've always liked "healthy" food - quinoa, tofu, rice, couscous, lots of veggies, no red meat. I never ate out very often - at times only once or twice a month. I definitely ate more carbs then (I eat some now, just less), and I ate junk food at work, I have a fairly stressful job and I work evenings and its lends itself to snacking - chips, chocolate, etc.
Mostly I'm just logging, logging, logging - not denying myself anything per se, but I know if I eat all that chocolate I won't really have many calories left for dinner, so...

AllOutof_Bubblegum

It's not WHAT I ate that got me fat, it was HOW MUCH of it.

amberflo143

Chips- the whole entire bag, or several bowls full
Candy, candy and more candy. I am not a chocolate girl but I ate hot tamales, sour patch kids and starbursts... again the entire bag!!
Eating out alot...

But I still eat those things and eat out just in smaller quantities and I move now... exercise that plays a big part in it!!

Barbellarella_

14 years ago at my heaviest, I ate ALL the mozzarella sticks

hmadrone

Just a little more food than my body needed, like 50-100 calories a day. An extra cookie here. An extra apple there. A handful of nuts I didn't really need. An extra bite of something.

It just crept up on me.

MalNicoleParker

I never thought I ate bad food (with the exception of chocolate and the occasional burger with friends), but I ate very frequently and without portion control. A dietician recommended I switch to eating Low GI foods every few hours because I don't process carbohydrates properly and started packing on the weight instantly! I was still eating the same meal sizes, just more of them!

I've only just started MFP and I've already noticed a huge difference. I was consuming a lot more sodium than I realised from pre-packaged soups and I've cut out a lot of processed foods. I make my own treats (crumbles, cookies, cakes, etc) so they're portion controlled and I know what's in them. I even find some chocolate brands way to sweet for me, so I tend to only eat the expensive good quality stuff that has no glucose or corn syrup. I'm now eating the same kinds of food, but better quality, and less of it.

angelam82

Chocolate and so much of it also too much takeaway. My husband and if had been doing lite and easy (basically all meals provided for 5 days per week). It was meant to be 1500 calories, but if I didn't like something, I would go and buy an unhealthy alternative. Instead of loosing in the last 12 months, I think I have put on up to 10kg.

We have now decided to stop with that, but use the basis of the plan to arrange our own meals. I am enjoying cooking again, however I work shift work, so the evenings when I work afternoons will be interesting.

ashenriver

Honestly I ate all the same stuff I do now, just a lot more of it and a lot more often.

This exactly. I still enjoy almost all the same foods, but before it was just too frequently and in portions that were too large.

I've only changed up a few things for health, not weight loss. Switching to pasta and rice with more fiber, lower sodium bacon and teriyaki sauce, etc.

Same here. I eat just as frequently and the same types of foods, just less of them. I am more focused on healthy nutritious foods now as well.

Another reason why I gained, was I just simply wasn't as active as I used to be. I am changing that up by biking to work and other places, gotten committed to swimming, and just trying to move more in general. And not have a few beers almost every night on weekends. :drinker:

Also those health/lose weight shows where they throw out all the junk. The producers buy the junk to have in the cupboards to throw out, and the deep fryers, etc

DawnieB1977

I've gained in pregnancy. I've just had my third and I logged throughout, apart from at the very end when I went overdue and was fed up! I rarely went over my calories, and I exercised. I ate my normal foods pretty much, except had a few too many sweet treats. Goes to show that what you eat does count, even if it is within calories! Of course, I might have gained anyway even if I'd lived off vegetables and rice for 9 months! I've gained in all my pregnancies.

marylynn85

Everything. Mostly soda. I drank so much soda it was ridiculous. I stopped drinking it exactly 3 weeks ago. Haven't had a drop. I've lost almost 7 pounds since then. I still eat pretty much everything else I did before, just less of it. Soda is the only thing I have given up because I know I just can't drink it in moderation.

lewoldt

My girlfriend and I would go out for a fattening dinner then come home and load up on snacks like candy, cheese and crackers or french bread.
I put on 30 lbs in about 4 months

slouw10

My problem was that I could not say no and stop at any time for food. When my husband (Who does not pick up weight) ate something - I ate with him - all the time. I gained and gained - he did not. It was time to accept I do not have his metabolism - and frankly can not keep up eating like him....

Going MUCH better now - He can still eat - though all chocolate temptations have been removed - so he is feeling healthier too. Amazingly even the kids like to snack on cucumber, carrots and green peppers (yes, they eat it raw as snack)after school now, the sweet stuff made way for a healthier family.

We can now all go on family hikes, where we switched on the tv before - it is actually great to live this way!!

53welshlady

Good food but too big a portion - particularly potatoes
Far too much wine - I was up to almost a bottle every day, combined with evening nibbles of chocolate and crisps when I was feeling at my worst and I felt what the heck!
Baking cakes and bread then eating too much of it.

Fortunately very little in the way of processed or "junk" food so I have just had to cut down portions, and limit potatoes, pasta and rice to a few times a week.

The wine has stopped and is now just an occasional shared bottle at the weekend sometimes.
Chocolate is now a couple of squares of 85% or 90% dark chocolate a few times a week.

Wookinpanub

I am a very picky eater - do not like most veggies and few fruits. Just a meat and potatoes guy. I used food as a reward for working hard. I ate heavy carbs especially sweets. I would eat a big dinner when I got home and after putting the kids to bed. I would eat at 830-9 then go to bed. I would always have a sweet afternoon snack with a diet coke at work.

Athijade

I ate too much food. Period. It wasn't any one thing that made me fat. It was food in general in portions that were more then my body needed.

Now I eat less food. I still have burgers, pizza, alfredo, and desserts. Just not every day and no where near the portions I used to. Instead of a huge bowl of alfredo, I will do it as a side (as I will do tonight) for a lean meat and vegetables.

JustAnotherGirlSuzanne

Poutine. That stuff is so delicious.

skullshank

Honestly I ate all the same stuff I do now, just a lot more of it and a lot more often.

climbing_trees

PEANUT BUTTER

Velum_cado

My heaviest was about 400 lbs, hat tip to you, fast food. >.<

amandzor

Whatever I wanted until I was uncomfortably full.

I'm a sucker for ice cream. I could eat an entire half gallon in one sitting if I wanted to. At some point I even had it for dinner.

I can imagine what that diet looked like in the future....

Siannah

Mostly chocolate and biscuits, family sized packets and the whole pack would go. Every single day. I would eat this at work, at my desk.

Pirate_chick

Chipotle, Taco bell, MacDonald's, all you can eat Chinese. Not eating during the day and then binging at night, not exercising, milk shakes. Dr. Pepper, CAKE oh how I love Cake. Homemade mac and cheese, velveta shells and cheese, chicken nuggets/popcorn chicken, little to no veggies. oh yes, I can't forget the chocolate.


ETA: I still eat those things, just in moderation and not every day.

asdowe13

No one item, just too much of everything!

jstavix

For me, it was a lot like you, never ate breakfast and half the time, due to work, never ate lunch so dinner was a free for all. I am also an emotional eater so I think for me, it was carbs. I am a carboholic, I will take them over anything else. I am trying to eat a mid morning mini meal now and lunch, right now it's easy. It's summer, I am off because I work for a school. When school starts in August I am back into the routine of no breakfast and lunch if I am lucky. I need to plan a new strategy before I go back, that is obvious!!

EddieHaskell97

I gave myself the Val Kilmer treatment with Big Macs, pizza, and by drinking Ice Beer when I had stopped working out.

ali59oc

I was always slim, never weighed more than 135 lbs. (grew up in SoCal) until 2000 when I had a nervous breakdown and they put me on meds that put weight on overnight. Literally. I gained 20 lbs. in one week! I had to concentrate on my mental health so my physical health sort of went out the window. After going off the medication, I had moved to the east coast and found out what real bread tastes like! LOVED THAT. Even though I was exercising, the food kept going in. Pasta, bags of chips at one sitting, fried food. Never sweets though. I know I'll never be able to be left alone with a bag of Lays again.

blondageh

This thread is making me so hungry.

Everything sounds about right. When I lived alone, I couldn't keep food in the house. Literally. I would go to the grocery store and then nothing would be left in a week or so. Nothing. If it was in my house, I would eat it. Sandwiches, chips, popcorn, grilled cheese. Ice cream. After I met my husband it was fast food constantly. French fries are and will always be my weakness.

Now it is Salads, lean proteins, vegetables, fruit and lots of egg beater omelets with still a good amount of cheese. That is where I get most my fats. No bread, pasta, only rice in sushi and once in a blue moon a small baked potato.

rexroars

I lost weight after leaving home for college! Even though I was on my hs swim team and worked out daily, my family has TERRIBLE, "southern" eating habits. So much fried food, starches, fast food... My little brother and I both lost 30+ our freshman years of college.

When I started logging for the first time I realized I was eating over 3000 calories daily, during the middle of the week, not even on weekends... which I'm sure were way more...

It sounds like you're doing an awesome job!! Just be careful, if you dramatically change your eating habits really suddenly, it's less likely to stick. It's okay to take a long time getting healthy and slowly form habits you'll keep your whole life

stevee290

I would get fast food to eat during my commute home then go home and eat dinner and lots of beer.

cwolfman13

What did you eat to get heavy?

I ate a lot of food...I ate large portions and anything and everything. There is no on particular food or food group or macro or whatever that makes you fat. Over-consumption of energy makes you fat.