What did you used to eat in the big days

brentsblog

Hi Guys,

Not sure if this has been done before but anyway would anyone like to mention some of the things they used to eat before they lost weight.

I'll start sometimes on my way to work id stop and grab:

Bacon & Egg Roll - Eat on the way there
2 Croissants 1 to eat after bacon and egg roll 1 to have at work once I arrived.

Also I still see this at the supermarket and I have stayed away from it for over 12 months now the 2 family blocks of chocolate for $6 I can still remember my favorite combination was:

Nestle - Smartie & Crunch block
Cadbury - Fruit & Nut & Crunchie or Peppermint

I would buy 2 blocks and go through them in a couple of hours easy

I won't mention anymore maybe later

Anyone else want to share ?

kyle4jem

I used to eat a lot, but didn't realise just how much and would consume 3000 Calories a day without batting an eyelid. :noway: :embarassed:

I've certainly stopped having high carb/high fat breakfasts of a Gregg's sausage roll in a bread roll with mayo & cheese and now prefer crispbreads with cottage cheese and smoked salmon.

I also don't snack on crisps and biscuits like they were going out of fashion. I'd have at least 2 bags of crisps with lunch and every day I'd have Twix or a Double Decker or some kind of chocolate bar. And that was before dinner...

Dinner was always wholesome and still is, but now I only eat a regular rather than a supersized portion. If I've calories over I'll have an ice cream (Magnum-style) for dessert, but I used to eat a packet of biscuits every evening watching TV.

More importantly, I never did any exercise and now I go swimming 3-4 times a week, for at least an hour a session, and on my off days, I still walk a couple of miles at a reasonable pace, so it's now very seldom that a day goes by that I don't get some kind of exercise in.

Just being more aware of calories and portion sizes along with getting regular exercise is my "secret" to steady continued weight loss :happy:

BIGJIMMYU

Pizza and chicken wings are my two best friends and worst enemies!

lacroyx

Breakfast: McDonalds 3 sausage mcmuffins w/egg, 3 hashbrowns, 1 large Hi C orange

Lunch: 2 double bacon cheese burgers with fries and large milkshake

Dinner: 1 entire medium pizza w/2 liter of soda pop

Martucha123

Family bag of doritos (750 kcal) on top of the regular meals...
Sometimes I would replace it with McDonalds menu for lunch,
sometime I would do both

MrsBlobs

Chinese food and lots of it! High fat, high msg and not satisfying for very long. It is STILL my nemesis although I'm working on it

brentsblog

The power of being disillusioned

I used to ride approx 2.5km to the train station to catch the train into the city for work pretty easy ride took like 10 minutes.

On the way home once I arrived at the station and would ride across to the fish n chip shop grab either 3 potato cakes and 3 fried dim sims for the 2.5km ride home or if I was feeling full I would only get 2 each but my justification was I'm riding home its ok im burning it off.

When I look at it now I was probably eating 400-600 calories just from that and burning 50 calories from riding home how I laugh about it now.

brentsblog

Breakfast: McDonalds 3 sausage mcmuffins w/egg, 3 hashbrowns, 1 large Hi C orange

I can relate to this except I would only do 2 sausage and egg mcmuffins with bacon thou OMG that made all the difference and 2 hash browns they were for the car ride home

brentsblog

Family bag of doritos (750 kcal) on top of the regular meals...

How good are Doritos I could still down a bag now

I was down the supermarket the other day and they were $1.49 for a bag! I was so tempted but the temptation passed when I realized how long I would have to work out to burn it off

TraceyDonna

I always had cereal for breakfast. Lunch and onward was my downfall. Generally a mayo loaded sandwhich, crisps, can of pop and some biscuit/chocolate to finish. Dinner would generally be massive!!! Chips, chips, chips ... bread (w/butter), burgers, pizza, pasta, pasta, pasta. Im a real carbie and thats tough to curb!

MumOfGirlsOnly

2+L of Coke a day
1kg bananas
At least 1 500ml can of Mother
190g packet of chicken
Huge tub of fruit salad (watermelon, rock melon, apple, grapes, orange, honey dew I would make it for the kids for school and eat the rest in one sitting)
4+ slices of white bread a day smothered with peanut butter or Vegemite)
Family block of chocolate a day (favourites are Mint Aero, Kit Kat, white, peppermint)
Packet of Monte Carlo biscuits (12 in a pack at 102 calories each biscuit)
2/3 serves of dinner and then clean the kids plates (habit left over from when I was a kid, can't leave food on a plate)

I could pack away up to and over 5000 calories a day, didn't help I worked at KFC and could eat for free.

elsinora

My major downfall and why I was obese before was lack of portion control and alcohol!

From teenager onwards I always ate really good food and never had junk or sugar (I HAtE Chocs and sweets, dessert etc) but I used to eat massive portions. When I went to uni and onwards alcohol meant my weight sky rocketed and binging on bread and pasta the next day or at like 3 or 4 in the morning in a drunken stupor meant it just kept piling it on.

I lived with 4 guys so again portion control wa still out the window and I never counted calories. I exercised everyday and cycled everywhere as I did not (and still don't) have a driving licence but that just was a drop in the ocean because of the lack of portion control and awareness of what I was taking in.

runnercheryl

I was a total food addict.

I could quite easily eat a sausage sandwich for breakfast, a pizza for lunch and a takeaway or full roast dinner for lunch, plus two litres of full sugar soda and two chocolate bars or a share-size bag of chocolates in the evening.

I just put it into my food diary to crunch the numbers, and a fairly typical day has come out at 3,961 calories. I'm 5ft 1.8in. I reached 174lbs before I started my healthy lifestyle in November 2010. It is amazing that's ALL I weighed, considering I didn't care at all what I ate or what weight I was.

robb7

Oh god , just thinking about this makes me sick;
Breakfast at home: toast
Breakfast on the way to work: Burger King Sausage Crescents
Lunch: Chipotle Chicken Burrito, chips and salsa
Dinner: two or three grilled hamburgers plus chips and potato salad
Snacks: cookies
I also sat on my duff all day working at a call center.

I put those days at about 3 to 4000 calories daily not to mention all the fat. Yikes.

ludogx87

i would make a nachos kit, throw on ready made chilli and nearly a full block of cheese and scoff the lot myself..... it was for 4 people hahahaha

sakurajade

chocolate 3 times a week and 2 ice coffee every day

jankleberry

on a bad day I would have

a roll and bacon and cheese, maybe an egg
a roll and sausage and potato scone

a mcchicken sandwich meal LARGE and another cheeseburger

Steak pie, roast potatoes, gravy

Ice cream or some sort off toffee cake

Cream Buns.

I would have deffo went over 3000cals some days :blushing:

jankleberry

oh and crisps and chocolate.

Monster Munch and Galaxy cookie crumble were my faves.

Used to love dominoes too but had a bad experience and wouldnt go near it now if you paid me.

RichardCh

coke and have energy and high cal drinks and lots of pizzas and other junk food lol

Syreeta6

Typical order from Taco Bell was 2 soft tacos supremes, 1 order of nachos and cheese and 2 orders of cinnamon twists.
McDonalds: double cheeseburger combo w/large fries and an apple pie (yikes!)
I could easily eat half a bag of powdered donuts...
Pickled pig's feet! (so embarassed by this one)

tnorth82

would eat the large family/sharing bags of crips and doritos without batting an eyelid
Same with the large family sharing bags of Maltesers/revels... me and the hubby would eat one each while watching a movie or TV

I would order a takeaway pizza, 12" and eat it all! Plus fries!

shivaslives

12" inch sub rather than 6" inch plus a bag of chips and a packet of chocolate covered donut gems.



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TopazCarey

For breakfast I would have a sugary starbucks drink and a brownie. For lunch I always got a double cheeseburger meal from the mcdonald's on campus then I'd walk over to the store and get a bag of chocolate chip cooks. And dinner was never really horrible, but my portions were, seconds and thirds of everything. And all that time I was confused over why I was heavier and heavier every time I got on a scale.

kittyminxx

I doubt anyone can believe the weird foodstuff I invented with my best friend

chicago deep dish mini pizzas topped with extra cheese cooked on the george foreman grill to really crisp it up and chewy on inside

A whole bag of doritos (family pack) with large block of emmental cheese grated on top, blitzed in microwave, topped with more cheese & blitzd again for another 10 secs

Herta hot dogs microwaved, split a little with blue cheese inside to melt

Any cheese coated in melted chocolate

Twix melted in any hot drink, chocolate licked off then nibble off the caramel and redunk the left over biscuit bit

I used to pull a mars apart with almost surgical precision and eat the chocolate/nougat/caramel seperatley

Mix a tub of strawberry cheesecake & cookies & cream haagen dazs with melted chocolate eclair (the sweets) poured on top

Cheese dipped in honey sprinkled finely with coffee powder

All absolutely delicous surprisingly... we were a proper heston blumenthal team!

Although far far far too bad for me

HeyHeyRae

Thinking back over all of that food makes me feel ill..... but here goes...


Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, or McDonald's for breakfast (if I went to BK I got the double crossandwich meal, large, with oj... Dunkin D's I'd get the crossandwich with hashbrowns and an extra large coffee extra cream extra sugar and a few squirts of a flavor syrup... McD's I'd get 2 sausage mcmuffin, 2 hash browns, and an oj) And mind you this was only when I ate breakfast once or twice a month.

Lunch I'd either get 2-3 McDonald's McChicken sandwiches with a large fry and large coke or go to Taco Bell and get $10-$15 worth of crap if I wasn't working. If I was working, I'd get a slice of pepperoni pizza from the cafe at work.

Dinner could go 1 of 2 ways. Either I'd come home and have a microwavable meal, or I'd get takeout.
My choices?... ugh smh.... grilled chicken club meal & McChicken sandwich at McD's, or ordering an appetizer and entree from the local Chinese place (enough food for 3 people), or spending $20 at Taco Bell, or ordering a large pepperoni, black olive, and bacon pizza with 2 chocolate molten mini cakes, an order of cheesy bread w/marinara dipping sauce, and an order of 10pc fried buffalo wings with ranch AND blue cheese dipping sauces. I'd eat until I felt sick, wait for the sick feeling to go away, and eat again.

And then sometimes late at night, around midnight to 1am, I'd get mentally hungry and could eat an entire bag of tostitos scoops with a large jar of tostitos salsa con queso (the big one...... if I ran out of chips, I'd use the last chip to just scoop up the salsa con queso and slurp it down, or just grab a spoon).

*when I say $10-$20 at Taco Bell, my favorites were any combination of the following: nacho bell grande no tomatoes, grilled steak soft tacos, nacho cheese steak chalupas, crunch wraps w/nacho cheese on the side, multiple soft taco supremes, cheesy fiesta potatoes, large mountain dew or baja blast (sometimes 2), and the 10 taco family meal......... so disgusting

And the most exercise I got was trying to shower properly in the morning... smh


It's amazing I didn't hit 300lbs or have a heart attack.

HauteP1nk

My food diary for when I was a little bit bigger...or on my way to being a lot bigger... was fairly similar to what I am eating now. The problem back then was that I was also not watching my 'extras'... My fiance always used to pick me up at the end of the day and our 'snack' was these little pepperoni sticks... The problem with these lil pep sticks was that they were 250 calories - each! I was consuming 500 calories EXTRA on top of my daily foods!! Then each Friday night we would go out for dinner. I would have something horrible that was deep fried, or maybe half a medium pizza with bacon on it (mmm bacon). Every weekend we'd indulge in a bacon and egg breakfast....

I was also making this really amazing mexican dish once per week. For about 2 months my fiance and i were addicted to it... Of course, most recently I looked at the calories in the cheese and sauce and it was equaling out to 45 calories for 2tbsp.....and I was having WAY more than just 2tbsp.

I was indulging too frequently... I had to nip that in the bud....and I am glad I did because after a month of 'watching' what I ate I have lost at least 5lbs and a lot more inches....

So basically now I let myself have a 'treat' on the weekends, but even that treat is always on the healthier side of things.

BeccaMovinUp

I really like this thread, I find it so interesting!

On a bad day I would eat 2 toasted egg, bacon, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. I would also eat a whole bag of Miss Vickie's chips or a whole bag of chocolate wafer cookies, and have a huge plate of homemade Alfredo pasta for supper, or KD.
Some days I would also make a small batch of cookie dough and eat it raw.
I was always way too embarrassed to buy meals at a fast food joint (still very hesitant and will only go if the bf wants to), I think this was my saving grace, I would have reached a much higher weight if I didn't feel this way.

Cheers!

LorinaLynn

A lot of the same stuff as I eat now, but with a different balance. More boxed stuff, less fresh stuff. Lack of exercise was the biggest problem.

My WORST dietary habits were when I was skinny in my early to mid 20s. Kid's cereal, ramen noodles, skipped meals, rarely any veggies, etc.

graysmom2005

the meal that always sticks out to me, was our weekly Wing Stop meal. My husband and I would get the 35 wing family meal with a large fry and two tubs of ranch to dip. I'd also get a small side of baked beans. We would eat the whole thing...and it was for a family of 4. We would just tear through those wings. I dread to think how many calories that was.
Also on Tuesday nights I'd be on my own for dinner. I'd order Papa John's online and watch Biggest Loser. I would get "light on the cheese" and have all veggies...but I'd eat almost the whole thing and get breadsticks. With cheese dipping sauce.:blushing:

Canadien

Back when I used to eat ****ty foods, I used to:
- Head to the fridge during every commercial break on television (I don't even watch TV anymore)
- Eat a bowl of chips every day
- Eat buttered popcorn almost every day
- Eat french fries
- I ate whenever I was bored. I'd eat things like pop tarts, chips, and LOTS of ice cream and chocolate

cici1028

I didn't really eat too much during the day. Night snacking was my downfall. I would usually skip breakfast, have a whole sandwich with chips or maybe chicken fingers or something equally fried. Then for dinner I'd have frozen pizza or a chicken burger or some other horrible processed choice. THEN I would snack. A whole bag of popcorn (with butter) or maybe a pint of Ben and Jerry's. I think it was the quantity of what I would snack on that was crazy. I would be bored and sitting in front of the television and the endless snacking just went with the sedentary lifestyle.

It was actually Jenny Craig that taught me portion control. I'm not a fan of their food because I can't pronounce anything in it, but I understood what it meant to eat small servings after trying them for a month. I stopped after a month or so and started using MFP instead. Fifty pounds later... I use a small plate when I eat now instead of a large dinner plate. I still get that urge to snack at night but I restrict it to small portions of relatively healthy things. I'll still eat a pint of ice cream now and again, but I know how much exercise it takes to combat that poor decision now!