How bad did you used to be?

micha1984

Pretty much everyday at work, I would get fast food for lunch... McDonalds or BK large meals. THEN, after work, I would go through the drive thru at McDonalds and order 2 chicken wraps, a double cheeseburger and a 4 piece nugget and eat them on the drive home. Of course, I would hide the wrappers, come inside and pretend it didn't happen. I would prepare a large dinner for my husband and I or we would go out to eat.

This makes me sick to think of now. I do not eat fast food, unless it is a salad with light dressing or low cal healthy choice. I pack lunches and don't let food run my life. I still think about food waaay to much though, but my body craves good-for-me food now.

O I think about food now more than I did before! I think that's what makes this whole thing work! You are actually thinking about it and not just doing it! This is a lifestyle and before was just like a sickness maybe, or a slave and master kinda thing!

robot_potato

Chips and cookies were my downfall. I never did like pop so at least that wasn't an issue. I would put nesquick in my coffee at 70cals a serving. The cookies, well, I have kids, and I make awesome cookies.

WickedGarden

my weakness is potatoes...french fries and potato chips mainly.

I could eat a whole can of Pringles in one sitting, a whole bag of Tim's chips in one sitting. I used to get at least one refill of fries at Red Robin.

My parent never allowed any potato chips in the house because 'they give you pimples', but I was allowed any kind of candy/cookies I wanted (never had a real sweet tooth). My meals at home were always really really bland, cheap grisly beef mixed with chicken stock and spinach. I hardly ate anything at home, even my doctor said I was too skinny, no muscle tone. So whenever I'd stay at a friend's house, I would ask to stop by the store, and I'd buy a bag of chips and eat the whole bag during the night. I craved 'taste/flavor'.

When I got a job at the mall, I ate lunch there every day, and I'd eat the whole meal, and since I worked there, I'd always get 'extra' for free, I even got free food at closing, so I guess I was more addicted to the new flavors.

I now eat more protein to keep me full, I have a hard time eating all my calories because I know all the food I ate before made me get bigger, but I'm still learning about adding flavor to my food so it doesn't seem 'boring' to eat. Oh what a vicious cycle!

CMmrsfloyd

Breakfast was 900 calories, lunch happened twice and mostly came from McDonald's or out of a Chef Boyardee can, dinner was large plates piled with pasta, or burgers and fries, or a big plate of rice with a little protein on the side. Also had a big bowl of ice cream most nights and had no sense of portion-control when it came to chips/popcorn/cookies/etc. I'm lucky I didn't get bigger than I did. Oh and I also drank probably 3-4 liters of diet soda per day, no water ever, just diet soda.

mjbrenner

I, too, never met a plate I could not clean. If there is more room in my stomach, I want to fill it with delicious, delicious food. My biggest problem has always been, simply, that I love food. I love light, refined fair for sophisticated palates, and I love big, greasy, messes thrown on a plate with extra sauce. I love food - the more of it the better.

I tried for years to lose weight and failed until I found an eating strategy that both curbed my insatiable appetite and still allowed me to go hog-wild one day a week. Between my eating strategy and MFP to help me monitor my portions during my six "good" days a week, I feel like I finally get to have my cake and eat it too (so long as I only eat the cake on Sundays).

sarahcs424

I would get a large curly fries and lots of ranch at like midnight all the time!

paisley2288

double quarter pounder, 2 orders of large fries, sweet tea, and cookies to top it off. i'm going to go log that and see how many calories that is and i'll get back to ya. lol

ETA: 2,420 calories

Beezil

The worst thing I ever did was eat an entire pound of bacon to myself... yeah... :sick: My heart seriously hurt after that...

Sherbog

Nobody told me that 1/2 gallon of icecream was not a single serving.....:(

sgv0918

i would stand at the cupboard / fridge because i wanted something but didnt know what. so i would just eat different stuff until the craving was fulfilled.

THIS!!!!

Elizabeth_C34

I used to eat a whopper with cheese with a regular coke for lunch and then eat maybe another 1000 calories for dinner.

kathyc609

I would go to the bakery to buy a birthday cake just to eat the icing.

StellerBanana

I used to be really really really bad. Drinking coke everyday, drinking it like water, I have cut back a lot but i still have a coke here and there.

I used to eat until i was super full and couldn't move and then 10 mins later i would eat again. Fast food, anything really.

Even though i crave mcdonalds or any type of fast food... I just go eat an apple or any fruit!

_David_

I didn't get to 400+ lbs from being good!! Lol

JamieDD

Back in the 70's I had a Dr. Pepper habit that was huge. It use to come in 16 oz glass bottles and I would drink 2 6-packs a day...sometimes more.

Tortilla Chips are my big down fall...a whole bag and a container of pica de gallo could be gone in about a 1/2 hour. Tim's Sea Salt & Vinager chips..a whole bag at a time. I don't really have a sweet tooth...I like crunchy and salty.

And then there was Skippers all you can eat Fish & Chips...10 pieces of fish But hey I only had a few chips and only 1 cup of the clam chowder. lol

I think my biggest feat of eating was at the Chewelah Casnio All you can eat Seafood Buffet. 12 king crab legs (and they were big ones), salmon, shrimp, steamer clams, salad and a few other things....I thought my hubby was going to have to cart me out of there in a wheel barrow. :embarassed:

Anayalata

I would go to the bakery to buy a birthday cake just to eat the icing.

Hah. How come I never thought of that.

I would eat a footlong from subway with chipotle, double meat (chicken at least), pepperjack. This was the healthier option.
On unhealthy days I'd eat maybe 5 spicy chicken from Carl's Jr. or a full Turkey Burger special with an Extra-Large Horchata from Tom's or a Spicy Chicken combo from Jacks with an extra 2 chicken sandwiches, or one of those Mega Macho Burritos (forgot the name) from Del Taco. Then later on I'd eat a whole bag of mini pretzel bites, and a Love It ice cream from Coldstone.

This was 60 pounds ago =P

clkuchtyn

Bump

Laceypalooza

Gosh, where do I begin?
I used to drink pop from the moment i woke up til i went to sleep (that was around 7 years ago) and then when I gave up pop....
...I found energy drinks! Oh good lord, I used to drink 2-3 a day! A DAY. That was SOOOO bad for me, I can't believe I did that.
My mom would buy cookies, pizza rolls, hot pockets, chips, ramen noodles, all the junk you could think of. I mean, she still does, but I can actually buy my own food now that I work.
Also, I come from a family that LOVES pasta (my favorite is macaroni and cheese) and we ate pasta for dinner every night. And I never went outside when i was a kid because I was attached to the tv like no other.
But I've chosen a healthier lifestyle, and I could never go back to that.

foramanwhohashope

Two double quarter pounders with extra cheese, large fries, a large mcflurry, then go to taco bell for a quadsteak...

now i can barely finish a plate of healthy food.

HonkyTonks

At one stage, I had eaten dinner, and got hungry later in the night, so I ordered an entire domino's pizza AND a garlic bread AND 1.25l coke
And I ate and drink it all.

FoxyPhoenixRising

I was very bad. A Taco Bell trip would consist of a chili cheese burrito with sour cream, a meximelt with sour cream, an enchirito with extra cheese, and a mexican pizza with extra meat, extra cheese and sour cream, all washed down with a giant fruit punch. TGIF? An order of tostado nachos (all to myself) AND a brownie obsession. Can you imagine my face when I started cal counting and found out how many cals that is? It's like 2700+ cals! And that would be just one meal of the day!
I would eat whole pots of mac and cheese by myself. One time I even had another pasta dish on the stove cooking while I devoured the mac and cheese, and then proceeded to polish off the noodles Stroganoff right after. I've always had an over-developed appetite.
As a kid the adults would look at each other, shake their heads and say, "where does she put it all?" I was born severely premature, and now since I work with newborns I know how prematurity can affect their ability to eat. But not me. My mother tells stories of me sitting there as a baby sucking baby food through an infa-feeder (basically a bottle nipple with a large hole). To this day she tells everyone how I would SSSSLLLLUUUUURRRRPPPP the food so loud she's say to me, "slow down, chile, it ain't goin nowhere." Lol!

I still eat like that, sometimes. Just check out my diary. It's definitely a struggle for me. Prior to having kids I was fortunate to be the kind of person who could eat like a glutton and still have a rockin' figure. But that's just a bit different now. ok, a LOT different. (smh).

I'm getting better. But old habits die hard, so it's definitely a battle for me.

CoffeeNBooze

This is kind of a fun topic. Let's see.... I went through a period where I made multiple trips to the kitchen each night to grab whatever random food I had, on repeat. I ate slices of bread with peanut butter, spoonfuls of peanut butter till at least half the jar was gone, sweet cereal straight out of the box, nutella, turkey and bread to balance out the sweet stuff....and oh gosh I'd wake up so swollen the next day! This would all be in one night, by the way.

Oh and there was the halloween night where I gained 10 lbs in one evening and it took me 3 months to get rid of it. Now that was epic.

thop123

I'd eat a whole oreo tray in a day, most of it in a sitting. I could also eat an entire large bag of m&ms. Pretty much everything

theflyingartist

I remember once, when I was in high school I would polish off half a box of Oreos during my TOM. That was seriously no excuse, EW haha.
Girl scout cookies used to be the death of me. Now I can't even stomach them. It's wonderful

BlooQKazoo

I could eat an entire pizza in one sitting. I'd wash it down with Diet Coke, of course, because who needs all those extra calories? I'm sure I still could eat an entire pizza; I just know better now. Haha!

SammyPacks

Use to eat a whole large pizza to myself (though I can still do this...) :P had a full bag of hot cheetohs! Would go through half a litter of soda a day... a whole ben and jerrys ice cream... this list sounds still amazing to me, but I know the guilt I'd feel if I consumed these in the same day

swellen

KFC 2-piece feed (with gravy instead of potato and gravy) for lunch - 932 calories
4 slices of cheese pizza for dinner - about 970 calories
4 Tim Tams after dinner - 620 calories

Okay, this didn't always happen but it certainly happened more than once! ~2500 calories, and that doesn't include breakfast or any other snacks during the day. Ick.

princeza9

Let's see- an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting. When I lived in Beijing, I'd order a medium pizza and breadsticks from Papa John's (they were close, they delivered & understood English), only 1/2 the pizza would make into the fridge for the next day. I have a problem with emotional eating and bored eating.

I wasn't always good to myself, and I still struggle with that. Not just food, either. My friends got back tonight from their long weekend away, and they offered me some B&J that they'd bought, I just said no. It's a start!

HeidiRene

I was reading this thread but it's making me too hungry so I have to stop! :explode:

TheNewDoug

Pretty much just eating till I was sick to my stomach every meal. Knowing I was full but eating more. I wasn't a sweets person, I loved real food and lots of it. Now, I am rarely hungry and always have calories to eat if I am. I would also drink at least a 2 liter of Pepsi everyday. I have switched to diet and am slowly turning that to just water.