What Do You Think Your Calorie Intake Was Prior to MFP?

meshashesha2012

3-4K sun-thurs, friday and saturday were 4-6K easy if you consider all the boozing and late night diner eating i'd get into

i think at one point i want to try an have a SUPER high calorie day but with clean food. it was easy back then because i ate tons of processed stuff.

Umeboshi

2000-2500 a day, 3000 if I was pigging out.

typingathome

At least 2,000. Eating fast food way too much, snacking on junk food, really sad. But MFP has really helped me and I am only in for one week now.

DesireeLovesOrganic

my food was the same but I used to have 2-3 glasses of wine or vodka drinks every night which adds quite a lot of cal (which is how I gained 30 pounds in the first place!)

TanyaCurtis

1000-20,000 somedays, no joke

zeleni

good heavens, my intake would have probably been around 4000 at least! I used to eat chips all of the time. I didn't get nick named the "chip monster" for no reason. :embarassed:

jessare1

At least 2000 if not 3000... I was a binge eater for sure!

smantha32

yeah around 3,000. some days when I'm not sticking to the 1200-1300 range, I usually end up with about 3,000 without really trying.

88josephine88

I can;t believe I used to just drink beer, at least 4-5 times a week, without any thought, and on the weekends that could easily be over 8 beers.....
and of course the kebab after that, and maccas and pizza the next day with the hangover!!
I've found drinking spirits and diet soft drink, and the odd glass of red wine, and trying to remember the water, cuts the calories down, helps me stay a little more sober, and when I don't feel as bad in the morning, I'm less likely to reach for the fast food in the morning and start the guilty eating cycle

camila_scl

My TDEE is near 1700, and I was eating 2200-2500 calories normally, on weekends or at least once a week near 3000

muppetsbear

looking at what I eat now at the 2000 to 2500 range. I would say between likely 5 to 6000 or more sometimes :embarassed:

hedgiie

about 5000

Cliffslosinit

3000+ easily....taters and gravy, biscuits and gravy....
I'd only cook meat just to make gravy, then not eat any meat! Sad but true

fitandyoga

Definitely 3000-4000. I used to go out to eat ALL the time. 1 meal from outside can equal up to 1000 cals.

SirRunningShorts

I thought about it and I was 3000-4000 everyday..... that is scary. I wasn't even big, so I don't know what it did to my inside.

cjpierce94

Back when I was trying to gain weight for football... It was probably 5000+ a day.

I honestly think it was harder to eat that much than cut. haha.

WiegandS

I think I ate around 2,000, but on weekend probably 3,500 no problem. For me my biggest issue continues to be with portions. I always ate the right foods just not the right amount of it.

Jaulen

Is this with or without drinking?

With just food, probably 3000 calories a day, sometimes less than 1000......I bounced around all over the place.....but add those days in where I would drink? Oh....probably 8-10k cals easily......I mean, when you sit down and drink a whole bottle of wine (or 2) by yourself....along with crackers and cheese as a 'light' snack to go with the wine.....ugh. And I would do that at least two or 3 nights a week.....

Unhealthy and expensive habit.

JLLemons

I thought about when I gained 90 lbs in 9 mos back in '05-'06...Here is what I would eat on a "typical day"

Wake up at noon
Big Bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Milk and when I say big I mean big probably 800 or 900 calories. I'd eat again at 5 during my lunch break and it usually consisted of fast food..and it was usually around 2000 calories. I'd eat a snack and drink a huge sweet tea around 9 so that was probably 600 cal's, and the big meal was after I got off of work at midnight which usually consisted of Taco Bell

#7- Chicken Quesadilla, crunchy taco, dr. pepper
2 Cheesy Gordita Crunches- baja sauce and a soft taco..so that meal was about 2100 cal's

so between 5500 and 6000 cal's/day

Christine1110

It's scary to think of it.....I would say 3000-3500 a day.

cspong

I was on a really bad track. I think on a slow day, I was eating over 3,000 cals. I could even eat a full L-XL pizza in one sitting at dinner... I'm happy I stopped before I got over 300lbs. I started MFP at 260lbs, I'm at a good 248 right now, and I'm neeever going back.

So. Gross.

Edit: Oh wow. In the end I was drinking about 3-5 cans of coke a day... So yeah. Add a LOT more to that.

mcva929

After reading some of these I don't have any shame admitting to my 4-5,000 calories per day. You definitely don't think about what all you're putting in your mouth until you actually have to log it. Then come the guilt and disgust..

Natihilator

Somewhere between 2200-3000. I need to remember this whenever I have a "bad day" now and ate 2000 calories, since it's still a lot less than what I ate before, and still at a deficit. I never ate super-sized amounts or lots of junk food or fast food, but I was the type of eater who would eat "breakfast" sometime after noon, and just snack all evening/night long.

When I used to drink juice/iced tea/beer/Starbucks semi-regularly, it was probably 3000+ calories per day. Cutting out liquid calories has been pretty essential to lowering my intake (except for protein smoothies, can't live without em!)

mcva929

Is this with or without drinking?

With just food, probably 3000 calories a day, sometimes less than 1000......I bounced around all over the place.....but add those days in where I would drink? Oh....probably 8-10k cals easily......I mean, when you sit down and drink a whole bottle of wine (or 2) by yourself....along with crackers and cheese as a 'light' snack to go with the wine.....ugh. And I would do that at least two or 3 nights a week.....

Unhealthy and expensive habit.

Oh lord... logging drinking. I NEVER thought about the calories in my alcohol until the first time I logged it. Now I make sure to eat light and workout during the day if I think I'm going to have a drink (which of course I limit much more now, too!).

NoAdditives

My trainer estimated that on average days (eating at home only) I was eating 400-700 net calories. Before I restricted my calories that much to lose weight, I have no idea. Maybe 2500-3000 because I ate a lot of processed food.

MandaPaigeSparkles88

Well it really depends. I would really hate to guess but maybe 3000 + I have no idea. And I'm sure it skyrocketed when I would go out drinking on the weekends and party. Yikes. I guess I'll save the drinking and partying to special occasions only.

saragato

Depending on what I was eating, I'm fairly sure I racked between 3k-4k a day. I ate pasta and bread like it was being condemned and my mother loved Mexican and Honduran food so we had it at least once a week, sometimes more. I was also a big snacker. For a few years all I drank was soda, diet and not, and only broke myself of that a couple years ago after I got so sick of the carbonation I was having stomach problems. Luckily I hate alcohol so my calories never came from that. Just a lot of rice, pasta, bread, and fried stuff.

TheFunBun

Mine was all over the place. Days where I'd eat a bowl of cereal and call it quits. Days where I'd eat a pound of jelly bellys and call it quits. Days where I'd eat a box of cereal, a pound of jelly bellys, and a hamburger and call it quits.

Before that, I ate healthy, and around 1500..

and before that I would booze and booze and booze and who knows how much that brought on. I think I existed on vodka and hangover doughnuts and pickles.

MashaSK

i think mostly less

EDesq

I used to have a serious problem with binge eating. I would go days where I would not eat much (maybe 800-900 calories) then binge on 6,000 calorie meals twice a day then not eat much for another day, etc. It was a terrible vicious cycle. The only way I broke it was to eat evenly throughout the day.

THIS^^^^ It destroyyyyed My metabolism!!! LOWWW calories during the week and on the weekend binging out with the pizza, wings, alcohol, pasta... It wasn't until I became constant with My Eating Plan (1500 cal per day avg., sometimes 100-200 cal higher or lower) that My metabolism fixed itself and IT began to WORK...but it took Me about 2+ months of consistency to fix it. I read an article here about a woman avg.700 cal a day and Gaining wt. She was eating like Me, binging and eating all the WRONG foods, shut down her metabolism. That and My commitment to Wellness turned Me around!