What Amount of Food WERE you Maintaining on?

MysticRealm

I sometimes think back to what I was eating before I started to lose weight. I weighed 165 ish pounds, bouncing around at that number but staying there for a good year or so. I ate A LOT! It's amazing how much I was eating, and yet, I was maintaining that weight! I used to eat out for lunch EVERYDAY! I ate footlong subways (with chips/cookies, sugary drink), super donairs (with sugary drink), bakery foods (including desserts, and usually sugary drink). And I would pick up food nearly everyday for supper. Medium pizzas that I would nearly finish off, along with breadsticks or another appetizer, or TWO orders of fettucinni alfredo, sometimes with a LARGE 400 calorie smoothie, or with multiple glasses of iced tea. Hot chocolates, bags of white chocolate chips, chips, ect. I mean I must have been eating at LEAST 4000 calories a day and yet I was maintaining!! Gives me hope that once I reach my goal of 128 calories I will easily be able to eat my calculated TDEE of 2500+ calories.
What did you eat when you were heavier and yet you still maintained that weight and didn't gain? Roughly how many calories were you eating?

CherokeeBabe

I used to eat around 2000 - 2500 a day, not really a lot of food in the sense of bulk, but I just enjoy calorie-dense foods. Peanut butter sandwiches, lots of cheese, carbs and chips while playing video games, pizza 2 times a week, etc. I used to do just fine too thanks to being active, never gained, but I started my own business from home in the past 2 years and the combo of stress+lower activity levels started making the weight creep up little by little.

Greenblood22

I tried this as the clock ticked over to the next day and I had a clean page.....I input all my usual foods and beverages and was reasonable with my entries.....I was consuming close to 6000 calories a day and was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy over on my sugar intake....I was also very sedentary....sitting on Facebook or watching TV....no exercise but walking up and down a flight of stairs 20 times a day for smokes.

Im 10 days in....and being totally honest with the app.....havent jumped on a scale yet...but I feel Fantastic and look forward to the energy a brisk walk gives me and I Know Ive lost weight....but my long term goal isnt about weight loss...its about getting rid of this KEG....and replacing it with a 12.....a 6 pack is too skinny for me.....lol

Good Luck

onyxgirl17

I'd say between 1800-2000

alexisu96

I'm guessing 2500-3000. I just started and am at 218. 39 female. But active. 3 good workouts a week. Proof that it can only be 500-700 hundred cal a day that can make you fat. For me i eat healthy but its the fries with salad and wine at night and other snAcks that add up.

honey_bee_keysha

I am maintaining at the moment and I try to eat under 2000 calories. When I was heavier and a little younger, I used to eat anything in sight and still maintained. My, my, how times have changed.

SmartAlec03211988

A typical day for me was upwards of 5,000 calories before I decided enough was enough.

Now I maintain on 2,000 calories, exercising 3/4 times a week.

RoadsterGirlie

I estimate I was eating between 3000 and 4000 calories a day, prior to Weight Watchers.

RoadsterGirlie

For giggles, I just put in my tracker what a typical day looked like for me prior to WW. It totalled 3800 calories.

MysticRealm

It's amazing how much food you can maintain on sometimes. I wasn't obese yet could maintain on a good 4000 calories! Crazy stuff.

TravelDog14

A guesstimate for me (prior to June of 2012) is that I was easily eating 5000 calories a day.

The lion's share of those calories were cookies, pastries (yum those apple fritters) and chips.

Oh, and too much alcohol.

uwdawg07

When I was 113 pounds I maintained on 2500 - 3000 calories a day. No joke! And I couldn't put on weight.

Then I got really sick, had a bunch of medical problems, couldn't get out of bed, and put on 100 pounds. I maintained at 213 for only a couple months at 2300 calories, and then started losing weight right away.