At your heaviest, what was your eating like?

sarathrasher12

Fast food or restaurants or both on a DAILY BASIS! King size snickers! Piles of Chips and queso! I could eat a whole large pizza. I would eat a half gallon of bluebell moolennium crunch in 2 days, but I could have done it in one. I bought ice cream at least once a week. Oddly enough, I never drank regular cokes, always diet, unsweet tea or I would use splenda. I used to be 260. I decided one day to actually do something instead of just talk about it. I got down to 180. Met my husband, had a baby, now I am at 215 and back at it. No games! This weight is coming off! I only wish I had a picture of myself at my biggest for motivation. I imagine I was eating at least 3000 calories a day. I bet I would be at least 350 by now if I hadn't made a change.

kganc001

I ate ALL the time...especially fried foods. And I was a huge glutton for Hardee's breakfast sandwiches...they're divine. And I also drank a lot. Once I cut those things out and started exercising, the weight dropped like magic!!!

sc10985

Breakfast would be from Tim Horton's, a toasted cheddar bagel with butter, a sour cream glazed donut and an iced coffee with cream and (lmao) splenda. Yes I was one of those people who justified her fast food with diet drinks. *FACE PALM* Lunch would either be skipped due to my guilt from breakfast, or would be something I considered sensible, like a lean pocket lol. Dinner was either pizzeria food (pizza, wings, subs, pasta dishes, fries), occasionally fast food but we've really grown out of that, or something I made. The dinners I cooked are still what I like to make now they have just been carefully modified and I have smaller portions. Our downfall since I got pregnant has been sweets. Either dairy queen 2-3 times a week (a 760 calorie Reese blizzard) or I'd go to the grocery store and buy a plethora of treats for us to binge on for 2-3 days. Think family sized bags of Reese cups, 24 packs of soft cookies from the bakery, ice cream, and anything with frosting. This was only 7 weeks ago so it is very fresh in my mind yet extremely embarrassing to admit and think about! Thank god my daughter is still young enough that she never picked up on those habits and hopefully never will! I will never deprive myself completely because I simply do not want to be miserable, but moderation is key! Once a month I'll allow a sinful dinner and dessert

airangel59

I grazed all day....not due to hunger but boredom.

Forget about portion sizes, a few bowls of cereal not 3/4 cup,I'd eat pb&J on toast in between meals, I might scarf half a bag of Cheetos (not the 1 oz serving size), I could down a row of cookies during the day, snacks or even dinner could be a pint of Ben & Jerrys. Pizza was not a slice, closer to 3 or 4 if I got thin crust. Eating out was fish & chips or bbq riblets or a burger on bun w/fries.

I still eat fast food but make better choices and plan for it ....am sure what I was eating in my past life was over 3K cals and GOK how many carbs....compared to the 1250 cals/141 carbs I'm consuming now. (fish & chips, riblets or that burger are all over my daily total now, sigh).

I will have to plan & log for the rest of my life.

needtobefitt

i mean i only lost a little so far, but still...
i missed out on all the junk food! ahah i hardly ate junk food, but i would eat huge amounts of regular food without even realizing how much ive ate. I would get home exhausted and just eat and eat.
i still tend to eat a little more when i come home, but now that i track my calories i keep my eating under control .
ive only been dieting for a month so far, but i already notice a difference in my eating patterns

BrotherBill913

Mine was a 2nd big dinner every night. The 2nd one right beofre bed, usually either being a baked potaoe loaded with everything, and lots of it at that. Or a mosnter bowl of pasta with a ton of cheese added.

louiselebeau

I would eat (or drink) whatever I wanted. I ate a lot of healthy foods, but I ate a lot of pasta and stuff too. At my very very heaviest I was eating at a fast food place daily and I drank soda and ate candy. I do not even like candy (other than small amounts of extremely dark chocolate preferably with espresso beans involved) or soda. (still am not a fan unless its a real sugar ginger beer and even then it has to be a serious hankering)

sarathrasher12

I always ask myself when on the verge of eating something terrible, do I like (insert food) more than I like losing weight?) Always no.

kindasortachewy

Never ate breakfast - Always fast food for lunch with a soda - 2 candy bars and a soda for snack - Dinner would be either out to eat and eating all the bread they would bring to the table or cooking at home and it would be pasta or deep fried. Then a soda and some more candy and half a bag of chips for another snack - I was eating due to boredom not hunger


I miss the candy sometimes, but everything else I'm not even interested in. Ate 2 biscuts on my splurge day and felt like I was gonna pop

kaitgettingfit

I was in college. I had a mcgriddle (sometimes two) and a large iced coffee with cream... every morning. enough said.

highervibes

I still home cooked everything, still ate pastured meat, still ate organic... just too much. I was eating a treat (what I thought) was "every now and then" but logging now I realize that now and then came far too often for me. Also my "little treats" were so calorie dense and laden with sugar I cringe at the thought. I don't eat grains anymore but I find that eating more fat vs protein keeps me satiated big time! Although I have been known to rock a porterhouse as well IIFYM right?

crlyxx

I used to eat like a total pig. I could sit down to an entire tub (not pint) of ice cream. Strangely enough, I never got over 130 though...(I'm 5'7")

mikey1976

this is pretty gross how i ate back then i also got type 2 diabeties this way

every day i drank a 2L bottle of pop.
every day i ate a big beg of potato chips
ate at mcdonald 1 burger was never enough
pizza all the time to myself even

this was my staple of food and a lot of it

iamspdd

I ate fast food almost every day. I started out with just a normal sized meal and hardly finished it. Then, the bigger I got the more food I'd eat. Soon I would upgrade to the large fries. Eventually it got to the point where the meal would make me feel full, well actually over full, so I would eat cookies or something when I got home. Or stop and buy candy like Gobstoppers and eat the package that night.
Fast food, junk food, and sugary candy. All food that makes you crave more and more of it.
Oh, and unlike a lot of you that didn't eat breakfast, I NEVER missed a meal.

summery79

At my heaviest, I would usually skip breakfast, sometimes lunch. I didn't really eat at regular meal times except dinner. And for dinner, we'd hit the buffets once, sometimes twice a week. On the other days, we'd get take out Chinese, or go to Red Lobster and pig out on those obscenely delicious cheddar bay biscuits. My favorite dinner to make at home was this peanut noodle dish that uses a full cup of peanut butter, and quite a bit of sugar. Sometimes I'd make something like beans and rice and wonder why I didn't weigh less, because I'd eat my veggies every day (buffets, Chinese, etc.) Also, I ate similarly to the guys in my household, and they managed to stay fit and trim. I probably ate at least 2-3x in calories what I do now, every single day.

I maintained an upper range healthy weight doing this until I stopped taking tamoxifen, then it all caught up with me hard and fast. It sucked. lol

Oh, and every time I entered a store that sold food, I had to get myself a candy bar. Yeah, I made a lot of big changes in the past year so I didn't have to be fat anymore.

Diamond05

Wasn't pretty at all.... Take out food at least once a day, PizzaHut, poutime, Mcdo, Wendy's , Bk, fries with LOTS of mayo, anything greasy that was dropping fat... I wanted fat all the time! Lots of cheese bread too! I was also having my bf's leftover... I was having breakfast, lumch and super plus snacks in double or even ripples portions! I'd even get up in the morning and eat the slices of pizza my bf didn't eat from last night snack...what a way to start the day.... I could also have a BLT , should say two,with a ton of mayo, 10 slices of bacon and a 1/2 cup of mozza. I'd eat an entire box of cookies or whatever I'd get my hands on.... Luckily I stopped myself, haven't had a bad episode yet and hope it never do that again! I was out of control, plus no activity or whatsoever, I didn't have to wonder how I got that heavy

grdaze

one of my worst moments was going for a third hamburger in front of my family. I was completely out of control and hated myself.

MrGonzo05

Ate what I want, did what I want. Hey wait! Why am I here? :laugh:

freelancejouster

on top of the still moderately crappy diet I have now, I ate tons of carbs - bread all the time, cookies and snack cakes constantly. And lots and lots of ice cream and cereal. also, lots and lots of mayo (which i'm slowly working on edging away from)

starrynight1929

I would eat about 10 peanut butter cups at work, a few little Debbie snack cakes, eat a family size bag of chips on my way home from work, and eat half a loaf of bread with butter when I got home.

I have/had binge eating disorder, Can ya tell? :-p

fivecardstud

My heaviest weigh in was 198, pretty sure I may have weighed more. I ate all the time, ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I also drank - A LOT. Then I stared working night shift the bad habits spilled over after dark.

rogersgale

Mickey D's here i come but now i dont even miss it.

jennagoogles13

I ate food in massive amounts, and no matter what, I always ate seconds. Also, I was eating fast food almost every day, and I accepted anything anyone ever offered me. I rarely ate fruits or veggies, and had so many misconceptions about what was nutritious! Also, I would snack whenever I was bored, and ate food just for the sake of doing it. I'm never going back there again...

pumpkinspice84

I was eating big portions. I never skipped meals I just eat too much and made poor choices. Now I measure out everything and putting more thought into what I am eating.

voyagewithme

Panda Express Everyday! Seriously, that may seem like i am exaggerating. but i literally ordered panda everyday on my way to school. Soooo Delicious!!

SteelySunshine

My heaviest was 7 years ago and probably 6 mos ago. Seven years ago was much more interesting, to me because I was eating a lot more and a lot more often.

I never had a normal breakfast, it usually be something like a pizza Not a couple slices the whole thing. I might top it off with a doughnut or a muffin an hour or two later or a couple minutes later. I would wash it down with diet soda.

Lunch on work days was usually Taco Bell. I would have a couple of burritos or a couple of those double deckers. Then I would mosey on over to another place and get something like a bread stick or a brownie or a big pretzel.

I would have pretzel sticks for snacking on I would go through a half bag of pretzel sticks in a day.

First dinner would often be pizza or something frozen that I heated up. Second dinner would usually be some kind of sandwich or some snack foods, like a box of crackers.

I don't know how many calories it was back then. I stopped counting at 3000 and most days I would easily add on another 1000 after I stopped counting. I don't know how much I weighed exactly, but I am pretty sure it is about what I probably weighed in October. I lost some weight between 2007-2010, but I put that back on and in October I started losing again. I cut out around 500 calories mostly carbs, I wasn't counting calories I was just being aware of them and being aware of portions. I didn't have a scale back in October either. It's like I can't deal with knowing what my high weights are, but I know that I am really up there so I start cutting calories and I get a scale when I know I have lost a bit of weight and it's still really bad, but I can at that point face what needs to be done.

charismanoodles

Breakfast: white bread with vegemite and butter
Snacks: chocolate, crisps, biscuits with cheese
Lunch: Hot chips, veggie patties in white bread, pot noodles.
Dinners: More hot chips, cola, gravy, white pasta.

:noway:

jessicae1aine

Basically:

Sleep, skip breakfast, and proceed to eat ALL the food for the rest of the day.

It's never been a particularly high fat or even super high carb diet, just a super high calorie and food volume diet.

fShaw86

It was more expensive than it is now! I'd go "grocery shopping" and only 20% of the stuff I bought back home was real grocery.

I'm a candy monster, my favorite being gummy bears.

Vailara

Pretty normal healthy eating. Home cooked food, with the occasional meal out/takeaway/treats. I didn't have big portions. Didn't drink my calories (apart from the occasional glass of wine and splash of milk in my tea). Would leave food on my plate if I felt full. Could easily stop at one. Didn't have a sweet tooth. I couldn't work out why I piled on the weight!

It was only after coming here and trying out BMR calculators and so on that it all started to make sense. I'd been eating at about 1800+ calories, which was a perfectly normal amount of food for many people but above my own TDEE. That's why portion control didn't work too well - I didn't need to have a normal portion, but a smaller than normal portion.

I wish I'd known this earlier, before I managed to almost double my weight!