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What is the most calories you've ever eaten in a day?

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    No idea highest ever but yesterday was a big calorie day:

    4,289 eaten which left me with a 1,198 deficit for the day!

    (Long cycle ride gave me a lot of calories to eat back.)
  • mikeberthold
    mikeberthold Posts: 24 Member
    Since starting at the start of the year my biggest day was Super Bowl Sunday, 3649 calories.

    Hmm, I really haven't indulged like I used to, though I've had a few 3K+ days over the four months (Easter, after-work drinks and pizza). Not feeling deprived at all.
  • Wwonderful
    Wwonderful Posts: 145
    10,000 to 14,000!
  • meadow_sage
    meadow_sage Posts: 308 Member
    It was about 3 years ago. I ate an entire Papa Murphy's pizza, a wheel of brie, a full IHOP breakfast, one of those monster burritos from Chipotles and a pack of Sausalito cookies. I drank 7 beers, a couple of cans of Mt Dew and a glass of milk through out the day. I want to say that adds up to over 4000+ calories, maybe more? I have always been told I eat like a man, and at that point in my life I was 40 lbs overweight. I look back at times like that and can't even fathom doing something like that now.

    I'm willing to bet that is probably closer to twice 4000 calories
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    1889 calories, last Thursday. How do some of you guys get 4k+?!

    My maintenance is about 4100.
  • calaz84
    calaz84 Posts: 72 Member
    Prob when I would go to vegas its been years since Iv gone but the buffets and all the beer sure it had to be like at least 10-15thousand calories.
  • ilmb87
    ilmb87 Posts: 216 Member
    Probably around 6-7k on Thanksgiving. At least. (Darn you, tasty Filipino food!)
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    Mine was probably around 5,000, though it was before I was counting calories: breakfast, two lunches, two quarts of Gatorade, four Clif bars, a medium soft-serve ice cream, and the better part of a pizza with beer. I bicycled 125 miles that day, though, much of it in rolling hills, so I had a net calorie deficit.
  • msliu7911
    msliu7911 Posts: 638 Member
    Since I've been tracking- no more than 2800.

    However I can think of many days in my past where my guess would be that I had around 4-5K.
  • alyssamacon
    alyssamacon Posts: 8 Member
    Since I started tracking (less than a month ago), a little over 2600. There's no telling what the most was prior to that. I'm sure it was really high! I guess I'll see the next holiday or cookout. :)
  • crlyxx
    crlyxx Posts: 186 Member
    I wouldn't be surprised if it was as much as 5000. I used to eat whole packages of ice cream, bags of chips, cookies, in one sitting. I still can, though of course my willpower is a lot stronger now xD
  • MinimalistShoeAddict
    MinimalistShoeAddict Posts: 1,946 Member
    I have eaten over 7,000 calories in a day multiple times this year. Each time I remained close to my weekly calorie/macro target.

    Weekly calorie/macro tracking has helped me remove all guilt associated with days like this. I always know I can make up for it by the end of the week.
  • shadus
    shadus Posts: 424 Member
    Oh man, I've had some doozies... I'd guesstimate upwards of 15-20k over a day? dozens of times in my life. I grew up on a farm and there were days I ate 15k calories for 4-5 days at a time and LOST weight (It's absolutely staggering what 13-14hours of stacking/throwing/mowing 80-90lb bales of hay in 95 degree weather outside and 110 in the mow non-stop for thousands of bales will burn off.) I remember eating until i was dead sick to my stomach and still being hungry and wanting to keep eating.

    I think the worst I remember is... 2 large dp dc pizza, ~40 buffalo chicken wings smothered in blue cheese, double order of moz sticks with marinara, 2 subway subs (chipoltle steak & cheese with double meat and extra cheese, mayo, chipoltle, a1, and vinegar & double meat tuna with extra cheese mayo, vinegar), a 2L of pop, & a large chocolate ice cream double cookie dough blizzard with mud fudge added. Plus some chips throughout the day too.

    Just ball parking that would be ~6k in pizza, ~4k on wings & bc, ~1.6k in moz sticks, ~3k in subway, ~800 pop, ~1.5k in blizzard, and call it... eh 1k of chips... that's ~18k.

    For what it's worth - it was delicious... course that wasn't when I was bailing hay... so that likely all went straight to my gut... and I don't mean my stomach.
  • ssm_1972
    ssm_1972 Posts: 396 Member
    Till I joined MFP - Not Sure. But in last one month 2700-2800 net is the most I guess.
  • Sarahloulalou
    Sarahloulalou Posts: 60 Member
    Dread to think but I'm guessing over 8 thousand and probably much much more.
  • Bubblywendy
    Bubblywendy Posts: 32 Member
    3700 :(
  • rjmudlax13
    rjmudlax13 Posts: 900 Member
    During my college years, I probably broke the 10,000 mark a few times. Just guessing though.
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