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300 LBS

amwoodruff
amwoodruff Posts: 54 Member
edited January 14 in Food and Nutrition
Guys, I want to respectfully ask, if you were 250+ at any point in your life, can you describe your eating habits? I am just really curious. (200lbs here, no shame, I have eating issues.)

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  • taralynmartinez
    taralynmartinez Posts: 11
    At my heaviest I was 297, and today I weighed in at 286. Its been four weeks now.
    Before I would eat a lot of carbs! I ate a lot of bread, rice, pasta, ect.
    Whenever I was hungry, hubby and I would just go to McDonalds and get something cheap and quick.
    I would always get 1 hot and spicy and 1 mcdouble.
    We would go to whataburger and I would get the 3 piece chicken strip meal.
    At taco bell I would get the loaded grillers or soft tacos.

    I was getting REALLY bad with eating fast food all of the time.
    Also, I had a hard time "bored" snacking.

    I find keeping myself busy and putting in food with more fiber helps a lot!
  • JUDDDing
    JUDDDing Posts: 1,367 Member
    Really, I didn't eat that much different.

    I hear about people who ate 4-5,000 calories a day to get there, but for me it's actually the little things that added up over 13 years.

    I probably ate between 2500 and 3500 calories most days (TDEE 2500).

    Usually skipped breakfast, had a sub for lunch, with a cookie and chips (1400 cals) then a large dinner (1000-1500 cals) and usually a dessert (500 cals) late (I stay up REALLY late and get hungry 5 or 6 hours after dinner).

    Even if most of the days were 2500 - the 3500 days add up - 3.5 of those to a pound. Then you're 10 lbs heavier over a few months. Then 20. Then 50. Then 100. It's all pretty easy math - but I was simply ignoring it.

    Had I skipped the cookie and chips, done some portion control on the dinners and maybe not had dessert every day - I wouldn't be here with 100+ lbs to lose.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    Good question...

    Obviously anyone who can get to 300lbs or more has some serious issues.

    I was a breakfast skipper from day one and usually lunch. I also am introverted and would rather spend the night eating my taco bell and playing on the computer. I love how good food makes me feel. When I binge it's like getting a hit of crack. I can barely wait to open the packages. I would sometimes eat food frozen just because I couldnt wait. never can get enough. I never fill the hole with food. I'm always looking for that perfect bite.

    I think alot of us large people hide a lot of our actual intake. I can bet that if someone got as large as me they are hiding food, underestimating the portions, or have food amnesia.

    I binged nightly. I binged after I binged on dinner. Sometimes all I would think about is food. I was in denial. I was trying to kill myself with food. Now that I try to manage my binges I actually had to mourn for the loss of my only comfort. I no longer have my coping mechanism. I cant rely on food anymore and it sometimes makes me feel lost.
  • dizzimamma
    dizzimamma Posts: 81
    301 is the highest i know i was but it could have been higher. I carry my weight well. I am tall and well proportioned so i dont look nearly as big as i am, so my body decieved me. I have always been active. I live on a farm so there is always work to be done. I was always healthy and strong too. I never ate breakfast or lunch and dinner was at about 7 pm. I would be so hungry. We ate tons of pasta and bread but alot of farm freash veggies to. My problem really came because i am an after dark eater. I would lounge around eating everything. Leftovers, cookies, icecream, candy whatever. I am still an after dark eater. Now i just manage my intake so i can do it right. And i eat good foods now. I have no shame for what i have done to myself. I tale full responsibility for my actions and am now responsible for my new lifestyle.
  • 366to266
    366to266 Posts: 473 Member
    I was 371 at my highest and for someone of 5ft 3 that is horrendous.

    I LOVE that "full-up" feeling. Sometimes I'd eat a big plateful of food, say, pork chops, rice, onions, swimming in cream, and then go cook it all over again and eat the whole plateful again. All by 10am! Then I sat down all day!

    Food was my medication. Food was my comfort. Food was my entertainment. It was the friend I could ALWAYS rely on when "real people" hurt me, let me down and abandoned me.

    I was just asking an awful lot of food.

    Then one day I just "woke up" and realised that, despite eating 10,000 bars of chocolate, I was STILL miserable. In fact I was MORE miserable, because on top of the depression and anger, I was also now morbidly obese and unable to walk.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    I ate out. A LOT. Donuts in the morning. Subs for lunch with cheese and mayo. Italian for dinner. Too much coke, Mountain Dew and ice cream shakes. I easily gained 10 lbs per year eating like this.

    Just by packing my lunches and making dinner at home from scratch goes a long way towards keeping me from returning to morbidly obese. When I'm not counting calories as obsessively as I am right now, I usually tend to moderate weight simply by skipping meals here and there when I'm not hungry.
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