At your heaviest, what was your eating like?

linalovekitty
linalovekitty Posts: 187
in Food and Nutrition
For me, I was skipping meals, getting way too hungry then storing whatever I did eat.
I was also cutting out food groups, like whole grains bc so many ppl have found success doing that I thought I would too. But for some reason, w out a little bit of grains in my life I never got satiated. So Id rock an entire porterhouse & wonder why I wasnt losing. Once I started reincorporating whole grains my daily calorie count naturally went way down bc I stay fuller longer & require less food. I guess different bodies react differently.
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  • Mpol2
    Mpol2 Posts: 442 Member
    It was fun. Sigh.
  • JMJ1983
    JMJ1983 Posts: 170 Member
    Well, i'd skip breakfast at home, make sure my daughter ate something nutritious and wholesome, drop her off at Daycare and then head over to either Carl's Jr for a Famous Star (w/o cheese or mayo) ok, sometimes I'd add cheese, but not always and never mayo, blech...Or a Jumbo Jack, no cheese and no mayo (never cheese on a jumbo jack), typically an extra large dr. pepper, some mornings I'd splurge and get a milkshake...

    On mornings I didn't go to fast food, I'd go get 2 donuts and some chocolate milk...

    Lunches I'd typically pack things from home, but with all processed snacks and foods, never any fruits or veggies...More times than not I'd skip the lunch I brought because I wasn't in the mood and would hit up a double cheeseburger, small fry and YEP, you've got it, another extra large Dr. Pepper...Other lunches would include taco bell, pretty much a fast food junkie...

    Dinners, let's see, I never meal planned, we'd just buy a conglomerate of food and we would always stair at eachother saying "what's for dinner, or we have nothing to eat!!" Dinner was always something hightly processed like Take N Bake Pizzas, Frozen Pizzas, Mac N Cheese, Hamburger Helper...Never a veggie and never a salad to go along with it, just processed crap upon processed crap, nachos, etc.

    Rarely if ever any water, I filled my thirst with Dr. Pepper and Monster/Vodka's...

    Crazy to think this was all just 11 months ago and how much everything has changed!!!
  • zillah73
    zillah73 Posts: 505 Member
    Either skipped breakfast or drank breakfast (grande whole milk mocha from starbucks). Fast food for lunch – usually double-whatever plus bacon plus largest sides and drinks. Something either frozen or out of box for dinner, i.e stouffers lasagna or kraft dinner. Then a pint of ice cream for dessert. The epitome of unhealthy eating – huge portions, almost no nutritional content, tons of refined carbohydrates, highly processed "food" products. I didn't like myself much back then and I treated myself thusly.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    I ate more bread with dinner, often had seconds just because something tasted good, and never had one or two cookies--I'd have six or eight. When I worked outside the home, I ate lunch out almost every day and we usually went out to dinner on Fridays.

    I don't think I ever binged. I just ate too much.
  • PosterPens
    PosterPens Posts: 172 Member
    NEVER ate breakfast. probably had a pint of ice cream EVERY DAY at least. ordered delivery everyday, which consisted of pizza, chinese food, italian food all at portions for 2 plus some! ate boxes of cereal. literally. cheese doodles! ah, the good ole days... haha
  • GetSoda
    GetSoda Posts: 1,267 Member
    About 6000-7000 calories a day. I weighed 280. (6'7 tall.)

    LOTS of simple sugar (Soda.)

    I lost my first bit of weight by eating the same, and cutting soda.


    I want a soda.
  • victoriannsays
    victoriannsays Posts: 568 Member
    I constantly skipped meals then pigged out after 5pm. Maybe a Danish and a latte for breakfast. Burger king for dinner. chips and dip. a snickers.. pepsi.. wine to relax at night. DIET FAIL.

    PS - my healthy meal would be a salad topped with ranch dressing and chrispy chicken loolololol
  • Camille0502
    Camille0502 Posts: 311 Member
    I totally missed all tahe fun at my heaviest. I ate healthy - just too much of it. Now wine that is another story. Bottle of wine at least three days per week. That was my main culprit.
  • JacksMom12
    JacksMom12 Posts: 1,044 Member
    6,000-7,000 calories a day on average. Sausage egg and cheese biscuits(multiple) for breakfast ramen noodle snacks, snickers bars, Taco Bell, wings and bleu cheese, Mountain Dew. I knew how wrong it was but I had just gotten clean from 6 years of eating nothing but prescription pills and vodka so I coped with food.
  • LSmela
    LSmela Posts: 30
    At my heaviest, Never had good sleep habits worked 3rd shift. Skipped breakfast, ate donuts and mountain due for snacks at work. Woke up in afternoon had processed boxed foods most of the time. Loved those hot dogs and mac in cheese. I am over that now. Do crave mac n cheese occasionally but not out of the box
  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    WOW WHAT A GREAT QUESTION! breakfast was toast cereal nuts AND fruit which i would eat at different times of the morning. lunch was anything drive thru or microwavable and dinner 7/10 was chinese buffet, apple bees, LOTS of taco bell. I MEAN A WHOLE BUNCH. then it was a FEW midnight snacks like ice cream cookies more cereal one of those delicious mocrowavable chow meins (which i miss sooooo much but havent had in months since they are about 600 cals) and last but not least 4 times out of the week there was a 12:20 am run to race trac gas station for nachos and a slushi or a bag of chips and sherbert . WHEW that was a lot ! Looking back on it , I HAVE NOOOOOO IDEA HOW I USED TO EAT THT MUCH AND WASN'T ATLEAST 300 HUNDRED POUNDS INSTEAD OF ALMOST 200 which is already bad considering my height. roughly about 5000-9000 calories a day
  • fanakar
    fanakar Posts: 23
    A constant rotation between McDonald's, Jack in the Box, Burger King, Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A and Whataburger. I didn't eat breakfast and still don't. For lunch a burger or quesadilla from the cafeteria. Ahhhh, they were glory days indeed!!!

    When I had a big test to study for, I would put myself on lockdown in my apartment and I would just eat whatever I had. Once that consisted of an industrial size box of Eggo waffles from Sam's Club and a crate of Mexican coke and then another time I just ate a whole tray of brownies.
  • Ashwee87
    Ashwee87 Posts: 695 Member
    Ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it and ate until I was miserable. This includes way over serving amounts; seconds were common; and even would eat a whole frozen pizza, to myself. There would be days I would pig out on one meal, then just not eat the rest of the day. Energy drinks were very common for me. Yeah, not healthy habits at all. :/
  • kayemme
    kayemme Posts: 1,782 Member
    i never ate breakfast. i drank a lot of soda, maybe 2L / day. I ate fa(s)t food probably every day, but at minimum 5d/wk. i ate chips every day and candy almost every day.

    i exercised, but not much.

    i ate healthy foods maybe half the time, but they were often heavy or rich with creams, cheese, or would consist of pasta & breads with vegetables mixed in. i have always cooked, so i could control the healthfulness of at least some of my meals through the day.

    my diversity of vegetables was supermarket core: carrots, celery, some squash.

    today, it's completely different and i can't even imagine going backward. when i pass a fast food place, the smell of it actually makes me kind of sick, same as car exhaust.

    i have way more experiential eating today. i would not call my old habits "fun"; i would call them "american" and, really, the antithesis of fun. i think the way i eat now is way more fun.
  • j75j75
    j75j75 Posts: 854 Member
    I ate all day, lifted weights and no cardio. I also ate a lot at night because I worked late. My diet regularly consisted of energy drinks, fast food, pizza, etc
  • SatchGallamax
    SatchGallamax Posts: 549 Member
    Just a greater volume of all the same foods I eat now.
  • pcastagner
    pcastagner Posts: 1,606 Member
    At my heaviest I was following paleo but not controlling portions.


    I can eat 5 lbs of meat in a day. Then dinner in the evening.
  • Miss_Krissy87
    Miss_Krissy87 Posts: 214 Member
    Just to much processed foods, to much eating out and way to much white rice, white pasta, etc. etc. I would eat when ever I got hungry and I was probably eating over 3,000 calories a day with out really any exercise.
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    I was eating between 3000-7000 calories a day.

    LOTS of Dr Pepper. Like at least 2 64 oz cups a day. Lot's of everything in general. I haven't cut anything out now, I just eat a lot less of it.
  • BleedsCoffee
    BleedsCoffee Posts: 247 Member
    It was an absolute mess. I'd often feel too fatigued to go grocery shopping, so I'd order pizza and that might be all I'd eat all day. A pizza, whatever soda I ordered with it and maybe the bite-size brownies that you could get. Terrible! I was brutal for running across the street to the store for munchies as well, often getting chips and dip, Twizzlers, and M&Ms.

    It's funny how eating well now, even with the frozen dinners that I eat since I'm challenged in the cooking department, I have so much more energy... to do things like hit the grocery store and get real food!
  • lala0719
    lala0719 Posts: 20
    Cookies, pizza bagels, chips, ice cream, pudding, fast food, more processed food.. yeaaah i was bad... D:
  • Natihilator
    Natihilator Posts: 1,778 Member
    Really lazy and unbalanced.

    But I also traveled around Europe when I was at my heaviest too. That was a tasty time.
  • aepdx
    aepdx Posts: 218 Member
    I just drank way too much beer. Then after or during the beer drinking, I would eat tots, cheese fries or jalapeno poppers. Yum. The only exercise I got was in a mosh pit. Those were the days.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Fast food multiple times a day, lots of soda, chips, cookies... every day.
  • ashlbubba
    ashlbubba Posts: 224 Member
    McDonalds Wendy's takeout chinese food fried rice... always had a big bedtime snack.. soda soda soda cookies candy cake.. anything delicious!

    I ate out twice a day- it was expensive, delicious, and killing me.
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    lots and lots of fast food...it wasn't pretty
  • goldmay
    goldmay Posts: 258 Member
    Some days I had fast food (a value combo with an extra side) for two of my meals. When I ate at home, *everything* was processed and large portions (I didn't even eat raw fruit!); meals like two boxes of mac & cheese, entire frozen pizzas, a family-sized bag of chips for a snack, etc. And 1-2 diet Cokes or venti lattes a day.
  • dorthymcconnel
    dorthymcconnel Posts: 237 Member
    I'm southern, so lots of fried food, lots of sweet tea, and way too much fast food. I'm trying to get a handle on the fast food (at least 5 days a week we eat at home) and I've all but given up my sweet tea habit. I still fry some, but I'm watching portions now and trying to incorporate more fresh veggies and fruits
  • sugarkane1234
    sugarkane1234 Posts: 51 Member
    Ditto this. Plus a lot of beer!
  • chuckles9189
    chuckles9189 Posts: 343 Member
    My problem was never the eating TOO much. It was eating ****. and then drinking a case of beer to top off my lazy day on the couch where I watched Friends all day.

    I was probably taking 1-2000 steps TOTAL for the whole day. but the drinking. That's what got me.

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