At your heaviest, what was your eating like?

Oh wow... I never really gave it much thought but now that I think about it I was terrible. I would eat whenever I was hungry (or well bored). The portions I took were way too big and I would drink soda and ice tea constantly. At the end I would sneak downstairs in the middle of the night for a little "midnight snack". I would eat anything I could get my hands on, it didn't even matter what it was long as it was edible From toast with cheese to sausages or left over pasta.

I feel pretty disgusted thinking back of that now... so happy I made a change. I just wish sometimes I would have made it earlier.

Let me just says that I seldomly have a left over in my plate. Small portion? Big portion? I have no problem cleaning it. I also have lots of chips and starbucks drink too many times as well.

TL;DR- Like crap.

Did not eat breakfast. Practically starved throughout the day, but stayed alive on lots of donuts, munchkins, muffins and snacks that people would bring in to work. Went to the local mexican place by me for lunch (Moe's) and got usually a chicken quesadilla or a burrito with lots of vegetables (that made it 'OK'). Oh, and I ate the tortilla chips and cheese dip that came free with every meal....MMMMM. Other times for lunch, we would get pizza. The place by my job often gave us free garlic knots so of course we couldn't say no! If I was pressed for time I would go to Wendy's, and get a junior bacon cheeseburger WITHOUT the meat or a grilled chicken wrap without dressing, for some reason I thought this would be healthier but now I know better. Then by dinner time, I was starving again and would completely binge out on my dinner. Weekend nights would be spent eating at restaurants ordering whatever I pleased, and lots of beer. During the week it would be whatever my mom makes, which is usually lots of pasta dishes.

Now I still eat out on most weekends, but just make healthier choices. I am addicted to sushi, but now I order sashimi instead. A 'cheat' meal would be ordering 1 sushi roll which are absolute calorie bombs (In the past I would be notorious for stuffing down 3 or 4 special style rolls). If I'm at an American style restaurant I order a steak with lots of veggies instead of rice or fries. I always (try to) eat breakfast now, and it's usually eggs of some sort. Protein + veggies for lunch and dinner. Lots of avocados. Always cook with coconut oil. I no longer eat bread of any kind (except for the rare occasion when I want a treat) and I think this made the biggest impact for me. I also stopped drinking so much when I'm out with friends (I stopped going out so much in general), but summer is coming up and I can make no promises that I will behave haha :P

I'm a small girl but I can eat A LOT. More than any male friends I've had. I eat like a horse, and was always hungry and never knew why. My friends would call me a garbage disposal (and at the time I thought I was skinny!). I would chalk it up to my metabolism just being so fast that I was always needing to refuel! *eye roll* Now I realize it was because I wasn't eating nutrient dense foods, which is a no brainer. Since I've completely changed my lifestyle, I no longer feel weak, tired and famished throughout the day. I can wait 4-6 hours until my next meal without feeling like I'm going to pass out. I eat until I am full/satisfied but the amount that I'm eating is much less. I still have my occasional indulgences once in a while because I will not deprive myself. If I want a cupcake, I will have one. But the keyword there is ONE, not THREE!

disordered. i wasn't binging, but i'd go all day without eating and then have a decent dinner, so it was basically asking my body to hold on to calories before bedtime. Most of the time I wasn't eating enough in terms of actual food, but picking at higher calorie things without thinking.

disordered. i wasn't binging, but i'd go all day without eating and then have a decent dinner, so it was basically asking my body to hold on to calories before bedtime. Most of the time I wasn't eating enough in terms of actual food, but picking at higher calorie things without thinking.

oh and before people start... i'm hypothyroid so before i was diagnosed i could eat nothing for a week and put on a kilogram. As it happens, during the times I went down to my Self-starve eating disorder I put on weight every time.... gah.

Too much eating out, too much pasta instead of protein, taco bell sometimes. Really not much different than now I just dont do all the bad things in the same day. They get spread out. Today pasta, tomorrow beer, the next day a chocolate bar....instead of all in one day.

Mine consisted of having a very unhealthy breakfast , maybe 3 slices of bread covered in cheese and 2 packets of crisp , i would munch on crisps and chocolate throughout the day and have a fatty lunch and tea . I topped the scales at nearly 19st at my heaviest at just 17 i am much healthier now due to 4 years of healthy eating . Trying mfp and its great

At my HEAVIEST of 360 pounds, my eating was horrible. I was working about 70 hours a week with a long commute each way. I'd eat n egg mcmuffin or something like that with a diet coke for breakfast. I'd have a coke zero and a candy bar for a snack. then for lunch I'd eat whatever all the other ladies was ordering.. chinese, bbq, sandwiches, etc... then a few hours later I'd wander into the kitchen and eat a little left over birthday cake or sandwiches/cookies left over from a meeting... If I was still working at dinner time, I'd order food in.


I should add that eating like this was what brought me from around 250 to 360..... I've always been fat at 250ish pounds but I exercised regularly and ate a healthy diet high in veg and homecooked foods.... I gained 110 pounds in two years from eating what I wanted when I wanted it.. and when I stopped eating like that I lost 30 pounds. I've since learned that I have multiple hormonal and metabolic issues at play that contributed.. but the biggest contributor was eating too much of the wrong things!

Well, it took me over 20 years to gain an extra 100 pounds, so I would say my eating wasn't completely horrible, just a little too much of the "wrong" things, indulging a little too often, etc.

I've had a life-long aversion to vegetables, so during much of that time I ate very few. The occasional salad, corn on the cob, baby carrots, that's about it. I snacked on cheese and crackers, pretzels, baked and ate a lot of cookies, milk. All things that I still eat today, just not all in the same day!

It would start out by skipping breakfast and then eating the unhealthy snacks at work, like Famous Amos cookies, muffins and the milky way coffee with sugar and cream. For lunch usually mexican food or chinese, with extras like eggrolls, nachos, or some kind of side item. Afternoon snacks of starbucks frapp's and cake pops were pretty typical. Dinner generally a big bowl of salty vietnamese soup or super salty chinese followed promptly by dessert and about 3 hours of laying around watching tv being miserable.

God...I'm glad those days are over!

I was heaviest at the ends of both my pregnancies. Although i tried harder to be sensible with food during my second pregnancy (ky first was 6 months old when i found i was pregnant again) i still gained a LOT of weight.

In my first pregnancy i had no self control. Its like someone flipped a don't stop eating switch...

in the morning id eat cereal before id leave the house. Nearly at work i would stop at tesco and but 'lunch'. Whilst there was a lunch item, additionally id usually walk away with a couple of packets of crisps, croissants, chocolate brownies, savoury snacks. Id sit and blow through all of that before lunch time, especially if i had free periods (with biscuits from the staff area too). At lunch i would go and get whatever was being served in the cafeteria... Wow, thinking back to this is crazy, i cant believe i ate like this. At the end of the school day i would drive home and make myself super noodles, not one pack but two... Then i would cook dinner for myself and my partner. I've always loved to cook. I always made too much and i would eat a huge serving for dinner. Then snacking in the evening would happen... Throughout the whole of my first pregnancy my eating was out of control. I cant even begin to fathom the calories i would eat in a single day. But if you want to put on 6 stone in a few months then that's the way.

i lost a lot of weight in the six months after i gave birth and then pregnant again i was scared of putting on too much. I did put it on but not as much. So I've still got a stone to go but im running, fit, feel good and eating excessively healthily. Never again will i let eating get so out of control. So much more trouble than its worth.

Mostly just too much of what I eat now.

Same stuff - just more of it more frequently and a whole lot less exercise.

I didn't understand the notion of portion control or boredom hunger. I didn't understand the correlation of fueling my body for what I'm doing rather than eating just for the sake of eating.

I don't think I ate a large quantity of food, but I think I picked the wrong things. High calorie meals and frequent take-aways and meals out. I'd also drink a lot of my calories - red bull, coke, milk shakes, etc. Everything was fizzy and I gave myself kidney stones too.

All of the above, paired with no exercise at all.


Edit: Being in a relationship makes it easy to put on weight too! All of the days out and cooking for each other, none of it was healthy food.

A lot of takeaways. Maybe 2-3 times a week.... A lot of emotional eating, eating out of boredom. Lots of cheese, wine, bread...Just not really paying attention or making wise choices.