At your heaviest, what was your eating like?
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Mine was directly opposite of yours! I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and enough of it to make my stomach seriously hurt. I would drink pepsi all day and have salty or sweet snacks at arms reach all day. I really did eat like a pig. Even when I knew I was full and didn't need anymore, I would make myself eat it!
I ate out every day for breakfast and lunch, and for dinner I would cook and it would be good food, but I would stuff myself with it till I passed out on the couch.0 -
I've eaten healthy/organic for many, many years. EXCEPT for the addition of the sweets! Most specifically, anything ice cream/Frosty/milk shake related. Cookies and M&Ms were a close second! Cookies and M&Ms IN ice cream....OMG!!!
I'd snack on an entire box of chocolate Cheerios in just a few days, finish entire packages of Oreos and Pepperidge Farm cookies in 2-3 days. Consciously, I knew it was junk, but subconsciously, I felt like I was eating well because of the Organic "regular" foods.
Now I make healthy/organic frozen smoothies so I get the sensation of a milkshake but they are packed with nutrition and none of the processed sugar (just sweetened with fruit) and I limit it to one per day. Admittedly, I still have ice cream in the fridge, but it's organic and I limit myself to one serving per day. No cookies or other sweet snacks allowed in the house!0 -
For me, it was 4-6 Mt Dews a day, almost no water, fatty meats, and lots of deep fried everything. And portions that where just WAY too big. OH, and Swiss Rolls .....nom, nom, nom .....about 1 box a week ......
And I like to bake, yea I know, really I do ....And I have been in search of the PERFECT Choc. Chip cookie recipe for years. So every couple weeks I used to try different things, and make about 4 - 8 dz cookies ......0 -
Ate out for lunch every day, had chocolate and crisps in the afternoons in the office, beers after work, wine with dinner, second helpings of food, takeaways at weekends....
I ate out of habit and boredom and never thought about the consequences of my eating until I reached my upper limit and had to make some tough decisions.0 -
ah at my heaviest i was 310lbs. (quite a few years ago i might add :P) I would quite happily order a family pack meal from a pizza takeaway near me which consisted of 3 12" pizzas a 12" Garlic bread with cheese, potato wedges and garlic mayo dip, a tub of coleslaw, cheesy chips and a 2 litre bottle of coke. I'd plough my way through that at around 9 or 10pm and then still be looking for something else...invariably i'd finish up with a tub of ben and jerry's cookie dough ice cream or chocolate fudge gateaux. I ate for comfort.
This would happen 3 or 4 times a week. And I'd pick at whatever i could get my hands on during the day 
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At my heaviest I was in college, therefore my eating was atrocious (and my drinking too!). I developed somewhat of an addiction to Coke and Pepsi, whenever school was stressing me out I would grab a can because the sweetness made me "feel better". My roommates and I lived off of pizza, wings, and chips and dip. Now that I am my healthiest and eating well, I can't even stand the taste of Pepsi. Too sweet. And deep fried, fatty foods make me feel tired, thirsty and queasy.0
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Skipped breakfast everyday for a scary amount of years cause i wanted to sleep more before heading to school, i drank like 3 bottles of coke during a school day, came home and ate a bag peanuts, 2 big portions of pasta, and of course a bottle of coke with the dinner, and after a while i would go out with a couple of friends smoke some weed and then proceed to eat big amounts of fast food, i was like this at least everyday for a year, with no excersise at all, except for skateboarding which was minimal, no wonder my girlfriend broke up with me..
EDIT: At least i got to my senses and started working out and eating healthier and cut out weed. I havent had a joint since december and i feel great, i dont drink soda and i only eat the food i make (Veggies and chicken mostly) i've lost 20lbs in 1 month, so i've been doing great.0 -
Eat just for flavour, not because I was hungry.
I still find it hard to stop when something tastes good, luckily I eat fairly healthy meals and snacks.0 -
I ate healthily at all the main meals--fairly similarly to how I eat now, but my portion sizes were off. I was also eating a whole lot of sugar in the form of cookies, pastries, cake, candy, etc. Lots of bread with PB, jam, NUTELLA, haha! Oh, and I drank red wine every night. :glasses:0
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Eat just for flavour, not because I was hungry.
I still find it hard to stop when something tastes good, luckily I eat fairly healthy meals and snacks.
This is SO me. I can eat like half a birthday cake just because I love the way frosting tastes lol.And if it's really good it's a waste of you don't finish it right?
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Lots of fast food, chickfla and pizza , pasta, Lots of soda and pints of ben a jerrys. i remember eating a entire pint in one sitting. eating a entire bag or oreos in one weekend. Also any candy i could buy or get my hands on. sometimes family dinner was KFC or chicken wings.0
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Oh God, it's painful to think about the way I used to eat. Unfortunately, I still occasionally have days like this, but they're few and far between luckily. I ate breakfast about half the time, and that was usually fast food (McDonald's bagel sandwich and hashbrown - about 700 calories). For lunch I might make a sandwich at home, but more often I would eat fast food or pizza again. I could easily polish off a large pizza in half a day. I would order a large pizza and breadsticks for lunch, then eat the rest for dinner. Once I found out about Little Caesar's drive through $5 pizzas, I was screwed. I could down almost an entire one of those in one sitting! I don't have a big sweet tooth, so I hardly ever ate ice cream, candy, etc. But fast food and pizza were daily occurrences in my diet. It was really bad.0
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Lordy, so bad.
Breakfast: none, ever.
a.m. snack: coffee, chocolate chip cookie or a muffin
Lunch: ALWAYS something crazy carby, like burittos, pizza, or pasta.
p.m. snack: chocolate
Dinner: some type of homade comfrot food....pasta, pizzas, burgers, casseroles...
Late night: oh holy hell....half a bag of doritos maybe? or ice cream.
Absolute awfulness...0 -
My first day on MFP is an example... 1,215 calories (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/watfordjc?date=2012-11-07) consisting of 2 egg and salad cream sandwiches with butter, and 2 litres of Coca-Cola.
I'd have one meal a day (if I felt like eating when starving instead of just going back to sleep, or forgetting about it) and it would either include a sandwich from the Tesco 3 doors away or something delivered. If it was pizza, Chinese, or Indian, I'd eat half of it the next day as I'd lose my hunger. That Coca-Cola was probably leftovers from the night before. Sometimes had melted ice cream for breakfast. I'd know I needed to eat something because a gulp of water of a cigarette would make me feel like I wanted to vomit.
I didn't regain the weight from what I was eating, I regained it from inactivity. My calculations suggest my calorie surplus over 3 years averaged 300 calories per day. My weight over the last 4 years in graph form (resizing to fit on here makes the axes hard to read): http://pi.thejc.me.uk/weight-loss/weight-from-2009-to-2013-04-28.png0 -
I ate bread/grains (opposite to what you're saying). I didn't have much to lose, but I found going gluten free and being stricter with chocolate/cake/coffee has made a world of different. No gluten ever again thank you!0
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A lot of pizza, McDonalds& beer.0
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I had a breakfast of simple carbs. Ate McDonalds for lunch. Ate one of my bf's high cal epic creations for dinner and dessert. Yup.0
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i and my gf and bf ate tons of donuts pizza ice cream beer, chocolate, candy, cakes, muffins, brownies, when at home, we would go out to eat all the time at buffets. we would eat till our stomach hurt really bad, usually eat more and more, it was so fun!0
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McDonald's for breakfast. Go to sleep. Wake up. In n out for lunch. Pizza cupcakes ice cream cookies boat loads of cereal. No way Jose not anymore!0
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Half a Chicken and Chips atleast twice a week, McDonalds/Hungry Jacks almost every day
no breakfast usually. coffee every few hours and several 600ml ice coffees a day too0 -
I would eat a small tub of cake frosting in a sitting, for one example.
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at 307.2lbs my eating was 3000-4000 calories a day ..
a bunch of garage food!!!!0 -
Oh, where to begin - breakfast would usually be cereal or wheat toast with PB (something fairly healthy) but then for lunch, I'd have like instant noodles, whole sandwiches with chips and regular candy bars or if I didn't feel like making my lunch it would be fast food - usually BK because that's close to my work. On days I didn't work I often went out for lunch anywhere I wanted - Applebee's (and no 550 cal menu for me!), Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Taco Bell, etc - at my worst, I'd even tell my parents I was going to the Y to work out but I'd end up at a restaurant and then wet my hair in the bathroom to make it look like I'd been sweating. There was another place I liked to go in a nearby town that had a ginormous ribeye with fries - of course I needed an appetizer before that and dessert after.
Now, I also used to go to church stuff at night a lot more because I was in the choir (I quit in October and the reasons for that would fill a novel in of itself - suffice to say, it was stay and go crazy or quit) and after these activities I'd stop for fast food. Sometimes I'd stop for something like teriyaki and be like "It's healthy 'cause it's teriyaki" - yeah, except it was the combo with all the fried dumplings and stuff....
All of this, of course, was in addition to snacks throughout the day - chips, pretzels, candy, pastries - I could eat a whole box of fruit roll ups in a day. And all of this food was guzzled down by tons and TONS of soda.
In December 2012, I weighed 273 lbs - my heaviest ever - I'd long since had to spend $150 on new scrubs for work and my size 20 jeans were starting to get snug. My back constantly hurt (especially if I stood for too long), my knees constantly hurt, I couldn't walk far without getting out of breath and needing to rest. It was time to change.
I'm now at 245 (I didn't lose much through December - holidays and all - still lost about 6-7 lbs) and March I got a little off track - maybe only lost a couple of pounds there too, although through that I kept up with my exercise so I was still getting in shape. My size 18's are fitting great (and at the end of this current weight loss challenge I hope to be in a 16), I can walk further than I used to without getting winded or needing to rest), my knees and back feel much better (though I am still heavy - especially in the boob area - so I don't expect my back issues to resolve quickly).
My eating habits are much healthier - I plan out what I'm going to have, often eating at home if possible and when I do go out I get something like a healthy Subway sandwich or something light from Panera. And recently when I got teriyaki, I got just the chicken meal and saved half of it for the next day instead of eating it all in one sitting. My snacks now are fruits, veggies, nuts. I have healthy turkey sandwiches or salads for lunches along with sides of fruit/veggies.
My biggest hurdle was the soda (though I had cut WAY down on the amount) and I think was one reason I was not dropping weight as quickly as I would have liked, but when I started the new weight loss challenge at the Y, I told myself I would at least give up soda for 8 weeks (and I'm hoping if I give it up that long, I will be able to give it up completely) - it's two weeks in and I'm still soda-free!
So glad I made this change and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress I'll make in the future. 0 -
Terrible to say the least.
Cheap Tuesday meant 2 large pizza's for dinner. Regular visits to KFC and Burger King, sometimes would hit both in the same day. Constant snacking on chips, lollies, ice cream, chocolate, cakes - whatever was around or tickled my fancy.
In my defence though, I did eat quite a bit of healthy whole foods as well, it was just far overshadowed by the sheer amount of crap I'd eat as well.
I still eat junk from time to time now, but nothing like before.0 -
Awesome question! I've only just started like 2 months ago so its interesting to see the change.
Breakfast: Either skipped, or cocopops. Sometimes nutella on toast. Sometimes, McDonalds breakfast
Lunch: A sandwich - usually CHEESE, packet of crisps, mini cupcake or some kind of chocolate (if I bought it out, it would be a BAR), celery sticks or carrot sticks. Sometimes with a mini bit of cheese, or a babybel
Dinner: A mix, of pizza, pasta, stir frys, fajitas... all with a lot of cheese. I could eat cheese out of the packet. And when I was grating it, I'd definitely have a little block of cheese to nibble on.
Doesn't seem TOO bad... but then...
Snacks: Sometimes on the way home from work, it would be a McDonalds meal. I'd hide the wrappers and still have an evening meal, cos I didn't want my boyfriend to know (he is now horrified cos I read this to him). A big bag of chocolate, or at very least a chocolate bar or two with a coffee, a danish sometimes if I went to the petrol station, usually a hot chocolate with baileys in the evenings. Cheese on toast maybe?
It's quite a relief to write it down... I would always try and make a healthy lunch, and it would be totally in vain. It's interesting, because I'm horrified by all that food now. Yes... I still get chocolate cravings, but compared to that, having a single bar of chocolate in a week is actually a normal kind of consumption!0 -
I would be cooking dinner whilst nibbling on blocks of cheese, I loved cheese. I would have 4-5 different kinds in my fridge and go through them in a week. I also loved my cereal I would have 1.5-2 bowls for breakfast. Used to eat out a lot as well and have a pint of ice cream in 2 days.
Anything with carbs and dairy really.
My name should be nomorecheese really but two months before I started I somehow begun eating excessive amounts of doughnuts.0 -
Processed everything.
Ridiculous portions of processed everything.
Sigh.0 -
I rarely ate, but when I did, it was chocolate.0
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Processed food, lots of coke-regular, fast food and never exercised. Blech!0
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I ate a lot of the same foods I do now, but much larger portions. And a huge asiago cheese bagel with veggie cream cheese for breakfast 3-4 times a week- now I limit it to once every other week
Oh and after dinner was when I would really get into trouble- I'd snack on whatever I could find. Nuts, spoonfuls of nutella, granola and milk.. just snacking all night long0
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