At your heaviest, what was your eating like?

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!!!

Wow you and I are soul sisters!! This was me... .I even worked fast food for 11 years so you can imagine......

Celebrate all the changes that you have made!! We've both come a long way baby!!

All of my meals were large portions and heavy/creamy/cheesy foods. I don't even crave those foods anymore! If given the choice of a creamy pasta or a veggie loaded meal, I'd definitely choose the latter. It's crazy how my tastes have changed over this time but I'm so glad they have! I love my colorful meals now, and I always love trying to figure out how to add more color through produce!

Dunkin Donuts for breakfast every day, so an extra large coffee with cream and sugar and a donut. Throughout the morning I snacked on the candy always at work, and probably grabbed a coke from the machine. I never packed a lunch or planned for it, so when I crashed hard at 1 I would either go to McDonalds or go home and eat half a loaf of bread. Either way, I would drink a coke. Of course, I'd be starving by 6, but I didn't plan for dinner so take-out 3 or 4 nights a week. Then at night I would walk to the bodega and get another coke, a pack of mini donuts, and a double chocolate dove ice cream bar.

During all this, the fruits and veggies I dutifully bought at the grocery store every week spoiled. It's amazing how much rotten food I used to throw away!

I constantly rewarded myself with food, and made occasions or outing "special" with food.

It was exhausting.

junk, junk, taco bell, junk junk, more taco bell....etc etc LMAO

It was really fun, takeaways in the week, lots of sweets/chocolates/cakes/crisps/biscuits....... Take me back hehe

eating every 3 hours with the worst kind of food such as double chicken fillet burgers and water was unknown territory for me. breakfast was usually a bottle of coke.. 2 litres that is

It was fun. Sigh.

Yeah it was. 2 Double Western Cheese burgers, large fries, zucchinis, onion rings and large strawberry shake for lunch. That was about 4,050 calories just for lunch with absolutely no physical exercise. Another was 3 Subway footlongs. I do miss those days and my stomach is growling just thinking about it, but I rather enjoy how I feel and look now rather than gorge myself.

When I do eat breakfast, its coffee and fast food on the way to work. Occasionally I will bring cereal and milk to work with me. I try and snack when I can, small things of popcorn, almonds, crackers. Lunch is my downfall for sure!! I try and make lunches, but then don't want to eat them so I end up going out for fast food instead. Dinner time is always frantic in my house ranging from thrown together meals at the last minute or opting to go out for dinner. Dessert usually follows with icecream or brownies after my daughter is in bed.

I would eat a lot of food throughout the day, even when I wasn't hungry (and HUGE portions!). I would put a lot of butter on things, sauces, etc and order SO MUCH FOOD when we went out to eat. I feel so much better and healthier now that I've made changes!

THEN:
a typical breakfast was either 2 biscuits cut in half with at least half a cup of white gravy and 2 pieces of bacon or 2 scrambled eggs with half a cup of cheese melted on it, 2 pieces of toast with butter, and 2 pieces of bacon or 4 pieces of french toast or 4 waffles or 10 pamcakes with butter and too much full sugar syrup OR 2 cups of any kind of cereal from marshmallow mateys to capt crunch to kashi with a cup of 2% milk.
a typical lunch was a whole totino's pizza or a big ham and cheese sammich with mayo and at least 2 servings of chips/cheetoes or anything from breakfast
a typical supper was half a large pizza from domino's or 8 oz of chicken, fried, with french fries and green beans or 2 toasted cheese sammiches with tomatoe soup or anything from breakfast
a typical snack was an entire cake... frosting and all! Yes, in one day I'd eat an entire cake. 4 scoops or more ice cream cones, movie theater butter microwave popcorn, a whole bag of cheetoes, 4 little Debbie snacks... Any or all of these made up both desserts and snacks in my life... I'd have multiples because I couldn't control myself

NOW:
a typical breakfast is 2 scrambled eggs with 1/4 cup of cheese and salsa of some kind or a cup or less (whatever is a serving) of cereal with at least 1/2 cup of almond or soy milk or 2 french toasts or 1-2 waffles or 4 small pamcakes with spray butter and sugar free syrup
a typical lunch is a small plate of nachos (about 1.5 oz of corn chips with 1/3 cup cheese) or a quesodilla with 1/3 cup cheese or 1 grilled cheese with tomatoes sliced on it or anything from breakfast
a typical supper is 4 oz of chicken with mashed taters with no gravy and some veggie, usually green or anything from lunch or breakfast
a typical snack/dessert is cereal, 2 scoops ice cream, 1 cupcake, hot air popped popcorn with small amount of melted butter or salt, never both or 1 little Debbie or granola bar.

I do have big eating days sometimes where I'll go out to a restaurant and eat like a huge plate of chili rellenos or something, we all do, I'm sure.
The way I look at it is we should enjoy food, not shun it... We just have to control it, not let it control us.