At your heaviest, what was your eating like?

My wife of 29 years is a great cook and loves to cook. She cooks for everyone she knows all the time. She works in a lab and will put a tray of ribs on top a heat treat oven to cook while she's working. She sells homemade pies in season as a fund raiser for S.B.Komen. She can (and many time has) prepared a banquet for a couple hundred people. We have a large refrigerator and two stand alone freezers that are always packed with food and we always have several meals worth of leftovers in the fridge.

Neither of us has ever gone above "slightly overweight", I"m 6'2" and was about 200lbs at my highest. I get asked all the time why I don't weigh more because of the way my wife cooks.

After reading this thread I think my answer will be that I never weighed more because of the way she cooks. We eat regular meals, she almost never prepares pre-processed food and we rarely eat out. After that its just a matter of portion control, although I have started eating more fruits and vegetables and fewer grains/starches after joining mfp.

0 fruits or veggies. LOTS of potatoes, carbs. Fast food almost every day...yikes....

I would buy lunch a lot, so that would be pizza, mozzerella sticks, etc. I would usually have a big cookie for dessert, and then when I would get home I would fill up a huge cup with ice cream, and mix in 3-4 cookies with spoonfuls of peanut butter as my after school "snack". And then have dinner and usually have seconds or even thirds...yeah it was just a **** ton of unhealthy, processed foods.

ice cream for breakfast, dinner and dessert. 2 slices of Pizza , cheese fries with bacon. 3 bottles of soda a day smh there's more too

Mindless, mostly. Eating whatever I wanted or whatever was around. Eating to placate emotions, etc.

Keeping in mind that I've never been clinically overweight, I figure I must have a pretty good metabolism.

I'd skip breakfast, have a Whopper Jr. w/ small fry for lunch and a 400-500 Cal dinner, usually prepackaged. About 1/4c. of ice cream for dessert. Just a couple of bites is all I wanted. Not too bad (calorie-wise), right? Well, that was on most weekdays.

Then there were the weekends where I'd go out for every meal (not my choice) and have things like a buttermilk waffle with blueberries and whipped cream for breakfast, chicken fajitas + 3-4 extra flour tortillas w/ butter ('cause I love 'em) for lunch, and maybe a fried chicken sandwich for dinner, or a quarter of an X-large pizza. Every weekend.

Add on to that the times where suddenly I wanted X. Let's say peanut butter sandwich cookies, and I'd go get a box and finish the whole thing with milk in a couple of days. Or I'd get on a cooking jag and decide to make souffle dessert omelets every night for a week.

Don't think it's any wonder I crept up a couple of pounds in the last year. The wonder is that it wasn't more.

My eating at my heaviest... Well, I would start the day just 15 minutes before leaving for work so no breakfast, although if we had cookies, brownies, sometimes even cake I'd grab a slice real quick and chow down while getting ready then rush out the door. Then (at my old job) I'd get candy bars, beef jerky, cookies, pies, and LOTS AND LOTS of cappuccino. I worked at a gas station so all of these things were readily available. If I had extra money I'd get the Landshire spicy chicken sandwiches or the Subs with ham and cheese. And that was only on the days I actually ate, usually I didn't eat, though. Then when I got home I'd pig out on whatever I had. Half a box of hamburger helper all to my self, pizza, fast food, ect. nothing healthy. No fruit. No veggies. Just meat and starch usually.

Though my current job is where I was my heaviest (probably because I was walking to and from work at my old job and now I drive everywhere). I would do the same morning ritual; wake up, find sweets, eat sweets, get dressed & leave; and at work we actually prepare meals for people that are based on an 1,800 calorie diet. So I would cook or my coworker would cook and we'd all sit down and have a 500 calorie give or take meal, then I'd come home and pig out on leftovers. What my dad calls a "healthy" meal would consist of shrimp scampi (shrimp in butter), angel hair pasta (pasta in butter), hush puppies (cornmeal and BUTTERmilk), and "steamed" asparagus (in butter).

Obviously the left overs where ever healthy.

Now though it's still hard because my dad still qualifies meals like that "Real healthy!" so when I get home I have to scrounge something out of the fridge, usually I end up eating bad stuff anyway just in SMALL quantities to stay under in my calories.

oh man it tasted sooooooo good. But at times I got sick. PIZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAA OREEOSSSSSS AND MILKSHAKESSSS all day erryday. Well not just those, those three were my favorites though.

I ate like a fiend. I still eat what I like, but before my portions were HUGE! I didn't stop when I was full and I could easily do 1300 calories in a meal. I ate WAAAAYYYY too much food. And I could kill some french fries, potatoes, ice cream, cheeseburgers.... not even care.

I still eat what I want, so if I have it (or I've earned it) I eat what I like, just way less than what I used to.


There is a fat person who lives inside me and it is VERY hard to shut her up. I wish she would go away.

I was eating a lot of sugar.. I could drink about a 6 pack of Cola a day. As well as taking in too many calories (eating an entire Pizza by myself). I am only 5' tall so I can't eat like that for my height. I would find myself eating a Big Mac meal from McDonalds and still being hungry afterwords. So Terrible. I can't believe I ate like that.

Now I can't finish an entire McDonald's meal, Can have a max of 4 pieces of pizza and 1 soda a day if I even want it/need it (I don't drink energy drinks or coffee so that's where my caffeine comes from)

Alas, now I am not even 30 and I have high cholesterol.. So I am now on a diet of low/no meat. I'm gonna miss all those burgers. But I will be healthier in the long run. Luckily I like veggie burgers!

At my heaviest I was 315lbs at the start of this year Im currently 294lbs. My eating habits were shocking baring in mind I am only 19 - 20 in July I would eat crisps or chocolate in the morning at work and take loads of sweets to work with me - I work in a call centre so I would boredom eat so much - we also have a little shop in my office called a tuck shop were they sell sweets, chocolate, crisps, fizzy pop and I would get 2 packets of crisps, 2 chocolate bars and eat all of it straight away.

I would then come home and snack on fatty food - sweets or chocolate or carbs - cakes and bread etc.

I'm really ashamed when I was really low I would go to the shop down the road from me and buy lots of sweets, cakes biscuits, crisps go up to my room and eat most of it if not all of it in one go. I had 6 cakes in one go followed by sweets, chocolate, several packets of crisps and then felt terrible.

Its only until recently that I have really got my head around what I should be eating and my portion sizes etc controlling my hunger pangs.

Would be really nice to make some friends on her for encouragement I NEVER want to get that low and down that I turn to food again because its got me to this weight and realistically I think I'm lucky to be alive.

But on a positive note I'm doing something about it and losing weight for me and my health I won't ever turn back!!!!

Xx

It was fun. Sigh.

LOL amen

In school when I was living on my own for the first time, I had lots of subway, poutine, pizza, chips, candy, dinner with friends, and lots of much needed caffeine (think starbucks, soda, and lots of redbull.)

I was 6'-1", 338 lbs. Probably ate 4000 - 6000 cal/day or likely more. Ate out every meal 4-5 times/ day. Breakfast burrito every morning. Plus frequent visits to a random Taco _____ fast food joint, Whataburger, or other fast food burger. Always double meat/ cheese and the largest size combo. 6-12 sodas a day and very little water. Greens? Hell no, not even on my burgers! Cheese on everything!

It was a pretty bad addiction. Eating did make me happy, but only for a little while. Didn't seem to matter how much I ate, I would start to crave more shortly after finishing a meal.

It surprises me how radically different I eat now. And how I don't miss the old eating habits. Plus I'm spending so much less money a month.

Fun, yes... I ate a lot though, like jars of cake icing, and stuff like that