daily "diet" before deciding to lose weight?
linalovekitty
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Im always curious to know what people ate on an average day before deciding to get healthy and lose weight.
for me it was
no breakfast
heavy restaurant lunch like sandwhich and french fries
heavy restaurant dinner pizza, sushi rolls, or something like that
lots of sweets
and I was probably consuming 4000 cals/day and was always hungry
restaurant food was also no help, calorie laden but also full of sodium
for me it was
no breakfast
heavy restaurant lunch like sandwhich and french fries
heavy restaurant dinner pizza, sushi rolls, or something like that
lots of sweets
and I was probably consuming 4000 cals/day and was always hungry
restaurant food was also no help, calorie laden but also full of sodium
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Multiple bowls of cereal at breakfast that never left me full for long.
Snacking on my baking during the day.
Lunch of a couple pb&js.
Dinner, 2-3 times the portions I should have been consuming. I could eat an entire large pizza on my own.
Beer. Lots and lots of beer. Maybe 3 - 6 every other night and more on the weekends.
I never really felt full either and probably ate anywhere from 2500 to 4000 cals. I would offset that a bit with exercise but I didn't start to really lose weight until I got my eating under control.0 -
I would fluctuate between stuffed and starving, and the stuffed feeling did not last long. and I too could rock out a large pizza.0
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Mine was:
Breakfast: Nothing
Snacks: Crackers, usually goldfish or cheese-its
Lunch: Some type of frozen microwaveable meal, usually pasta or pizza
Dinner: Chicken nuggets, burritos, or breakfast foods (eggs, hash browns, sausage). Also, lots of pasta with cheese.
Late night: Tortilla with cheddar melted on top or nachos
It was usually the nighttime that killed me in the calorie department. I had a binge eating problem. ): I still eat at night, just with very controlled portions, or else I'll dive back into that habit.0 -
Breakfast: 2 fried eggs on buttered toast...just like now, only with heartier bread and more butter, so 200-300 more calories than today.
Lunch: Soup, sandwich, potato chips. Potato chips are comparatively rare for me today, except when I visit the UK, because the many flavors of crisps available there are awesome.
Dinner: Pasta, garlic bread--again, similar to today, except I watch my portions now--and if I didn't exercise much, would swap in a salad for the bread. Chicken dishes tended to be breaded and fried--not just fried chicken or tenders, but Orange Chicken or General Tso's when we went out for Chinese. I have those more rarely now.
When I snack, I weigh portions and/or just eat less of the yummy things in general. If I wanted snack cakes before, I would eat a whole packet--now I split a pack of TastyKakes with my son.
And when I eat out these days, I always check nutritional data online if available, and pre-plan what I'm going to eat. I'd say I'm just more conscious in general, which is great because I didn't have to give anything up to lose a total of 43 pounds to date.0 -
No breakfast
Heavy lunch of left-overs, fried food, not many veggies
Afternoon snack - candy, sweets
After work while preparing dinner snack - flour or corn tortillas, loaded with shredded cheddar cheese
Dinner - another heavy "meat & potatoes" kind of meal
Dessert - anything in the house
That usually got me to 2700+ cals with no exercise.0 -
Pretty much the same as it is now, but with much larger portions. And I had gotten in the habit of ordering the Cheese Quesadilla at work for lunch almost every day (they're salsa is amazing!!!). Now I know that I should really only be getting that once a week. Also, I'm now thinking more about what I order in restaurants,and often get a to-go box instead of stuffing the whole meal in my mouth.0
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Mine was very much like yours, linalovekitty. I did try to get lots of local and fresh things in there, but I would usually buy them, not cook them, and end up with a fridge full of spoiled food and takeout leftovers.
It was really hard to face that I was eating that many calories and gaining weight, too, because I would quite often skip both breakfast and lunch. That I could be eating 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 calories in one meal was astounding.0 -
A massive bowl of oatmeal or cereal.
Snacks like entire bags of chips - little to no fruits or vegetables besides bananas.
Pizza, Taco Bell burritos averaging at 500 calories per serving, Arby's, etc.
Ramen.
Dinners like Hambuger Helper with mashed potatoes and canned green beans or out at a restaurant.
Chocolate, ice cream, etc.
Bad stuff!0 -
Anything that wasn't nailed down. Truth.
I wrote a daily food intake on another forum...I should go find it and put it down.0 -
I was eating pretty close to the same foods except I used a lot of butter/margerine in my cooking that i've now substituted with other flavoring and olive oil... My main problem though was I would eat an extra serving of everything every meal
Simply changing up some of my recipes of the meals I already made and cutting out sweet tea mostly has helped so much! Also my food intake was very inconsistant, some days I know I probably pigged out, but other days I had to come in terribly low on food intake I think staying consistant has helped a lot too!
Average day:
breakfast: cereal and whole milk (2-3 servings worth) replaced with tomorrow oats most days
Lunch: yikes many times nothing because I hate lunch meat and that was all I knew to eat now chicken breast, or peanut butter on english muffin, salad, fruit ect
Snacks: nothing really.. I hate things like chips, crackers, and anything salty really, not a huge fan of sweets, and thats what I thought snacks were Now, apple with peanut butter, a banana, cucumbers, carrots
Dinner: ex. 1: seared butter basted chicken breast I replaced the butter with chicken broth(for basting) and olive oil (for searing) and its just as good!
ex. 2: meatloaf (made with ground beef, bread crumbs, and an egg) now its turkey loaf omit bread crumbs and egg (it doesn't change the meatloaf at all!)
ex. 3: mashed potatoes were made with a ton of margerine now I cook my potatoes with 4 chicken boullion cubes in the water while boiling and am using only a fraction of the margerine I was before and they actually taste so much better
*edit: not to mention I drank a ton of milk (whole milk) probably a good 5-6 tall glasses a day, I crave the stuff.... still do, but I now save up a bit in cals to have a good glass of the 2% at the end of the day on the days I'm craving
**oh and like 0 glasses of water sweet tea was my water :noway: 0 -
Found it
Daily example from back then.
Breakfast
5 pancakes (large ones)
scrambled eggs, at least 4
sausage
a ton of syrup over all the above
4 slices of toast.
Lunch
two or three sandwiches - ham and cheese were my fave but would settle for bologna and cheese
half bag of chips...did not matter what kind.
Dinner
Huge pile of mashed potatoes, pry at least 2 or 3 cups
half a stick of butter
two maybe 3 dinner rolls
salad
some kind of meat (loved steak)
vegetable
During the day
2, 3 candy bars
the other half bag of chips
chips and cheese (evening snack)
Cookie dough - raw0 -
I didn't know how to cook or care until my late 20s so I ate a lot of prepackaged things like frozen dinners, pizza, and boxed rices and noodles especially in college. My schedule was so busy with school and 2 jobs that it was normal for me to not eat all day and then go to something like Chinese buffet for dinner and eat until I was sick to my stomach. I also ate lots of fast food, fried things, salty snacks, and sugary sodas. Just like someone else said I never really felt satisfied. I would just go back and forth from starving to sickly full. I almost always had a stomachache too....I definitely don't miss that.0
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I didn't have a proper diet. I had the worse eating habits ever. I would wake up in the morning and sometimes not eat until late afternoon. I ate plenty of carbs + fat, plenty of sugary drinks, lots of fast food and frozen food with preservatives. I pretty much gave into every single food indulgence I wanted to. There was no structure and I used to binge eat as well. I am not even a week into my new lifestyle and I feel considerably better already. I feel hydrated and I don't feel hungry because I feel like I am eating all the time since I've added structure. I never want to go back to my old eating habits ever again.0
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No breakfast.
Healthy lunch w salad and lean protein
And uncontrolled eating in the evenings when I was starving. Had a snack while cooking (e.g. brie on baguette with wine), then dinner (quite healthy) but 3 portions, then desert sometimes yogurt, sometimes chocolate and drank lots of juice.
When I started tracking calories, I realized that I only had about 500 calories in me when I got home from work, of course, I was hungry and ate uncontrollably. So I distribute my calories during the day. I now always have breakfast, reasonable lunch, and I control my dinner intake. Stopped drinking anything but water (and wine of course, but I count it) Works like a charm.0 -
Nothing for breakfast, nothing for lunch, picked at my dinner, several sodas throughout the day, whatever candy hubby happened to bring out at night (jellybeans right now). It's bad when he brings junk food into the house (ice cream, Little Debbies, candy bars). At those times, he will go for a bowl of ice cream and it's gone because I ate it all. That, the sodas, then pick at dinner. I really wish he would stop with the junk. Then there is the lack of physical activity. Diabetes, here I come!0
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Mine has always been very healthy. Lots of veggies, fruit, whole grains, lean white meat, the good fats, fish, all the good stuff. And meals spread out through the day. I just ate too much crap on TOP of all that. So I needed to crack my ice cream/chocolate addiction, haha. But always lots of substantial nutritious food every day, just too much "desert" in addition to it that I really don't need
Oh, and lack of activity not so long ago. I put on weight because I had had jobs where I was standing most of the day, or was just used to walking around a lot in general. When that changed, I gained weight fairly quickly. So back to being (a lot more!) active at the gym instead.0 -
Im always curious to know what people ate on an average day before deciding to get healthy and lose weight.
for me it was
no breakfast
heavy restaurant lunch like sandwhich and french fries
heavy restaurant dinner pizza, sushi rolls, or something like that
lots of sweets
and I was probably consuming 4000 cals/day and was always hungry
restaurant food was also no help, calorie laden but also full of sodium
^^^this. SO THIS!
Old school me: I was trying to climb the corporate ladder and didn't realize that I was kicking the life ladder out from underneath me. I worked 12 and 14 hours a day sometimes, mostly in front of a computer or in team design meetings where they bring in calorie laden crazy stuff. No exercise. Lots of stuffed/empty periods. Forget breakfast, heavy meeting lunch, and other junk if easily obtained. Food just had to be easy. The family got what was left when I got in at seven and most weekends...but I worked a few weekends too, usually on travel. I might go for a walk on vacation! Then to bed at eleven most days, up at five or six, and back at it...totally unsustainable!
For the in progress better me: I still have to work long days but not as often. I now have someone add healthier options to business meeting food if I can. I separate my food in half when eating out and get the to go box up front if possible. I stopped full calorie soda and switched to unsweet. I don't do anything drastic but try to moderate and pull it back a notch. I still eat some of the same things but in smaller sizes. I break for exercise during the day even if it is just getting up and walking around for 10 minutes. I try to exercise early in the morning most days because then I at least have that 30 minutes in before the phone or email or craziness blocks me. I also really use MFP to track and control exercise, carbs, and calories. I hope to stay this way and am approaching this like it is part of my work day or a required habit...that works for me as I usually get requirements done. It still a work in progress...I have slid back to old things on occasion...but it is so much better and I feel so much better!
Good luck to everyone on their journey!0 -
lol was no diet.. was eating lol
never counted to see how many calories in a day guess i could.. but 4k seems really low lol..
How much is a box of cereal and almost half gallon of milk or a whole box of chocolate chip cookies crushed in a large bowl of milk? just snacks lol Oh my or half a loaf of bread for french toast and 6 eggs along with sausage and milk for breakfast, homemade sausage gravy and 12-14 ole grand biscuits with 2 whole eggs coffee and some homemade apples with PLENTY O SUGAR for breakfast.. wow those were the days.. 125 count of shrimp for dinner at redlobster all you can eat shrimp days along with all the sides and cheddar biscuits, or 18 1 lb lobsters all you can eat in fla, or killing any seafood buffets 5plate minimums stacked high and a pitcher of sweet ice tea to wash it down..0 -
see food and shovel diet. i'd see food and my hands would shovel it into my mouth.0
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no breakfast, pizza, ramen (which i still have sometimes..) what ever else i could find. and actually a lot of health food because of my mom, but since i still ate too much of it, it didn't help much.0
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Pop, constantly drinking it. Nothing else but pop.
Food was mostly snacks, constantly munching on either cereal or chips. Always eating, school breakfasts were often bready-sugary things, school lunches were usually fried things, or pizza.
Just constantly eating, hungry or not just to keep my hands busy. Grew up like that. Was a hard, hard habit to break. Especially the pop, quitting the caffeine was the hardest.0 -
Generally, nothing for breakfast. When I did have breakfast it was peanut butter and toast, or a huge bowl of sugary kids' cereal.
Lunch was usually a big bowl of cheesy pasta, or jacket potato with lots of tuna and mayo, or cheese, mayo, and onion.
Dinner was sort of similar to my dinners now, just bigger portions, with more cheese, mayo, butter - that type of thing.
Snacks were chips, cake, pie, ice cream, cookies, candy bars, or peanut butter and chocolate sandwiches.
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lol funny to read ppl missed breakfast.. I LOVE BREAKFAST why miss perfect time to start eating lol??? I never wasted a moment.. never really cared for sweets a whole lot but damn if i didnt love food and meals.0
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Breakfast was eggs and toast, probably some cheese in there. Lunch would probably be the biggest size sandwich I could get from anyplace near work, snacks were granola bars and fruit. Dinner was a free for all, lots of pasta with loads of cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, blt's, veggie burgers. Anything fast and easy. That would be during the week.
The weekend was when I went on mega binge mode. Too much alcohol, an entire pizza, biscuits and gravy, a burrito and a quesadilla from Qdoba (in one sitting), a loaf of french bread....it goes on. I don't know how I ever fit that much food in me, but I did track it once and I was routinely hitting around 4000 calories a day on weekends not including alcohol consumption.0 -
I would start eating as soon as I woke up, because you're 'supposed' to eat breakfast. That would set off an all day grazing/snacking format where I was eating every hour until bedtime. When I decided to lose weight I had to really evaluate how I was eating and realized I need to change my eating schedule. For weight loss I did ADF, which alternated with low calorie/normal calorie days and now for maintenance I do 8:16 IF and break my fast at 11am, and I'm totally done eating by 7pm. Doing this has allowed me to lose almost 50lbs and maintain now effortlessly, without counting calories or tracking anything 0
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Love this topic!
-No breakfast or Hardee's breakfast. My favorite was sausage gravy and 2 biscuits.
-Lunch: Whatever was convenient. Either a microwave meal, a sandwich, or a big bowl of take out Indian food and rice.
-Dinner: Something huge from a restaurant. Big plate of pasta, sandwich and big plate of fries, etc.
-Snack: I ate ALL DAY LONG. Swiss cakes, chips, etc.
Womp.0 -
Two or three bowls of cereal (but I used 2% milk, so I was being "healthy") or a stop at Jack in the Box
Snacks all day at work...chips, candy, crackers, boxed snack cakes, etc
Lunch was a weight watchers meal or a frozen microwavable pizza with more chips and candy, or maybe a trip to Taco Bell or Jack in The Box; when I was laid off I ate two frozen Totinos pizzas a day for lunch (emotional eating much?)
Dinner was either restaurant food, or very huge portions of whatever we had for dinner
After dinner snack of ice cream or boxed snack cakes
Pop all day long, at least 6 cans a day
I was also one of those that was always stuffed or starving....and funnily enough I kept telling myself that I really didn't eat that much! Until I started logging it. Wow.
I can't believe I ate so much food. I can still put some back after a long run day or whatnot, but still....not the vast amounts that I used to eat on an everyday basis.0 -
Ritz crackers and peanut butter...ritz crackers and cream cheese. Childrens cereal....oh boy if I took a bite of any of those again, I think i'd be ravenous 0
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Basically the same stuff I eat now, only in massive quantities. Oh except I no longer eat those fatty pork chops because they are 1600 calories for one small chop. I cannot eat half of a pork chop. I just do not have the self control. Oh yeah and I cut out alcohol almost completely.0
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LOL I think I am the only one who's diet looked better when they were fat than when in shape.
Mines was:
Chk breast, tilapia, yams, rice, beans, dextrose powder, pasta, peanut butter, bread, turkey, fruits, veggies, eggs. Good ole bro foods. The problem was, I was eating all that plus regular foods thrown in, and of course the weekly cheat meals (binges) where I'd eat insane amounts of food. Last major cheat meal was a whole pizza, wings, a burrito and ice cream. I stopped and took a more holistic approach upon my start here.0
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