daily "diet" before deciding to lose weight?

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  • purplepiggy1
    purplepiggy1 Posts: 66
    No veggies, chips, CHOCOLATE, ice cream, cakes, sugary soft drink and two servings of dinner
  • abbylg1983
    abbylg1983 Posts: 177 Member
    Ooh, fun.

    I used to eat a bowl of cereal every day for breakfast. On weekends I might have eggs and toast, but I'd still have a bowl of cereal with it. I'd usually have Kashi Heart to Heart, with skim milk. I bet I'd probably have 2-3 cups, so I'm guessing morning breakfast was usually around 400 calories.

    For lunch I had Smart Ones a lot. I love the rice and beans. I'd usually buy 4 boxes Monday morning and then go out for lunch Friday. I'd say my lunch varied between 300 and 500 calories.

    Snacks I'd have fruit, granola bars, and chips or crackers. Probably snacking was around 300 to 500 calories.

    Dinner has always been a struggle as my husband and I don't like the same things. Before him, I'd make spaghetti a lot. Or eat out. We eat lots of chicken now. I'd guess dinner was also around 300 to 500 calories.

    Before I joined myfitnesspal, my daily caloric intake was probably about 1,800-2,000 calories. I am guessing my TDEE was about the same, because I didn't usually gain or lose weight. But my diet was like, 90% carbs. Very little protein or fat. Not very many vegetables. Lots of bread and cereal as staples.
  • action_figure
    action_figure Posts: 511 Member
    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 - raw

    Stop spying on me! ;)

    Seriously. I ate like this.
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    I would start the day of with a cup of green tea (a healthy habit which I have always kept). Then it would start to go downhill from there. I would eat leftovers from last night's dinner on either a sandwich or in burrito form. Some hours later I would make dinner. Usually something normal like Spaghetti, Tacos, a casserole, homemade pizza, red beans and rice, whatever. Most of the time I did make things at home, but there were never very many vegetables involved. I would eat dinner and never pay attention to portion size (I would just stuff things down my gullet until I was bored). Later on in the evening I may or may not have drank a large amount of alcohol while playing MMORPG's until 2 am.

    I walked my dog everyday.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I ate pretty much the same before as I did while losing. The difference for me was activity level. I went from sedentary to exercising regulary. My typical diet is to eat lower calories during the week and eat more on the weekends. I have a desk job and sit a lot Mon-Fri, and we like to host cookouts and drink more on the weekends so this just seems to make sense and work best for me.

    Most of my meals are home prepared so tend to be pretty balanced and healthy. During the week my diet is:

    Breakfast: cup of chocolate soy milk
    Lunch: usually leftovers or a sandwich wrap
    Dinner: Some type of protein - fish, chicken or beans are most common - lots of veggies, usually roasted or sauteed in olive oil, sometimes a grain - brown rice or quinoa are most common.
    Dessert - cocoa roast almonds, sometimes w/ berries
    Snacks - low sodium V8, dray roasted edamame, fruit, low sugar granola bars, soy or almond milk

    The weekends are pretty much that same type of foods, but more calories and meal times and number of meals vary and wine or beer are included. Also, more likely to have a sweet dessert on the weekend.
  • missshyeviolett
    missshyeviolett Posts: 310 Member
    This past winter I fell into a very destructive pattern.

    Mcdonalds bacon/egg/cheese bagel and a coffee with TONS of cream for breakfast

    For lunch usually Chipotle, but an entire burrito with double rice and beans AND a side of chips/guac/soda

    Dinner was burgers or meatloaf or tacos with potatoes or tons of baked beans and usually no veggies at all.

    Then a dessert of some sort.

    This added up to about 3500 cals per day. I knew it was horrible and I was gaining weight at an alarming pace, but I was truly addicted to it all.
  • SuzyLy
    SuzyLy Posts: 133 Member
    Have always loved salads, steel cut oats, muesli, yogurt and especially ice cream; never was a big meat eater. I would go through a 1/2 gallon every two days. WHITE BREAD -- I loved, threw some bologna on it or PBJ, if I was in the mood for something not sweet. I am still a chocoholic -- fortunately I never liked french fries but loved any type of pasta. I would never deny myself beer or dark rum drinks, & thought nothing of the calorie content of having a few.

    Things have really changed . . . .

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