Calories you were consuming before you started dieting?

I'd venture a guess that I was easily at 4,000-5,500 or more. And the majority of them were stupid calories. Processed foods, refined sugars, chemical diet sodas, nowhere near enough vegetables or whole foods.

I still indulge in the diet sodas and aspartame, but eat a hell of a lot cleaner now, with upwards of 100oz of water daily. I figure I've earned my chemical dependency on diet sodas

I can't even imagine what my calorie counts were at. I ate so much pizza. So. Much. Pizza.

At least 3000 but probably closer to 4 or 5. I ate fast food daily and had giant bags of chips every night before bed. That awful feeling of sickness from eating too much is definitely something I don't miss.

This exactly. I used to overeat, drink eno's to feel less bloated, and three hours later, overeat again. Terrible.

3000+ and a lot of junk food ! scary

~2,400 to 2,500. These days is just under 2,000, dropping around 400g of weight per week.

I'm thinking somewhere in the vacinity of atleast 6000 well over the norm, enough to get me to 111Kg's and 40% body fat no idea now how the frig i managed to fit all that food into a 18hrs awake day lol. I was also on the verge of a heart attack or stroke at any minute.

I was on average eating 1-2 chickens a week, a pound of meat at a sitting, plus fries, cakes, sweets, bugger all veggies and salads, Macca's and or Hungry Jacks almost every day and KFC's atleast once a week. plus Ice Coffee, cordial and soft drink hooked upto my veins and only walking the dog as exercise for around 14yrs that was also in addition to struggling with depression and ensomnia and in 9 months following my 40th birthday i have lost all that weight + more (according to the scales) and have dropped 15cm's off my hips and about 10 off my waist and gut , Blood Pressure went from critical to perfectly normal and have gone on and off Blood PRessure medicine within 6 months but IMO still alot to go yet, not weight as much as obvious fat

At 560 lbs. I was eating north of 10,000 calories a day...

I actually dread to think what I used to consume before I started using MFP.

Around 2000 - that would be maintenance for me at sedentary and 215 lbs (my highest weight).

So not disgusting amounts of food and actually I've always eaten quite well in that I cook things from scratch and I love vegetables.

It was actually really helpful to work this out, I always used to feel like being so fat was very unfair and mysterious. In reality I was just a lazy short-*kitten*!