Anyone Look Back At What They Eat In Shock

Oh yes, if im not counting its bad, at least 3-4000 .Its what you choose to eat that's the problem really, burgers etc all packed full of calories but we all like them. quick type of food are always bad,

Totally. I was a junkfood junkie! I love to bake and would make cupcakes for me and my roommates pretty much weekly. I'd eat French toast with tons of syrup for breakfast, pizza consistently for lunch, go out for dinner, come home and grab some baked goods, candy, or ice cream. Looking back I'm like how the heck did I eat all of that?! If I go out to eat even once a week now I have trouble finishing half of my meal!

I wouldn't quit eating cause I was full, I'd quit eating when I got tired of eating. ha

1200 to 1500 calories is generally not enough for a man. I think you need to re-evaluate your calorie goal.

I just recently starting eat right and i wonder how i walked around after some of the things i ate. I hate getting the bloated like feeling. When i first started this i thought i was dying one soda a day and small portions. Now i know when to stop eating without measuring and i can live on hardly any soda. I look back and see the bad habits i put in my life and will do anything to correct.

YES.

At the age of 14 I used to eat 8 poached eggs in one setting (proudly) with 4-5 drumsticks deep fried and a giant bowl of rice... Or half a chicken BBQ all by myself... Sometimes one pound of pork or beef stew easily with a giant bowl of rice. My parents were pleased and encouraged me to eat more meat, pizzas and fries because "I needed those calories of nutrition". And yes they measure nutrition in the unit of calories...

So I bloated from 95lbs to 135lbs in two years and in high school my lunches were always twice as big as most of the boys' in my class. Good thing I put a stop to that after I started to learn about nutrition... But looking back at it.... OMG....

And all those times I was hopelessly trying to convince my parents that you don't count nutrition by calories and you don't need that many calories when they were forcing me to eat a giant plate of sweat&sour pork or a cream stuffed bread for dessert... Sigh

I was just thinking about this! I didn't eat those things everyday but I definitely had my moments. On a regular day I would try to make "healthy" options but realize now that by quantity intake was way too high! I am doing about 1,300 a day and of course sometimes I still get hungry but I manage it with reasonable snacks. When we are eating all the crap food it creates an awful mess of just stuffing our face for no reason!

Although I am sure I had an occasional day or two a year where I might exceed 4,000 calories, my weight gain was more gradual and occurred over a 15-year period. My diet then was probably 2,700/kcal day on average. I now eat about 2,000-2,100 when not training as much as 3,200 in a day when training (maybe 2-3 times per month). So, in the end, my diet has not changed considerably (except for less rice and pasta), though I tend to make lower calorie and/or healthier choices on a more regular basis. What really changed for me is that I got up off my rear-end and started moving like crazy again.

Oh I know what you mean. Back when I didn't count calories I'm sure I would have clocked up to 5000 or more in one day! Cake being my biggest weakness which I have only very occasionally now and yes junk food and processed foods, the biggest weight gainers of all.

Yeap. Just had Cookout today. I chose some of the less calorie options and still ate about 1000 calories. Normally I could eat the higher calories things for lunch and dinner. I was stuffed.

Yeap. Just had Cookout today. I chose some of the less calorie options and still ate about 1000 calories. Normally I could eat the higher calories things for lunch and dinner. I was stuffed.

I love Cookout! I used to be able to eat a tray with a milkshake for a meal and be hungry three hours later. Now I can do either a tray or a milkshake (rare), and be so full that I eat a much smaller next meal

Yes! Also, one of the best things I've learned from MFP are proper measurements. I was really surprised to find that what I thought was a tablespoon of peanut butter was actually double that amount.

Me too! I honestly didn't care what and how much I ate. I even had this thought in my head "I better eat all of this now while I can still get away with it. When I get older, I won't be able to eat these things anymore so I should enjoy it now" I actually still kind of think that but I'm much more limited now because I have new goals in mind, that I want to be fit at least once in my life.

it wasn't just what I ate, but also how I cooked. i.e if I'm making an omelette then I eyeball the amount of shredded cheese I want to put in it, and it would be ALOT. Like I didn't even measure with cups or anything, I just grabbed handfuls and threw it in there.

Anyways a typical day, I would wake up and either skip breakfast or have a light one. I've never been big on breakfast. But occasionally I would have french toast with scrambled eggs or an omelette with a lot of shredded cheese in it, and bacon on the side.

I would snack so much. I could eat an entire bar of chocolate and some fruits in between.

Then I'd go to lunch which would vary from day to day. Most of the time it'd be some form of sandwich with lots of spread. and everything in it, with a side of fries.

Have some more snacks in between. A bag of cookies, more chocolate, yogurt, ice cream, whatever I could get my hands on really.

Then dinner would be the biggest offender. I would have creamy pastas with tons of butter and cheese in it. Or lasagnes and baked zitis with spoonfuls of sour cream and ALOT of cheese baked on top. And on top of that I would side several slices of french bread to go with my pasta. And even after two big servings of that, I would finish it up with a slice of chocolate cake and maybe later in the night I'd have hot chocolate with whipped creaming. I gave zero cares about calories.


There was also a time when I was vacationing for a couple months and I was drinking ALOT. Like every night with friends would be going out to the bars and of course this meant following up with mcdonalds when we got hungry because it's the only place that opened that late. Or greasy fried street foods. And also eating out every single meal of every day. I was eating pasta at restaurants every few days. and eating four huge meals a day. All with no exercise. That had to be time that I gained the most weight I ever had in my entire life. I even started gaining weight in places I don't even gain weight in. That was the wake up call for me.

I was always dieting, eating fast-food type salads- iceberg lettuce, ham, tons of cheese, chips instead of croutons (never ate them because i heard they were fatty) drowned in ranch dressing. If I was feeling Really healthy, a little shredded carrots. And plenty of 500+ calorie muffins, eggs were to fatty! Fast food chicken instead of burgers, because it was "healthy"

I never read calories or serving sizes, ever. I never measured or limited portions either. I never knew why I couldn't be skinny.

I'm just more shocked at how easy it is to eat too much and gain weight. I was never really a binge eater, I never drank soda, ate fast food, etc. aka the normal stuff people do that makes them gain weight. I ate mostly carbs and cheese, so nutritionally I had a bad diet, but I put on weight slowly (around 5 pounds a year since I was 13 - with no height change). I calculated roughly how much I would have to eat per day to gain weight at that speed, and it's only a difference of a few hundred calories per day.
It's actually probably good, because when I gain weight, it probably won't be in massive amounts quickly, but it's just amazing how eating an extra 200 calories a day can add up.