Anyone Look Back At What They Eat In Shock

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.

OMG YESS!!I I shudder at what I used to eat...o.0

A little different, but, Krispy Kreme is directly across from my gym. BAD! Sometimes, after a heavy sweat, that sugar smells SO good! I use to completely undo my workout by grabbing two of them on the way home. That's like, a full days worth of calories in JUST donuts!

Oh boy.

Not really. I am more shocked at my lack of activity. I eat a lot now (3000 cals give or take), the difference is my activity level is very high instead of how I used to be, which I would call extreme couch potato.

When I first got my apartment, I thought nothing of polishing off a whole small pizza and a pint of ice cream. The ice cream store was conveniently located next door to the pizzeria. That was a long, long, long time ago.

Always be willing and ready to work off what you eat!!!