Bad, bad, bad

Late night cereal. Sounds harmless enough right? Except that the bowl I used held at least 3-4 cups of cereal, and I filled the milk to the brim. Then, when the cereal was gone there would be milk left so...I'd add more cereal to finish off the milk with. Easily 800-1000 calories worth of cereal in one sitting. And was a "snack".

When I order a pizza these days, I get a small pie. That's it. SOMETIMES a small soda. I used to get a large pie, with toppings, plus a cheeseburger and fries or onion rings, and an order of hot wings. Plus a 2 liter of coke. I lived alone. All the food was gone by morning. Wow, it makes me kinda nauseous to think about that.

Cereal is still my guilty pleasure I used to use a mixing bowl because those stupid cereal bowls aren't big enough! Now I use the right bowl, still 2 servings (1 serving is still unrealistic, to me ), with unsweetened almond milk. I know the pizza nights too. Loaded large pizza with a hot sub. You apparently can't have just a pizza, right? So proud of the cutbacks we can make and still live. I enjoy MFP more and more everyday

I hate how pizza turns into 15 different things. I remember a time, not that long ago, when we had some subs, chips and cookies delivered. We decided to wait on the cookies while we ordered a pizza, salad and hot wings. I imagine that cookie got eaten in bed with a beer...

But no idea how I gain weight. I don't think the 4200 calories / day ever did it...

I have two recipes for crust, and three for sauces. I don't log the veggies, just the cheese and meat. That makes it like 4 things instead of 15.

I was just thinking of how just four months ago, I would eat three grilled cheese sandwiches (double cheese) in my bed before I went to sleep. What do you remember doing before you started MFP and how it would make you cringe today?

If I had the calories left over before bed I would have ate them too. Realize that food isn't bad........................overconsumption is.

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Napping when I got home from work, then popping some frozen food in the stove and laying around on the couch all evening. My problem wasn't food, just too much vodka and laziness.

Blasphemy! NO such thing as too much vodka!

Any Vodka is too much vodka.

But I like a real drink. Scotch and that sweet sweet nectar of the gods Dark Rum (not the captain, or bacardi crap)

Bought a pepsi and snickers bar from the vending machine almost every day when I went to work. I knew it was bad for me but going to work at 5:30 almost every morning made for a sleepy employee, enter Pepsi. Then I always wanted to workout after work (I worked at a gym) and would be starving because the apple just wouldn't cut it, so I started eating Snickers to stifle the hunger. My workouts didn't always undo the damage I did and sometimes I never made it inside the weight room or to the treadmill.

While I still do this from time to time, It's not as often and it usually fits into my calories.

Girlfriend you and I woulda been best friends. Those are my two primary weaknesses. (drifting off into daydreams filled with 44oz big gulps and the corresponding free snickers....)

Oh me too! When I was in high school, I was a cashier at a drugstore and after school I would go to Taco Bell and get several items and/or a Mexican pizza with added sour cream and a large soda for my pre-work dinner. Then during my break it was always a can of Dr. Pepper and Snickers or Reeses PB cups or occasionally both. After work I went home and usually had a mini bag of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies my dad bought from Sam's Club, possible some Doritos, another soda or a big glass of 2% milk.

And I wasn't that 16 yr old kid with crazy metabolism and an extremely active lifestyle. Sure I worked on my feet, but I weighed about 240 at the time (now 190 twenty years later).

Devour a cheesecake!

I still eat and drink all of the same things I used to, but in smaller portions and not all at the same time.

After 9pm at Chili's, we'd go for 1/2 price appetizers and $1 beers EVERY WEEK and order all the apps and have 5-6 beers each. Easily 6-7,000 calories at a time.

there was a time in my life when i wouldn't think twice about eating an entire (full size, not individual) bag of sour cream and onion chips, half a pizza, a 2 liter of soda and probably chicken wings to boot and call it dinner. on top of whatever meals i had already eaten earlier in the day. this happened at least twice a month.

Getting drunk and eating a taco bell chalupa, 2 tacos and a nachos supreme in bed at 3 am........not sure how I ever woke up each morning after.

Definitely portion sizes / mindless eating. Since I have to log it, I always think about the amount. I always either weight it or count how many of whatever it is I'm eating (tomatoes, asparagus spears or chips) and now I know and understand precisely how much I *should* be eating.

But yeah, I sure do remember the days of eating without knowing how much I was eating and eating portions that were way way way too big for me and not even realizing it!