So, How many calories did you actually put away?

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  • Timelordlady85
    Timelordlady85 Posts: 797 Member
    I don't know how many calories I consumed but I ate what I wanted, when I wanted, and didn't pay any attention to labels.So glad I learned to be healthy for me and my family. I hardly ever eat out anymore, even to sit down places. I much prefer the homemade foods at home and so do my kids. they love having turkey tacos at home instead of the tacos at taco bell. If we want potatoes we roast them instead of having them fried. knowing what I was putting into my mouth and how many calories it had in it helped me to make better choices.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Never even thought about it. More than now!
  • frisco111
    frisco111 Posts: 44 Member
    I could easily do 8000. I could eat a cake on my own. 2 dinners - no problem. Coke in litres.
    How sad.
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  • Makterbro
    Makterbro Posts: 101 Member
    Probably about 2500-3500cal a day.
  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    Well without tracking it's hard to say but I picked out what I might eat on a "bad" day without going crazy..there are seldom days when I'd eat out for EVERY meal...but I'd eat pretty carbolicious-ly.

    I might have:
    Waffle House breakfast: 1 waffle with syrup and butter, hash browns (scattered, smothered, covered and chunked), toast and grits with syrup and milk to wash it down (those big glasses are likely 16 oz, I used 2%, I doubt they're serving whole milk): we're at 1702 for breakfast

    LUNCH: 3 egg omelet with cheese and pork sausage (Now, I'd be more likely to use turkey sausage and 1/4 cup cheese instead of 1/2 or more..) served on two slices of white bread with probably 4 tbsp of margarine : another 1134

    DINNER: Homemade "Skyline chilil". Dreamfields spaghetti (wife is diabetic so we get this to help her out but I'd get two sometimes three HUGE bowls) plus the chili on top and too much shredded cheddar: estimating this out at 1710

    SNACK: I did and still do love me some Ben and Jerry's...I still have trouble eating the APPROPRIATE serving so I don't have it in the house often. When I wasn't counting, if I had a pint of Karamel Sutra, I was EATING the pint. another 1080 for snack

    Grand total: 5626

    This was not everyday but probably was not an "atypical" day either.
  • ExRelaySprinter
    ExRelaySprinter Posts: 874 Member
    On a daily basis at your worst, how many calories were you eating a day? I did some adding and on my most gluttonous days I put away around 9000. Wow!

    For me, i'd say at a guess - on take away days (i.e eating Pizza Hut, KFC or McD's - along with drinking Wine) i could easily tot up 3000+ cals in a day.
    This would normally be twice a week.
    But i was probably still eating 2000+ cals the other 5 days as well .......with very little exercise. :noway:
    Seeing as my maintenance cals are only 1600 cals, no wonder i put on weight! Lol
  • DarcyHamlin
    DarcyHamlin Posts: 18 Member
    Like many others on this thread, I was never logging (which is why my numbers were undoubtedly completely outlandish). But there are days when I am logging here when I gravitate back toward my old habits - larger pasta portions, substantial desserts, mindless snacking, etc. and I see what that does to my calories, and I realize, "holy crap, I used to eat like this all the time!!" Instead of being discouraged by this, I am actually relieved to know that there's a demonstrable reason that I got fat...it's not something that I can't control, that I'm "doomed" to be for the rest of my life. I can do this!! :wink:
  • chilly1470
    chilly1470 Posts: 178 Member
    Like many others on this thread, I was never logging (which is why my numbers were undoubtedly completely outlandish). But there are days when I am logging here when I gravitate back toward my old habits - larger pasta portions, substantial desserts, mindless snacking, etc. and I see what that does to my calories, and I realize, "holy crap, I used to eat like this all the time!!" Instead of being discouraged by this, I am actually relieved to know that there's a demonstrable reason that I got fat...it's not something that I can't control, that I'm "doomed" to be for the rest of my life. I can do this!! :wink:

    I wish there was a LIKE button on here!!
  • Shazdei
    Shazdei Posts: 9 Member
    haha probably between 7/10 000 on my worst, worst days!
    So shameful :o
  • Zerodette
    Zerodette Posts: 200 Member
    Thinking about what I posted in this thread stopped me from mindlessly snacking this evening!
  • girlviernes
    girlviernes Posts: 2,402 Member
    Yep, not to sure about this one but it would be high. My highest day since tracking was 3000 but that was nothing compared to what i used to eat (on the worst days). I would not be very surprised if it actually reached the 7000-9000 range.
  • maoribadger
    maoribadger Posts: 1,837 Member
    I'd go for 3000-4000 :(
  • LazPagz
    LazPagz Posts: 28 Member
    I just roughly added up what I would've eaten before I started using MFP - 5142 calories!!! aarrgghh!!!
  • LadyGisborne
    LadyGisborne Posts: 32 Member
    In the worst times of my life, when I was in the grips of extreme binge eating, I ate approximately 10,000kcal/day. I put on 70lbs in 3-4 months.
    I had dropped out from Uni and literally spent my days eating. There were no "meals" per se. I was eating all the time, even when my stomach was so full that it hurt.
  • Angierae75
    Angierae75 Posts: 417 Member
    I gained 80 pounds in 7 years and then maintained for another 12, so when I was gaining I was only eating a little over what I was burning, but it meant that year after year, a little over ten pounds a year crept on to me.

    I maintained for a long time, so now I just need to learn how to eat a little less and move more, and hopefully some if not all of it can come back off.
  • Ragtees
    Ragtees Posts: 33 Member
    Not sure on the amount, I know on occasion I'd eat a bag of reeses mini's during lunch. Amazing what the body adjusts to, couldn't eat that much sugar and fat now.
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    More than I needed too! I have no clue, cause I wasn't counting.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    who knows, I didn't track or think about it then...

    I know over the course of 8 years or so I put on 40 lbs...so that's about 5 Lbs per year...so I wasn't going crazy or anything overeating...probably about 250 or so calories over my maintenance....as I recall, my theoretical non exercise maintenance calories when I started was around 2400 or so...so maybe 2600 - 2700 calories per day.

    These days I actually eat in the neighborhood of 2800 - 3000...but I'm far more active...so I probably actually eat slightly more now at a healthy weight and in maintenance than I did when I was more or less sedentary and gaining weight.
  • JazzFischer1989
    JazzFischer1989 Posts: 531 Member
    Rough estimate, 18-2400 calories throughout my teenage years - which isn't that much considering how active I was, but half my diet was ice cream, Cheetos, sugary cereal, potato chips, massive amounts of rice, snack cakes, etc. My diet has drastically improved since then and naturally, I take in fewer calories on average. If it weren't for the fact that I exercised 1-3 hours about 4-5 days a week (I was in dance and kickline) I wouldn't have been nearly as thin as I was.
  • cosmiqrust
    cosmiqrust Posts: 214 Member
    which end of my worst do you want it? the part where i was eating a bowl of wheat bran a day? or the part where i was putting away a family sized bag of doritos and a whole box of pop tarts in front of world of warcraft?

    when i was starving, 0-200. when i wasn't, somewhere in the 3-4000 range.
  • SunshineKisses_2012
    SunshineKisses_2012 Posts: 471 Member
    Just logged what I remember eating regularly at the beginning of this year, and whoa! 4,000 - 5,000 calories was normal! All processed, mostly take aways.
  • LazPagz
    LazPagz Posts: 28 Member
    also i would regularly cane a whole jar of nutella at the weekends - literally just with a spoon i would eat the while jar. well over 1000 calories. ouch!
  • drich1989
    drich1989 Posts: 95 Member
    Honestly I'd be scared to know. There were a few days a week where I would eat out for EVERY meal. Yikes.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    When I first started using MFP, just for kicks I logged a bunch of honest days from when I was much heavier and I was eating between 2,300 and 3,000 calories most days. It blew my mind, because I remember when I was at 271 lb I was talking to my now-husband about weight loss and he used an online calculator to determine that my maintenance weight for 271 lb was around 2,700 cal/day and I did NOT believe him at all, I figured I ate around 1,800-2,000.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Honestly I'd be scared to know. There were a few days a week where I would eat out for EVERY meal. Yikes.

    That was common for me as well. I usually chose one item and avoided appetizers, dessert, drinks...but the calories still add up quickly! In fact it happens sometimes even now, especially when traveling...but at least I'm able to make better choices now.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    calories 2,887
    carbs 186
    protein 135
    sat fat 67
    sodium 5,683
    fiber 16

    one of my typical days before I was diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure. :indifferent: So stupid.
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    When I first started tracking calories, I came here and put in a typical day's worth of food, snacks, sodas, treats... anything that I would eat within a 24 hour period, including midnight snacks.

    The tally was 12,000-13,000 calories per day.

    ETA: Check out my open diary on 10/17/14 and I put in what a typical day would have been for me.
  • Erikhulse
    Erikhulse Posts: 51 Member
    It disgusts me to think about...but I did a quick logging of an old day and it was easily over 6,000 calories per day...I would usually have Whataburger honey butter chicken biscuit, 2 taquitos, 4 piece hashbrowns, and an orange juice...That alone is 1,880 calories. Lunch was always fast food, my favorite of which being whataburger honey bbq chicken sandwich, fries, and 2 large sweet teas...2,400 calories. Dinner would also usually be fast food...It disgusts me to even admit that sometimes I would go to two fast food drive through lanes for one meal...Taco bell dollar menu I'd get soft tacos, quesadillas, cinnamon stick, and then I'd go over to Jack in the Box to get a spicy chicken sandwich, 2 tacos, and a strawberry smoothie...That's 2,000 calories right there...Not to mention I would get free snacks at work throughout the day, and usually indulge in snacking after work at home too. I'd imagine probably close to 7,000 calories on my bad days. I can even remember times when I would pick up a Little Ceasers Hot and Ready large pepperoni pizza and bread sticks and eat the entire thing for dinner. That is 3,000 calories. I could never ever go back to those habits. On the rare occasion I have to eat fast food (if I'm out with friends or family and traveling), I will usually get a grilled chicken salad with little to no viniagrette dressing. It's no wonder I lost 170 pounds...Going from 6,000+ calories per day down to 1,500 to 2,000 calories, it just falls off!
  • Cathalain
    Cathalain Posts: 424 Member
    I couldn't even tell you. I've been obese since the age of 11, so who actually knows - I had gotten so used to high calorie amounts that when I started eating correctly after my diabetes diagnosis, I lost 30 pounds almost immediately just from the shock I put my body in.

    10,000 calories a day isn't out of the realm of possibility, sadly.

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