Before MFP...name a bad food habit you'd like to admit...

I used to eat a fourth meal at 11:00 pm. I called it a snack, but if you counted the calories it was a meal. I would also supplement a combo meal at Wendy's with another dollar burger.

NO portion control AT ALL with Pizza...oh, and diving into (almost literally) a bag of salt and vinegar kettle style chips (again with ZERO portion control).

I still really can't handle those foods well with portion control so I've kind of stayed away for the most part. I have been at kid events where pizza was only food and I didn't know about it ahead of time (or I would have eaten at home in advance) and I was good about just having one piece...BUT, when I make pizza for kids at home, I just don't even touch it. I don't love it THAT much to lose control with it.

My taste buds have REALLY become aware of salt now. I cannot stand things salty. But, again, still do NOT really trust myself with these foods!

The worst thing about going crazytown on salt and vinegar chips in the past...was that I used to literally eat so much at one sitting that my tongue would get really sore from the vinegar/salt...SICK!!!!

Energy Drinks! 3 or 4 a day, I probably had over 1200 calories a day just in energy drinks. I still have one ever now and then, but like one every few weeks, but I plan for it. Also lots of processed foods and take out because it was more convenient.

Watching Biggest loser eating a Large bag of doritos dipped into French onion Dip. Mind you, the entire bag and the entire jar.

The question should be, what habit did i have that WASN'T bad! At my highest (296) I would hit the McD's drive through and get a few of those dollar burritos for breakfast or go to Jack in the box and get TWO of those ultimate breakfast sandwhiches. At lunch Id go through drive thru @ McD's again and get either a large big mac meal or large dbl qrtr pounder meal with a SIDE of 10 piece nuggets. At dinner I'd come home and wait for hubby to get in, and while waiting on him I'd munch some chips or icecream. Then we'd go back out for dinner (usually around 9 or 10 pm), drive thru again. If we stayed home and ate then it was something fast, two boxes of hamburger helper split between the two of us, or two frozen pizzas....not to mention we were well stocked with tons of snack cakes, chips, dips, cream cheese (in case we ran out of dip) hi-c, and soda. It was truly disgusting the amount of food I ate and how yucky I felt afterward.....

Well...I will add mine on:)

I used to drink Turtle Mocha's from Caribou coffee....some days I would have two! (Medium sized!)

When I would eat donuts-I would eat a cinnamon roll plus a chocolate covered donut and couldn't have those without Coke! Talk about sugar overload!

King Size candy bars.....oops!

Fritos and bean dip-I could eat the bag!

I'm not a snacker or a sweets person but when I get really hungry I can't control my portions. And the food choices I made were just horrible. My typical day went like this:

Breakfast - Sausage, egg & cheese on an everything bagel (God I miss everything bagels...haven't had one since December)

Lunch - a slice of pizza and a 12" cheese steak with fried onions & mushrooms

Dinner - Outback bloomin onion, cup of potato soup, 2 loaves of bread (with butter), cheeseburger with loaded baked potato

Yea...I had a lot of days that looked exactly like that. Or I would eat an entire 16" pizza with sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, and onion....or go to On The Border and eat 2-3 baskets of chips with queso, a chicken quesadilla, and then an order of fajitas.

I have no questions about how I got to where I was. I'm just surprised I wasn't even bigger than I had gotten.

*Edit...I left out the beer and drunk food. Weekends consisted of a 6 pack of beer each night and then late night food of 2 double cheeseburgers and a 10 piece nugget from McDonalds. I was actually in a beer club where the goal is to drink as much beer as possible...the bar was right next to a 24 hour McDonalds. Total loss there.

Well, before I started working on myself, I used to binge. A lot. I'm talking severe emotional binging. When bad things happened (or even if I was just having a sad day) I would grab a large bag of chips, a liter of soda, a bag of cookies, maybe even those stouffers french bread pizzas and eat the entire thing. I'm talking easily a few thousand calories within a 30 min period. I would be sobbing the entire time, knowing that it wasn't helping but it was something that made me feel better for like .5 seconds. Then of course I'd feel horrible afterword, which would grate on me, which would then lead to another binge...etc. I'm now working on that part of me and I don't binge as nearly as often as I had. I still have my episodes but it's a work in progress and I'm getting better.

However, that doesn't mean I don't have trigger foods now. I recently, without realizing it, ate an entire jar of nutella. As soon as I realized how much I ate and how many calories it was, my a** was right on that eliptical. Haha! oh well, no ones perfect. :blushing:

I would get Cookie dough ice cream from edys and eat half the container in one sitting, mostly at night.:noway:
The other addiction I had were dora posicle, the slow melt kind. I started eating them at night watching tv after I quit smoking. It took me a year to quit that habit!:embarassed:
And the one other thing9 and I am really embarrassed about this one) is that I would eat Nutella by the spoonfuls! sometimes half a glass in one sitting. I know those habits are the reason I gained all of this weight!!! I can't believe I did those things to my Body!!!
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However, that doesn't mean I don't have trigger foods now. I recently, without realizing it, ate an entire jar of nutella. As soon as I realized how much I ate and how many calories it was, my a** was right on that eliptical. Haha! oh well, no ones perfect. :blushing:
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Haha the other day I caught myself sneaking a finger full of nutella, and I haven't done it since.
Nutella is to blame for my weight gain.... well and me shoving it in my mouth LOL

Cheesecake!! LOVE cheesecake!!

I bake them and honestly could sit down with a cheesecake (not a slice- the whole thing) and a fork and be the happiest camper around. And there are so many different kinds...I haven't met one I didn't like. Never really did eat a whole one, but have eaten 2-3 slices at one time. I shudder to think of the fat/calorie content!

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Cheesecake!! LOVE cheesecake!!

I bake them and honestly could sit down with a cheesecake (not a slice- the whole thing) and a fork and be the happiest camper around. And there are so many different kinds...I haven't met one I didn't like. Never really did eat a whole one, but have eaten 2-3 slices at one time. I shudder to think of the fat/calorie content!

I have :blushing:

Wow! This thread has really taken off. I guess it is along the lines of taking a picture of yourself and really looking at it!

None of us are perfect, and all have trigger foods. It is how we handle those triggers that has changed. I won't say I still don't want (and sometimes eat) McDonalds, but I get a Happy Meal instead of a value meal.