I can't believe I used to eat that!!

Robbnva wrote: »

Haven't had a burger since I started losing, I just got a coupon for a free burger at ruby Tuesdays and I love their smokehouse burger. 1,600 calories but I'm going to eat it since its this one time. I'm contemplating eating half or removing the bun but the day I'm going I have to fast for blood work so no breakfast and this as my lunch. Plus if I go to the gym. I won't be so bad lol

I have not had a burger since as well, but I plan to, just to show myself I can, and enjoy it. I have to go for blood work soon as well, so maybe I'll take your idea. Just not Ruby Tuesdays'. Perhaps Five Guys minus the five pounds of fries they typically pack per order.

CEREAL.
A gigantic bowl of cereal.
Weetabix, Shreddies, All-Bran, Special K topped with milk and a big spoonful of sugar of course.

I used to eat so much Special K I had to stop buying it.
I also used to add a spoonful of sugar to my cereal which I'd never dream of doing now. I sometimes chop in a banana if I want the sweetness and it's so much tastier than sugar!

Oh I can't believe I forgot... Huge bowl of rice pudding (probably 2 cups worth) with 2 tablespoons of Nutella... So what, a 1000 calorie snack?

I used to eat an entire box of mac and cheese to myself, and I'd add 2 tablespoons of cheese wiz to it. It made me feel completely terrible but it was so good.

8 servings size bowl of Potato Buds instant mashed potatoes with 1/2 stick of butter and lots of salt. For lunch whenever I craved "comfort food". And then feel bloated and miserable for the rest of the day. Ugh.

Tons of saltine crackers, at least half of a package in one sitting, sometimes with peanut butter. White rice with cheddar cheese. Three beef hard shell tacos with tons of cheese and sour cream. Frozen fettuccine alfredo dinners, sometimes having two for one meal.

EDIT: forgot half a box of Tobasco Hot & Spicy Cheez-its in one sitting. My favorite kind.

I used to drink 24 monsters in a week

hahaha! I love some of these posts!!

My low point... the frito bean dip with the cheapest, saltiest tortilla chips I could get my hands on!

I don't think I ate anything really outrageous, but when I was young and slim I used to do a lot of home baking, which included pastry, cakes, etc. I used to make leftover bread into tarts - a pastry base, filled with breadcrumbs mixed with syrup, or honey and grated apple, and baked. Very delicious with custard, but incredibly sugary!

And when I lived in Scotland, I did occasionally have deep-fried pizza. I also used to happily eat the occasional cream cake.

I didn't tend to go overboard once I put on weight (but I still did put on the weight, so must have been eating too much overall, even if it wasn't particularly high calorie foods).

I used to bake a lot and eat wayyy more than single portions. If I made blueberry muffins, I would eat 3 or 4 a day until they were gone. I used to sometimes make sticky date pudding too. After plugging the recipe into MFP, I have discovered that a single serve is 500 calories. I never thought it was healthy but 500 cal on one dessert is extreme. Plus I would have it with ice cream. I would also sometimes get the mini jellies (jello for the Americans) from the Asian grocer and eat the whole packet of them in one sitting.

It makes me cringe now but I know that I could probably still go straight back to those habits if I'm not careful. I don't buy/make my trigger foods anymore. If I know that I can't control myself with certain foods, they don't come into the house. I still have sweet things but not the same sweet things that I ate in excess.

When I was at my heaviest weight, I would eat heaping bowls of pasta with liberal amounts of cheese for dinner. Breakfast would be a double-toasted bagel with butter and a large coffee with two sugars and two creams (roughly 600 calories).

Before hitting the books at uni, I would buy cookies and another large coffee from the library cafe.

When I went out for dinner I would eat every morsel of my large portions of pasta/pad thai/curried rice and still order an appetizer and dessert.

This might not seem too bad, but when I think of it I was consuming well over 2500 calories on a day (where maintenance for a person like me should be around 1700). Plus I did virtually no exercise.

TheEats wrote: »

I see many people mention 100!!! grams of chocolate. I had a 120 gram bar this weekend The difference is that I now save up calories for such indulgence.

I would eat a whole tin of Quality Street chocolates in two days or 2-300 grams of other types of chocolate every single day. General food has never really been my downfall, I have always eaten normal portions of regular, often home-cooked meals. But chocolate! Sooo much, preferably every day.

Agree with the chocolate. I still eat those 100gr in one sitting. I just burn them of with exercize or save calories.

I used to buy already made sausage rolls, take the meat out and put Cadbury mini eggs in them and eat the chocolate and pastry together...
That was a bad phase

Lately I've been driving past fast food places I used to visit, and Quik Trip stores that sell a whole host of delicious junk. Yesterday, I realized I didn't feel tempted to drive into any of those places. It was a great feeling.

Robbnva wrote: »

labeastette wrote: »

I used to eat an entire pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream in one sitting!! My weakness! Nowadays, I try not to even go near the stuff!

They have those tiny portions, don't deprive yourself imo

A pint of ice cream is almost exactly my calorie needs for the day. Once I bought 5 pints for five days just to see what would happen. They were gone in three days, I was ravenous, and I felt like crap, of course. There went my ice cream diet before and after, write a book, make millions plan. Makes me wonder how much meth the twinkie guy was doing. Or was he just really hangry the whole time? I'd hate to have been around him!