no wonder i was/am fat...

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  • Serendipityunt
    Serendipityunt Posts: 120 Member
    Boiling three large potatoes and covering them in butter and cheese, and having just that for dinner.
  • Domino's Breadsticks. Oh yeah. There's a local pizza joint that does an even better (and worse for you!) version. The whole container, that's dinner. A bag of popcorn with a bottle of wine. Dinner.

    In the afternoon I would get my "walk" down to the corner store to buy a can of pringles (or other salty snack) and a bag of peanut butter and chocolate something. Afternoon snack.

    As a few people have said, I could still do that today, despite the 40 pounds lost, 40 to go. Not so much the breadsticks, that's too much bread for me now, but all the rest? Oh yeah. I wish.
  • vvallentyne
    vvallentyne Posts: 77 Member
    loads of beer, wine, whatever, and eating out! and an embarrassing amount of chocolate.


    yep, that was soooo me too!
  • KrunchyMama
    KrunchyMama Posts: 420 Member
    Working night shifts I would eat an entire large bag of Humpty Dumpty BBQ chips, plus 2 chocolate bars, and a package of Hot Tamales candies... 3x a week! Going back even further in history, I used to play WoW for HOURS at a time, and eat nachos with melted cheese, and a sour cream, salsa, cheese dip to go with it. Or when I worked in a call center and I would eat bulk candies all day long. Probably 500mL worth of candies per shift, 4x a week. It's actually a wonder that I didn't go past 200 lbs TBH...
  • kamakazeekim
    kamakazeekim Posts: 1,183 Member
    I never got the benefits of eating whatever/whenever I wanted....my weight gain was mostly the results of a hormone disorder (which is now thankfully under control) My weakness would be potatoes...anything potato. I also love the club lulu at Jimmy John's but that is a rare treat.
  • KrunchyMama
    KrunchyMama Posts: 420 Member
    segacs wrote: »
    Oh, and who could forget, I'd buy the store-bought icing meant for cakes (Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, whatever) and eat the ENTIRE THING with a spoon.

    Yes, really.

    It's actually a lot harder to do this since they changed their recipe. It just tastes gross now (thankfully, because I did this too!)
  • duckykissy
    duckykissy Posts: 285 Member
    Between the ages 19-20 I was averaging 2 litres of Dr. Pepper and one or two 4-shot vanilla lattes every day. The amount of calories you can drink is shocking.

    More recently it's BIG portion sizes (eating as much as my husband who is a good 6 inches taller than me and was gaining weight himself because of the portions), drinking large quantities of beer and assuming the way I felt afterwords for a few days was due to the amount of alcohol, and convincing myself that I can handle some dairy, because cheese, butter, and yogurt don't have that much lactose right? It's amazing- you don't feel like crap if you don't treat your body like crap.
  • Drinking a whole 2L bottle of pop in one day. Eating out two to three times a week. Lots and lots of carbs, without even thinking twice about it. Movie night, once a week, consisted of a whole bowl of butter popcorn, a bag of twizzlers, and two chocolate bars, and a whole bottle of coke. Learning how to do everything in moderation!!! LOL
  • turkeyhunter60
    turkeyhunter60 Posts: 319 Member
    I just like that fact that you are an avid bowhunter. I shoot recurves from the sixties. Good luck with your journey-both weight loss and in the field!
  • goingforahundred
    goingforahundred Posts: 590 Member
    I have done a lot of things that have contributed to my very many extra pounds. The thing that I am probably the most troubled and ashamed of is the fried chicken. I would go to the store or restaurant and buy an 8 piece fried chicken. I would start with the wings, then the breasts. If I was not stuffed I would move on the thighs. If I was stuffed I would peel the crust and skin off of the rest of the chicken pieces and eat it. Not a good thing physically, but it sure did taste good.
  • lngbrd
    lngbrd Posts: 279 Member
    MEXICAN FOOD and BEER!
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    id eat a container chapmans premium icecream or frozen yogurt every 2-3 days , huge family sized bags of chips often, piles and piles of cheesy pasta and rice (half a block of cheeese a day)id get a wheel of brie and eat it all in a day, id go to macs and get 3 giant ice creams like sandwiches and drumsticks then add on candy and chocolate bars too eat it all in a night

    frequent trips to bulk barn to buy obscene amounts of candy and chocolate covered nuts
  • grantwashere
    grantwashere Posts: 171 Member
    lots of beer followed by an entire pizza at 11:00 p.m. thanks to delivery. HAAA

    Hi, I'm your brother from another mother.
  • emmooney235
    emmooney235 Posts: 85 Member
    Oh, and I could easily go through 2 liters of diet Cherry Dr Pepper a day, and try to blame what I now understand to be an allergy/intolerance to aspartame on anything else.
  • Zx14chick
    Zx14chick Posts: 255 Member
    Grazing. I'm still a bit guilty of grazing... drinking my calories, whether it be sodas or the occasional alcholic drink. I enter pretty much everything that goes into my mouth and try to overestimate when I can't accurately calculate. I do not deny myself anything now if it fits into my calorie goal and I am pretty darn happy!
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Double Dave's pizza rolls. At least half a dozen in a sitting, absolutely coated in ranch dressing. And I confess - I actually lost weight eating those because I was eating like a bird otherwise and running all over the college campus.

    I wish I'd gained my weight eating those, because it would mean I could get Double Dave's where I live now.

    But no, it was mostly just eating out every meal every weekend when I used to go maybe once every couple of months, and picking at my plate because I'm a fast eater and like to nibble while everyone else finishes. Probably tacked on an extra 1500-2000 cals a week just for that.
  • drmryder
    drmryder Posts: 181 Member
    segacs wrote: »
    I'd buy a roll of pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough and eat the entire thing in one sitting... raw.

    ^^^^^ this was totally me!!!!
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    drmryder wrote: »
    segacs wrote: »
    I'd buy a roll of pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough and eat the entire thing in one sitting... raw.

    ^^^^^ this was totally me!!!!

    And the worst part is, I love to bake, and homebaked chocolate chip cookies are my go-to recipe. But I'd still buy the pillsbury stuff just to eat.

    (Sometimes if I was feeling really desperate and didn't have any convenient junk food on hand, I'd whip up a batch of my own cookie dough and eat THAT raw. I didn't like to do that though, 'cause of the raw eggs.)
  • spoonyspork
    spoonyspork Posts: 238 Member
    megsta91 wrote: »
    Remember the 'double decker' pizza hut pizzas? Yeah, my loose belly does! XD

    (to be fair, that's ALL I ate all day when I'd have one. But I'd wash it down with a two-liter of sprite!)


    dont remember the double decker.. but boy does it sound delicious! im a pizza freak!

    You have no idea! It's two thin crust pizzas stacked on top of each other!

    I make home-made pizzas this way now, but mine are the calories of one *slice* of those for the whole thing!

    Oh, my other 'binge' from the past: raw pillsbury peanut butter cookie dough. The chocolate chip didn't do anything for me -- left a film in my mouth that was gross. Peanut butter though? Nom.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Ate too much

    Barely moved from the sofa

    It's actually quite embarrassing how chronically lazy I was

    I still eat large volumes and frequently but I log and even it out
  • DirrtyH
    DirrtyH Posts: 664 Member
    This was many years ago, but I went through a period where I would make an entire yellow cake with chocolate frosting, then take the whole pan in my room (I had roommates) and just eat it straight from the pan over a couple of days.

    I also regret that I know the perfect ratio is 3 bags of ruffled chips to two containers of dip.
  • I_Will_End_You
    I_Will_End_You Posts: 4,397 Member
    Nightly bottles, I mean, glasses of wine.
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    I dipped just about anything in ranch dressing. Most foods were just a vehicle for ranch dressing. I remember not making frozen pizza we had just because we didn't have ranch.
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I drank a lot of my calories, either pop or fancy coffee drinks. If I were to have some of the coffee drinks that I used to have now it would wipe out almost half of my calories.
  • megsta91
    megsta91 Posts: 92 Member
    I used to eat McDonald's almost every single night before bed, milkshake included!
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I never was massive eater, but I was a SUGAR eater. I could go days without anything but pixie stix, gummy worms and lemonade. It's a miracle I have any teeth left.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    B: fast food burrito
    L: fast food burger and fries
    S: two for one after 2pm krispy kremes
    D: something fried and beer

    yup.
  • ilovemypeekapug
    ilovemypeekapug Posts: 106 Member
    Dinner would be a 12" pizza, king size m&m's, one can of pepsi, one can mtn dew...OR quarter pounder meal with orange hi-C, and a large cinnamon rolle. Snack on king size Reese cup (4 cups) and. 20ounce mtn dew. Wonder I'm still alive.
  • sdado1013
    sdado1013 Posts: 209 Member
    eating an entire pint of ben and jerry's in one sitting
  • jvt63
    jvt63 Posts: 89 Member
    Nutella. Spoon. Sweet, savage mayhem.
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