no wonder i was/am fat...

Pasta. I have no portion control with pasta. I would make a pan of baked ziti (one box of noodles, a 4 cup bag of mozz cheese, 1lb of spicy ground sausage or hamburger meat, and red sauce) and could eat at least half of the pan in one sitting. I'm pretty sure I would have eaten it all if I was single and didn't have to share.

Portion control and eating out contributed a lot. Instead of eating until I was no longer hungry, I would eat until I was in pain.

If McDonald's soft serve is reduced fat and surprisingly low-calorie for an entire ice cream cone, clearly their milkshakes must be, too!

Then there was that time I was convinced that because butter is a dairy product, it has lots of protein and calcium. Ergo, cookies are a health food.

And once upon a time, I was a foreign exchange student. Which is all you need to know about that.

I used to drive through the Wendy's on my way home at night and get a large double combo with a large dr pepper, eat it while driving home, hide the trash in the trash can in the back yard, then go in and eat a full dinner with the family. Ugh...... I told my wife about that recently and it made her sad. I now refer to that Wendy's as "The Biggest Loser Wendy's"

I used to make a triple decker pb&j sandwhich. 3 slices of bread. PB and Jelly on every side. and im talking like half a jar of peanut butter. It used to be huge...and I would down it in literally 2 minutes. and then i would proceed to eat lunch like an hour later.

Round one of weight gain: going out to restaurants 4/7 nights - Indian, Thai, Italian, French, Moroccan, fusion, whatever, fatty fat fat fat stuff, lotsa lots lots lots of all of it - and having 2-3 glasses of wine every time, and dessert sometimes. And, huge bacon and egg sandwiches (on something the size and density of a ciabbatta) and a full-fat latte with lots of sugar for breakfast, every day.

Round two (mild regain after injury): just relying on fast / convenience food way too often. McD's, pizza, poutine, something like that either every day or every other day, plus no exercise.

Commonality: lazy as fk.

Ugh, I just read the past 4 pages and I thought 'I didn't have very many bad habits... Hang on fatty yes you did.'
I'm a firm believer in honesty so here it goes.

Ben and Jerry's Phish Food Ice cream, 1 container in 2 days.
Chocolate chip cookies, whole package 2 days.
Cheese. Never enough cheese. (From Wisconsin, ya'know)
Fruit Smiles Fruit snacks, jumbo value size box in 4-5 days.
Buffalo Wings, so many buffalo wings.
Fried Chicken, mine or KFC.
McDonalds food! Jalapeno doubles, McChickens, Big Macs, Habenero Ranch Quarter Pounders, Medium Fries, Buffalo Ranch McChickens, Caramel Frappes and omg Shamrock Shakes
Fritos Flamin' Hot cheetos, 1 bag in 1 sitting
Pasta dishes with alfredo sauce especially. Never enough pasta.
Fried Pickles.

I think that's it. That's at least stuff I did regularly or went through cycles with.

Also no portion control whatsoever. Boyfriend is 6'3 and eats like a moose because he moves/works more/harder than I do and I'm like "Well, if he can I can too!' Uh.. No, you can't, Sam.

Now I have a food scale and a fridge full of veggies which I love. I'm sorry veggies I didn't mean to leave you! I also have portion control now for my favorite things. Feels good man, feels good.

Half a pan of brownies... in less than 2 hours. No wonder I have the gut I do. And a whole half gallon of ice cream in a different afternoon. Chocolate is my addiction.

Two mcdoubles and a large fry

by using this logic for everything...
Hungry for plate of fries
Make plate of fries
Accidentally put too much ketchup on fries
Make more fries to offset ketchup fry ratio
Not enough ketchup now
Add more ketchup
Accidentally add too much ketchup
Make more fries
repeat until no ketchup remains

Going to a restaurant and eating a family-size dessert (all to myself) instead of getting an actual meal

I blamed the additional 25 lbs on baby weight, until my baby turned 3 and I realized that ship had long since sailed.

I look back and think no wonder I kept putting on weight. I did good during the day. I drank plenty of water, and never ate out for lunch, always bringing fruit, a sandwich, other sensible foods. When I got home it was an eating and soda drinking fest from about 530 pm til 10 pm. I would literally snack the entire time I made dinner (usually chips), eat two full plates of whatever I had cooked, and right before bed have a huge glass of chocolate milk and a sweet such as 6 cookies, huge brownie, sometimes both. Looking back, I can't believe I ate that much and wondered where the weight was coming from every morning that I weighed and saw the number creep up.

When I lived at home I would go to the convenience store and pick up several chocolate bars, fundip, and nerds. Sneak them into the house, and pig out on them down in the basement where no one would see.
After moving out there were times where I ate out for every meal. My subway lunches alone would probably be 1100+ calories.

10 beers and super nachos 3-4Xs per week. Yeah....

I could still eat a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's if I REALLY wanted to ;-)

Broaders1977 wrote: »

I thought the metabolism I had at 18 would be with me forever!

It's crazy how much young people burn. When I was 12-20, I'd eat a medium pizza to myself, no problem. Or two poutines from Harvey's for lunch, no problem. My weight was dead-centre normal the whole time. I only started gaining - and massively at that - in my mid-20s, after a bout of a medication. I lost that weight. Then, I gained again (less this time) when I started my restaurant tour. (Then I regained a little bit again after I was injured). the end