no wonder i was/am fat...

This thread made me hungry! Does that make me a bad person

This is my first post but as good a place to start as any:

1. An entire bag of Tostitos tortilla chips after work. I loved the salt and they were really a salsa-delivery mechanism. I'd feel so gross I'd have to forgo dinner.
2. A Chipotle burrito with guacamole, rice, beans, cheese, along with a side order of chips (of course). That's easily 1500 calories, probably more. Sometimes I'd have some more chips to finish off the salsa. I always felt bloated and even in a little bit of pain because I had eaten so much.
3. A large Papa Johns pizza by myself, along with the "cheese bread", which is basically another pizza with no sauce. That would take care of my day's food intake (typically I would order this on a Sunday after a night of drinking the night before). As with the other examples, I felt absolutely disgusting afterwards and into the next day as well.

The interesting part to me is why I would eat this way. Sometimes it was stress and/or fatigue, usually due to work. Or, as with the pizza, it was feeling tired and lazy and hung over. The taste and texture of the food made me feel better. It would calm me and give me (momentary) energy. Other times, as in eating more chips after Chipotle, I would be full and the literal sight of more food would make me feel a little ill. And yet I would eat more, almost as if I had an uncontrollable compulsion to. That was when I realized that food could be as addictive as cigarettes or drugs.

Reading all the other responses as well, the common theme is how highly processed everyone's binge foods are. It's just not normal to eat like that (and I include myself too) with real food. E.g. all of the sweet tooths out there are not saying how they gorged themselves on 5 pounds of strawberries. It's always ice cream, or cake frosting, or something out of a package. I ate chips, not cucumbers with salt. IMO it really highlights how food today is designed to hook us and get us coming back for more.

One final note, I've found that if I exercise regularly, a lot of the compulsion to eat for comfort or to get the salty taste or whatever just goes away. That's why for me a diet is never enough; I have to exercise (and hard).

Captain_Wobbles wrote: »

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

Substitute aioli for the ketchup and you just described me. Aioli is the one thing I can't have in the house.

rdianemu wrote: »

This thread made me hungry! Does that make me a bad person

youre not joking LOL i think its time for me to go to bed now LOLOLOL

I used to treat myself on weekends to a whole bottle of merlot with half a pack blue cheese

Sugar and Bread are the BIG two for me...In my college years, sugar, sugar, sugar and every meal pretty much consisted of heavy carbs...I'm not consciously trying to fit in macros yet but I will get there!

I used to order a pizza from my local takeaway every couple/few days (depending, week on week). This Pizza would be HUGE, 15" Extra Cheese, loaded with chilli sauce, donner meat (likely 3 large kebabs worth). The delivery driver used to laugh about how heavy it was and how much I must love it to order it so much! (At a rough guess given what I know now about content, I would estimate the colories in said pizza to be well over 5000-6000.. with the loaded cheese and seemingly limitless kebab meat)
Although I know those times weren't great for me, I see some 'eating contests' now where peopel take on pizza challenges and quite often think 'at one point I would have definately owned you at this!!'.
I'd eat the thing in one sitting and sometimes have desert!!

Now, I have a cheat meal once a week or fortnight (whilst mintaining).. During a cut I don't have so many for obvious reasons. On these days, out with greasy local 'cheap as chips' takeaways and in with a dominos pizza! Woop!

NurseCU wrote: »

* An entire pint of Ben and Jerry's "Half Baked" -- I could probably still do this!

Probably? LOL. I could definitely still do this.

I could polish off a 1.5 QUART container of mint Oreo ice cream in 2 days.

After eating all day, I would occasionally fix an entire breakfast at midnight (eggs, toast, hash browns, bacon etc...)

Eating so much sodium (4k to 5k daily) that my ankles would swell to 3x their size. I have the stretch marks on my ankles to prove it.

Eating an entire box off girl scout cookies in one sitting without even blinking

Having full meals between meals

Mayo by the spoonful.

VailCat13 wrote: »

A full box of angel hair or thin speghtti pasta. Raw. Ate it right out of the box, like chips.

I've never heard of anyone eating raw pasta before. Interesting.

segacs wrote: »

NurseCU wrote: »

* An entire pint of Ben and Jerry's "Half Baked" -- I could probably still do this!

Probably? LOL. I could definitely still do this.

Yes, could is so much more true. I was trying to give myself the benefit of the doubt, because I ALMOST did it last night, but chose not to. My husband was my last safety net. I asked him if he wanted a frozen pizza for supper because I wanted to go get Ben and Jerry's for MY supper. He said, get it if you want, but you were so excited about your weight loss this morning... errr, fine. I'm still eating a few girl scout cookies though!

Fast-food combos, with soda, usually with an extra side of chili, chicken nuggets, egg rolls, or something else deep fried.
5 corn dogs in one sitting
Entire freezer pizzas, adding cheese and more meat to them, and eating them with ranch
Whenever we had frozen chicken tenders as a teenager, I fancied myself a 'chef' and would bake them, cut them up in a bowl, add tons of cheese and honey mustard. Consume with fork.
Family size bags of potato chips and/or cookies, all gone in one sitting.
I could go on.