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How Badly Were You Eating Before MFP?

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  • kris1085
    kris1085 Posts: 1,436 Member
    Oh i know that i ate horrible before mfp. I would eat chips and dip or icecream while i would watch the Biggest Loser on tv . And now i have 100 calorie bag of popcorn ! Its funny how that MFP can just change your life all together !
  • fortworthbret
    fortworthbret Posts: 29
    I never checked, but I bet it would pass 5000 a day.
  • fortworthbret
    fortworthbret Posts: 29
    Including the 6 beers, according tot he mfp counters, I averaged 6500 a day.

    the site has me at 1770 now. only on 3rd day, I feel pretty hungry :)
  • LexieSweetheart
    LexieSweetheart Posts: 793 Member
    I ate like a mindless zombie never any vegetables and very rarely I ate fruit. I pretty much lived off bagged,boxed and frozen foods
  • julslea
    julslea Posts: 436 Member
    I'm afraid to even enter all the stuff I used to eat. I would sit down at night and fix some air pop popcorn but then i would put at least half a stick of butter on it and then after eating that I would eat several Tbsp of peanutbutter. Now if i want peanut butter I measure out 2 Tblsp and log it and with my popcorn i now spray it with butter flaovored cooking spray. Tast just as good without all the calories.
  • ChantalGG
    ChantalGG Posts: 2,404 Member
    Mostly drank pop, fast food at least 5 days a week, I added butter to everything i cooked and my favorite way to cook me is to fry it up in a lot of oil. I also ate out at all you can eat places at leat 3 times a month. And it doesnt help having a large family and th e point of getting together is to eat food There is always a birthday happening. :S I am worried about the get togethers the most.
  • milehighcritic
    milehighcritic Posts: 199
    I must have been up to 3000 calories a day. Probably 4000 on weekend if you add alcohol. This is why I ballooned up to over 240 lbs. I started to change my eating habits about 45 days before finding MFP. I had dropped about 20 lbs before joining. The site has extremely helpful with tracking food and opening my eyes to what I had been putting into my body.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Pre-MFP, I actually did ok since I'd been on Weight Watchers for a year. However, BEFORE THAT, it was rediculous! I wouldn't be surprised if I got up to 5000 calories or better some days. Breakfast would be something like a donut and latte from Dunkin Donuts or toast with peanut butter (not bad in and of itself but we're talking two big pieces of homeade style bread with 2 Tbsp of PB each....). Lunch would be a sandwich on that same bread from the cafeteria and would be a tuna melt or turkey rachel with a bag of chips and a soda. Then I'd have a snack of chocolate or cookies (several) some time in the afternoon. And I might have another snack in the car on the way home. Then I'd eat some rediculous portion of food for dinner. It's no wonder I got up to 260!

    AND I'd usually follow that up with a drink or two at night. Not the diet and rum I have now but coffe brandy and milk! Geez...
  • ddwin
    ddwin Posts: 78
    I'm not even sure where I would start. I honestly don't believe it was the food (albeit, I mostly ate processed foods due to 'time constraints' and pure laziness). My issue was the alcohol consumption and not moving. Between that and eating 3 meals regularly during the week and hardly anything over the weekend... After Really taking control and Paying Attention! (something I never wanted to do before... I was in such denial)... It baffles me that I ever wondered Why all I could do was maintain such a high weight.

    Trying to teach myself how to maintain my metabolism with consistent, Healthy eating has Really opened my eyes. I hope I never go back to my old ways... even though it's only really been about 3 weeks since I've actually put forth some effort.
  • bmontgomery87
    bmontgomery87 Posts: 1,260 Member
    the food i was eating was about the same.
    but the quanitities were off. I was thinking I was eating more/less that I really was.
  • elliecolorado
    elliecolorado Posts: 1,040
    I actually only ate 800-1000 calories a day, however drinking was a different story, 4-5 energy drinks most days and went to the bar 5-6 days a week and probably drank another 1000-1500 calories a day. I will never give up drinking, but I pace myself and drink water between drinks now too :-)
  • MarybethAltizer
    MarybethAltizer Posts: 226 Member
    I was eating around 3200 calories per day -- and most of it was highly processed, high fat, carb loaded junk.

    Me too. Mostly fast food, too. :blushing:
  • InfamousQ
    InfamousQ Posts: 266 Member
    There was a time I was eating between 3000-5000 cal a day....then I found this site...and it took me almost two months before I could get it under control I still struggle but I have most of it under control now...
  • Jspiffy
    Jspiffy Posts: 15
    I would say on an average anywhere from 6000 to 10000 calories a day. I was eating out at least 3 times a day. That was a minimum. I would go to a buffet twice a week. I would wreck shop there. I still go to the buffet because I can't resist the pizza there but now I limit myself to 2 slices and 6 wedges. Before I would have about three plates with 2 slices each plate plus an enormous amount of wedges hot wings and what not. Not to mention the 4-5 refills of pepsi I would have. I think I was/am so addicted to fast food because of the grease. I miss it to a point but then I have to remind myself whats better, feeling good or feeling like crap all the time without any will or energy to do anything!
  • MelsDiet
    MelsDiet Posts: 69
    Before this site (which was this time last week!) I used to eat all day long, I'd pick at things constantly especially chocolate (Dairy Milk, Galaxy, Maltesters etc etc) It wasn't unusal for me to eat a couple of huge bags of chocolates or a couple of large chocolate bars each day. We also had a lot of take away - Chinese, KFC, McDonalds, Fish & Chips, Pizza etc. I wouldn't dare put it all into this site though to see the calorie intake, I'd be so embarressed to know exactly what it was.
  • samcee
    samcee Posts: 307
    I didn't have MFP last year so I wrote everything on paper but counted carbs rather than calories. I use to eat so much carbs and process food! I've been keeping a food diary for 1.5 years now and a lot more mindful of what I eat.
  • jenn2080
    jenn2080 Posts: 10
    Oh, I was out of control!! Eating out... Mexican, McDonald's, Dairy Queen and I mean everyday! I had to be 3 or 4xs over my allowed calories a day. What a difference MFP has made this past week. My first weigh in for my diet is tomorrow morning, and I have high hopes.
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    I was eating 80% super healthy by food volume. Lots of lentils, veggies, fruits, lean meat etc.

    It was the other 20% of the food that was the problem.
  • SweetPrettyBrown
    SweetPrettyBrown Posts: 14 Member
    I'd say over 4,000. I had a binge eating problem , or for the most part, "eating my emotions" LOL. It's a little funny to me because looking back at it, I should have known better and I could have done better.
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