How much did you eat before MFP?

oh i don't even like to think about it! but here goesss...

breakfast: dunkin donuts vanilla creme donut with a LARGE caramel latte (with whole milk, of course)
lunch: usually either chipotle (chicken burrito with cheese & salsa) or taco bell (crunch wrap supreme with nachoes & cheese)
dinner: well, if i didn't go out to eat at chili's with my boyfriend, then i ate at home because my dad cooks, and there is NEVER a healthy option at home...

of course that doesnt even include the "snacks" i would have throughout the day....

gross. just gross.

Way too much! An example day during the school year:

B: granola w/ skim milk (at least 2 servings)
S: 10 mini nutter butters
L: starbucks coffee drink with lots of whipped cream and a scone
S: 8 saltines and 2 pieces of american cheese
toast, fish sticks, and some carrott sticks
5 oreos


And now I would probably cry if I ate any one of those meals, lol

The first day I logged on MFP - about 2400 calories. And that was me "eating healthy". I had already decided that I needed to cut down on food, there was no junk food in there (a few alcholic drinks though).
Before that it would have been much higher - an extra 1000 cals maybe?

breakfast vary between: Nothing or 2pieces of toast maybe a huge bowl of cereal

Snack: Biscuits,toast,lollies,fruit

Lunch: more toast or something left over from dinner'

Dinner: Pile of chips sausages. or other junk


god i dont think i can recall all the crap

in one day i could eat 2packets of honey jumbles
5 cups of sprite
8pieces of toast
chips
chocolate bars

i feel very sick and annoyed at myself at the moment

I used to eat pretty much all day every day. It was quite a struggle for me to think back to before last Oct when I started watching my food intake... It seems as though I have always eaten this way. But phew when I started to remember, it all came crashing back to me!
After having my son, I told myself that I could eat more because I was breastfeeding. I would eat whole packets of biscuits (cookies) IN ONE SITTING with a cup of tea - I now know they are 1000-1500 cals for a pack

If I went to Nandos, I would eat 1/2 a chicken no problem, with a large fries, bread and have room for dessert. Now I eat a quarter chicken with a salad - what a difference.

Pizza was a killer - easily polish off a large one all to myself. And I loved stodgy food (still do - one of my deamons) - so pies, lasagnes, chips, kebabs. Buffets were not my friend - even now I am scared by that word, BUFFET or ALL YOU CAN EAT... *shudders* as I know I am still not in a place where I would be in complete control.

My portion sizes were ENORMOUS. I would match my husband plate for plate and then wonder why I was so much heavier than him. And lastly, I ALWAYS finished off the food I'd cooked or bought. There were never any leftovers. If I couldn't manage it at a first sitting, I'd sure enough get round to it, even if it was at 11pm, I was darned if I was going to refridgerate anything!!

Nowadays, I still eat some of the above, very very occasionally and in moderation. Not only have I been losing weight but my bank balance is so much healthier too!

Thanks for this topic, it's made me feel sick, I am NEVER going back there.

prolly like 3000-10,000 calories a day... however, I was never overweight ! strangest thing!

typical meal:
Breakfast: coke bottle
Snack: snickers bar
Lunch: alfredo pasta, salad with dressing, breadsticks, ice cream, cookies, coke
Snack: mac and cheese, coke, cookies
Dinner: coke, cereal, fries, half a pizza, cookies, more coke
After Dinner: three mikes hard lemonades, half a pizza, blizzard from DQ..
hahah oh god.

this is the freakiest thread. My problem was the opposite I ate about 800 calories. but drank maybe a couple of large glasses of wine. I thought I had a drinking problem now I know I just got a kick of the sugar high I desperately needed as I was eating so little. I hardly drink at all now I eat properly and when I do I jus tdon't get the same kick.
I exercised 4 hours a week minimum on next to no food and no calories.
Really frustrating looking back as I never got any results I shoudl have got from all that exercise as I didn't feed my body properly.
Its absolutely incredible how muscle builds when you feed your body and I get a far bigger kick from that than fat loss .

For a few weeks it was
breakfast: huge bowl of cereal, maybe 2
lunch: panera, or chipotle
dinner: huge bowl of canned soup

all the while drinking tons of soda, high calorie teas, alcohol, candy almost every day... i don't even want to think about how many calories it was lol

A normal day for me would have been:

Breakfast: Big bowl of cereal (sometimes healthy like Kashi or Raisin Bran with peaches...sometimes Corn Pops lol) with Skim Milk (probably 2-2.5 servings worth...my bowls are HUGE). I also make my own preserves so sometimes I'd just have two slices of whole wheat toast with preserves and juice.

Morning Snack: Low-fat Yogurt

Lunch: Leftovers from previous night's dinner OR Whole Foods Salad Bar...I stick to healthy choices there though usually mixed greens some raw veggies then I pick a scoop or two of wheat berry salad or my fav is the cranberry couscous salad!

Afternoon Snack: Fresh fruit of some sort or a Luna Protein Bar

Pre-Dinner Snack: Tostito's and Salsa...this is what did me in...I could eat a half a big bag of these chips because I'm so addicted to salsa...it's not even the chips I just haven't found a better vehicle to eat salsa with LOL. The Hint of Lime ones are my favorite!

Dinner: I almost always cook so something like Chicken Piccata with Barilla Plus Pasta or a Chicken & Veggie Stir Fry or Grilled steak with baked sweet potato & Veggie

Beverages: Sobe Waters/Vitamin Waters & 100% fruit juice (lots of calories here too)

I don't think it's THAT bad. It just the portions esp at breakfast, juice, sports drinks & CHIPS after work that did me in. I'm still trying to find a good way to eat salsa because I can't live without it.