How much did you eat before MFP?

Oh my goodness, where to start?

Knowing the serving size of cereal now, I probably had about 6 servings in EVERY bowl, sometimes would have 2 or more bowls for breakfast.

Lunch Id order a 10" sammy from the local sub shop (extra mayo and oil and vinegar, double meat and cheese) with a huge bowl of cheddar brocolli soup - If I couldnt leave work I would have 3-5 microwave Dinners at around 350 cal a piece. Sometimes there would be a dozen donuts left over from the morning crew and id eat them all.
Id have several Mt Dews and Dr Peppers, Juice or Coffee made with HALF Coffee, HALF whipping cream with heaping tablespoonS of sugar!

If we ever went out to eat fast food, Taco Bell required at least 3 items if not 4 or 5. McD's Id have to have at least 3 double cheeseburgers and lord knows what else! Sometimes Id order two drinks just so the cashier wouldnt look at me strange.

Dinner would be where Id kill it. It seemes as if my man and I were in competition with eachother to fill and devour our plates. Average night would include a HUGE plate of spaghetti with meat sauce, Hillshire farms Polish Sausage and a TON of Parmesan Cheese. Dont forget the 4 pieces of toast DRIPPING with butter. If we had Pizza, we would order TWO XLarges with all the meat and cheese and eat a whole pie each! AND yes, we ate VEGGIES, but only if they were floating in melted butter!

Then of course, there was dessert. Huge helpings of cake, half a package of oreos, two pieces of cheesecake, maybe Id make TWO boxes of Jello cook and serve pudding, and then Id eat it ALL to the point of being sick!

I have no question how I got to where I started! Its so darn simple. I ate like a friggin whale!
I will never eat that way again!
However, I will have a NORMAL relationship with butter and cream one day, I hope! (Gotta love real butter and cream!)

I had no idea that the 'healthier' choices I thought I was making were in most cases just as bad, but sometimes worse than things I would usually eat. This site has really opened this world up for me. I considered myself someone who 'didn't eat that much' but once I started logging it all I was shocked at what I was putting in my body. No wonder I 'found' 30kgs in a few short years!

ditto!! I wasn't eating that much or that often but after being on here realized I was making all the wrong choices, high calories etc. I'd skip breakfast, have a medium sized lunch, something terrible for a snack, then get home starving and gorge on some terrible snack food and have a large unhealthy dinner. Terrible! MFp"s definietly opened my eyes )

As i started mfp today, i suppose i should write about what i ate yesterday. Here goes....

Breakfast: full fat latte, 2 cereal bars
Snack: full fat latte
Lunch: sandwich with wholemeal bread, cheese and ham. Small rice pudding pot.
Snack: full fat latte, choc chip shortbread
getting home from work snack: whole sharing bag of salt and vinegar kettle chips (my mouth is watering!), cereal bar
Dinner: battered fish, chips and mushy peas. Low fat yogurt.

There have been days where I have come back from the supermarket with family sized deserts (trifle, tiramisu), huge bags of crisps, chocolate bars, ice creams, salted peanuts and I hid them from my boyfriend so he wouldn't know. Then i'd keep going upstairs and munch on them throughout the evening. I've eaten my boyfriends food before when he was out and then rushed to the shop to replace it so he wouldn't know.

No breakfast, no lunch, and by dinner time the frenzy began. I ate full course dinners at restaurants (large portions) and then I snacked chips, dip, nuts, bread & butter or olive oil. I would also have tons of coffee, about 5 cups a day. Est Calories 2500

I finally learned how to cook and now I have 3 square meals a day and I count my calories. Coffee is down to 2 cups. What a difference. Average Calories 1200

My problem was always snacks. A typical day while I was gaining weight fast:
Breakfast: two weet bix with the barest splash of milk
Morning tea: a chocolate bar
Lunch: a thin cheese sandwich
Afternoon tea: a 300mL choc milk and a slice of cake
Dinner: same as I eat now (about 400 calories)
Dessert: sometimes fruit, sometimes premium yoghurt
Drinks: mostly not bad, but I drank fruit juice instead of water

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.