What were you eating habits before MFP?

I have been on a plan for several years now, so I will discuss my really bad days here:

Breakfast -- McDonald's Big Breakfast, complete with second hash brown and orange juice, OR huge bowl of Cheerios with added sugar, OR *two* Dunkin Donuts Banana Nut Muffins (when I joined WW and found out the point value I was horrified!)

Lunch -- three slices of pizza, or the Double Quarter Pounder meal and Hi-C orange drink from McDonalds, or a huge burrito AND side order of chili AND Mexican rice (as if the burrito didn't have enough rice!) with a 24-oz C&C fruit punch soda cola from the local restaurant, or foot long cheeseburger from Blimpies

Dinner -- USD 5.00 regular crust medium pizza from Dominos with sausage and half a container of chicken bites and dressing, or four-piece KFC meal with baked beans and mashed potatoes, or corned beef with Goya yellow rice (can you say sodium attack, boys and girls?); or would split a 20-cheeseburger pack from White Castle

Snacks -- I would open a box of crackers around 11 a.m. at work, eat lunch at 1, and go back to the box between 2 and 3, usually finishing it in one day. In my early 20s I would spend the afternoon at the movies -- the Pretzel Time at the mall sold four pretzels for the price of three so I would get that and sneak them into the movie, then pick up a four-piece from Popeyes to have later. Salty stuff, sweet stuff -- I ate it all, and I sure looked like it!

After years of that, I had the nerve to be shocked to find out I weighed 320 pounds. :ohwell: :girlbye:

Wow, tough question only because it's awful to think about old eating habits. But....I would eat out at least once, sometimes twice a day. I used to go to Dunkin donuts and get a medium coffee with cream and light sugar, with 2 donuts, usually a chocolate long john and maple brown sugar. Lunch, if I was at work would usually be a turkey sandwich with cheese and sometimes mayo, diet soda, and chips, regular or sometimes light. I would sometimes buy one or two candy bars from the vending machine, like a snickers and peanut m&ms for afternoon snack at work. Then I would head home and pick up something: either pad thai with tofu (which soaks up a lot of oil and probably is not as healthy as chicken would have been), and sometimes would add an order of crab rangoons. A few times I had a 2-piece chicken and side from Popeyes, or a couple years ago I would have a double cheeseburger and small fries from McDonalds, along with hot fudge sundae. Or my favorite was a cheeseburger sometimes with bacon, onion rings, and strawberry shake from Portillo's, a local fast food chain. Sometimes after dinner I would have multiple bowls of cereal, always with skim milk. And if I didn't have ice cream out, I would eat either an entire pint of Haagen Daaz, or sometimes eat half a jar of Nutella, along with bread, I could finish one in 2 nights usually. Along with some potato chips to round things out for salt.

Ugh.....:sick: ......sickening to even think about, even though it was only 8 months ago I was eating like that...started MFP 2 months ago and I eat even better than I was before. Now I still need to have something sweet each day but I generally can control how much I have, only one or two days recently were not "good" days but they were still better than before!

BEFORE MFP AVERAGE DAY

Vegemite toast

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134 cals
4 x fun sized mars bars --- 348 cals
3 litres diet coke

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20 cals
grain waves

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955 cals
chicken salad

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400 cals
chicken casserole

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800 cals
tim tams

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280 cals
= 2937 cals daily, predominantly sugar and fat

GOOD MFP GOAL DAY
Milo Oats

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115 cals
Minestrone Soup

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110 cals
Quiche

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291 cals
Diet Coke

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8 cals
= 524 cals

BINGE MFP DAY (at least one a week)
Box of cereal
Pack of tim tams
litre of milk
Family blocks of chocolate
And meals
= between 4000 and 6000 calories

These binge days never occured before MFP, my goal days usually don't stay that low, average mfp day is around 900 calories

I didn't eat badly generally, i ate well but too much of it i.e. big jacket potato with full can of tuna, huge salad and cheese and salad dressing. Lots of vegetables and fruit, low fat yoghurt and diet drinks, i didn't eat full fat anything but i overate when i did eat. I also tended to eat the same portion sizes as my boyfriend and if he had pizza with his friends i had some. I did exercise but not everyday and also nothing that got me out of breath, i walked alot!
I also drank more as i went on nights out with uni friends and had takeaway on the way home. So although i only went on one night a week i might have had a bottle of cider (not a 2 litre bottle of white lightening though, a kopperberg bottle!) and thwn 10 vodka red bulls and THEN a kebab on the wya home. So thats about 2000 extra calories every friday. No wonder i put weight on!

Usually skipped breakfast - or just had a large coffee for breakfast instead. On regular occasions skipping lunch as well. Drinking sodas instead of water. Pizza - ALL the time (since I work at a pizza store), McDonalds 1-3 times a week, sometimes 2 times a day! HUGE dinners. Lots and lots of meet, lots of pasta, rice and hardly any veggies. Huge servings of pasta and rice. Too much sodium.

Going from eating too much to not eating at all, for 3-4 days at a time and this would last for months, where i'd drop 30kg in 2 months and then put it back on when I started eating again. Used to survive off diet drinks, milk and coffee.

oh my god...even thinking about it makes me sad.... :P

it was baaaddd...reallyy badd....i'd eat an entires pizza along with pasta n god knows wat all...drink sodas all day long..... it was bad bad!!!!!!!!!!

plus i hardly ever drank water...... may be just 2-3 glasses per day...... it was bad :P

MFP has changed my life...... n i have such amazing people here to share my journey with!!!!! :drinker:

Average day: 10 cups of coffee w/ 2 sugars and full cream milk. 800 cals. Toasted ham, cheese and tomato sandwich 400 cals. Large serving of curry and rice or big Mac and large fries 800+ calories. Chocolate bar 200 cals. Pretzel or cheese burger 300-400 cals. Steak & veggies/ chicken & veggies on a 'healthy day' (500-600 cals) pizza or a kebab on a not so healthy day (800-1000 cals) grand total: 3200-4000 cals per day (not that I had any idea at the time!)

I loved stopping on my way home from work in the am ( work nights at hospital) and getting 2 sausage biscuits and hashbrowns and prob a cinnamon raisin biscuit. Yumm until i looked at that was the calories I should have eaten for the WHOLE day, not after a fast food dinner and everything else.

i was out of control on coca cola and fast food. A bunch of processed food... and in complete denial

i actually lost more weight in the 6 months before joining mfp.
then i watch my carbs, kept them to a minimum , at small amounts
and didnt worry about reaching someones elses preset notion of how much
calories i need.

still logging here but going back to THAT way of eatting and i am losing again

I dont normally have a problem in winter because I love soups and veggies... I just used to eat too much. Summer though, 4 - 6 beers a day, weekends would be spent sitting on our deck consuming olives, cheese, bread, chips, shapes, salami, cabanossi, more bread, oils, dips and more beer.... We'd do that Fri night, Saturday and Sunday afternoon... Too much! We also used to eat 250g of meat each, seriously, the size of our steak now feeds us both. I also used to have banana bread 2-3 times a week and hardly ever ate enough fruit. Oh and 2 or more large full milk coffees (now I have 4 maybe a week - skim!).... I think though, my biggest problem was just eating too much. Oh and beer!

i pretty much ate every meal out. bagel in the morning. fast food lunch. fast food or restaurant for dinner. add in lots of beer on friday and saturday.