What were we eating!?!

EuphonyChloeH
EuphonyChloeH Posts: 107 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I did this lil' exercise when I first started losing weight in August. This was before MFP, I had just started adjusting my diet, and I am still making vast improvements to my 1510 daily calorie intake. I looked up the calories and total fat of some of my frequent lunches and/or dinners at fast food places. Here's what I was putting into my body DAILY, can you believe it!?!

Wendy's

Asiago Ranch Chicken Club, large fries, large coke, medium frosty

Total Calories: 1870

Total Fat: 72 grams



Taco Bell

Cheese quesadilla, bean burrito, large root beer, cinnamon twists

Total Calories: 1450

Total Fat: 45 grams



Del Taco

Two steak tacos del carbon, medium chili cheese fries, large coke

Total Calories: 1550

Total Fat: 51 grams

This is just three of the places I would go. Two of these meals are more than my current daily calorie allotment, and one of which is just on the cusp. And this is just one meal in the day! Add on my morning (sugary) coffee and biscotti and/or coffee cake and a generous dinner, and we're talking two days worth of calories in one! It's no wonder I gained so much weight!

So please share! What were YOU eating before MFP, and, holy cow, can you believe it?

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  • lorac321
    lorac321 Posts: 614 Member
    Applebees Oriental Grilled Chicken Salad: 1290 Calories / 79 g fat

    I haven't been back since I had to log it the first time.
  • Fairysoul
    Fairysoul Posts: 1,361 Member
    I was eating chicken wings 10 of them and french fries, and a foot long sub everyday... close to 3000 calories... Yuck, thank god I was only 160 pounds when I realized it!!
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    Chili's quesadilla explosion salad:

    Calories 1300 Sodium 2050 mg
    Total Fat 87 g Potassium 0 mg
    Saturated 28 g Total Carbs 75 g
    Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 8 g
    Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 0 g
    Trans 0 g Protein 62 g
    Cholesterol 0 mg


    without the quesadilla, its only 365 calories!
  • trybefan
    trybefan Posts: 488 Member
    Sweet smell of accountability! I love it! I didn't really have any meals like that, but I have cut back on wings considerably since the time I logged them
  • withchaco
    withchaco Posts: 1,026 Member
    Cheesecake Factory: Farfalle with Chicken and Roasted Garlic

    2190 calories, 58g in saturated fat, who knows how much in total fat.

    Add some slices of their free bread (around 400 calories total? plus 100 more for butter), 730 calories for fresh strawberry cheesecake, and you have a single meal consisting of over 3,000 calories.

    And I'm short and spent most of my time on a chair or in a bed. No wonder I got fat!
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    This was my dinner a few days before I decided that enough was enough, i was going to start seriously trying to lose weight. The entree wasn't bad calorie wise, but the sodium!!!!

    Benihana Seared Tuna Steak - Seared Tuna Steak With Balsalmic Reduction
    Servings: 1 portion
    Calories 500 Sodium 7128 mg
    Total Fat 11 g Potassium 0 mg
    Saturated 0 g Total Carbs 37 g
    Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 0 g
    Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 0 g
    Trans 0 g Protein 26 g
    Cholesterol 0 mg
  • lc504
    lc504 Posts: 130 Member
    My favorite fast food meal, which I had at least twice a week was from Jack in the Box and consisted of:

    Sirloin Cheeseburger: 943 calories, 65g fat (or if I was feeling "healthier" - :laugh: - the Spicy Chicken for 528 calories & 19g fat)
    Large Curly Fries: 584 calories, 34g fat
    Oreo Cookie Ice Cream Shake: 812 calories, 43g fat

    And then sometimes I would even split an order of egg rolls for another 221 calories and 11g of fat!

    That's 2560 calories in one sitting! Holy *kitten*! :noway: Thank god I was about 18-20 years old when I did this, I know for a fact my fact teenage metabolism saved me from getting even bigger than my highest of around 170.
  • Bikini_Bound150
    Bikini_Bound150 Posts: 461 Member
    Breakfast:
    Sausage and cheese McMuffin, no egg 370 calories

    Lunch:
    1. grande white chocolate mocha with whipped cream 440 calories
    2. two McDouble's 780 calories

    Dinner:
    1. Dominos Pizza (5 slices) 1,085 calories
    2. Root beer 180 calories

    I didn't ALWAYS eat like this, but definitely TOO often!
    TOTAL CALORIES: 2855
  • bonnynblithe04
    bonnynblithe04 Posts: 123 Member
    This was one of my favorites -- a KFC Original Recipe four piece meal:

    Wing, 140
    Breast, 320
    Drumstick, 120
    Thigh, 220
    Biscuit, 180
    Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, 130
    Baked Beans, 200

    Total calories for one meal (not including a drink, which was usually Pepsi back in the day): 1,310, only 90 calories less than my current daily allowance, nearly 60 grams of fat and heaven knows how much sodium! :headdesk:
  • Chadwick891
    Chadwick891 Posts: 72 Member
    Well I am unsure how much of what I was eating but I will give as best of a run down as I can using the MFP database to count the calorie intake!

    I think my meal for one day would look something like this - I only ate 2 or 3 times a day, so I'll take the latter and write 3 meals that may have been consistent pre-dieting:

    Meal 1:
    Bowel of coco-pops
    Full-cream milk

    Calories 175 per 30g serving (I probably had 60-90g servings so 350-525 calories)

    Meal 2:
    Pizza or KFC

    Pizza:
    - Ham and pineapple pizza x4 slices
    Calories 800
    - Supreme Pizza x3 slices
    Calories 870

    Total: 1670 calories

    KFC
    - Zinger Burger
    Calories 468
    - Large chips
    Calories 574
    - Potato and Gravy
    Calories 120

    Total: 1162 calories

    Then my last meal would look something like this

    Meal 3:
    Now I really LOVE pasta and I would go all out eating it - so

    Lasagna - about half the dish
    Calories:1520

    Total calories for the day: 4352 calories

    Fluids:
    Can of Coke anywhere from 6-8
    140 per can // 840-1120

    Total Calories incl fluids: 5192 - 5472

    Weight at this time: 108.95KG

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    And yesterdays calorie intake according to this site was

    calories: 1860 calories
    Made up from

    Protein: 239g
    Carbohydrates: 158g
    Fats: 52g

    Recommended intake for the day was
    Calories: 2,416
    Carbohydrates:333
    Fats: 79
    Protein: 91

    Current weight: 93.50kg

    Usually I don't have such high levels of fat in my diet, but I've taken 3 weeks off my dieting to kind of 'stay' at my current weight but will resume lower fats/carbs when I get back into dieting after christmas!
  • thinnerisstronger
    thinnerisstronger Posts: 124 Member
    Every time I used to go to the mall, I'd get poutine from New York Fries. I never knew the calorie count until now!
    calories: 950.
    fat: 50g
    sodium: 1320!

    I used to hit Starbucks in the same day too. My usual was a grande white chocolate mocha.
    calories: 470 w/ whip
    fat: 18g


    that adds up my current daily intake! holy cats!
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    This was a regular (once or twice a week) nighttime SNACK for me when I was Biggie Smallz

    Dunkin Donuts

    Iced Latte with Whole Milk Medium (I actually had it with CREAM and sugar! - like being made of milk wasn't enough)
    320 calories (without the addition of cream)

    Pumpkin Muffin 1 Muffin
    600 calories

    That's a 930 calorie snack - at least, but probably more like 1000 because I used cream instead of whole milk.
  • healthyyme
    healthyyme Posts: 22 Member
    My favorite meal ever at Red Robin (ugh, I'm drooling thinking about it lol. What is wrong with me? :p)

    A Bonzai burger with a boca pattie had 852 calories.. and with a side of steak fries it totals to 1286 calories in one meal! (and that's if I didn't have 1, or 2 more orders of fries.)
  • HonkyTonks
    HonkyTonks Posts: 1,193 Member
    Hmmm, trying to think back to my biggest (155kg / 300 lbs or so) I ate a LOT of crap food and nothing really stands out except I remember I used to order (late at night, as a SNACK) an entire meatlovers pizza to myself, a garlic bread and 1.25 litre coke

    So I did the math

    1 meatlovers pizza = 1336 calories, 136g carbohydrate, 56g fat

    1 garlic bread = 640 calories, 96g carbohydrate, 24g fat

    1 1.25L coke = 516 calories

    Total = 2492 calories

    I cannot believe that, I have come a long way!
  • beeblebrox82
    beeblebrox82 Posts: 578 Member
    In college I used to sit and eat a whole bag of doritos while I studied. 1800 calories, 96 grams of fat.... holy crap. and that's how I ended up weighing over 300 pounds.
  • ladykate7
    ladykate7 Posts: 206 Member
    oh boy, I did the Doritos thing last month, my cheese-burnt fingers taunted my with guilt for a week.

    A staple meal of my previous life:

    Davanni's
    whole club on wheat, no tomt, no onion, no oil = 992 cals, 54g fat
    half garlic cheese bread on white w/sauce cup = 458cals 26g fat
    brownie = 268 cals 8g fat
    medium = coke 280cals
    drum roll please: 1998 cals 88g fat

    oh and throw on another 50 cals for the 2nd sauce cup that I always asked for, had to sauce up the sandwich not just the cheese bread. sheesh
  • toniRAD
    toniRAD Posts: 196 Member
    About 1,500 calories of Chinese just for dinner every other day haha.

    It's crazy when you look back at the crap you used to consume every day!
  • cartea01
    cartea01 Posts: 156 Member
    I've been on MFP for 13 days and on target or under everyday. Tonight I thought about getting take out. I always picked "small" meals when visiting Burger King (Hungry Jacks) - Whopper Junior, Regular Fries and diet coke. When I checked out the calories I was stunned. 355 + 337 = 692

    Came home and made an omelette instead!
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