What did you used to eat in the big days

Pizza and chicken wings are my two best friends and worst enemies!

Family bag of doritos (750 kcal) on top of the regular meals...
Sometimes I would replace it with McDonalds menu for lunch,
sometime I would do both

2+L of Coke a day
1kg bananas
At least 1 500ml can of Mother
190g packet of chicken
Huge tub of fruit salad (watermelon, rock melon, apple, grapes, orange, honey dew I would make it for the kids for school and eat the rest in one sitting)
4+ slices of white bread a day smothered with peanut butter or Vegemite)
Family block of chocolate a day (favourites are Mint Aero, Kit Kat, white, peppermint)
Packet of Monte Carlo biscuits (12 in a pack at 102 calories each biscuit)
2/3 serves of dinner and then clean the kids plates (habit left over from when I was a kid, can't leave food on a plate)

I could pack away up to and over 5000 calories a day, didn't help I worked at KFC and could eat for free.

I was a total food addict.

I could quite easily eat a sausage sandwich for breakfast, a pizza for lunch and a takeaway or full roast dinner for lunch, plus two litres of full sugar soda and two chocolate bars or a share-size bag of chocolates in the evening.

I just put it into my food diary to crunch the numbers, and a fairly typical day has come out at 3,961 calories. I'm 5ft 1.8in. I reached 174lbs before I started my healthy lifestyle in November 2010. It is amazing that's ALL I weighed, considering I didn't care at all what I ate or what weight I was.

i would make a nachos kit, throw on ready made chilli and nearly a full block of cheese and scoff the lot myself..... it was for 4 people hahahaha

on a bad day I would have

a roll and bacon and cheese, maybe an egg
a roll and sausage and potato scone

a mcchicken sandwich meal LARGE and another cheeseburger

Steak pie, roast potatoes, gravy

Ice cream or some sort off toffee cake

Cream Buns.

I would have deffo went over 3000cals some days :blushing:

coke and have energy and high cal drinks and lots of pizzas and other junk food lol

would eat the large family/sharing bags of crips and doritos without batting an eyelid
Same with the large family sharing bags of Maltesers/revels... me and the hubby would eat one each while watching a movie or TV

I would order a takeaway pizza, 12" and eat it all! Plus fries!

For breakfast I would have a sugary starbucks drink and a brownie. For lunch I always got a double cheeseburger meal from the mcdonald's on campus then I'd walk over to the store and get a bag of chocolate chip cooks. And dinner was never really horrible, but my portions were, seconds and thirds of everything. And all that time I was confused over why I was heavier and heavier every time I got on a scale.

Thinking back over all of that food makes me feel ill..... but here goes...


Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, or McDonald's for breakfast (if I went to BK I got the double crossandwich meal, large, with oj... Dunkin D's I'd get the crossandwich with hashbrowns and an extra large coffee extra cream extra sugar and a few squirts of a flavor syrup... McD's I'd get 2 sausage mcmuffin, 2 hash browns, and an oj) And mind you this was only when I ate breakfast once or twice a month.

Lunch I'd either get 2-3 McDonald's McChicken sandwiches with a large fry and large coke or go to Taco Bell and get $10-$15 worth of crap if I wasn't working. If I was working, I'd get a slice of pepperoni pizza from the cafe at work.

Dinner could go 1 of 2 ways. Either I'd come home and have a microwavable meal, or I'd get takeout.
My choices?... ugh smh.... grilled chicken club meal & McChicken sandwich at McD's, or ordering an appetizer and entree from the local Chinese place (enough food for 3 people), or spending $20 at Taco Bell, or ordering a large pepperoni, black olive, and bacon pizza with 2 chocolate molten mini cakes, an order of cheesy bread w/marinara dipping sauce, and an order of 10pc fried buffalo wings with ranch AND blue cheese dipping sauces. I'd eat until I felt sick, wait for the sick feeling to go away, and eat again.

And then sometimes late at night, around midnight to 1am, I'd get mentally hungry and could eat an entire bag of tostitos scoops with a large jar of tostitos salsa con queso (the big one...... if I ran out of chips, I'd use the last chip to just scoop up the salsa con queso and slurp it down, or just grab a spoon).

*when I say $10-$20 at Taco Bell, my favorites were any combination of the following: nacho bell grande no tomatoes, grilled steak soft tacos, nacho cheese steak chalupas, crunch wraps w/nacho cheese on the side, multiple soft taco supremes, cheesy fiesta potatoes, large mountain dew or baja blast (sometimes 2), and the 10 taco family meal......... so disgusting

And the most exercise I got was trying to shower properly in the morning... smh


It's amazing I didn't hit 300lbs or have a heart attack.

I really like this thread, I find it so interesting!

On a bad day I would eat 2 toasted egg, bacon, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. I would also eat a whole bag of Miss Vickie's chips or a whole bag of chocolate wafer cookies, and have a huge plate of homemade Alfredo pasta for supper, or KD.
Some days I would also make a small batch of cookie dough and eat it raw.
I was always way too embarrassed to buy meals at a fast food joint (still very hesitant and will only go if the bf wants to), I think this was my saving grace, I would have reached a much higher weight if I didn't feel this way.

Cheers!

the meal that always sticks out to me, was our weekly Wing Stop meal. My husband and I would get the 35 wing family meal with a large fry and two tubs of ranch to dip. I'd also get a small side of baked beans. We would eat the whole thing...and it was for a family of 4. We would just tear through those wings. I dread to think how many calories that was.
Also on Tuesday nights I'd be on my own for dinner. I'd order Papa John's online and watch Biggest Loser. I would get "light on the cheese" and have all veggies...but I'd eat almost the whole thing and get breadsticks. With cheese dipping sauce.:blushing:

I didn't really eat too much during the day. Night snacking was my downfall. I would usually skip breakfast, have a whole sandwich with chips or maybe chicken fingers or something equally fried. Then for dinner I'd have frozen pizza or a chicken burger or some other horrible processed choice. THEN I would snack. A whole bag of popcorn (with butter) or maybe a pint of Ben and Jerry's. I think it was the quantity of what I would snack on that was crazy. I would be bored and sitting in front of the television and the endless snacking just went with the sedentary lifestyle.

It was actually Jenny Craig that taught me portion control. I'm not a fan of their food because I can't pronounce anything in it, but I understood what it meant to eat small servings after trying them for a month. I stopped after a month or so and started using MFP instead. Fifty pounds later... I use a small plate when I eat now instead of a large dinner plate. I still get that urge to snack at night but I restrict it to small portions of relatively healthy things. I'll still eat a pint of ice cream now and again, but I know how much exercise it takes to combat that poor decision now!