How bad did you used to be?

Oh I was terrible. My stomach was in pain after every sitting-and I still wouldn't stop! I must have an extremely fast metabolism because my highest weight was 120, but I feel like I should have been a whole lot higher than that! I'm a huge bored eater. My family would also order out a lot. Let's see, pizza was my favorite and I could easily down 3-4 slices of pizza and 3-4 breadsticks/pieces of cheesy bread at once and come back for seconds moments later! Going out to resturaunts I would always finish my plate first and then help my brother finish his. Oh, I was terrible. I haven't been this bad for quite some time, but these days did exist!

Every sunday my ex and I used to go out for breakfast, I would have pancakes,maple syrup and bacon. On the way home we would buy a couple of tubs of pringles,large bag of doritos,large bag of toffee popcorn,haribos,chocolate and 4litres of soda. We would eat this during the day while watching films then at 4.30 (opening time) we would order a chinese (enough for 4 people)
On the rare occasion there were "leftovers" they would get eaten for breakfast on a monday!

I used to be bulimic, and my biggest binge was a bit over 12,000 calories.
I also used to eat entire cans of frosting, peanut butter, and nutella. Could easily eat an entire Little Ceasar's pizza plus crazy bread, two boxes of cereal with milk, or a dozen donuts and quart of ice cream in one sitting.

i've never been a massive fast food eater as i have trouble with greasy food, but chocolate has always been my massive downfall.
When i was bad i was eating at least 200g of milk chocolate a day on top of fairly healthy eating 3 meals a day diet (i've always eaten fruit and veg). So prob eating around 2000 cal a day and with the chocolate on top was around 3000cal a day!

Thankfully i've gone off milk chocolate (yay!) and am now eating around the 1600-1700 cal a day and losing weight steadily.

Just need to get more active now!

I could eat 3000-4500 calories a day without thinking! One day when I started logging my food, I put in all the food I used to eat (chips, cookies, mcdonalds) and it was double what I should be eating. I had no CLUE about portion sizes. I'd eat a sleeve of oreos instead of two.

THIS

I would eat and eat until I had that sick, overfull, nauseated feeling. It didn't matter what kind of food it was. Restaurant food was a particularly big binge though.

The thing is, even though I was 'thin' most of my life, I had horrible eating habits. And because my weight wasn't an issue, I never bothered to learn to eat well, nor did I pay attention to fitness...

...until my weight became an issue and I was forced to learn portion control and also became active.

Honestly, though, I still have days I eat a ton. One day last week I was particularly hungry and ate over 3000 cals in one day. I was starving! The difference is, I didn't feel sick after, or ashamed.

I'm learning, as I am sure all of you are, that it is about balance.

first day i started this program i made home made pizza inc base thinking it was super healthy i ended up eating most of the pizza. i was shocked at how many cal's it was. (3/4 of my days cal's) had no idea about cal's before. a huge eye opener. i would get macca's for lunch with an apple pie then be hungry an hour later. thank god my friend recommended this to me:flowerforyou:

You mean 1 serving size of Doritos isn't a full bag
Used to down a bag like no bodies business!

Complete bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures......in one day, sometimes one sitting.
Reese's are still currently a vice of mine, although I try to enjoy them at a less rampant pace.

Reece'speanut butter cups and Reece's pieces must have crack in them, I just can't buy any of them because I could eat them until my heart stops :sad:

Weirdly enough, the most I ever ate in one sitting was also when I weighed the lightest. At 110 pounds, I polished off an entire medium thin crust pizza by myself! Aided by certain substances, unfortunately... I guess that was about 5 years ago.