You ever actually calculate the calorie content of....

I recall one day a few years ago when I waited too long for lunch, I did a not-so-good thing. I was starving. As a result I got a medium pepperoni pizza, an order of wings, and an order of cheese bread..all of which I ate myself. At the time I realized it was, of course, excessive, but I didn't care.

Now I care.

My at home meals were usually pretty good but I use to enjoy eating out at least once a week and now when I go out I have a lot better perspective of how much food restaurants put on the plate and how many extra calories a restaurant item has verses the same dish I could make at home. I will say it has saved me some money just watching other people eat.

haha i'm totally there with you! i could drink my body weight in alcohol, and since getting married a year ago (the thing that made me start gaining weight) me and my husband could down one of those big bottles of wine... like three or four nights a week. wtf?! and i totally get the drunken jack in the box! my favorite drunken meal was the #5. i feel like i'm eating more food now volume wise, but just soo much less in calories.

I HAVE done this. I was shocked.

It's so funny looking at what I eat now, and how much I eat compared to what I used to.

The one thing that stays in my brain that makes me go :noway: how was that even possible?!?

My typical dinner now

3oz of Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts Oven Baked w/ Lemon Pepper
1 Cup of Boiled White Rice
1 Cup of Steamed Green Beans - Fresh


My 'dinner' at Chili's

Chicken Fajita Nachos (the full appetizer)

Bacon Cheeseburger - Medium cooked - American Cheese - Mayo - Ketchup

Steak Fries - Ketchup

Corn on the cob - seasalt - Butter

Molten Cake - Full serving

All while drinking about 5-6 glasses of Dr. Pepper
All together roughly about 5,610 CALORIES!!!!
FOR ONE FREAKING MEAL?!?
When I found out, it was a life changing moment.

I rarely had fast food, in fact, in the last 8 years, the only fast foods I would class as fast foods that I have had were 1 fillet o fish, a spicy beanburger and mcflurries at mcdonalds. I had Pizza at Pizza Express sometimes when at my mothers which is not attrociously bad... you can watch them prepare it in the kitchen and the highest calorie pizza is under 1500 I think for the whole thing. I tended to have one that was around 900, and nowadays I have their leggera which is 500 and has a whole cut out of the middle and salad.

I think the worst things I ate were the 200g bags of chocolate buttons and the mcflurries, both of which I had on a regular basis. I otherwise stuck to baked potatoes and sub 500 calorie fish or vegetarian microwave meals from Marks and Spencers.

These days, I try and avoid microwave meals as far as possible, no matter how short the ingredient list, and eat piles of vegetables, baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, salmon, cottage cheese, beans and sometimes a vegetarian oven bake product. I often have 300-400g vegetables with my dinner. But I still have the odd mcflurry and the odd pizza and yes, even a slice of cake if I cycle somewhere for the day.

Here was my normal day at work everyday for almost a year...

BREAKFAST:
McDonalds
Sausage McMuffin with egg (450 cal)
Hashbrown (150 cal)
Large Sweet Tea (280 cal)

LUNCH:
McDonalds
McDouble (390 cal)
McChicken (360 cal)
Medium Fry (380 cal)
Large Coke (310 cal)

TOTAL: 2320 calories

This was not including any little snacks during the day and didn't include dinner in which I normally had more than one plate full. No wonder I put on so much weight! Its hard to believe I am now eating almost 500 less calories in an entire day than I was for breakfast and lunch alone!

That take guts to even post that! I easily could have put that down a year ago! Amazing what the totals are when you actually add them up! Good luck to you!


Worst binge eating episode ever?

Whataburger - Double Meat with Cheese & Bacon
Whataburger - Large Fries
Whataburger - 44 oz. Coke
Taco Bell - Cheesy Gordita Crunch x 2
Taco Bell - Crunchy Taco x 3

Grand Totals for this Meal:
Calories - 3420
Fat - 172
Carbs - 355
Protein - 123
Sodium - 5106

Yes, all this food in one sitting. For me, all 5'1" of me. Why do I remember this meal from 4 years ago? Because I was caught with all the wrappers. I had never been so humiliated in my whole life. The level of shame and self-loathing was unbelievable.

Now that I just counted all that up AND posted it, I feel better - like coming clean about having a massive addiction. I just want to give 22 year old me a really big hug and tell her that life will get better.
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Awesome thread. The more you know!

I used to love a nandos - assuming that it was automatically healthy because it is grilled chicken - but I would get a chicken pitta, garlic bread and chips = 1024 calories!! That was just for dinner, I could probably eat a footlong subway with a cookie for lunch as well and still be hungry.

Another thing I knew was far from healthy was dominos pizza.. Whenever I would go round my boyfriends I would order a small pepperoni pizza (6 slices), garlic pizza bread (4 slices) and a bottle of coke = TOO MANY CALORIES TO THINK ABOUT
To top it off I would usually eat a tub of ben&jerrys half baked ice cream to myself = BAD TIMES

I haven't ate pizza since beginning of January .. I occasionally (once a month) eat a nandos still but as long as I can fit it in my calories and have worked out like crazy that day! I haven't ate ice cream in about 8-9 months