What were your old eating habits?

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lynny

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I just wanted to know what everyone's eating habits used to be. I kind of just want to feel better knowing I'm not the only one with a rough start. It's really tough giving up all my old junk food but it gets easier with my body already feeling healthier.
 
hehe i dont recall, but they must have been pretty darned bad! :/

I think i just didnt STOP eating
 
I put too much margarine on too many things. I ate too much junk food. For example, Pringles. their slogan is true, because I ate the whole thing in a day (I ended up feeling REALLY sick because of it though). Cashews can be healthy in moderation, but I couldn't control myself over those either. I didn't eat enough fruits and vegetables.
 
I used to eat until the urge to poop was unavoidable. Sooooo, I don't know what that means...beep boop bop.
 
Everything I ate was bad for me, really. Nothing baked or grilled...most things fried. And nothing in moderation.

I skipped breakfast, ate a big lunch (usually fast food - the size of an entire dinner), and a big dinner. It wasn't unusual for me to hit the drive through two times a day a lot of days. Then there were the "you've had a bad day" meals...the midafternoon stops at the drive through for fried mozzarella cheese sticks with two tubs of ranch dressing and a Dr. Pepper. During my early teens (when I gained the most weight), it wasn't unusual for me to eat an entire medium pizza (8 pieces) from Pizza Hut by myself. And the chocolates, snack cakes, sweets, candies....it was non-stop.

Considering the way I ate, I'm shocked I never got above 220, but I held there for a long time in spite of getting no exercise and eating like crazy.
 
I didn't really eat that bad...during the day.

But at night...Yuengling (dark beer, f that 90 calorie light shit) and Sheetz or pizza after the bar.
 
Beer with Whole Cakes to myself. :drool5: Bigger than regular sized cookies (Chocolate Chip Toffee tasted like doe-y home baked) went through about 40 of those every couple of weeks. Pudding, Ice cream, could sit through a whole box of Hagen-Daaz chocolate covered ice cream popsicles. Licorice, candy, Chips, Donuts, Slurpee's, Pop, (oh and mind you I never left my home, I just slept about 18 hours a day(so no movement or exercise)...uh this is all I ate for about 3 years. And in between that I would go without anything for a few days, and than I would be starved so I would go eat more junk food. I rarely ate actual food. Now I am paying for it.

I don't do this anymore, but I won't be completely eliminating sugar from my record either.
 
I tried to soothe my sadness, frustration, and anger
with junk food - mainly sweets! It also doesn't help that DH is exceedingly thin and has a wicked penchant for junk (sweet, salty, everything!). I also did not exercise hard enough.

I will still indulge occasionally, but not in huge portions. I also make sure to exercise VIGOROUSLY at least 5 x per week. I think that is really the key for me.

ABBA
 
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stancel said:
I put too much margarine on too many things. I ate too much junk food. For example, Pringles. their slogan is true, because I ate the whole thing in a day (I ended up feeling REALLY sick because of it though). Cashews can be healthy in moderation, but I couldn't control myself over those either. I didn't eat enough fruits and vegetables.
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Basically this. I just overate.
 
-I drank a lot of soda (Dr. P, mixed sodas from Sonics).
-Candy bars (Snickers, Crunch bars), cookies, snacks a couple times a day.
-If I ate breakfast, it was Pop Tarts or the frozen equivalent.
-Fast food meals several times a week. PIZZA! Comfort foods full of hamburger, pasta, fried chicken from the store, pasta salad from the store, tons of pre-made foods.

I ate like crap. The quantities weren't always huge - not ALWAYS - so I didn't feel like I was necessarily overeating. I started slowly by cutting out sodas, then stuff from the vending machines, and kept going from there. By taking it in steps, I was able to stick with what I was doing and build off of my small successes.

I don't miss the stuff I "gave up" because anything I'm crazy about I still eat - just less often. This mostly applies to cheese, candy bars and desserts. Everyone has to start somewhere. I doubt very many people got overweight because they binge on carrots :).
 
The actual physical quantity of food I used to eat wasn't even large, but extremely calorie dense. Basically, I would eat one extremely unhealthy fast food meal a day. We didn't have any food in the house for me to cook because my mother was apparently too busy at the time to shop, so she would bring me home my daily garbage at about 1 in the morning. On the rare times that she DID actually cook, it was always something loaded with butter, oil, cream, cheese, and/or sugar.

I cook for myself now. Healthy, whole foods. I can proudly say that I haven't eaten anything from a fast food "restaurant" for an entire year and three months.

I am repulsed by it now that I look back on it... :nopity:
 
Mmmmm, food

Gosh my diet was CRAPOLA!

-Pizza
-Pizza
-Something fried
-Something DEEP fried
-Chinese food
-Grilled Cheese Sandwiches X2
-Soda
-Beer
-Soda
-Beer
-McDonald's
-KFC
-Taco Bell
-Chips
-Popcorn
-Lots of chocolate...my god I love chocolate...

(I wouldn't eat all of this in ONE DAY, but these are the foods my diet mainly consisted of)

I'd eat something healthy maybe once a day...but it didn't have much effect because I was over-eating on all the other crap.

Since then I've really cleaned up my act, no more cheese, no more fried stuff, no more soda, no more beer. I stick with milk and water, sometimes tea, eat salads, turkey sandwiches with lettuce and mustard (no cheese), stir-fry, rice, fruit cups, yogurt, eggs (hard-boiled, throw out that gross yolk). Those 90 calorie chewy bars make a great snack, and so far with exercise, I've dropped 10 pounds in 2 weeks! The food I eat tastes good, exercise feels good, being lighter feels good...I could get used to this...
 
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quoting fatshowdown on chinese food:

=.= I love asian food, chinese, thai and japanese. actually none of these have to be fat loaded, I just wish I could find a proper restaurant in this country where they dont deep fry everything for goodness' sake.


I remember going to a chinese restaurant nearby because got invited by some family friends, I looked at the menu and asked if they had anything not stir fried or deep fried in tons of oil.. guess what? NO they didn't even have anything baked or steamed =/ even their PLAIN rice was pre-stir fried so you had to eat fried rice with fried food..

I left and went home, and ate steamed dumplings with boiled rice and omelet, delicious
 
quesadillas in the masses! any mexican food was my best friend....I could eat a big huge burrito, and still want more.

I could do it right now.
 
Sheesh where do I start

Pizza (5-6 pieces at a time)
fast food DAILY (mcd's, wendys, taco bell etc)
hot dogs GALORE.
mac and cheese (more cheese the better)
tv dinners
etc

I went on a diet back in NOV and stopped eating fast food, gave up Pizza, less hotdogs and went to turkey dogs, less mac and chese, smaller portions etc.

about 2 months ago after losing 30lbs I went back to MCD and have not been able to control myself.. I have since gained 16 of the 30 I lost back. :(

time to get back to control etc..
 
I agree I use to bring 4-5 slices of sharp cheddar with me to work for lunch (slices off the brick) I think it helpped me to loose the weight.. maybe not but it worked and it tasted good.
 
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