OMG I'm sure it was alot for me too! I would eat McDonald" AT LEAST 3-4 times a week. I always ate late at night and it was always junk. I'm eating more food healthy food now, about 6 times a day. I used to eat one meal, mostly fast food and snack alot after that, so it's like I am eating more but the weight is coming off. LOVE IT!
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I counted before I changed my calorie count. At home, a typical day could be 3000 easy. If I was out all day, doing errands, more like 5000. Not to mention all the sodium from fast food...!
I'd guess around 3000 on a "normal" day, but I could binge eat with the best of them! It was nothing to me to eat an entire box of cereal bars (the one food I refuse to bring into my house and avoid at all costs --- Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal bars, to be exact).
More importantly, I was a lazy bum! I'd sit on my behind all day long doing nothing. Between controlling the binge eating and exercising, I finally feel in control!
I agree with what a lot of people are saying here I probably was consuming between 3500-5000+ calories a day. I was big on ice cream and I love potatoes in any form (mostly mashed with butter and cheddar cheese). I also ate lots and lots of cheese, like beyond Steve Urkel portions. It hasn't been that long since I have changed my diet but when I think back about what I would eat regularly it kinda grosses me out about the quantity and quality of food that I was putting into my body.
I'd say I was ~1500-2500 on any given day, I'd say about 2000 average. I never really ate enough to gain, but never little enough to actually lose weight either.
LOTS! It was nothing for me to eat a big mac value meal and just devour it, lots of doritoes without even thinking about it, a big bowl of ice cream. We would have big meals for supper -- roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, deep dish pizza and eat a few slices. Buffets were a big one too. I had no concept how many calories I was putting in my mouth. Now that I am conscious of what everthing has for calories it makes me almost sick when I think of how easily I could pack it away. I would say I consumed 3,000 - 5,000 calories a day. Do I miss it? You betcha. I miss being very carefree and eating whatever I felt like. Do I miss feeling like I got hit by a truck at the end of every day? No Way! I am so much healthier and I have so much more energy that I don't think I could ever go back to that lifestyle.
I watched a TV programme last night where a 'Supersized' guy had his daily food intake analysed. In an average day he was eating 6400 calories!
I was neither a binger nor a big fast food eater pre-healthy eating but I was a decent cook and homebaker, so I would guess I probably ate about 2000-2500 a day.
You know I had to think about this all day. I'm a grazer and LOVE rich foods. I perfected my fettucine alfredo recipe and had it twice a week. I'd binge often enough, worked at a cafe, liked feeling full and ate when I was bored. I think I was eating around 2500 to 3000 calories a day, which actually really is surprising. I know I ate varied foods, many healthy ones, but still- wow!
I might weigh more than I think I do (I have no scale...) Now that I'm cutting down to 1450 calories a day, I really find it a challenge to eat healthy and feel satisfied. Counting calories, rather than choosing WW or another diet, has really opened my eyes.
You know, I want to add something here - January was a bad month for me, and saw me doing some binging, which was new for me. The MOST SHOCKING THING was that I could STILL eat an entire medium pizza, by myself, in one sitting. No, I am not kidding. I would have sworn up and down and back and sideways that there was, quite simply, no way that I could still eat that way, or even that much. I hadn't had take-out pizza in over ten months. And now I know why: I cannot eat just one slice... well, not yet, anyway.
Not a good thing. BUT - it was a good wake up call that it is an easy, comfortable slide back into old habits... even after 100lbs and the best part of a year. I just wanted to post that here - take it as you will.
Last edited by HeatherAngel; 02-13-2008 at 09:36 AM.
I would assume about 2500 a day. I didn't gain super fast, but fast enough, about 35 lbs in about 2 years (yuck to actually have to say that!). I was never a binge eater, I just made very poor choices in what I would eat. Lots of fast food. Though I definitely had portion control issues at times!
BUT - it was a good wake up call that it is an easy, comfortable slide back into old habits... even after 100lbs and the best part of a year. I just wanted to post that here - take it as you will. 
