How much do u think u ate before u started counting

Days like today, when all I've had is fruits, bars and a sandwich and I'm already at my calorie limit of the day, I wonder how I ever managed to stay at 150 lbs for such a long time as a teenager. I probably ate about 3000 calories/day, if not more, and I'm just surprise that I didn't put on more weight than what I had. It goes to show how wrong and lost I was about eating. How much do you guys think you ate?

Honestly, I must have ate around the 3000 mark. It sounds horrible but I wasn't eating healthy food at all and I was eating ALL the time. I would do it out of boredom, and late at night. Now that I count my calories more carefully to stay under the 1500 range, I see that even the smallest thing that I liked and thought was half decent on the healthy scale is rated pretty much a D and has 2059832968 calories in it. A bit of an exaggeration but you get my point I'm sure.

I know from counting calories that I ate between  4000 and 5000 calories per day.  Some days I even ate MORE.   Even though I was over 100# over weight at my max I can't believe I didn't weigh even more.  Now I eat about 2000-2200 to maintain.  No wonder I had problems in past keeping my weight off.  It wasn't until I started counting calories during my weight loss did I realize what my maintenance calories level would be.  Good buy to the days when I would eat a family size chip bag before dinner.   

 

 

Yeah I know! For like 7 years I stayed steady at 145 lbs and I have no idea how I didn't go beyond that. My family is hispanic which = white rice everyday (in very large quantities) so I was probably having about 2000 calories just for lunch EVERYDAY. If I think about breakfast and dinner (plantains, cassava, fried eggs) and snacking all day, I probably easily reached way more than 3000 cal/day.

I'd estimate around 2500-3000 on an average day, but if it was a day I went out to eat with my boyfriend (which got to be most days there for awhile), then Lord help me.  It had to have been considerably more than that.  We would have huge hibachi dinners drowned in oil and shrimp sauce, AND sushi, AND go out for large milkshakes afterwards, and eat cookies and stuff while watching movies, and this was on top of a "normal" (high-cal) breakfast and lunch.  Now I eat about 2300 but I am pretty active.  Back then I did no exercise whatsoever.

sad to say but atleast 3000-3500 range... if not more.... I was a junk food junkie.

5k-6k easily or more with zero excercise. I know I was doing 1k in Mt. Dew a day alone.  I'd easily put away an 8 piece chicken dinner with fries and biscuits from KFC in one sitting. 

Then how is it possible that all of us didn't just keep gaining weight exponentially?? 

The more you weigh, the more calories you can eat to stay the same weight.

partly it is because the more you weigh the more you can eat just to maintain, but i also think it is that we might think we are sedentary but really we aren't. as an example i logged the whole of my 'normal' day today for the first time - i usually just assume i am sedentary. by 2 in the afternoon i had already burned 5620 calories - and i have done a lot more since then. So obviously to get to the weight i am now i ate humungous numbers of calories. in one way it is good because it means even with a decent calorie intake i am losing weight at a reasonable level but on the other hand sometimes i go to bed starving. thank goodness it is getting better as my body adjusts! but what happens when i am at my desired weight and still doing all that work (I have full time care of two aged and disabled relatives and am myself disabled). I just wish i could do more 'normal' exercise - i am totally incapable of using any gym equipment even if i had access to it. i guess as long as i keep making progress it doesn't matter - and logging today's activity sure was an eyeopener!

I'd estimate my pre-CC calorie intake at around 3000 to 3500 a day.  I ate lots of cheese and drank tons of beer.

I think I ate about 2500 calories a day... I wasn't a junkfood addict or anything, I just liked dessert a little too much and ate too much bread and starches.

i was definitely around 3000.

it scares me just to think of it now!

Yup, at LEAST 3000!!!  Probably close to 5000 on weekends!!!  OHHH, the good old day! :-P

Anywhere from 1200 to 5000 calories in any given day based on how I felt and what I was doing.

I was at 110 up until I hit 16 or 17. I bet I ate from 3000 - 5000 a day back then!! And never gained a pound. *sigh* Oh how I miss those days...

I probably had more days where I under ate and then ate huge amounts of calories on other days. Like I would eat tiny amounts and once a day, and then twice a week have a large combo meal from some fast food place. And no exercise, like EVER.

I'd estimate about 3000 on average per day. If I was at a party or having friends round then it would be more. I used to get huge meals at McDonalds as well... about 1500ish calories, just for one meal... eeek!

I was probably eating 2100-2400, which isn't a lot but a month before I came here, I was suffering depression/mood swings that made me binge and lie in bed a lot.  So, I really was sedentary  and I gained weight in clusters and lost a chunk of weight every summer.  I was about 150 exactly 2 years ago, which means I gained about 25 lbs from July '06 to November '06 and then lost some of that the following summer and regained it plus 10 more by Feb '08 (I peaked at 184 lbs). 

That includes big breakfasts, skipping meals, drinking tons of coffee and big dinners, often snacking on frozen snacks or drive thrus.  All things I have quit. 

On my cheat days, I might eat up to 2100 but I still have a deficit from exercising. 

I know it was way more than I was eating now, that is why I packed on so many pounds.

I mostly ate take out, because I was too lazy to cook myself something good to eat, or eat something like fresh fruits and vegtables for a snack.

Well, previous to finding CalorieCount, I was dealing with lots of bad cycles of restricting too much and binging.

I've had pretty bad binges that have gotten all the way up to 20,000 calories -_-.