things i used to do when i was fat

I lost 30 lbs this year (170lbs to 140lbs) and i thought u guys would get a kick out of shit I used to do at BMI 29

My friends and I used to go around campus and pick up abandoned doordash and uber eats orders and feast. Did have some very nice (although cold) chinese food this way
Steal and binge on leftover food in the communal dorm fridges - I felt bad about it though and would always wait until the food was at least a week old. It was always old and gross but I didn’t care
Whenever I visited the vending machine I would have to get a minimum of five things (usually two bags of hot chips, two candy bars, and a DIET coke - because of health)
Go to dessert in the campus cafeteria was a to-go coffee cup filled to the brim with ice cream. That was not enough however - I would then take two brownies and mix them in. I would do this minimum 5 times a week
I would regularly go 3+ days without eating any vegetables or fruit
Get blackout (usually on beatboxes) on weekends and would wake up surrounded by chip and candy packets that i had no memory of eating the night before
would go to costco with my roommate and get those giant bags of potato chips - would usually finish them in 4 days
Would eat minimum 4 packets of instant ramen whenever I made it
One time i ordered a medium pepperoni pizza, cheesy bread, and chocolate lava cake from dominos and ate it within an hour. Wasn’t even drunk or anything, just stressed and depressed about schoolwork.
would binge sleeves of oreos in the bathroom at work during my breaks because I was too embarrassed to do it in front of my coworkers.

in redscarepodby meghapoof

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89%

Booze-Destroyer

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This is like 250 pounder behavior. Kinda lucky you weren’t bigger

meghapoof

agreed. thankfully i’m fairly active and walk a lot which i think helped, but lucky i fixed shit before it got that bad lol

wownotagainlmao

Also sounds like you were <20 years old. Don’t slip, it will come back faster and be more difficult to lose with each year.

solutiontoproblems1

You were spiritually ALOT fatter than your physical manifestation.

sexistracist1488

144

Sounds like you have a lot of free time now

imtryingmybes-

110

I think I would be nikocado levels if I ate like this

AdStill7757

Sometimes I'm like "How do people get so fat???" bc plenty of people overeat without turning into a true balloon. But then I read stuff like this

jackdoffigan

this person managed to do all of this and still only make it to 170 lb "regular obese"

williamromano

Technically not even obese if they were 29 BMI

frontenac_brontenac

It's less how much you eat than it is what you eat. Tough to get fat off broccoli in garlic avocado oil and cajun chicken thighs, but candy bars and chips will take you there

MAJOR_WORLD_OFFICIAL

man i eat one meal a day and 4 beers because alcoholic and i gain weight. thats just being 30 sedentary i guess. pain

CarkRoastDoffee

Assuming you're drinking average beers, that's like 800 calories per day from alcohol. It's hard to not get fat with that handicap

MAJOR_WORLD_OFFICIAL

yeah no shit

Hatanta

Remember, it’s a prop gun

Yeah but it's about 800 calories or so for those four beers

Leninhotep

I used to be like 220 at 5'11 with a very physical job pretty much entirely from alcohol. I'd eat maybe 2000cals per day but drink 1500-2000 cals of alcohol every night

sting2_lve2

4 beers a day lol.

GeneralAwesome1996

Get a bicycle. Get drunk and then ride said bicycle (preferably somewhere safe, legality varies by jurisdiction). Trust me it’s fun as shit

clownstent

Local guy in my city constantly drinks beer while riding his bike with his snake around his neck and is skinny as hell, takes his snake for a swim in the lake periodically and lets people pet it and ngl bro looks like he’s having a blast

donkey786

Can't be a fat snake guy.

ultimatepartyparrot

I was going to argue but as someone who goes to a lot of reptile conventions, you're right actually.

donkey786

You would think they would be fat. They just aren't for some reason.

MAJOR_WORLD_OFFICIAL

Yeah I like to bike and would wanna do it more. Once it gets to be like 85 out I hate it haha

Marmosettale

4 beers alcoholic?!! Oh dear, I am definitely not great then

Fresh_Bite7332

Do what I did and trade booze for kratom. Just as addictive with none of the calories. Also good source of fiber

MAJOR_WORLD_OFFICIAL

tried kratom in the past but not for alcohol cessation this might be the move 🤔

Leninhotep

Just get naltrexone online and take it an hour before you drink every time you drink and eventually you will just stop caring about it.

discobeatnik

infowars.com

people can talk all the shit they want on kratom and they should, it’s funny, the gas station signs look ridiculous. but I’d probably still be using heroin if it wasn’t a thing. gotta get that good organic stuff online.

Key-Bedroom-4615

infowars.com

sedentary makes things a lot worse. Go for a 45min walk every day.

BonjourOyster

This makes me sad as fuck to read honestly. I don't wanna think about anyone doing this

esteemedretard

Were you abusing stimulants the whole time? If the average person ate like this they would be 300+ pounds. Four packets of ramen is like 2000 calories, a sleeve of oreos is like 1000 calories, etc.

meghapoof

i wouldn’t eat meals when i had bad binge days, which is partly what led to the binging. i knew i was fat and wanted to lose weight so i just wouldn’t eat the entire day, but i would cave and eat an ungodly amount of junk food at night

Hairyberryfairy

Oh my goodness i also struggle with binge eating impulses and reading this makes my heart hurt for you. I relate to the drunk eating and needing multiple items from the vending machine 🥲.

The world is really beautiful and full of wonderful things to experience we don’t need to numb everything out with junk food.

Congrats on your weight loss keep it up.

meghapoof

this is so sweet thank you 🫶🫶 it’s hard being addicted to food and using it as a coping mechanism because it’s not like you can just quit cold turkey, but realizing that there are better and more effective ways to cope w my emotions has been so helpful

600lb_deeplegalshit

what works for you to control the urges? I find i have to stick to a strict, repetitive diet during the week and ideally go to bed early

meghapoof

in the beginning i would stock up on a bunch of healthier snack options like veggies, frozen fruit, non fat greek yogurt, tuna in water, seaweed, kimchi, etc to eat when i was having emotional eating cravings in the nighttime. low calorie ice cream is super awesome for this, pints of ice cream used to be a massive binge food for me, but they make pints that are less than 300 cals. they would make me feel actually full unlike the chips and candy as well, so it would be physically uncomfortable for me to binge like had been on snacks. i would also drink tea and decaf coffee whip eating the healthier stuff which helped w satisfaction - i drink diet drinks still as well, but i don’t have them when i’m having a binge craving because they artificially spike your blood sugar and make you want to eat carby and fatty foods. i only have them with meals now. i would also give my roommate my debit card before she went to sleep so i wouldn’t be able to buy things from the vending machine. eventually (like a month in), i stopped craving snack food as much so it was easier to stick to it. willpowering my way through the cravings just didn’t work bc i was not mentally strong enough, so i had to find healthier replacements instead.

i also started eating real meals throughout the day, lunch and dinner. most of my binges were triggered by the fact that i literally just would not eat anything for the entire day, so by the time nighttime came around i would be so hungry that my eating would be out of my control. focus on macros and balanced meals, and if i do need to snack on something through the day, i make sure it’s protein heavy (i love canned tuna and hot sauce)

i was also a big night eater and struggled with insomnia, and getting on trazadone really helped manage that (you can’t eat if you’re asleep lol)

i definitely started to fall back into old habits a bit during finals season, but when i did emotional eat it would be on the healthier foods and did not have as much of an impact

I_LIVE_IN_BOUVILLE

God damn get a drug habit or smoke cigarettes at least do something cool with that self destructive instinct

Sortza

My friends and I used to go around campus and pick up abandoned doordash and uber eats orders and feast. Did have some very nice (although cold) chinese food this way

Sometimes I feel like Rip van Winkle trying to understand this world. Why/how do people order food and then abandon it? What is going on?

meghapoof

beats me lol, but it happens quite a bit on my campus. i imagine the delivery drivers get lost and drop it off somewhere random and kids who get doordash every day are too lazy + wasteful to try and locate it

donkey786

They order when drunk/high and then fall asleep.

BluePeelPearl

I had a similar weight loss! 165 to 130.

I used to run cross country when I was 160 lb but the weight would not budge. I eat the same as I did except for a few key differences.

At least 30 min of yoga every day
Teas!
Veggies for most meals.
2-4 days strenuous activity only, walking all the other days.
NO SEED OILS.
Only eating outside food when your friends and family are with you. Sharing food makes it taste better. And you should only eat what brings your body nourishment and joy. Joy can come from the scenario the food is being eaten in, for me that was with friends.

meghapoof

tea was so helpful to cut down on stress snacking and vending machine binges, i just drink tea now when i’m stressed instead of eating. i also eat a lot of kimchi now because it helps w the hot chip craving

BluePeelPearl

Hot chip craving was the bane of my existence. I stopped craving it because I realized what I really wanted was meat. I feel like a lot of hot chip stuff is flavored like meat.

SUPER_SQUIRREL_WOW

Anti seed oil gang let's go. I cut out polyunsaturated fats for a specific reason and accidentally cured my mild depression of 10 years along the way, among other things lol. I feel so OVERWHELMED with just normal existmaxxing I'm not used to this feeling.

Finally dropped sub 10% bodyfat on Renpho (I could never break that number), fixed my insulin resistance, fixed my metabolism, many other things. None of these things were even my goal. Anyway now I can eat tons of candy and Auntie Annie's pretzels like a kid and still lose weight. But the funny thing is I don't really crave foods like that anymore.

Life is nice.

I miss pork sometimes though.

BluePeelPearl

Metabolism fixing forever!

SUPER_SQUIRREL_WOW

The Virgin Calorie Countorrrr vs The Chad Metabolism Fixorrrr

6akota

Why did you cut out pork?

SUPER_SQUIRREL_WOW

Chicken and pigs today are all essentially fed a polyunsaturated diet, so their fat has become much more polyunsaturated. They simply pass their diet onto us, so unless you're eating a lean cut like skinless chicken breast or ham, you're basically eating seed oils.

Ruminant animals like cows are able to saturated their fats so they don't have that issue. The difference between a grass fed cow and a seed oil-fed cow is negligible.

Seems like a lot of Asian cultures traditionally cooked in lard before industrialization; that was never a problem because before industrialization, animals weren't fattened with a cheap polyunsaturated diet. Now Asians are becoming diabetic and fat too :(

beerguy911

I used to do a lot of those things but with alcohol instead of food so i kinda get you

FuckOffDumbass69

There’s a lot of men in this subreddit that don’t find any of this abnormal

Fresh_Bite7332

Eating other peoples week old leftovers is pretty fucking abnormal

War_and_Pieces

wait till you get an office job

BonjourOyster

This makes me sad as fuck to read. I don't wanna think about anyone doing this

_stnrbtch_

How the fuck were you only 170lbs when doing all this????

LA_Atty_2021

Don't worry. Your weight loss shows what you can be, unburdened by what has been.

Wooden-Committee4495

Clearly you didn’t just fell out of a coconut tree.

LA_Atty_2021

Wheels on the bus, out in these streetz!

vanillawolfie29

i lost weight recently too and thinking of my past common binges and what i used to eat in a day, makes me sick and disgusted with my past self. i used to eat a costcs hot dog, slice of pizza, and the soft serve cup at least once a week and eat 2-3 bars of chocolate in one sitting (usually in bed, high out of my mind, and watching bojack horseman… dark times)

meghapoof

i was so flabbergasted when i looked up the calories in a costco pizza 😭😭 very scared of those things now

vanillawolfie29

i don’t even know the cals, i just know i was eating an ungodly amount of food… not sure if i want to look

LillithSanguinum

You lost the weight, that's good but how did you fix the psychological problem you had in the beginning to binge like this ? Not to be rude, genuinely interested because I do it currently myself.

Gg though

meghapoof

i think a lack of sleep was really playing into my stress that would make me binge. i was a huge night eater because of my insomnia. i wouldn’t be able to sleep for a variety of reasons: behind on schoolwork, family stress, worried about not being able to sleep lol, and instead i would stay up feeling horribly anxious and eat a bunch. i got on trazadone which really helps with being able to sleep enough, and my anxiety levels went down. i don’t think the weight loss would have been possible if i didn’t treat my insomnia.

i also used to not eat normal meals throughout the day, which would trigger massive binges in the nighttime because i was so hungry. eating balanced meals and 50-75grams of protein at least every day helps you feel full, and makes it physically uncomfortable to binge on snacks

i also won’t lie - i did still emotional eat during the process (i’m defining this as eating for comfort, instead of to satiate hunger) but i would eat lower calorie foods that were more balanced so i would feel satiated after having a normal sized portion. i also drank a lot of tea and coffee. things like cucumbers, carrots, kimchi, frozen fruit, low cal ice cream, tuna, grilled chicken breast pieces were all great for this.

Regular_Donut_2344

Proud of you!! I’m still fat but working on it. Hit 200lbs towards the end of last year, which I always told myself I wouldn’t do, and have lost almost 30lbs since. It’s been a slow process, but my relationship with food and exercise have gotten significantly better. Also, no more weed.

kalehound

Glad you lost the weight but might wanna get your arteries checked !

meghapoof

i got blood work done and i’m fine lmao u can get away w a lot at 21 years old

what_a_story_ha_ha

congrats on losing weight!

jack_poster

what the fuck

I’m genuinely curious: what is the internal experience of this kind of food addiction like? Do you realize how disordered it is when you’re in it, or does it seem “normal” in the moment? Do you actually want all those sugary snacks, or is it more like an uncontrollable compulsion, a demonic possession?

Anyway, good job beating it, I’m happy for you.

PeenJuice69

Are you a woman or a man?? What’s your height? To only weigh 170 with those eating habits is insane! You say you were active, but were you like getting 20k+ steps in everyday and doing daily heavy exercise on top of that? I’ve also lost 30 pounds this year (178-148, goal 105), but by fasting 3-5 days a week, walking 10-20k steps a day and and doing moderately heavy exercise every day (lifting, cycling, barre). My eating habits honestly weren’t that crazy before, I would often just eat one big meal a day and binge drink… which honestly now that I’m typing this out, it was for sure the drinking that put me over

meghapoof

i mentioned before, but a lot of my binges were triggered by not eating all day - binge and restrict cycle if you will. so i would be binging 2000-2500 pretty frequently, but a lot of the time that would be my totally calorie intake for the day.

i also used to drink heavily but didn’t eat as much, and i will say i was heavier when i was drinking than when it was just the binging. my highest weight was 180 lbs and that was when i was doing the one meal a day and binge drinking (with some snacking while drunk) thing like you were.

pjharveytoenail

Degree in Linguistics

minimum 4 packets of ramen is CRAZY

superficialsacrifice

i could definitely eat this but i exert diet/ exercise discipline and self control constantly just to be a 23 . rip

topkekiusmaximus

I never ate this bad even when I was 130kg wew lad

IDontAgreeSorry

Damn and here I was feeling bad because I ate an average of 30 grams of added sugar per day instead of 15 this week. Lol! Either way, I’m glad you’re healthier, more disciplined, and mentally stronger now!

1-800-KYS

2nd one is disgusting wtf

meghapoof

dk what to tell u BED and food addiction makes u do gross shit lmao

BFEDTA

Gonna be honest I’ve done some of these as a 125 lb college student, thought not as frequently as you (1,2,4,10ish)

Accountant-According

I just lost 20 lbs and got down to 24 BMI. Thankfully, I can stop eating when I’m full, but it’s difficult because I know I’m capable of eating so much more and had a blast doing so. I want to enter a wings or pizza eating contest so bad because I know I’d slay ass.

nerdhoestreetchick

J suis sur mon bicycle

Never done anything even remotely close to this yet I’m still big as a house 😻

rickytractor

Hope you have discovered some new things that you like to fill the place of the big chip bags :)

meghapoof

seaweed packets!!! i love them

Key-Bedroom-4615

infowars.com

I'm 260lbs, all because of beer. Well, I was 260, now I'm down to 252 and dropping.

unwnd_leaves_turn

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aspergian

you are a possum of a person. where is your self control eating literal garbage

meghapoof

this is so rude for no reason 😭 i had a binge eating disorder and food addiction. it was a psychological problem. obviously i did gross shit. i bet you don’t have this kind of hatred for bullimics or anorexics who literally make themselves throw up and shit themselves because of laxative misuse.

EvenAd6967

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I was never “fat” but at my heaviest weight I was 140lbs (im now 120lbs) Not to the same extreme but people really don’t understand that it is “hard” to be fat.. like it’s not something that just happens on accident it’s a purposeful neglect and destruction

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