Taco Tuesday at Del Taco, anyone? Mmmm...

Besides that, I tried gaining weight with an infinite meal plan at the dorms. I ate decent, except when I found out that the strawberry shortcake was like, 400 calories a serving. Wasn't good.

34 Krystal Burgers in 30 minutes during the Krystal Challenge. The guy that beat me ate 38.

2lb hamburger in 1 hour with a basket of fries for a free meal and $50 buck.

5 plates of extra hot Chicken Tikka Masala for a meal and a t-shirt

i was bulimic and used to binge/purge over 400$ of food a week on my own. fucking gross.

I ate Lean Cuisine for breakfast and dinner, and Subway for lunch, pretty much everyday for like 6 months. Lost 20 pounds, then gained it all back and more.

I finished the (now defunct) DB Philly's "Broadstreet Bully" challenge: 24" Philly Cheesesteak wit Wiz (loaded with Cheese Whiz) and 3 pounds of fries.

Once or thrice I finished an 18" Everything pizza and a dozen hot wings with a six pack or so of beer in a sitting.

I did a trip to the salad bar and 2 1/2 hours of "don't turn the puck over" at Fogo de Chao (Brazillian steak house) without turning down a portion from anybody but the guy with the chicken legs.

My insulin spikes have normalized now, and I can't imagine pulling any of those stunts now...

At my fattest, back in 2003, a few times a week I'd buy a package of Newman-O cookies (Paul Newman's organic version of Oreos) and eat the entire package as an afternoon snack.

I bet I am the only person worldwide who USED to binge on nestlé shredded wheat: the whole box! and alone (and scratchy mouth later...)

I can't recall any prodigious feats but do remember a period of sustained lunacy. I ate a large tub of BandJ's Choc Fudge Brownie, every single day, for about 18 months. Half of my calories, for month after month, from BandJ. Super.

In high school, I'd alternate between sharing a tub of icing with a friend, and eating only lettuce. My afternoon snack with my best friend was a box of Uncle Ben's seasoned rice or Rice a Roni. Yeah, I was on Weight Watchers several times in high school, too, even though in retrospect I wasn't actually overweight.

I once made a "bread sandwich" that consisted of a slice of bread between toast—and I managed to finish off an entire loaf like that. Honestly, I have no idea where the desire to do that came from, and I felt awful afterwards.

That was outside the norm, but even on paleo, I'll eat a full pound of ground beef or an entire head of lettuce without a thought.

When I was 15 I would eat a big plate of fries with a whole batch of bearnaise sauce (not the homemade kind) every day after school for many months. At 16 I would run home from school during lunch break to make pancakes, then I would make another batch when school was over, this continued for several months.

After I had my first child I would make a french chocolate cake every other day and eat half a cake every day, this also went on for a few months. Later I would make a whole batch of oatmeal cookies every day until I got a massive allergic reaction.

I would eat a whole camembert or brie with a bag of potato chips in one sitting, with soda at 11 o´clock at night frequently. For about 6 month´s I don´t think I drank water except when brushing my teeth, only orange soda. I would eat whole bags of garlic bread slices. I would eat chips and drink soda for breakfast.

It was horrible, I had a lot of digestive issues.

The Twelve Pack Challenge in college.... last person who finished the 12 pack of canned Busch Lite had to drive (cringe, yes, drive) to the store to buy more. Then, the real drinking began, along with smoking massive amounts of pot and making homemade pizza. What's my homemade pizza recipe, you ask? That would be a 99 cent Totino's pizza sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, frozen spinach, fat free American cheese slices and spices. And I thought I was being healthier than my roommates, who added pepperoni to their homemade pizza.

I actually remember chastising myself at one point for not having the willpower to develop an eating disorder.

Middle school lunch consisted of the following every. single. day:

A bag of hot cheetos + a honeybun.

I would buy hot French bread from the grocery store, one for the car ride home and one to serve with dinner. Most of the time I would also buy a chunk of brie or Camembert and shove it in the middle of one of the hot loaves of bread before I loaded the groceries into the car. This loaf was often gone before I ever left the parking lot.

In high school, I would eat breakfast before I left at 7, eat something from the snack bar (pizza or other crap) at 9:30, crappy hot lunch at 11:30, then usually a grilled cheese and hot dog sandwich at 3, followed by whatever SAD dinner my mom would make. It's no wonder I wound up at 300+ pounds in my 30s.

Pre-paleo, I would subsist for a whole week on nothing but food you can acquire at a convenience store. Just thinking about that now makes me feel ill. I can't believe the things I used to eat, and I would definitely say living entirely on microwaveable burritos, frozen pizza, Hostess and Frito-Lay products and Coke Zero (because, yeah, make sure it's a DIET soda, FFS) as extreme. Extremely gross.

I won 50 bucks just this past year by being the first to complete a taco eating contest (eat a 12 taco box from Taco Bell all drizzled with hot sauce and no being able to use my hands). Proud would describe the way I felt that night...followed by misery!

I binge at buffets/student dining halls (which is sad because I'm a university employee...and not a student).

It goes something like this in a dining hall:

I'll start off with some chicken and vegetables and other sorts of protein. I'd probably eat about two plates of that. Lots and lots of sauce. If there is pizza, I'll grab a few slices and just eat the cheese and toppings.

Then I go for the starchy dishes...rice/pasta casseroles and more protein and vegetables. I do a nice full plate of this.

Then I move onto plate three, which is sandwiches and fries. Two hamburgers or chicken patty and then lots of fries and homemade chips, with lots of ketchup and ranch. If it is taco day, then a few tacos with cheese and sour cream.

Then I move onto plate four, which is one of those self-made large waffles, with nutella, butter and syrup. I follow it up with a bowl of either cinnamon toast cereal or granola with milk.

I end the dining hall binge with taking a sandwich with a wheat bun, turkey and cheese with pesto mayo.

I stuff cookies in my purse while praying I don't run into a student I know...and walk out with a takeaway cup with about 4 scoops of ice-cream.

I finally conclude with driving to a fast food place to get a value meal with lots of diet soda.

And no, I'm not trying to be funny.

Well I've been a no-holds-barred glutton most of my life. Unfortunately I'll always find pleasure in gorging on (coincidentally) the unhealthiest of 'foods'.

That said, my most extreme dietary experience has been the Master Cleanse, which I've done three times over the last two years. Brutal, yet self-deprivationally satisfying.

I've always been a big eater. If it weren't for the stares, I could easily demolish an entire cake.

One time, I was at the movies by myself (I know, I know...no one wanted to come, and I needed to see Midnight In Paris!) so I thought, no one knows me, I'll eat what I like!

3 200g bars of chocolate, 1 large popcorn, a large coke, a pint of Ben and Jerry's caramel chew-chew and a bag of haribos. In a 2 hour sitting.

What makes it worse is, I could've ate more. But the movie ended and I had to face reality. :P