An entire cheesecake.

I think the biggest thing with me was that I was totally unaware of what I was stuffing in.

I was a secret eater a lot, so I would order double from somewhere like McDonald's and eat the first helping of a 1/4 pounder with cheese + super size fry on the way home and then eat another sitting down with my husband. Or I would buy 3 milkshakes, one for the car, one for home and one for him. I wouldn't look at it or taste it, it just went down.

I was dieting two years ago, and doing the whole "Saturday as a free day" thing. Throughout the course of an entire week I would plan what I would eat. I remember one Saturday was pretty bad:

• Woke up at 5:30 am, ate half a quart of mint choc chip ice cream. Ate two handfuls of mint chocolate pieces.
• 6:00am started on a box of Quaker oatmeal squares, along with a quart of whole milk.
• 9am or so, had one or two chocolate bars to tie me over until lunch.
• 11am, pizza place opens, go there and eat two 7" pizzas, go to trader joe's to pick up some cookies, brioche rolls, frozen chocolate dipped bananas, and a package of naan
• 12:30 or so, eat the rest of the ice cream, half a package of these oatmeal cookies (that weren't very good), one or two brioche rolls, another handful of mint chocolate, one frozen banana.
• 2:00pm took a nap since I was so full, essentially waiting until my stomach digested what I ate so I could eat again
• 5:00pm woke up, ate two frozen choc bananas, decided to walk to a middle eastern restaurant, ate there
• 7:00pm finished the box of bananas (three left), the other four brioche rolls, another handful of mint chocolate
• 11:00pm decided to eat the naan, since I bought it. Ate it with some of my roommate's garlic butter, and some thick cheese slices.

I pretty much ate the entire day. I am still surprised that I was able to still lose weight, although I was eating 1800 cals throughout the week. After a while I realized that that kind of behavior is entirely not good, so I've decided never to do that again. Looking back at what I ate, I guess my trick was to eat not that much fat, so I could keep eating all the carbs I wanted.

I won a pie eating contest in third grade. My favorite stoner snack in college was a big bag of Frito's scoops with a jar of tostitos nacho sauce warmed in the microwave. I could seriously eat it all in one sitting. It was disgusting, though I was bulimic back then so it never stayed down.

:::shame:::

stick of celery and 100cal burnt bag of popcorn

extrememly......mind f*cking

A bakers dozen (13) of boston cream donuts.

Probably the buffet at Cici's pizza.I wasn't keeping count, because I was too busy stuffing my face with cheap ass pizza, but it was at least 7 big plates worth. These days, when I absolutely need a buffet, I go to Souper Salad or The Saltlick for all you can eat Texas BBQ!

Is it wrong that reading all of these is making me hungry?

When I was in college, me and a few of my fellow bouncers, we had a wing eating contest at the all you could eat wing night at hooters. I came in 2nd with 87 wings. I was also drinking copious amounts of beer while eating said wings.

college. fat free grilled cheese once a day (fat free white bread, one slice of fat free cheese cooked in fat free margarine) and cigarettes. i also switched from water to coffee, and from beer to plain vodka. its true that i did lose weight.....

The two days following the completion of one of my bodybuilding competition I ate the following in 36 hours:

1/2 of Outback Cheese Fry Appetizer

1 rack of rib with 1 fully loaded potato

Thunder from down under

3 bowls of fruity pepples with whole milk

4 Krispy Creme Doughnuts with whole milk

Double Whopper with cheese and Super Sized Fries and loads of ketcup

IHOP Steak Omelete with stack of pancakes, hashbrowns, sausage and bacon

1 Bag of Gourmet Lay's BBQ potato chips

1 Bag of Gourmet Lay's Sour Cream and Onion potato Chips

One whole extra large Pepporoni Pizza

1lb of baklava (not at one sitting)

I gained 5lbs in 2 days. And to think I was puzzled why I developed digestive problems over the years.

Extremely low fat vegan...shudders... my poor offspring! Bulimia

On Thanksgiving many years back I ate a whole bag of tortilla chips, jar of cheese, and refried beans. I pretty much inhaled them and would regret my lack of chewing later...

About an hour later I loaded up on thanksgiving dinner, mounds of potatoes, gravy, turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pickles, cheesy celery, rolls, pumpkin pie, and ice cream. Oh boy. In the middle of the night my stomach decided to send it all back, nachos included...yeowch.

I wasn't really downing mass quantities, but when I was in high school, it would be typical for me to skip history class and get Burger King for lunch, then go to Taco Bell at the end of the school day.

There was a dunkin' donuts next to a burger king on my way to work. Every morning without fail I would visit both and construct the Royal Luther Gangbang (not my epithet): Chicken sandwich in between a Double stacker and two glazed donuts substituting the outside bun.

I haven't binged since college, and it was rare even then. I do remember once eating about half a can of frosting with a spoon, in one sitting, and being tempted to finish the whole thing, but that's when I was vegan. I am not really a binge eater by nature; I usually comforted myself with cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs... not something to be proud of. But I quit smoking six months ago, barely ever have the urge to drink any more (maybe 2 or 3 fluid oz of wine a week), and after working so hard on my diet, I have no interest in drugs either.

The alcohol thing is really amazing to me. I never imagined that I could go for a month without a drink and not feel the tiniest bit of stress over it. Also cigarettes -- I never could have believed that I would not miss them at all.

A couple yards of beer, some tequila, and I don't recall the rest....

When I was much younger, I had the ability to eat an entire box of Kellog's Frosted Flakes in one sitting (dry, straight from the box). When I got older, 4 cups of steamed white rice, swimming in butter, sugar and cinnamon was my secret binge food. I stay far, far away from white rice these days - for some reason I love the stuff, gawd knows why.

Last fall I did "6 hour cheats" every two weeks. Basically for six hours on sunday, I stuffed myself with everything and and lots of it. I was only starting paleo, so I wasn't too concenrned. I was also doing low carb during the weeks, so I still lost some weight. One sunday I found myself lying on the bathroom floor in a food coma, and haven't done cheats like that ever since (not been cheating at all for 3-4 months now).

Can't exactly remeber what I had on the most extreme cheats, but something like this

• McDonalds (at least 2 burgers, fries, soda & milkshake)
• Packet of Pepperidge Farm Cookies
• Pint of Ben and Jerry's
• A large pizza
• There' was something else, possibly a panini and maybe some candy.

whoa. in six hours.

A whole cheesecake from the dining hall :(

I used to have this sick joke with myself that my personal four food groups were:
1. chocolate bars
2. gummy/fruity candy
3. snack cakes
4. chips
I would go weeks or months eating basically these four groups, with the occasional fast food/burrito/whatever thrown in. The local convenience stores were my supermarkets. I felt a personal loss when Hostess stopped making their blueberry pies. A bag of Doritos was a hearty dinner for me, because they filled me up more than the other stuff.

Suffice it to say, I was smoking a lot of marijuana at this time which completely destroyed all judgment and self control that I had. I used to wonder whether I ate so much crap because I was smoking, or if I was smoking to give myself an excuse to eat a bunch of crap. I'm surprised I didn't end up fatter than I did (about 50 lbs overweight).

• one liter of cheap vodka
• one large pizza with extra cheese
• one quart of mint chocolate chip ice cream

All consumed within one hour, on a regular basis, during my first nervous breakdown.

I would inhale a box of pasta, a whole jar of sauce, a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, a pound of cheese, a 'family size' bag of chips, a half-gallon of ice cream, a dozen cookies, a can of peas, a can of corn, and bowls of white sugar, mixed with syrup. I would tell myself, this is the last time I binge, after this I will never, ever eat, again. No matter how full my stomach felt, it did nothing against the emptiness I was trying to get rid of. And I would feel so ashamed, so guilty, and get so afraid of gaining weight, that I would throw up.

It was so horribly frightening, to lose control like that, and to be fully aware of everything I was putting into my mouth, my stomach, but to not be able to stop it, or to comfort myself with the thought that, at least I was getting it out. I would promise myself I would stop, at midnight, that tomorrow was another day, and that I wouldn't eat more than 400 calories a day for the next month. I would make it two weeks to two months like that, then binge for a week, or two, throwing up every time my stomach was too full.

I still had that mentality, for a few months after ditching sugar and grains, but I don't now, and haven't binged/purged for about 4 months. I know it can still creep back in, if I'm not careful, though. So I have to watch myself.

An entire box of Somoa girl scout cookies by day.

An entire box of Thin Mints by night.

Those little morsels are plain evil. To this day I'll take the side door into the grocery store during Girl Scout months and tell myself, "don't make eye contact. don't make eye contact."

Costco sells a gigantic chocolate layer cake--a real monstrosity. I believe it's called the All-American Chocolate Cake. On one of the last binges I can recall (maybe two years ago?) I ate one, along with a half-gallon of vanilla ice cream. It took me about three hours.

Fast food--especially Wendy's (if sober) and Taco Bell (if drunk). At my worst, I was buying enough food for 3-4 really hungry people at least two nights a week and eating it all. Usually, I'd sit in my car, listening to Art Bell on the radio as I devoured everything. I was so ashamed, I couldn't even bring it in the house.

Oh boy. First: AAAAALLL day, nothing but fruit and diet tea, when I was vegan/anorexic. Some days all I'd consume was a gallon of diet Arizona tea. Others it was only 300-500 calories worth of fruit. Maybe a "treat" of air-popped popcorn. Ha. I would sometimes eat close to 1200 calories (biiig deal right? ha), but I came to the point where I considered that a binge, I was so obsessed.

Now: Oh, my. Don't get me started. Last summer, a typical day for me was like this: Wake up- Cook up 7 or 8 MASSIVE pancakes using white flour, vegetable oil, all that other terrible stuff :p Eat with maple syrup and peanut butter. Drink a couple glasses of milk. PURGE. Immediately after- Make a big thing of noodles, smother in some sort of cheese sauce, eat. Purge. After that- Drink a bunch of juice and purge. After- Drag self out of pajamas, make self look decent enough to face society, buy junk food... Something like honeybuns, dark chocolate(okay, not actually junk, but I prefer it to milk chocolate), lots of frosting, a lot of drinks, maybe something from Starbucks, lots of "nutrition" bars. Eat it all in the family bathroom. Purge.

And then have dinner with my mom, and purge that after she went to bed.

YEP. It was pretty bad.

It's subsided a little since then.. I definitely still binge/purge... It's this compulsory thing I'm having a hard time getting a hold on. But I don't do it that bad anymore, and I really would like to get on board with paleo 100 percent. It's a struggle /:

inb4 tl;dr?

After a massive dose of steroids from a bad chemo reaction I was starving. I had a full Italian dinner, salad, appetizer, main course, then went to the mall, saw the frozen yogurt and had the largest size with all the toppings. Walking back to the car passed a pretzel place where I has one large cheese and two large cinnamon pretzels. Got home, saw there were four cupcakes in the fridge, ate those. Decided I needed a large hot tea so I drove to dunkin donuts where I got two donuts and a large hot tea. Drank that and ate the donuts, got home and threw it all up in th driveway.

Well the five pounds of mashed potatoes I once ate at a sitting seemed extreme to a least one poster on this tread :)

I don't really know what the most extreme thing I did was, the point was not paying attention to what I ate :)

3 packs of cookies (each 250 gr. I think), dozen slices of bread with lots of jam and some cheesecake :D

Hey, I was in civilization after a 10-day hike and was starving! :p

Veggie dog eating contest, and we use beer instead of water for dunking and drinking. I am/was runner up the first year, and won the last two years. I have since gone paleo but might break for a day to defend my crown. I think I was able to choke down about a dozen in 5 minutes, with whole grain buns of course.

I always felt like ass afterward, but a bottle of Underberg helped. I'm guessing I will feel 10x worse this year with all the dietary changes I have made. In the past it wasnt the food, but the amounts that hurt.