I think this might be a fun and informational exercise.

Let's see how many calories/fat is in your typical PRE-band meal. I bet you'll be shocked, and then I bet you'll say "no wonder I was fat!". lol

My weakness was McDonald's fries, so I always made sure I got the super size meal. My only saving grace was that I'm not a soda drinker, so I got unsweetened tea. But, here's mine:

Big Mac: 560 cal/30 g fat/3 g fiber/47 g carbs

SS Fries: 610 cal/29 g fat/7 g fiber/77 g carbs

Total: 1170 cal / 59 g fat / 10 g Fiber / 124 g carbs

I got the info at Dotti's Weight Loss Zone

Interesting thread! Well, I owe all my weight gain to Taco Bell

My usual meal ~

1 Beef Fiesta Burrito

1 Nacho Supreme

2 Taco Supremes

Totals :Banane20: ~

serving weight 602g

1240 calories

66g fat

140mg cholesterol

2740mg sodium

119 carbohydrates

Oh yeah, on top of all that, add an XL Dr Pepper! I can't even imagine eating that much now ... and to think, that was just 1 meal outta the day no wonder I reached 300+ lbs!

This will be embarrassing but good, since I can no longer eat this way:

Anything Italian, However this was my FAVORITE:

Kettle One Martini

Homemade Lasagna w/Meatsauce & Meatballs - at least 5oz

Italian bread w/ A LOT of butter - at least 2pcs

Cabernet - at least 2 glasses

Tiramisu - 2oz slice

Irish coffee

I'm going to guess this meal was well over 2200 calories:ohmy:

I like sooo much food, I don't know how to pick a favorite.

German Restaurant near work.. Started with a fancy cheese plate w/fruit... then Veal Schnitzle (sp) with Hunter's Gravy and pan fried potatoes.. and german chocolate cake.. NUM NUM NUM :eek:

Red Lobster.. Any of the "Feasts", and sometimes a side of crab legs

DH is taking me out to a fancy dinner tomorrow night for my b'day and we were talkin about where to go. He picked somewhere SUPER fancy and SUPER expensive, and frankly the one time we went before, we said we wouldn't go back... it's like 3oz of food for $80. I tried to talk him out of it, I still don't understand why he insists.. but now the 3oz will fill me up :biggrin:

Crunchwrap combo from Taco Bell. I've tried 2x since being banded to eat one....NOPE. It gets stuck and hurts like h e double toothpicks.

Pasta Alfredo and a filet mignon extra rare. Add in a bottle of French red.

A big muffin break Mixed berry Muffin (no butter, lol) is a whopping 549 calories with 21 calories of fat.

With a huge cappucino (skinny milk of course) in a mug, 93 calories and 0.3 grams of fat. Plus even though I dont generally have sugar in coffee and tea, I always added a packet of raw sugar because I liked eating it with the foam off the top.

Sheesh. I cant eat the muffins now, they're just way too soft and cakey to get down. These days I just get a skinny cappucino.

Meals and day to day eating I was good with, large portions but healthy, home cooked fresh food. Never been one for gutloads of Macdonalds and I would have to be starving and it be the last food on earth before I'd touch something like KFC. It's just those sweet things, the white carbs and extras that did me in, which is perhaps why I got to a BMI of 35, but not 45. It doesnt take all that many extra calories per day to make you fat.

By the way, that muffin and coffee was a SNACK, not a meal. Sheesh.

Angie? What is wrong with you posting a thread like this? You are a sick and twisted woman!!!! (And I am a masochist for reading it.)

I had so many favorites that I can't begin to pick one. Of course, the one I've been dreaming about (literally) the most is pizza Hut thin crust, double cheese and double pepperoni pizza. :thumbup:

Favorite pre-band meal......Chicken Carbonara...heavy cream sauce, bacon, chicken...tossed with lots of pasta and garlic bread...Thank you lapband, there is no way I can eat that now!

I had many, But Spicy Romano Chicken from Johnny Carinos, Also I would have a Salad and ALOT of Bread with thier Garlic Olive Oil to dip it in...and hubby and I would usally share a dessert... YIKES

Pizzahut supreme pizza....at least 3 slices and a couple pieces of dessert pizza or some frosted cinnamon bread sticks....and iced tea with artificial sweetner so I wouldn't get fatter LOL

Wow, I never shared a dessert pre-band. I'd give DH evil looks if he wanted to try it. :eek:

Now I forgo the dessert and taste his

Mexican Food!!!!!!! Start with a basket of chips and salsa, add queso with more chips, then a taco, enchilada, guacamole and a taquito with rice and Beans of course. Sometimes I would have margaritas or a couple of beers. I can't imagine the fat content??

I hope I can never eat that much again! I just got banded last week and I am so hungry. So far this is really hard being hungry all the time. I am ready to not feel hunger!

I really miss a big honkin sandwich like a turkey club or a messy cheesburger with mayo and fries!!!!!

MMM MMM!!!

I don't really miss not being able to tie my shoes without a respirator though....so I guess it is a trade off!

a huge plate of poutine, which for those that are not from quebec ( where it is from and the place that keeps it at it's roots) is french fries, I like them in that sort of mushy phase but some like them crunchy, with cheese curds melted on top, and smothered in poutine gravy, mouthful's of heaven!! maybe why I now live in seattle, far far away from my nemisis!! or mac and cheese or dark chocolate dipped shortbread cookies.

Two favorites:

chicken Express:

(had to use Church's chicken dietary information for everything but the tenders.. Chicken express only put the meat calories on their site, but it's close enough)

7 piece chicken tenders - 230 cals per strip.. 1960 calories/ 105 carbs

Side of mashed potatoes - 90 cals/14 carbs

Side of gravy - couldn't find this out

two biscuits - one with honey and one dipped in the gravy - 500/50carbs

Large sweet tea - couldn't find this out

total: 2550 total... plus probably about 400 more... WOWWW.. I'm glad I couldn't have this any more once I moved to a new town a year ago.. It had been a year since having this meal.. who knows how big I would have gotten had I not stopped eating this.

Taco Bueno:

2 Soft taco's with meat, chz, and sourcream only - 490 / 36 carbs (for both)

1 Muchaco with sourcream - 496 calories / 49 carbs

Large strawberry soda - not sure

Sourcreams are 57 calories each, so that would be three - 171

Total: 1157 plus whatever soda was...