Last semester, the people at the dining hall basically bought me my own mustard because I was using so much of it 
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It can also be reduced. Your body can adapt to your food intake. At the point I did that eating challenge, I was living off one solid meal a day. Often not a very big one. Your body is amazingly adaptable.
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Someone needs to tell my body that. I cut 40 lbs in 2019 and I still want to eat 4000 calories a day.
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I find I have a āpermissiveā appetite.
If there isnāt anything tempting (roasted meat, yogurt, cheese), I can feel satisfied on quite little food.
If thereās temptation around, ie a party, I can eat more than my brother and dad combined
Also, fruit seems to trigger my appetite more than anything, and for some reason, good quality fruit makes artificial sweetener seem tasteless for me 
Just curious, are any of you guys a āserving size is the containerā kind of person?
My favourite pig out story is from a night out in my second year of university. I had recently been working at McDonaldās and had a discount card which basically got me up to two meals at a time for half price. I had dinner as usual at about 6pm then we left to the club at about 9pm, but on the way I was hungry so stopped and got two large meals.
As the night went on I got a little drunk and bored of the club so I left on my own and of course ended up at McDonaldās again. This was probably around 1am-2am. After noticing Iād left my friends left shortly after, presuming Iād gone home. They called at McDonaldās for a meal themselves and were shocked to find me sat alone at a table in the corner with the empty packaging for three large meals in front of me, drinks and all, and a fourth one being shovelled into my mouth.
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Thereās a small local chain of Thai food restaurants in my area that have amazing food, with very American portions at a very reasonable cost. We get normal orders from them every couple weeks when neither of us feel like cooking, but a little while back I went absolutely ham. Got an order of drunken noodles (which is about two normal person servings), fried pork gyoza, beef satay, and some kind of coconut milk soup with chicken in it. It was a marvelous evening of gluttony.
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I added this to the confession thread a while back. Given your post about eating big thought I would share it here
Your pictures of burgers made me think back to when I used to eat McDonnalds. They would have a special deal of but one Big Mac get one free. I would ask for 2 Big Macs and when the person serving brought them to the counter I would have to explain that I was paying for 2 but actually wanted 4. The look of their face was always priceless.
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Iāve had a difficult time getting used to eating a lot to gain weight, especially for extended periods of time, but Iāve gotten ok at it.
Before lockdown Iād have a binge after coming home from the bars, always taco bell, always 4 cheesy gordita crunches, a chicken quesadilla and something Iāve never tried on the menu. I ended up settling on the nacho box as a regular item. The chips were so salty and amazing.
This year was the first time Iāve eaten at McDonaldās in probably 8 years. I got 2 big Macs and 4 mcchickens for lunch at workā¦
Sometimes at dinner Iāll have a 1-1.25lb chuckeye (or ribeye if itās on sale) and the better part of a dozen eggs (8-10) scrambled on a couple of XL tortilla wraps with an advocado and salsa, cheese and sour cream.
Did an eating challenge with a few friends and had a dozen hot dogs with buns in ten mins, almost puked because the texture was so off-putting. Like mushy salt mud. So gross.
Lately my go to binge is cottage cheese before bed, I get the 3lb container and load it with hit sauce and go to town. I try to get as much down as I can after dinner without feeling like dying.
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Iāve always felt that Big Macs really go down fast, lol. You can make short work of four pretty quickly. Iām sure you would agree, Pwn
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That sounds amazing!
Ha, no way I could eat the whole 3lb, I normally can get about 1/3 in before it feels like itās coming through my pores.
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I eat a pint at a time, but usually I want more yogurt after
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@dagill2 Absolutely true. At the end of my fat loss, I had zero appetite. Having it come back has been awesome.
@caesium32 I have definitely been ācaughtā having a second dinner on a few occasions. Just gotta own it, haha.
@mr.v3lv3t When I was in college, the (future) Mrs and I would take to walking to Safeway (no car) and getting the Asian Food āfamily mealā, which, to a couple of broke college kids, was a feast fit for kings. It was supposed to feed a family of 4-5, of which my wife took her share and I ate for the rest of the family, haha. Takeout is just magical sometimes.
@simo74 I remember that story! And itās amazing how little it takes to blow the minds of some of those workers. For me, it was ordering ā2 double hamburgersā. I would inevitably get either 1 double hamburger or 2 single hamburgers. Something about ā2 doubleā breaks them.
@boilerman I am a big fan of your binges. Youāve definitely got it figured out.
@tinkertailortanker Interesting fact: Iāve literally only ever had ONE Big Mac in my life. It was at my final powerlifting meet. It just sounded good at the time. I got it without cheese, and ate it with some chalk covered hands in between deadlift attempts. Theyāre ok, but double quarter pounders were always my jam.
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I like the Piedmontese (ground beef and stew beef) meat, thanks for the heads up tip.
Will be ordering more stuff before the end of the year. If I get invited to friendās for Christmas, I would love to order the Tomahawk to bring over. And the Morgan Ranch wagyu sale is notable because that stuff is not for sale on the actual Morgan Ranch site.
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Hell yeah dude: glad itās worked out. I legit just pulled the trigger on a near $300 order a few minutes ago, haha. The summer sausage is awesome: well worth stocking now that they have it back in stock. Got a bunch of sirloins to make breakfast steaks, a chuck roast, some filet mignon for the mrs, and a tri tip roast. Also bought the Tomahawk, because itās Christmas.
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I have a bunch of binge stories. I have gotten a bunch of free food and shirts because of it. My favorite one i paid for but it was awesome. I ate a 40 ounce porter house at a local shite steak joint that my family likes to go to for bdays. I killed the steak, a baked potato, a big bowl of pinto beans, and a salad. Then my cousins bet me I couldnāt finish my Auntās and other cousinās steak. Done. My reward for finishing the steaks was a large Braums Mix afterward. A mix is ice cream with buttered pecans whizzed up. You can put all kinds of toppings in it but that one is my favorite.
My second favorite was the turkey platter sized chicken fried steak, a basket of fries, salad, hot roll and okra. Also ate a Dairy Queen Turtle Pecan Cluster blizzard after. That one was free and came with a shirt.
Good times.
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Lmfao this really made me smile
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I donāt have the largest appetite, but if Iāve dieted hard strictly and not had a chear meal for a while one of my favourites is to get two pepperoni pizzas from dominos and put one on top of the other, with the toppings together to make a mega calzone. It never disappoints
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I think the most amount of food I ever put away was when me and a larger group of friends (I think we were nine people in total) went to a local Eritrean restaurant and we ordered in these kind ofā¦ family style meals. Theyāre designed so that everyone gets to try a bit of everything from the menu. To order one of them, there has to be at least three people. Iāve been in companies where one such order fed 4-5 people. Anyway, weāre nine people so we order out 3 of these. One for each table. And, āby the endā at a few tables it hardly looked as if someone had even dug in on the feast. Not that it wasnāt delicious, it was, not that anyone was hungry, no one was. Except. Me.
They started passing the food down my way, and I just cleaned everything up. I spent an hour/ninety minutes eating after everyone else was done. Didnāt have the urge to eat until the following day some 36 hours later ^_^.
Another binge fest was making a sheet pan of granola bars (30 or so) to have in the freezer as an on-the-go snack but I just ate the entire sheet pan. I had indigestion for days. Must have been 16-20k calories.
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How varied is your diet? Iāve ruled out that calories alone influence my fullness, and macro-distributions too. What seems to matter isā¦ micros. And the more varied I make my diet the less I experience ravenous hunger where I consume way too many calories in relation to my weight.
Hereās what I imagine happens, in the crudest sense, when a diet is fairly homogeneous:
- The body needs something, say Iron
- The diet doesnāt contain a lot of Iron
- The body will let you eat as much as necessary to meet its Iron requirements through regulating hunger
Sweden is perhaps an odd-ball country in their dietary habits but around this season our foods become more offal oriented. Bread is baked with blood (iron rich), thereās pudding with liver, thereās pigs feet (lots of bones so ā collagen) etc. And a lot of berries that are consumed seasonally too. And nuts. And I just find that my hunger is completely balanced. Itās at a sensible level. Not too much, not too little. Just right. Anecdata n=1 granted but, wanted to share.