Oh…Because my husband did have a giant prime rib at a steak joint once. It was over 3 pounds as I recall. So 4 pounds didn’t seem that crazy.
Sorry. :smack:
maybe there needs to be an exaggerating smilie?
That’s weird. I do the same thing and I’ve never known anyone else who did. By suppertime, I feel the same amount of hunger whether I’ve eaten lunch or not, so why add in all of those extra calories if I’ll feel the same? Might as well just enjoy a suitably sized supper.
Actually the one thing that living has taught me is that I really like restricting my intake even at a buffet … instead of a whole portion of everything, a bite of everything lets me try everything and not get that ‘urp, i cant believe i ate the whole thing’ overstuffed feeling.
I could probably eat 8 lobsters, if I didnt have a health consideration, but why would I want to? I hate the im so stuffed I cant move feeling. I dont like feeling gnawing hunger pains … and am accustomed to randomly grabbing celery when I have the munchies, and spreading my food out to avoid insulin spikes so I rarely am either ravenous or stuffed and I like the feeling.
[and yes, I am probably one of the few americans who actually does eat 10 servings of veggies and fruit in a day though it is mostly veggie]
I’ve had a few different food cravings over the years where I would put away massive amounts of certain foods; Shock Tarts, sunflower seeds, cashews, and Hershey’s Kisses. I’m a fairly skinny guy too.
I’ve single handedly eaten a Ben & Jerry’s Vermontster
I also had one miserable lonely Bday/Xmas where I ate 2 pounds of chocolate washed down with a liter of red wine.
[Hermes]
“Sweet something of… someplace.”
[/Hermes]
To me, there is no food so tasty that it is worth that miserable full feeling. The “taste” or “jones” for something is actually fulfilled within a couple of bites. Nope, I don’t have a cite.
Why, oh why, can’t I abide by this? Why can’t I slow down and savour something, and not have to overeat to feel satisfied? Why can’t I test it and see if taste is truly sated by a few, truly enjoyed bites?
As for the largest amount of food ever eaten at once… I try to repress those memories. I have certainly binged on food in the past, especially this time of the year. But maybe two quarter pounders, two orders of fries, 6 nuggets… and diet Coke to wash it down. That was memorable. I’m not proud.
Not one sitting, but . . .
. . . a number of years back I went up to Quebec to go to a sugar shack with a bunch of Dopers for a kind of all-you-can-eat meal of pork and maple combined in many delicious ways. After gorging there, I returned home quickly because my family was having a going-away dinner for friends of ours at a semi-upscale, authentic Chinese place in town. I was already stuffed, but this is some of the greatest Chinese food anywhere. And we got a lot of it.
I have never ever before or since felt so physically unwell from eating too much. I could barely sleep that night, and the next day I was burping all these tiny burps that were clearly happening so my digestive tract could use all available capacity for dealing with the immense amount of food I had taken in. I was miserable for about 24 hours.
During my thru-hike of the appalachian trail, I had a couple big-eating days, making up for the calorie deficit on the trail.
In one sitting, I ate a 1-pound hamburger, chips, 2 slices of pizza, 2 apples, full pint of Ben and Jerry’s. In another I ate a half-gallon of ice cream. I had 2 Subway footlongs in one sitting, then another 4 hours later.