What made you fat?

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  • samanthalynn84
    samanthalynn84 Posts: 14
    My biggest was medication. I gained 50 pounds in 3 months despite not upping my calories and remaining active. I slowly packed on the additional extra 25 pounds by getting a desk job (less active in general), eating lots of junk and drinking soda like a mad woman.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    ana3067 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    christinev297 wrote: »
    Popcorn and jelly beans. I ate them all day and night.
    When I stopped, the weight fell off easily.
    I always see popcorn mentioned here as a healthy low calorie treat. I can't just nibble on a bit of popcorn, I eat a whole jumbo bag to myself.

    So do I. I still think it's low calorie for how much food it is.

    I ate 47g of air-popped popcorn tonight with lots of marge and shredded cheese on it. Only came up to a few hundred calories for being a HUGE bowl.

    Yeah, I think I'm going to go the way of air popped corn soon. It seems like it shaves off like 100 calories for a similar quantity as a bag of newmans or something? And I like it too.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    50 surplus calories a day, and time.

    Yep, this for me. I gained 6-7 pounds a year for over a decade. It was gradual enough that I fooled myself into thinking that it wasn't that much.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    What made me fat was eating more calories than my body needed. No particular food or drink, just too muh.
  • rosnigetsfit
    rosnigetsfit Posts: 569 Member
    bad habits
  • Grunkle_Stan
    Grunkle_Stan Posts: 5 Member
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  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    ana3067 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    christinev297 wrote: »
    Popcorn and jelly beans. I ate them all day and night.
    When I stopped, the weight fell off easily.
    I always see popcorn mentioned here as a healthy low calorie treat. I can't just nibble on a bit of popcorn, I eat a whole jumbo bag to myself.

    So do I. I still think it's low calorie for how much food it is.

    I ate 47g of air-popped popcorn tonight with lots of marge and shredded cheese on it. Only came up to a few hundred calories for being a HUGE bowl.

    Not for me. I put at least 2-3 tablespoons of melted butter on it. If I eat a bowl of popcorn, that's my dinner. LOL
  • junestarrr
    junestarrr Posts: 52 Member
    Too much alcohol and mindless eating.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    Caitoriri wrote: »
    Not that I've ever been officially diagnosed, but I think I had Compulsive Over-Eating Disorder. I got fat at like, 6 or 7 years old, right after my baby sister died, and stayed that way until I was 22. I remember taking my mum's food one time and hiding in my room to eat it and getting in so much trouble. I was in such a trance when I did it. I guess I've just always dealt with stress through food, even at such a young age.

    I am sorry about your baby sister. :(

  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Eating to self-soothe in bad times and celebrate in good times...but mostly, I think it was using others' eating habits to gauge what I should be eating too. And too many restaurant meals. For example, a combo from a fast food place. I never really stopped to say to myself, "Am I still hungry when I eat just the sandwich? Do I need the fries and large soft drink too?" I just ate that because it seemed like a standard meal for "everyone".

    For many years I was married to a man who was also morbidly obese (as I was) and I simply ate a bit less than he did. Seven or eight slices of pizza for him...then 4-5 was okay for me, right? He got the big shake so I got a medium and felt like I was being moderate by comparison. Even with girlfriends, I'd just match their pace on the chips and salsa without thinking "hmm I don't even like chips". And I didn't realize a lot of the friends who polished off an enchilada plate at girls' night out dinner had only eaten like, an apple & some cereal all day long...I'd probably had cereal, juice, a latte, and a large lunch as well. A lot of this stuff just clicked for me after joining My Fitness Pal.
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  • fitinthe6
    fitinthe6 Posts: 43 Member
    cookies, popcorn, mcdonalds, chinese takeout, fried chicken, potatoes, rice...
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    albalegume wrote: »
    The terrible trio: Stress, Boredom and Peach Pie.


    OMG...

    NOT THE PEACH PIE.

    (Running. Toward the peach pie)
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    Starvation mode. I was eating 700 calories and balooned up to obese status.

    dat starvation mode
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    ana3067 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    christinev297 wrote: »
    Popcorn and jelly beans. I ate them all day and night.
    When I stopped, the weight fell off easily.
    I always see popcorn mentioned here as a healthy low calorie treat. I can't just nibble on a bit of popcorn, I eat a whole jumbo bag to myself.

    So do I. I still think it's low calorie for how much food it is.

    I ate 47g of air-popped popcorn tonight with lots of marge and shredded cheese on it. Only came up to a few hundred calories for being a HUGE bowl.

    Yeah, I think I'm going to go the way of air popped corn soon. It seems like it shaves off like 100 calories for a similar quantity as a bag of newmans or something? And I like it too.
    I've eaten air-popped for years, not for weight loss. I think it tastes good... the bagged stuff in the microwave is good but only sometimes, it's just super greasy and salty!

  • 5BeautifulDays
    5BeautifulDays Posts: 683 Member
    I started dating my husband! Actually--I would say the initial weight gain *was* caused by way too much restaurant/take-out at a time in my life (age 17-18) when I had a) just stopped growing and b) hadn't really learned the self-control/mindfulness habits required to have all that freedom with food.

    Beyond that, just too many calories, bearing 5 children, and eventually the forced inactivity of obesity-related joint problems.
  • vividii
    vividii Posts: 29 Member
    Getting a car. Prior to getting a car, I underestimated how much exercise I got just getting places, even with taking public transportation. Driving everywhere and not adjusting how I ate had a big impact on my weight.
  • Noelv1976
    Noelv1976 Posts: 18,948 Member
    Laziness.....Xbox, animal crackers, and the dairy queen two blocks away. Oh and beer
  • AmigaMaria001
    AmigaMaria001 Posts: 489 Member
    I got fat from snacking every single night from 8pm until midnight! EVERY NIGHT~!
    Never, ever, ever going to do that again.
  • berlynnwall
    berlynnwall Posts: 669 Member
    My weight really started to get out of control when I was pregnant with my daughter. I had hypertension, bad. I couldn't even wear shoes because my feet were so swollen. I had to go on bed rest because of another issue, and things just went down hill from there. When she was born she was very high needs and I had the worst post partum depression/anxiety in the world. The last thing I cared about was eating right. Then my thyroid decided it was done working properly. One thing after another, really. I had finally started losing weight and feeling alright again when I found out I was pregnant with my 3rd child. FML. Oh well. Back on track now.
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    vividii wrote: »
    Getting a car. Prior to getting a car, I underestimated how much exercise I got just getting places, even with taking public transportation. Driving everywhere and not adjusting how I ate had a big impact on my weight.

    Getting a car all those years ago definitely contributed to my fatness. Before, i would think "Mcdonalds' sounds good. But i don't wanna take a bus and then transfer and then come back. Thats a long trip. And i'm not gonna walk 3 miles! I'll just get it later".

    After i got a car "hey. It'll be a 20 minute round trip and i don't even have to use my legs!" Fatness came easy
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,559 Member
    edited March 2015
    Too many large European-style ice creams while touring Europe a couple years ago.

    You know the kind ... they come in a large glass, several scoops of ice cream, topped with a generous coating of chocolate and irish cream or rum or something, plus heaps of whipped cream.

    They were lunch on many of the days over the 2-ish months we were there, and the cycling we were doing was just not burning them off.

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    I've more or less maintained my weight since then in a ... down a few kg ... up a few kg ... down a few kg ... up a few kg ... pattern. I'm not far into the "overweight" BMI category, but just enough that I'd like to go down a few kg, and stay down.
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    The real reason: Eating and drinking too much and not exercising until I was over

    My excuses: Quitting smoking sucked. I put on 50lbs like instantly. I always dealt with emotions with nicotine. Once I quit I used food and food tasted better when I quit smoking. 2 back to back pregnancies didn't help, but that's what happens when you decide to have kids and you're old as *kitten*. Gotta bang those suckers out while the clock is still ticking.
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  • laurenjill25
    laurenjill25 Posts: 37
    Quitting my job and working from home did it. I went from running around serving all day to sitting. All day. When that happens you need to make the time for exercise. Or it's fat city :)
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    I just said no. Then found food.
  • brookekato
    brookekato Posts: 6 Member
    I definitely overeat. Whether it's binge-eating or just eating too much when going out to dinner, I do it, and I do it often. Which is also a leading cause as to why I'm not losing any weight and gained back all the pounds I lost. (I'm very sad about that, actually). But how did you guys lose it and stay motivated and focused even when you wanted to go eat? How did you change your mindset?
  • dougpconnell219
    dougpconnell219 Posts: 566 Member
    A combination of sloth and gluttony.
  • tffcx
    tffcx Posts: 20 Member
    edited March 2015
    Crash dieting to lose that extra few pounds led to binging and putting on WAY more than the initial extra few pounds. :(
  • bainsworth1a
    bainsworth1a Posts: 313 Member
    I sure understand emotional eating. I eat when I am happy sad and anything in between. I am getting better but i still have days when I just eat to eat. Now I try to at least make it something healthy like carrots or celery instead of chips etc.

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