What made you fat?
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Eating like crap and drinking all the time, and never exercising.0
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Eating out nearly every meal. I gained about 13 lbs in a year. I gain weight whenever I eat out more. Even eating 2 meals a day diss not cut down on calories. I could blame eating unhealthy food too, but it's really the calories in the end. It's much easier being a normal weight when I make all my meals at home especially from scratch.0
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Crash dieting to lose that extra few pounds led to binging and putting on WAY more than the initial extra few pounds.
I hear ya on that. At the time I didn't realize it, but I had an eating disorder for years and years. I would starve myself until I lost a pound and then binge eat like crazy. Even all these years later, it's hard to escape that mindset. I thought I was so good at losing weight at that time when in reality, I set myself up to fail again and again. You can't truly keep the weight off until you have a healthy relationship with food
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sunshined121 wrote: »Eating out nearly every meal. I gained about 13 lbs in a year. I gain weight whenever I eat out more. Even eating 2 meals a day diss not cut down on calories. I could blame eating unhealthy food too, but it's really the calories in the end. It's much easier being a normal weight when I make all my meals at home especially from scratch.
I'm glad you were able to have enough insight to figure it out. And I see that was your first post. Welcome!0 -
Meds led to a huge and sharp gain, then lifestyle aggravated it0
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I have a big appetite and get shakey if I don't eat regularly. I'm now eating a lot of protein and moderate good fats. But previously it was a carb fest. Also had 2 kids and got chubby.0
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Simple, way overeating too much food.0
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In 1996, I gave birth to my first child, who ended up being born with a very rare metabolic disease. So rare, that 75% of the children born with this disease die in the first few weeks of life.. To date, (she's now almost 19 years old!) she is still the ONLY child born in West Virginia with this disease and lived. But, those first several years of her life were very harrowing, I could never let her out of my sight, I had to be on constant alert for any sign of a decline in her health, it was very hard to keep her alive those first years.. Needless to say, I was exhausted all the time and had absolutely no me time. I swilled Coke to stay awake. I ate on the run, which tends to be high calorie stuff. I could not exercise at all. And then I had her brother.. more baby weight. I was overweight most of my 20s and all of my 30s. Finally at 40, I began running and tracking my food. It saved my life and my sanity.0
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Not having any idea of what correct portions sizes were. I would eat 6 cookies without realizing that 1 or 2 was the correct number to eat. Years of doing this made fat. I had no idea how I much I was actually eating.
Yep. Totally the same here, no idea at all of portion sizes or moderation, warped from the time I was little. Even as a kid, the portions my mother would serve, I look back on it now, and I was used to eating huge portions of everything from a young age. In our house we had to eat every single thing that was put on our plate, if we didn't we had to sit there until we had eaten it all, if we took too long then we got a hiding for wasting food.
When I got older, all of a sudden takeaways, fish n chips etc weren't a treat anymore, they were part of my weekly diet, as well as Maccas for breakfast, mince and cheese pies, sausage rolls, KFC. Had no idea what I was doing to myself. Or maybe I did and didn't care enough about myself to actually give a toss.
I have learnt and continue to learn so much doing this. Regular portion sizes can actually fill me up! One portion of chicken does not mean two thighs and a drumstick lol, and there are other ways of cooking rather than frying the shite out of everything. I can feel energetic, healthy and fit by watching what I eat, enjoying treats in moderation, and exercising. Who would have thought? lol0 -
I ate to god damn much and I wasnt active.0
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An accident at 19. The 11 following years having 30+ operations and being on and off crutches. Have been in wheelchair nearly 3 years now. Im 30.0
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going on the contraceptive injection at 17 which increased my appetite, slowing my metabolism by making my body progesterone dominant and lack of exercise. i put on 5 stone in a year and stayed this way until i had my son. put on some more weight and then had 2 more children. 193lbs at 5ft was the time to change0
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I had an operation and ate because i was alone because everyone has jobs and i sat in the house not being ablte to get our or move around, people bought me cakes and sweets and i sat and ate them watchin buffy re-runs. Then my husband insisted i ate to get better so ontop of that i had 3 decent meals a day with what ever i wanted in them, bacon, chips, decerts etc0
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Eating too much and not exercising.
Someone blamed their mother
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I forgot to poop.
Or maybe it was me.
You know, putting fork to mouth.
Is this a trick question?0 -
It wasn't my fault I got fat - it was down to the guy who drove his car into my knee and put me on crutches and off work for 3 months. Bored, depressed at the permanent loss of function as well as being much less active. Gained a load of weight as I watched my leg muscles atrophy. Got fit again but never lost the excess weight.
And 20 years later I finally faced up to the fact that the car driver wasn't visiting me every day and making me eat too much. Taking personal responsibility for what I stuffed in my cake hole led to the loss of the excess 34lbs of blubber.0 -
jenniferinfl wrote: »No idea. I was an obese child in a household of normal sized people. I ate the same things everyone else did, in the same portions everyone else did and participated in the same activities. My sisters were 120 lbs and I was 220 before the age of 14. I lost the weight as a teenager by starvation dieting, sub 1000 calories a day. I kept the weight off for ten years and at some point was able to return to normal eating. I would gain ten lbs, notice and lose it again. I pretty much maintained in that manner until I lost my job in 2008 and promptly gained 60-70 lbs in 2 months to return to my previous childhood weight of 220. I didn't drastically change my eating, but, I was really stressed. Since then, I've been doing the whole 'lifestyle' change thing, but that has done nothing. I'm getting ready to jump back into old teenage me's starvation diet as nothing else has worked for me.
Maybe check with your doctor and have your thyroid checked or your insulin levels? Also people who have PCOS have a more difficult time losing weight. Good luck to you.0 -
I ate roughly 5000 calories a day in the Army.
Got out of army.
Continued to eat 5000 calories a day.
Stopped exercising.
Played 50hrs+ of WOW a week.
Two years later...well, *kitten* happens.
Realized it was the 5000 calories, stopped eating so much. but only ate enough to maintain my weight for the next 6 years.
Only started losing my weight 3 years ago. Im not in a hurry.
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Besides the obvious I ate too much. I think the main reason I let myself become that way is that I stopped caring.0
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Eating too much (obviously). The precipitating factor was a shift change to very early hours at work. I'm a natural night owl (well, a diagnosed insomniac), so I very soon found myself nearly passing out at my desk from exhaustion and grabbing caffeine/sugar-filled drinks and food in a desperate attempt to stay awake (can't pass out if I'm chewing, right?). It didn't really work too well, and I gained weight pretty fast. I have since changed my work hours and try to go to bed as early as possible. Getting enough sleep (and reducing stress) is a huge factor in helping me stay on track with my dietary goals.0
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Me is the simple answer.
The more detailed one is I was drinking way too much and depressed and stopped all of my physical activity without adjusting my eating. Then I stopped drinking and started eating a lot more as something of a replacement (emotional/stress eating)--I knew I was doing it and shouldn't, but for a while I was scared that getting rid of that outlet might make it harder not to drink and I didn't trust myself at all. By the time all this ended I was fat enough that losing it seemed like hard work, especially since I was really physically out of shape and wanted to continue ignoring that, was used to being able to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted and just didn't care enough to bother losing it until I did.
Why I didn't care and how I came to care enough is something I don't totally understand and wish I did.0 -
As an overweight child I blame my mom for larger portions and rewarding everything with "treats". Also her denial that I was overweight. I am neither husy nor big boned, my frame is actually quite petite, but this was my mom's insistence all through my youth. I did not form good habits. As an adult tho, that's all me, mostly eating way too much of the same things I eat now. I did consume some junk, but most of my weight came from eating double, maybe even triple portions of regular fairly balanced homecooked meals. Also very sedentary.0
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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.
this sounds so fabulous i wouldn't dare give it a try :P0 -
LAZINESS
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My weight came from eating too much and moving too little.
I ate because there was food there. And I liked it. It was never about hunger. It was never about eating my feelings due to stress, guilt, depression, or anything else. It was never about binge-ing. It's been that way my entire life. Food tasted good. So I ate it.
And I moved too little because all my interests were sedentary ones. Or was it that I chose sedentary activities because that way I didn't have to be on my feet (which hurt when I was at my heaviest). What was a result of which… I'm not sure. Because I've always been fat.
I really struggle if I'm away from home and not making my own food (family style dinners are a disaster… so are restaurants). But I'm learning. I've learned that I feel miserable when I overeat… so I'm learning to practice portion control. And to make healthier choices (order a side of veggies instead of potatoes and gravy).
And by forcing myself to workout out of sheer principle… I realized I love walking/running (especially now that it doesn't hurt). So, now I have at least one interest that isn't sedentary.0 -
A little truth or dare here. For a very large majority of overweight people, the core cause is low self-esteem. For me, that was definitely the case. (I didn't find out until many, many years later, that this was something of a pandemic condition.)
I grew up in a very large household. My father was an abusive alcoholic and my mother was overweight from gaining a few pounds with each of 8 pregnancies - weight she never made any effort to lose. Apparently she always felt inadequate and overweight herself so her method of "helping" me (and presumably my siblings) to not be overweight was to tell me I was! In the eighth grade, I was 5'9" and weighed 108#. I was horrified at the triple digit figure which, to me seemed to prove my mother was right! I WAS FAT! So, I grew up with an unrealistic body image and very poor self image. Low self-esteem. It's a kind of abuse nobody even recognizes.
So, how did that make me fat? Who cares what I eat? I'm fat and ugly and inadequate and otherwise useless anyway. Just ask Mom! So I ate and never thought about what I was eating. I always saw myself as being fat. Then, hypothyroid reared its ugly face and a slowed down metabolism did its dirty work. Before you know it... grossly out of shape and seventy, eighty pounds overweight.
Took a long, long... LONG time to overcome the adverse affects of a diseased childhood. It's a battle that starts anew every morning. But it can be done.0 -
Eating too darned much.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
'Cause ... yumm, right?
Om nom nom nom nom ....0 -
I like to put fat on everything and drink wine with everything. Sitting at a desk all day 5 days a week doesn't help.0
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jenniferinfl wrote: »No idea. I was an obese child in a household of normal sized people. I ate the same things everyone else did, in the same portions everyone else did and participated in the same activities. My sisters were 120 lbs and I was 220 before the age of 14. I lost the weight as a teenager by starvation dieting, sub 1000 calories a day. I kept the weight off for ten years and at some point was able to return to normal eating. I would gain ten lbs, notice and lose it again. I pretty much maintained in that manner until I lost my job in 2008 and promptly gained 60-70 lbs in 2 months to return to my previous childhood weight of 220. I didn't drastically change my eating, but, I was really stressed. Since then, I've been doing the whole 'lifestyle' change thing, but that has done nothing. I'm getting ready to jump back into old teenage me's starvation diet as nothing else has worked for me.
Jennifer, maybe you've already "been there, done that" but I would suggest you see an endocrinologist. It sounds as though you may have a metabolic disorder. If you eat "regular" portions of food and maintain an active lifestyle and still gain weight despite the fact that your biology says you should weigh 100 lbs less...? This suggests there is something out of whack in your system if you cannot process food/calories as the rest of your family does.
If you haven't already done so, get it checked out.0
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