What was your main downfall when it came to packing on the pounds?
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Main downfall? Like, just one? Not sure I could narrow it down that well ...
Here are a few leading candidates:
- Drinking my calories. I liked Pepsi. I like sweet tea. I drank too much of both.
- Driving. I developed the habit of eating (and drinking one of those sugar bombs I just mentioned) in the car. I had some long commutes, and a job as a delivery driver. This was bad.
- Self-deception. I convinced myself that if I skipped breakfast, I'd be okay. Instead, I got something worse to tide me over until lunch.
- Self-deception, part II. Sure, I can buy that box of Nutty Bars. I'll make it last at least a week.
- Not getting enough sleep.
- Depression/Stress-eating. And then feeling stressed that I was stress-eating ... .
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Salty chips and wine. Seriously, those chips. I can stop at one or two glasses of wine but chips...forget it. You know that old commercial -- "you can't eat just one"? Yeah well that's me. ugh.
So for now, since I've just started here, I'm cutting them out entirely. Maybe later on I'll add them back in as a treat but I'll only buy a small single-serving bag, not the giant family size one.
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Ignorance.
And with that, a steady diet of pizza, beer, fast food, and low quality carby snacks.0 -
Honestly, it was chemotherapy and the steroids associated with the treatment. I like to say I'm the only person who got fat on chemo! haha 18 months post chemo, I'm finally losing!0
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Being lazy and paying no attention to moderation. I knew I didn't have to drink all that soda, eat all those devil dogs & cookies and I did it anyway. Thank goodness, I caught myself early (I would like to lose 15 lbs) before I let it get out of control.0
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Sitting on my butt as much as humanly possible and eating until it was too painful to eat any more.0
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Chips while watching TV!0
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At my heaviest I was only a few pounds above my BMI range. I've never been a binge eater/ like eating a whole package of cookies at once or anything like that and have always been concious of CICO but tended to put on about 10 pounds a year- even with exercising . For me it's just a little too much of this and a little too much of that. My favorite foods are things like chips, french fries, booze. But really I love it all!0
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Age, wine, contentment, wine, winter, wine, pizza, wine, computer games, and probably wine.0
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Of course you mentioning this makes me think of South Park...
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Food, sedentary life style + genetics. I came from a family where everyone is obese or overweight and the lucky ones are skinny fat (what I know now is that it's all just due to disastrous eating habits not really genetics). I used to go days surviving only on chips and french fries, I would buy 6 bags of chips to eat throughout the day (sometimes I ate chips in bread) and when I get bored, I go fry myself some potatos! Other days, I would survive only on fast food, I used to really eat a lot of that crap, as in A LOT, all kinds of it, all day every day. And I am not even going to start on the bread, rice or pasta; I will just say that I used to eat crazy amounts of it. Looking at the bright side, I never liked sweet things, so I didn't particularly crave them but when someone brought them home, well Duh! I would easily eat 2000-3000 calories in one sitting. Staying late at night didn't help either, I used to eat anything I could get my hands on, better yet, I used to buy pizza or some burgers, chips, chocolate, pepsi...etc and keep them to eat at 2am-3am when I am watching my favorite show. What I used to do to myself..... but that's all behind me now, so all's good I guess.0
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My lifestyle changed to pretty sedentary but my eating habits did not change. I basically didn't know how many calories I should be consuming for my activity level or how many I was consuming.
It was frustrating for years because I felt I wasn't eating more food than other people but I wasn't losing weight. Calorie counting has helped so much.0 -
Eating without consciousness of nutrition content. I love grains and dairy, and had a lot of both, every day. Now I have both much more selectively and more mindfully. Also, a lack of produce.0
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becoming a vegetarian.
eta: mostly what Sabine_Stroehm says.0 -
Lack of portion control. Just mindlessly bringing food to my mouth with little to no regard. Eating whole meals when I wasn't even hungry. 3am nachos piled high with melted cheese, salsa, and sour cream. Pizzas (whole pizzas) every day followed by a pint of ice cream and a 2 liter bottle of soda. Baking cookies and eating a half a dozen before they make it to the cooling rack.0
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Snacking, anxiety eating, cycles where I would starve myself--followed by eating anything I wanted always lead to more weight gain. All that and Hypothyroidism, PCOS, and I hate exercise didn't help. lol I've found that snacking only makes me hungrier, so I cut that out.0
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@Monklady123 Okay, totally off topic, but how cute is your dog?! That can be my next post. How cute is Monklady123's dog? Off the charts cute!0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Age, wine, contentment, wine, winter, wine, pizza, wine, computer games, and probably wine.
This, minus computer games, plus beer.
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Pregnancy and subsequent breastfeeding. I packed on the pounds both times.
You would think I would have learned the first time but noooooooo.0 -
Eating out. I'm convinced I could suffer through the 1800 calories a day my body seems to require in order to inch down at a snails pace. But seriously, what's the point of weighing every ounce every single day and working your butt off in the gym if you can't go out to dinner one friggin' day of the week? Oops. Here comes the weigh again for no reason because of one stupid meal. I know. "Box up half." Lame.
This is exactly why I try to stay below 1300 during the week (I don't always succeed, but I try). So I can live it up on the weekends and still average out at a deficit.0 -
Bah double post0
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Pizza...lots of pizza. Sometimes dipped in Ranch, lol. And sweets. I could eat an entire pan of brownies in one night.0
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Portion sizes.
Krystal Chiks.
Gyoza, I can eat a dozen easy.
Sangyupsal, bulgogi & soju. (fat and salt and alcohol, oh my)
4 cookies when serving size is 2. (because 2 seemed so small on the plate)
Snacking when bored.
Among other things...
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I also spent several years trying to get by on 4-6 hours of sleep (or 2 hours on bad days) and ate much more than I would if I had gotten 8 hours of sleep and felt really rested. So trying to replace lost sleep with food was not helpful.0
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