What was your main downfall when it came to packing on the pounds?
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For me it was just being inactive and having too many sweets.0
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I can't think of a "main downfall." I think I just tend to graze too much and that combined with inactivity resulted in weight gain. When I'm riding my bicycle, I have less time to graze and more calories that I'm burning during the day.0
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Mindless eating infront of the TV and not exercising.0
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Lack of portion control.
Eating out of boredom. Instead of reading a book or playing a game or what have you when I was bored, I'd go into the kitchen and hunt down snacks.
Also eating snacks people would bring into the office, just because they were there to be eaten.0 -
My mom oh My oh My! The women cooks soooooo effing good, while every neighbor was/is having dinner out or something; the women wont live the kitchen everrrr, everything so good homemade *.* and she takes her job so seriously.0
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eating everything usually tubs of ice cream within days0
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Eating is my main downfall...that and food.
Emotional eating, mindless snacking, and eating just to be eating. I like to eat, which is why I am here...to change the way I eat and why I eat.0 -
sweets before bed. I just loved a gluten free cookie (i have celiacs) or a trader joe gluten free cupcake. yummmm0
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Major depression. I didn't want to do anything and I didn't want to prepare any meals so I ate a lot of crackers and chips and whatever I could order in like pizza, Chinese, pizza, Jimmy Johns, etc.0
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Eating more and moving less. Consuming 48+ ounces of Mountain Dew a day. Boredom eating. Never exercising.0
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I just love to cook and to eat, I still love to cook and eat but now am mindful of ingredients and portion size. This site is a Godsend0
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Crisps, crisps and more crisps. (for those in America I think you call them chips/potato chips) holy crap I could literally just sit down and binge on a good 10+ packets of walkers crisps! On the start of my journey on May 15th 2014 I just woke up and completely gave them up. I've not had a single crisp since that day and I never plan on having them ever again in my lifetime!0
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Before, I had a very distorted idea of portion sizes. For example, tonight's dinner was spaghetti with sausage and broccoli. When the oil, sauce and the main ingredients are factored in that came to 657 cals.
The amounts I would have served before would probably be at least 2x that, easily more than 1/2 of my estimated calories needed for the day. Do that a few times a week....and the weight goes on.0 -
Pepsi bread sugar sugar sugar0
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all those pastries and cheesecake.. lots of em in one go.. and fast food.. fufufufu0
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Shoving everything into my mouth, because I thought I was an "ectomorph".0
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Cheat days ... cheat weekends.
I ate well during the week. I would lose weight during the week. And then I'd gain it all back over the weekend, and occasionally gain a little bit extra.
That and the phenomenal ice creams while cycling through Germany a few years ago.0 -
Running a baking business didn't help. Also, I'm a pretty good cook in general. Newsflash: you can get fat from 'good' food too, if you eat enough of it.0
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Ungodly portions. Seriously. Didn't matter what it was (though it was usually high calorie) I could eat ridiculously large amounts. Throw in totally sedentary lifestyle and I packed on those pounds. About 75 pounds over 4 or 5 yrs. I was already fat, and I became morbidly obese. I've lost those 75 pounds and am working on the rest. Feel so awesome these days.0
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Complacency.0
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Laziness, mexican food and enjoying going out to eat way to much!0
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Food.
Honestly, for a long time I only ate enough to maintain at about 190lbs, not put on, but then I was put on very very high doses of steroids so I got very hungry and started eating everything in sight for the last 20lbs! The 190lbs was from severe binging as a child. I would eat a whole tube of pringles, plus several big bars of chocolate, a few times a week. I was sad because I had no hair (alopecia) and thought I was ugly and got bullied, and I hoped I could be happy if I ate.
But as for singular foods that I ate a lot of and didn't realise how many calories it was... pork pies. Even a little one is like 250 calories and I never knew! I also guzzled orange juice by the carton.0 -
Food in general. I've been over weight since middle school.0
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Night shift, fatigue, knee injury, laziness, wine... you get the idea0
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Anything consumed between the hours of 3-5.
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Southern food and portion control!0
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Wine, sticking my head in the sand not really wanting to think about how much I was eating, and not moving enough.
I still have wine, but now I move a lot and I know what I'm consuming every day.0
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