How did you gain your weight in the first place?

doesthisappmakemelookfat

I just came from a weight watchers meeting where I brought up the issue of emotional eating. I very seldom overeat because of hunger--it's almost always to soothe my frayed emotions. But most of the ladies didn't seem to know what I was talking about. I just thought that was how everyone gained weight. Anyone?

lindaloo1213

Boredom, lack of ambition. Didnt make time for myself to workout and I always failed miserably at eating well if I didnt work out.
Quite honestly I just really love food. It tastes good. And I ate too much and didnt move enough. I have found my balance now.

Timelordlady85

stress, boredom, hungry and not caring about the nutrition and calorie count. That is how I gained my weight.

MommyL2015

I ate too much.

DeguelloTex

I ate too much and moved too little.

ald783

College, law school, beer, desire to eat take-out Thai 3 nights a week, lack of exercise, etc.

I'm not really an emotional eater. I just like to eat (and drink). From age 19-25 or so, I didn't do too well with moderation.

LBuehrle8

I ate way too much because I just didn't care. Not an emotional eater. I'm one who won't eat when stressed or upset.

momoharuno

I really had no concept of portion sizes and obviously was eating too much, in a way I think it was a bit of denial too because I knew I was putting too much on my plate but I could just wave away the thought and eat my food. I'm thankful I had a problem that is easily cured by a food scale. I have a lot of sympathy for emotional eaters because it's a lot harder to fix the root problem, I wish you the best of luck in your journey!

siluridae

Unholy amounts of cereal. Coke too, when I was younger.

Whitezombiegirl

I was grieving and stopped home cooking and pre preparing my breakfast and lunch. I started grabbing convenience food and gained 10lbs. I'm doing okay now- but I nipped it in the bud before it became an issue.

parfia

Two back to back pregnancies - stayed active at the gym and walking with the first and miscarried at 12 weeks so just lay still in fear for most of my second pregnancy and gained 5 stone by the time my little girl arrived

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parfia

parfia wrote: »

Two back to back pregnancies - stayed active at the gym and walking with the first and miscarried at 12 weeks so just lay still in fear for most of my second pregnancy and gained 5 stone by the time my little girl arrived

cityruss

I ate too much.

I ate too much because I love food and really didn't care.

MrsCaitlinBeltran

Oh, you are not alone! I am a recovering emotional eater. Anytime anything happened where I felt out of control, I'd want a treat to "make me feel better". Unfortunately, it doesn't really work--just makes you feel worse. Nowadays, I openly talk with my hubby or my mom about my fears or things that I'm getting anxiety over when I feel like I'm going to eat to stuff my emotions. Doing this has definitely helped to curb my emotional eating and has just made my life better all around. I hope you have someone you can talk with--it really helps!

floskiis

I have gone up and down a lot over the years, used to have anorexia and since recovery I have found it very hard to find a happy medium between eating too much and too little. Last November I moved from England to America and I have found the culture surrounding food very different, as a result I've gained weight just from being here surrounded by fast food joints and having regular meals out.

sunandmoons

Cheesecake factory. Haha. Just eating what i wanted when I wanted. I do the same just in moderation to fit my calorie goal.

AspenDan

I never ate a "lot"..I drank a lot of soda and what I did eat was high calorie and low volume, so over 10 years I got up to 337.
Now I'm watching my calories and down to 280 this morning

lemurcat12

I'm an emotional eater, although there's a whole long list of things, including just liking good food and restaurants.

kshama2001

Sure, lots of emotional eating here. After I learned ways to soothe myself other than with food, I gained weight from mindless eating. Fortunately, that's a lot easier for me to overcome. Really all I need is to commit to log my food and not go over my calories.

Exercise is great for soothing myself. I especially like to weed or prune. And since I have a garden in my back yard and work from home, it's very accessible. When I worked in an office, I would exercise before work or at lunch prophylactically, and go for a walk around the building if needed.

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sherbear702

Over ate when I was pregnant. Gained 30 lbs with both pregnancies. Then waited a year after the 2nd baby to do anything about it. Now I'm 10lbs away from my ideal weight.

Optimistical1

Soccer injury(immobility) + happy hours + Chinese takeout + midnight pizza delivery + stressful life event (happy hours turn to evening hours on daily basis) + even more midnight pizza delivery (the beer munchies) =35 extra pounds in 2 years :-(.

markiend

ate the same amount but sat around too much

NikiChicken

Many reasons, but the biggest was probably because I just gave up.

I was always overweight - from the time I was a very small child - and I just kept getting more and more overweight/obese as I aged. I had tried to lose weight many times and had limited success, but I never really learned that you don't have to quit eating all your favorite foods and exercise like crazy to be successful, so I would crash diet, lose 10, 20 even 50 pounds, then burn out and gain everything, plus more, back. I had gotten to the point where I had convinced myself that that it was just how my body was and there was no point trying to change it and once I got to that point, it was easy to just keep gaining.

I never had a real "Ah Ha" moment to start my weight loss though. One day, I started planning a vacation that was going to require a lot of walking and I realized I couldn't walk a block without being in pain and out of breath. I decided to start walking every day at lunch until my vacation so I could at least maybe enjoy the vacation. I started walking every day and after about a week of that, I decided that since I was walking, maybe I should track my food intake as well and just pay attention to actual portion sizes and how much I was eating. After I lost 20 pounds doing that, THAT is when it dawned on me that I could change things without making myself completely miserable.

MrsSylvie

up till around july of this year, i basically blamed my gaining weight the last few years on my not very active lifestyle, my food choices and eating one big meal instead of eating more regularly throughout the day.....turns out the major culprit was the 870 calories i was consuming everyday just with my must have four big mugs of sugared milk coffee!
it was really an eye opener for not once did i ever consider my coffee drinking as the reason for my weight gain. needless to say getting rid of my sugar coffee addiction and logging everything into mfp, has made it pretty easy to lose weight now.

rsclause

Beer, beer, too much fattening food, and did I mention beer?

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jbuzzed

Boredom and way too large portions.

klund13

Unfortunately my parents did not teach me good eating habits as a child. Then I became a teenage mother and wife which led to a bout of depression and me eating my feelings. Then I had 3 more children in a span of about 8 years. During that time I consumed way too much pizza, chinese food, and Dr. Pepper putting me about 80 pounds overweight. I have lost 40 so far, so I am halfway there!

RobynLB83

Binge eating chocolate by the lb.