What made you fat?

RunnerGrl1982

garystrickland357 wrote: »

Everyone has said it - we eat too much. What might be worth saying is that often we only eat a little too much - just 50 to 150 calories a day. Over days, and weeks, and months that turns into a lot of added weight.

+1

This exactly. Just a slow build up over a long period of time that steadily creeps up on you.

MrAndrael

Depression, laziness and just not giving a f.

debrakgoogins

Continuing to eat like an athlete after I got injured and was no longer working out. I ate more calories than I was burning - just like everyone else who gains weight.

an0393na

Ultimately PCOS made me fat

nooshi713

Portions. Eating too much. Most of what I eat is healthy. I am a prime example of how one can become overweight eating too much healthy food.

lemonwater1

Eating spoonfuls of peanut butter and not thinking anything of it. 🤦‍♀️

Eternally__Hers

When I was 21, I started throwing up after every meal, everyday and the only thing I could do was eat crackers and force myself to go to sleep literally in pain in hopes that it would pass. I could not hold down an actual meal, but crackers were doable. The first 3 months my gp was testing out different acid reflex medications which didn't work. Then he sent me to the hospital to get a gastroscopy which was another 6 month wait. I learned that I have celiac disease, which meant I could enjoy eating food again.

I was just so happy to be able to eat again without feeling sick to the point I didn't care if I gained weight. Now I've got about 15 more pounds to lose left.

etherealanwar

I was put on anti-psychotic medications that caused my appetite to sky rocket. So, I started matching my 6'2" husbands (who was already eating too much for himself) portions and I gained 60 lbs in one year. I wish I would have noticed it sooner

rosiorama

Cake, chips and buttery popcorn. All in excessive quantities.

DomesticKat

I gained over 20 pounds over the course of college because I had no idea how to practice moderation with a limitless supply of food. That put me in obesity range. Then I got married and had my first baby. I gained 33 pounds and dropped 55 pounds in 3 months because of my thyroid being out of whack. Got pregnant with my second and developed hyperemesis gravidarium. Food helped the nausea and vertigo and absorbed all the excess saliva in my mouth, so I pretty much never stopped eating. I gained almost 100 pounds, and then my husband deployed unexpectedly 2 weeks before she was born. After that I stayed obese, ate horribly, and went through the same hyperemesis with my next two pregnancies. I went though pretty severe depression and anxiety and abused myself by over-eating. I yo-yoed and eventually came around to using MFP in late 2014. After that I lost (almost) all the weight, then got pregnant with my fifth baby, and came back to lose the weight again (successfully!). Ultimately, it was a combination of not knowing anything about appropriate portion sizes, denial about how much I was eating, and emotional issues that I tried to cure with food.

redfish33

Like others have said: years of eating just a few hundred more calories than I burn a day. Letting my activity dwindle down slowly to nothing. Creeping alcohol - from one drink every now and then, up to a couple of beers/glasses of wine after work daily. Not taking care of myself emotionally - and physically - until the numbers on the scale got too uncomfortable to live with, and the wake up call of borderline HBP at my last doctor's visit. Down almost 20 pounds from my highest weight (which I never recorded here...too embarrassing). Just that small loss led to lower BP, the uncomfortable reflux is gone, and my mood/sleep is starting to improve. Mindful eating, cutting out most sugar, and forgiving myself for days that I don't eat the "right" way are slowly leading me to a healthy relationship with food. Exercise was never the problem, just laziness from that side of the equation.

amandaeve

I had a call-center job where I talked with the sick, suffering and dying and had to adhere to strict reporting and call-times. I had to drive an hour each way and worked a lot of overtime (it was a recession and the best job I could get). My employer kindly recognized the stress of all the extra hours and hour-long hold times and a few other things brought on by administrative decisions. So, to compensate they walked by with buckets of giant candy bars, ice cream cones, sodas, you name it, several times a day. I was literally tethered to my desk and because I didn't want to leave these people hanging, I had to wait hours before even going to the bathroom. I never turned down the hand-outs and with all the extra food and inability to move out of a seat for 70+ hours a week I gained 60 pounds in 4 months and just kept gaining. I changed jobs as soon as I could.

fitoverfortymom

I ate a lot more than my body needed to maintain a healthy weight. An obscene amount more than I needed.

kali31337

Prioritizing the fun instead of what I should be doing (happy hour, going out to eat ALL of the time, fast food for hangovers).

Also having an ex who LOVED to cook and because he was skinny, he didn't think about the calories in the food he was making and tried to show his love for me with food. After we broke up, I had ZERO skills in the kitchen so I turned to easy delivery or freezer meals. After 3 years of singledom, I'm finally figuring what seriously works for my new life...

Kimmotion5783

Depression and stress, but mostly depression. I was dealing with very difficult circumstances in my life that I didn't know how to properly handle and as a result, I used to food as a coping mechanism to self-medicate. I ballooned up to 355 pounds. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, and I knew I'd have to confront the problem eventually. That's how these issues work- either you quit "it", or "it" quits you. So one day I tried on a pair of pants in the store only to find I'd gone up TWO sizes in a matter of four months. Entirely too much weight, something had to finally be done about it. And so I did. Today I am now down a grand total of 125 pounds and happier than ever before in my life.

swirlybee

I changed jobs about a year and a half ago and I got more sedentary. At my last job at least I was able to walk around a little bit and even walk to lunch. Now I'm in the middle of a business park where I can't even walk anywhere, so I got a little less active and started eating a little bit more. The weight creeped up slowly.

BaVIP073

Too much booze and baked goods. I am a good baker and enjoy it. What I have learned to do is to continue baking, but share the majority of what I bake with others. That, and I was inconstant about working out. Still working on that last part.

amusedmonkey

I love food, I find it pleasurable, so I ate a lot because I enjoyed it. I'm also lazy, so I didn't move enough to burn all the food I was enjoying. I still find pleasure in food, but I have to make certain sacrifices and be more mindful to be able to enjoy it without the drawbacks. That includes increasing my activity level to be able to eat more, and being wiser with my calories by not wasting them on things I don't like much.

AnnPT77

Nothing made me fat. I chose to eat more than I was burning routinely, for several decades, including the most recent (pre-weight-loss) decade in which I out-ate substantial amounts of exercise calories.

Why? Food tastes good, mostly.

It was a dumb choice, in retrospect. I didn't realize how straightforward it would be to lose weight. I wish I'd done it decades ago. Maybe I could've avoided some bad health consequences, like breast cancer, gallbladder adenomyomatosis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol triglycerides, bad knees.

Opalescent_Topaz

I wasn't paying attention to my body. I had a job I hated and then I got really sick so I got distracted. But, those are the underlying issues. I really just ate more than my body was burning.