Why are you fat?

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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    I ate too many darned calories and exercised too darn little. Many of my excessive calories wee reaching for food as an emotional crush.

    23 pounds gone and 10 left to lose!
  • xmysterix
    xmysterix Posts: 114 Member
    Combo of nature (thyroid, clinical depression, miscarriages), nurture (crap food rolemodeling, mother constantly on fad diets, etc), and laziness (all mine). My eating has never been OTT but I have redefined what it means to live a sedentary life. I was not overweight growing up, but thought I was. I became overweight when injuries knocked me out of sports and I just became surgically attached to my furniture. Whenever I succumb to my inner lazybum I gain, ever so slowly, but it keeps going and going til I smack myself in the head. This time is the last time.
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Yup...
  • Ellas_Time_4_Change
    Ellas_Time_4_Change Posts: 171
    Let's see,

    - I was a chubby baby, parents and my brothers thought that was cute so they kept over-feeding me - became a fat child.

    - My parents unhappy marriage, being bullied in school = secret binge eating/night eating/general over eating and no boundaries set from my carers meant that I had free reign when it came to food, No wasn't an answer I ever got.

    - Growing up in a culture where food is abundant and a huge part of socializing, going back for seconds/thirds, everything is pretty much deep fried.

    - I ate fruits and vegetables every day but I was also allowed to snack freely on junk, meal portion sizes were larger than they should have been for a person, let alone a child.

    - Had to move to a new country when I didn't want to (Palestinian refugees) = bullying, racism, culture shock, you name it, I faced it, resulted in me going from a chubby child to a morbidly obese teenager - food became my emotional crutch.

    - Clinical depression set in, medications and a depressive state made it incredibly difficult to lose or sustain any kind of weight loss, especially when changing your mindset is incredibly important but there wasn't enough room or energy to focus on physical health when mental health was virtually at rock bottom.
  • 1_madeline_3
    1_madeline_3 Posts: 5 Member
    I was a nanny last summer so I gain some lbs for eating junk food with the kids. Then I got on meds that made me gain more. Then i broke my ankle so I had to be on bed rest and had even more meds that made me gain even more! But I'm off all that meds now besides one. I just need to lose ten lbs. I'm just a little over weight. Because I'm so short it makes it worst if you know what I mean. I just need encouragement !
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    It's because I turned to food for all reasons.

    Needed Food to make me using my conputer more entertaining.
    Needed Food to get a good night's sleep.
    Needed Food to live a happy life.

    my Appetite addiction was uncontrollable...
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    I like food.
  • rraychul
    rraychul Posts: 2
    i met someone new and got happy enough to stop neglecting my body. i used to eat one meal a day. over the past year i have slipped so far. i eat constantly. i feel the need to always be full. it needs to change
  • emmanap91
    emmanap91 Posts: 300 Member
    I was never technically "overweight," but I've been out of shape since I hit middle school. When I was a kid I was outside playing until after the sun went down, but once I hit puberty I started focusing on tv, video games, and the internet.

    I've continued to eat like a child, though - as in, if I wanted cookies, I'd eat a sleeve of cookies. Some people's vice is smoking, for other it's drinking or gambling. Food is my vice, particularly sweets.


    When I started college, I went on birth control pills, which brought me from ~125 pounds up to ~130 (though they did make my breasts larger, which was nice). I've been off birth control since May and I'm halfway through my second round of Insanity, and I'm down to 120 pounds.

    I am about to re-start my birth control regimen, and I'm terrified I'm going to gain the weight back.

    (Oh, and I'm 5'3")

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  • andyhat1027
    andyhat1027 Posts: 9
    about 7 years ago, I was broken up with and got into world of warcraft... I didn't notice ... Now I'm running a ton and am into rock climbing. I still love video games but physical stuff is so much more addictive to me now.
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    I'm not fat. Technically, if you go by BMI calculators, I've never even been "overweight". Right now I'm in the middle of the "healthy" BMI range. But I want to be a little closer to the one-quarter mark of the healthy BMI range, the halfway mark isn't good enough. I got toward the top of the healthy range through undisciplined eating. That's what I'm trying to fix now. So far so good! :drinker:
  • emmanap91
    emmanap91 Posts: 300 Member
    about 7 years ago, I was broken up with and got into world of warcraft... I didn't notice ... Now I'm running a ton and am into rock climbing. I still love video games but physical stuff is so much more addictive to me now.

    WoW and rock climbing? You sound awesome :)
  • rosevalleygirl23
    rosevalleygirl23 Posts: 55 Member
    I blame my mother. She was depressed, she didn't cope well with stress. She used food to sooth all her pains and worries and taught my sister and I to do the same. After my parents divorce we all gained a huge amount of weight. Fitness was never encouraged or discussed.

    As an adult I just thought losing weight was too hard and would take too long. I never really tried.

    Ok, so I can't use the mom excuse forever, but the habits I learned as a kid and maintained as an adult have been hard to conquer.
  • smmoler
    smmoler Posts: 23 Member
    I'm fat....... well to be totally honest, because I was lazy, made bad habits and didn't care.

    Much better now that I've been doing this since may. Forced me to become disciplined and structured; which is exactly what I needed.
  • basil1975
    basil1975 Posts: 3 Member
    Stressful job and stressful marriage added 10-15lbs in one year, then took a new job in a new city, left my husband, moved with my two children to become a single working mom. Mcdonald's became a good friend and gave me another 15-20lbs in two years. Currently, I am as heavy as I was when I was pregnant, and am having a very hard time breaking the fast food habit.
  • JBnyc99
    JBnyc99 Posts: 100 Member
    No longer, but I became a fat fcker soon after a tendon tear and fracture in my ankle. I didn't over-eat during this time, but rather, I over-consumed. I sat around all day for months and did nothing but read and drink cans of Coke,...sadly, about 12-15 cans every day.
  • Rayanne203
    Rayanne203 Posts: 207 Member
    Because I am a stay at home mom who is bored outta her mind and food was a go too entertainment. I am ready to make a change though especially because I begin nursing school in January! I want to be healthy while representing healthcare.
  • eminenima
    eminenima Posts: 16
    Went from being a smoker with a job where I would walk never less than 5 km per day in rough terrain to being a non smoker who worked in a bank job. LOL I porked up 40 kilos in one year. I'm now losing faster than I gained it, funnily enough, but I let it stay on me way too long. Got Sleep Apnea, Adult onset Diabetes. All sorts of unexpected side effects from being a fit smoker to a ... well ... fat non smoker.

    Now I am more than a third of my way back to my fit weight of 95 kg or thereabouts.
  • sparkle814
    sparkle814 Posts: 78 Member
    I have always been a big eater, was overweight in middle school and high school. College came around and combine drinking with all you can eat dining halls that actually had delicious food and bam I gained the freshman 15x2. Just kept adding on the weight up until February when I realized what I was doing to myself. Thank goodness I finally snapped out of it!
  • FloraSin
    FloraSin Posts: 188 Member
    I'm a nerd who likes to eat while gaming/reading/watching movies/TV.

    I blame the media. lol. Just kidding.

    I found some new hobbies to accompany the old ones, like running.
  • ggsmamma
    ggsmamma Posts: 117 Member
    I was always a thin kid, teen and young adult. But I think that most of that came from the fact that I exercised a lot: swimming, hiking, biking, sailing, etc. When I got out of school, I took a desk job but I still managed to exercise 4-5 days a week. When I married someone that is gone 6 months a year and had a baby that all changed. I still ate the same but did not have time to exercise -- the weight came on fast. Now, I have managed to eat less (yay!) and lost about 15# but the scale has stopped moving and without exercise, I doubt that it will. My mom just told me that when you are working mother, you should just accept that you will be fat ( this is from a woman who lost about 40# when she retired and finally had time to exercise). It really depressed me because I think that she might be right :-(
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    You don't have to exercise to lose weight. I don't. You just have to create a calorie deficit.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    I'm not fat. Not at my weight.

    I WAS fat, very fat.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    You don't have to exercise to lose weight. I don't. You just have to create a calorie deficit.

    But it does help to be FIT. Plus it does speed thing up if you exercise, tones stuff up & makes you just healthier all over. No point in being a flabby skinny person who can't lift a box of tissues without getting hurt.
  • mayonie1
    mayonie1 Posts: 296 Member
    My excuse is because my grandma and my mom are fat! Fat is in my family blood...I love food!
  • Silent1980
    Silent1980 Posts: 24
    be cause I eat too much when I am stressed. Well that is why I was fat. If you control your intake when you are sad...miracles happen!
  • ElsaVonMarmalade
    ElsaVonMarmalade Posts: 154 Member
    For fun!
  • Veganmafia
    Veganmafia Posts: 54 Member
    lack of self discipline, became self soothing vs. hard working*
  • abdelkhabir94
    abdelkhabir94 Posts: 1
    watch this videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvA3fkxAL0
  • Alatariel2002
    Alatariel2002 Posts: 65 Member
    I am an emotional eater and one that eats out of boredom. I eat because it makes me feel good. I do not like how I look, how I feel, and I feel I am unworthy....Food does not judge..it fills a void even if only temporarily. Throw being mostly inactive and bored on top of that....I see the result every day in the mirror. But...I'm working on changing that.

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