Why are you fat???

tdaddybarlow

I was just curious about the different reasons some of us are fat...ahem...excuse me...I mean overweight or in my case OBESE (according to BMI).
My reasons are as follow: Over the last 4 years I started a relationship, quit smoking (HOORAY FOR ME but here comes the fat), planned a wedding, went on a honeymoon cruise (they feed you SOOO much), got married, then pregnant (actually the pregnancy came just before the wedding, but who's counting), finished everything my pregnant wife couldn't eat (morning sickness), stop working out altogether (but continued to pay them :huh: ), finished everything my toddler wouldn't eat, and bing eating. WOW!!! So that's why I'm fat. What's your deal???

koosdel

Mostly just being lazy.

leahdanbury

when i got pregnant when i was 17. i played basketball almost everyday. once i got pregnant that stopped, i ate whatever i wanted whenever i wanted. after i had her i didn't go back to playing basketball and I didn't realize that maybe i shouldn't continue to eat the same way. when i got pregnant i was 148lbs. at my heaviest i was 210! but i'm happy to say that i'm now 170!

clocklady

Emotional/Stress eating. I have been fighting an autoimmune disease for the last year and become obsessed with fixing myself. Plus my home bases art business did double the sales of last year. Trying to juggle that and two small kids led to a lot of stress. Finally recognized I had a problem and found exercise and MFP. No more binging for me! Good luck to you!

KyleB65

I am fat because I ate too damned much and what I ate was crap!
In addition, similar to your story, Once I got married and my children were born it took all of my focus and energy to raise my children. This resulted in poor eating and sleeping habits. Along with giving up pretty much all forms of exercise.
When my youngest started her last year of high school, I could not mow the lawn without being exhausted for the balance of the day, nor could I walk up 2 flights of stairs to get to my office when the elevator was not working without being out of breath and sweating profusely!
Very glad that I am working to put those days behind me!

galegetsthin

I am fat for a lot of reasons. I have a hormonal imbalance with an insulin resistance, so I get hungry faster after eating, I crave carbohydrates and the weight all centers in my center. I also eat too much. I love food. I love pretty much all food. I have not come across any food that I do not like. Works in my favor with veggies, not so much with pastas and cakes. I am also kinda lazy. I do housework, work work, and mommy work, but dont take the time for work out work.

ldalbello

I got fat because I did alot of drinking, mostly beer, between the ages of 30 and 50. I still drink on most weekends but I try not to overdo it.

BeckaT79

I always tell people that this is the way I have always seen myself. To be honest I used to be rail thin! I had such low self esteem that when I started letting myself go I didn't realize it. I am now almost twice the person I was. I could blame everything for my weight gain, but the truth is that I put on the weight because I was to lazy and undisciplined to put down the fatty foods and go to the gym. I am on my way to changing that. Good luck with your weight loss!!

dlyeates

Having no knowledge and completely skewed views of food and the effects. I think I'm being healthy and I'm eating way too much.
Emotional/stress eating.
Feeling the need to prove that I can eat as much as others who are bigger/taller than me (maybe compensating for being teased by family and friends that I'm the short one....I'm only 5'4" but the shortest in family)
Being lazy and not liking to exercise
2nds, 3rds, and the lack of knowledge about what a true serving size is.
3 pregnancies (2 live births......gained 10lbs the first month the first time and never lost it due to depression over losing the baby)
Bored eating
Snacking
The desire not to "diet" or restrict food because of all the fad diets and restricted calories in an unhealthy way that my mom subjected me to in high school (900 calories in a day when I was in sports and swimming!?!?! I mean, come on!!!!)

kitkat40

I know I'm over weight from the last round of pregnancies ~ i have 6 !
After teenagers i lost the weight and I started working in Boston; met an amazing guy married him; then he wanted more children.
Had three more but the last two are twins and i was stuck in bed or the hospital so much that i packed on 65lbs!
So, I'm here to lose, lose, lose and i'm getting there 1 lb a day and happy about it.

likeaphoenix28

This is a really good question. I'm fat because I went really overboard with binge eating after getting dumped lasy year by my SO of 7 years. I'm definitely an emotional eater and whenever I'm anxious I want to eat. Also, l'd rather be lazy than do what I need to do, like work out. Being depressed and on meds doesn't help with any of this.

BrandiLynn8064

Kind of the same. Got married, have a two year old who doesn't eat so I eat what he doesn't. My husband's a big guy too who doesn't want to get healthy so he still orders pizza and that messes me up because I have no will power. But, I'm not making excuses. I'm extremely lazy too. I've mostly become this way since I had a kid because I always feel tired. And the bad food and laziness makes me more tired I'm sure so it's a vicious cycle:( But, now I'm on a good path to leaving those days behind:)

shazzam05

got a car...stopped walking........ DIDN'T change my eating habits
had my gall bladder removed........ DIDN'T change my eating habits
quit smoking.................... using lollipops
had a car accident and couldnt walk for months and .....DIDN'T change my eating habits
went to uni and ate junk while studying, assingment writing, before exams and after exams
had complications after surgery and could'nt walk for months again and still DIDN'T change my eating habits
so thought for 2012............... I WILL change my eating habits and develop an exercise habit.

farmers_daughter

Because it's not socially acceptable to sew my mouth shut. :sad:

Edit: I can't quit putting crap in my mouth, even the good stuff I go overboard on. The ONLY, and I mean ONLY good thing that has come out of changing WHAT I eat, is that my good cholesterol has improved by eating avocados. But that's it.

I seriously don't know what my problem is, and neither does the doctor, I just don't have the moola to push further on fixing it.

sambod1

i quit smoking. i am also going back to college to finish up my education degree and i am a study snacker. late night snacking, not eating right and not exercising has resulted in the heaviest i have been since i was pregnant 14 years ago.

melruiz5

I lost about 60 pounds and then got pregnant, guess that where it ALL starts LOL ..... went to the worst doctor in the WORLD and they told me I could not to ANY physical activity. Being my 1st pregnancy, I listened. I gained weight fast. Hubby had the mightnight cravings and weird cravings. I ate chinese food and salads and veggies and fruits... that's what baby wanted. Had the baby, lost about 10 lbs instantly. . . but once I went throug Post Pardum Depression, I gained alot of it back and then just gave up because I had NO energy. . . my daughter turned 2 and i told myself i was going to lose the weight. . . . well, some tramatic things happen during her 2nd year and I didn't lose ANY weight. . . . In October, while planning for her 3rd bday party that took place here in December, I realized she was turning 3 and i was still BIG! (not as big as I originally was, but I sure wasn't at my pre-baby weight) So i started REALLY cracking down on working out and counting calories and NOT cheating .. . . I've lost 20 pounds since and feel so much better.... I look back to before October of this year and ask myself. . . WHY did I wait so long? Better now then never though:happy:
I know that was a long story, i'm a woman, what can i say lol

bprague

posting the same topic in more then one forum is frowned upon.

beerbomber

Hey if I ever need an excuse I know which topic to come to

Your overweight because you consumed to much and burned to little!

Daysednconfused

I am fat because...................

I went through menopause at 40 and it all started then, but I also never exercised, drank daily and lived to eat bread, butter and anything fried. Portion control? WTH is that?? I got up to darn near 200 lbs - which is 55 lbs more than when I met my husband 10 years ago.

I've finally realized that I can't diet, I have to change my life! Now I'm exercising, not drinking as much (not ready to give it up completely, but stick to the weekends now), eating much better foods in appropriate portions!

rmwinters

Its always been that way.

shazzam05

Thank you Captain Obvious,Totally true.. but women like to dig deeper into the reasons and motivations for that.: especially when we all know what the result will be.

BeccaB1981

I like yummy food that isn't good for me and I like to eat lots of it!! That added to being lazy and not wanting to exercise is what made me fat.

Roni_M

1) Drinking 1300 calories a day in milk to combat arthritis medication which bothered my stomach.
2) Not exercising because life was "too busy" with kids, work and a house to look after.
3) Not being willing to push myself with painful joints to exercise.
4) Eating only one large meal a day (dinner).
5) Not caring that I was slowly putting on weight (approx 7 lbs a year for about 15 years). I mean what's 7lbs since I'm tall it wasn't even noticeable and going up a size every few years didn't worry me.

Now it's so obvious but at the time I was rather oblivious!!

alyssamiller77

Very simple in my case, I ate too much and too much of the bad crap (high calorie, high fat restaurant foods) and did not exercise consistently enough.

silvergurl518

this is not a "success story."

i'm' just sayin'.

Jenn638

i think the main reason is because i can eat two pounds of cheese in two days. in one sitting down 7 quesadillas. i can eat rice and cheese without stopping. and if im ever hungry i will stop at the nearest jack in the box.
oh yeah and depression. i have always lost and gained weight. i miscarried 6 months ago, expecting our first was the happiest moment of my life and then bam, saddest. so to the point of not caring at all what i looked like. weird because now that i think about my whole life didn't revolve around that one incident.
why am i losing weight? because i have realized that my friends and family care about me. and i have a wonderful husband. so really i have a lot of good things that i should try to live for! and i never thought my weight really effected my happiness, but i am realizing that it does. it makes me feel good about myself to see a pound gone and hear my husband's compliments, and my friends. all in all i guess i am blessed!

LuckyLeprechaun

My parents fed us well, and I was healthy through childhood, but they turned fast food into the taboo forbidden fruit.

We could never have it, and on the super rare occasions we did, it was tightly controlled: Taco Bell was a choice between hard/soft taco or a bean burrito. I never had the freedom to order what I really wanted. :ohwell:

Well after I turned 18 and went off to college, I started making up for lost time. Fast food every day? SURE! No parent to tell me no anymore. So my weight started creeping up.

I never learned that working out was something a regular person should do or needs to do. Gyms were for beefcakes, and so I never expected to go to one, or saw any need for one.

Lycra clothing made it soooooooo easy to creep up and up and not notice.

Once I realized I was getting fat, I tried to do something about it. I used chemicals. A bunch of them. And I did lose a bunch of the weight, but I learned nothing. So I cycled through that a couple times, bouncing up and down on the scale. Yuck.

When I saw a scale that said I weighed 237 lbs, I knew I had to change, because I had come to hate my body and what I done to myself.

I found MFP, and it has truly changed my life and my health. I will be forever grateful to Mike and everyone else that gave this to us.

kerrymh

I was super morbidly obese because food is my drug of choice. I am addicted to food, I used it like a drug to cope with life when things didn't go my way heck I used to to celebrate when things did go my way. I ate and ate and ate..more more more and it got progressively worse over time. Binge eating on weekends or special occasions only...progressed to 2 or 3 times a week to 5 days a week with only 2 days of recovery. It was horrible the quantities of food, the depression the horrible body, being unable to clean myself properly (yes I said that)...at almost 400lbs something had to give..and it was me I had to give up my drug, and I have. With the grace of my higher power one day at a time I have not touched a binge food. I also got a band..which helps remind me to take things slower, food is nutrition and my body does not need excessive amounts to be healthy and function properly. Now I run, now I kayak, and I can climb stairs unwinded and take care of myself properly. I know why I was fat...I won't go back there if I keep up the work I've been doing over the last 2.5 years!

Ilovesewing

I finally learned the answer to this question over the past couple of weeks. I was always thin, especially as a teenager. I'm 49 now, and have been overweight for a looooooong time. But I have two grown kids, boy 23 and girl 26, and a hubby 56. None of them are fat. Not one of them. Not even a little. So why am I fat? I cook dinner every day. I eat fast food very rarely, don't drink sodas, don't eat ice cream; cakes and pies were rare, usually on birthdays. I cook healthy meals.

So what do I do differently than my family? What do I do often? I eat cookies. I love cookies. I love homemade cookies and I made them often. And then I ate them. I had no problem grabbing 3-4 cookies several times a day.

Fast forward to this year: every year my mom, sisters, and our daughters get together for our annual christmas baking day, and we make......yep, cookies! Except this year, I forced myself to log my calories here. So I entered a few of the recipes I love best. And holy cow was I shocked when I saw what ONE cookie cost in calories! Most of them are 100-110 calories a piece. Multiply that by 3 or 4, and then again by 3 or 4 times per day.....and that equals fat.

I've lost 13 pounds since October and it has been easy. Honestly. I have not had to change my eating habits much at all. Of course, I've cut down on total calories to create a deficit, but 'what' I am eating has not changed. Except cookies. Had to give them up One day....hopefully...I can add a cookie back into my day!

debalina36

I am an emotional eater who had a horrible 2nd marriage and that didn't help. I gained A LOT of weight. Heaviest was 235. Left him and moved to NJ to be with family. Started liking myself again and the weight started coming off. Went form a 18/20 to a 14. But still not happy. I am with a wonderful man now who supports me but he mentions me working out and my weight too much for my liking. I am trying not to revert to old ways of EE. I am a screenwriter and have been putting all my "snack" time into writing. I exercise 3x a week and once again changing my eating plan. Not on a diet - it's a lifestyle change. Hoping this time will stick

lorri68

im 5ft 8inch and have always been in my bmi range but i gave up smoking in oct 2005 and have put on 4stone 7ibs to date