Why are you fat???

foxxm

I was in the military and I got hurt on the job. I ended up with some spinal damage and some nerve damage in my right leg. After the accident, I couldn't work out at all. The best I could do was some pretty basic stretches. After the first round of surgeries, the doctors kepp me doped up on pain killers - which made me tired and lazy. After a decade of surgeries and pain pills, I got fed up. When my doctors wanted to put me on methadone (this is what they give heroine addicts who are detoxing) - that was my breaking point. The doctors were telling my husband that he neede to watch me as I might fall asleep talking or eating as I could choke. I couldn't believe it! If I couldn't be trusted to have a conversation or feed myself, how could I keep working? After that appointment, I weaned myself off the morphine and decided to take control of my life. I do on occasion take pain medication but, that is usually after a surgery or if I am in terrible pain. I have always eaten low fat food and I swore off fried food in the 90's. However, the ten years of being a cough potato has made the overweight person I am now. I am hoping MFP can help me get back to a normal weight.

uberlaut

I was morbidly obese for about 15 years of my adult life, because I was under-eating.

Yes. You read that right.

littlesis412

College & laziness

polar135

I was fat cuz i ate anything i wanted and didn't work out. On me, but i took control:)

wendyb38

I am fat because I do good one day,then do bad the next. I am not too consistent with the whole weight loss thing. I have been battling with my weight ever since I can remember. I weigh 241 now, so I am very obese. You would think that would make me so dedicated to losing weight, but that still isn't enough for me to stay on track. I have a membership to a very nice health club, that I also should be using on a consistent basis. When I think about dieting it is always I will start tomorrow. Now I am tired of what I look like. I just eat a whole bag of m&m's that I consumed in about 5 minutes. I need to change my life, and do it now. I wanted to reach out, because I have not managed to do this on my own, obviously.. I want to change. I just need some assistance in doing so. Thanks in advance for any feedback one might have. ...... Take care

cubsgirlinny

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/cubsgirlinny

julie20012

i'm losing weight in order to take control of my life. my mum always said i was fat and ugly as a child ( when i was not fat) i then entered a very abusive relationship when i was 16 (he had total control of me and my body) and my now ex said i was fat when i was 9 stone at 5ft 7. i remain in that relationship until i was 19 or 20 and left 15 stone. i lost weight started socializing meet new friends, but raped a year or so later by a friends brother and within months i was back to 15stone. i have used my weight as a comfort blanket for many many years now. i have only been in 7 sexual relationships 3 of them absive. Now it's time for me to take control and not let what they did to me have any further control on the rest of my life ( if that make sense). i would also live to enter a loving and caring relationship and with the possibity of having another child or 2.

icemaiden17_uk

Wow! Lots of people admitting that they are lasy and have been binge eating! Good on you!! I am going to go the other way! It started by life getting in the way of my workouts No room at home and no time to go to the gym. I then had my LO and was in such a bad way I stopped eating. No excersise and very little food! The less I ate the bigger I got! I startede a food diary and then I started eating and the weight dropped off! Then I plateued and joined MFP. I tweeked my recipes and realised that on the days when I was eating more than 1000 calories they were all being eaten at night. Nothing in the day and a big meal in the evening. I now have more balanced meals and thanks to my OH I have the time to work out. My emotional state was also very bad but that is on the mend now to! I did used to boredom eat a bit as well.

Maggieq87

I am so LAZY. Seriously my favorite thing in the world is to sit around doing nothing. All day. You give me a laptop and I can manage to only get out of my bed for water and the loo for days. No Lie. Also sleeping, is the best thing ever. I got fat because of genetics and medications in my childhood and stayed that way by eating like crap and living on my couch.

LadySylvanas

chocolate..... too much chocolate, cakes, and biscuits. QQ

08caseyk

Being pregnant 3 times in 3 years happened to me. Along with the gestational diabetes and the bed rest, i packed on a ton of weight. about 130 lbs on 3 years. But i'm down 50 lbs. And i'm gonna get back down to my old weight, eventually

newme201213

i am lazy and love to eat carbs and irregular workouts....but i have never went too far.
i dont seem to get down from my standard weight which is in between 155-165....i need to go down to140 this time..

Dauntlessness

I never learned how to eat or make healthy food when I was young, PCOS, and I looove to eat. My husband and I love to cook gourmet, I love to bake and we both like to pretend we are foodies and critique restaurants. hahaha

maryjay51

did you ever consider getting involved in something in the community?? i help out homeless teens alot and it drags my *kitten* away from the computer enough so im moving it lol... plus ive committed to training at the gym which i pay dearly for so i show up..

sea_shell

I'm not fat, I used to be very underweight and over the past 3 years I have reached an acceptable weight (around 9stone) in the last few months I have put on nearly another stone and I am now nearly 10, I want to lose the last stone and learn to keep myself at a decent weight that I am comfortable with.

seasargasso

I am fat because I am lying to myself! In my head I really exercise a lot, but in reality I don't really move that much. Just yesterday I realized, at the end of the day, that I had been sitting ALL day. It was a beautiful day--cloudless sky, 69 degrees, a light breeze--and I did not go out once. I also love food derived from flour and sugar and any combination in between. This site helps me pay attention, not only to what I eat, but to how much I move. I get SO much inspiration from reading everybody's stories and seeing progress, and most of all, from seeing people pick themselves up and start again after a bad day, a bad year, a bad relationship or bad diagnoses. It gives me hope.

grrrlface

I used to be very thin, around 115lbs. I hated food, I thought everyone saw me as fat, I saw myself as fat. I'd eat one meal a day which was anything from a half a pack of biscuits or a bowl of canned tuna with sweetcorn or a cheese sandwich with Sunday lunch on a sunday.
I then met my boyfriend who made me feel beautiful,I forgot about all my wories. for a while we were still only eating one meal a day, he was as thin as I was at only 135lbs for his 6foot in height. But eventually his family introduced us to food... that was it from then, I was taught to love it and packed on over 3 stone.
I only really started to notice this year how much weight I had gained and now as well as eating less I am aiming to be heqlthier than I was before because I know now that I look back I was very unhealthy and was heading down a bad road.

Sion73

I'm fat because I was blessed with an athletic physique in my late teens and twenties without having to work at it. I could eat what I like and never put on weight. I occasionally did a bit of exercise, but nothing much really.............
or so I have been kidding myself.

I was blessed with the athletic physique, but I was just a very active person when I was young. As I slowed down when I hit my 30's with marrage and kids, I always told myself that I can still eat what I want. I can't, and now at 38, I've had to wake up to the fact that I have put on 3 stone of fat. Theres no point in me making up excuses for not wanting to take the kids swimming anymore. I don't want to take them because I am ashamed of my body.

I'm fat because I eat all the wrong foods because I love the taste and the action of eating and because I'd rather sit on the computer at night than spend the time in my cold garage working out or getting on the bike.

BanjoKd

Beer, beer, sweets, and beer.

nomena

Emotional eating, 100%.
I used to self-harm, now I eat whenever I feel anxious or have the need to hurt myself. Not the best trade, but fat can be burned off, scars can't be undone.

TriforceRaven

When I hit puberty a few years ago, I randomly gained weight, without much of any change. I get sick a lot, and my parents tried to force me to eat more, to make up for being sick.

LindaCaldersio

Emotional eating...but I'm trying to find the trigger...

Ashlea_M

I ate far too much high calorie food and didn't exercise at all- I was ok for a little while but then the weight just stacked on.

slayerdan

Fat=ate too much, didnt exercise enough. Pretty easy equation.

Jayme34

I`m fat because I let food become my best friend. Food has always been there, through all the ups and downs and Ive had more downs than ups.

Food was comfort when I was in a phsyically, emotionally, mentally abusive relationship and it was there in childhood when there was emotional abuse. It was there when I gave up completely on myself and just let it go.

I dont feel anything while I am eating food, so I just keep eating it....then afterwards I feel like a complete slug!!

Food has been there while dealing with a teenager with mental health issues and the stress that comes with that every single day.

if it wasnt for emotional , binge eating and constantly numbing my feelings with food, i would have this thing figured out by now.

What i need most is everything in moderation and a regular excercise routine and I am working on that!!! .....oh and most importantly something to do when the stress hits!!

UpEarly

Good question! Back in April, I would have told you that I was fat because I was consistently eating 3000-4000 calories a day.

Now, I would say 'I'm *NOT* fat!!!' I officially stopped being fat (according to BMI) about a week before my 40th birthday back in September. I've lost an additional 12 pounds since then.

I had a good year on MFP! I hope it continues through 2012. :-)

shack1157

I love food! I hated or should say I was too lazy to workout! Did I mention I love food! No other habits! Don't really drink, don't smoke never did drugs! But did I mention I love food! LOL

Greg127

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!!

Amen Becca. Great job of dumping the excuses and owning the action. You'll be "rail thin" with high self esteem in no time. Keep doing what you're doing..

kleavitt1992

Not saying no...and the damn pcos

xHelloQuincyx

i overcame an eating disorder and learned to love food, to much...