Why Did You Get Fat?
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got lazy and got through all my depression and emotional issues with food. lots of food.0
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I use food...for everything. For celebration, for stress-relieving, for sadness, when I'm angry. I also have times when I want "to be like everyone else" and then eat what I knw isn't healthy anyway. I've been able to work through a lot of the stuff that leads to my using food the wrong way, but I still have my occassional "sabbaticals" where I eat whatever I want. I do not "binge" like I used to (tons of food in one sitting), but I will have "binge" weeks, where I eat bad choices (though not stuffing myself) over the course of a week.
I've always exercised...often intensely; however, I've been over 200 lbs since I was 23. I'm 37 now. Clearly, food is the issue. I'm still working on it and will do the rest of my life...0 -
1. sure, i can blame Depo-Provera and hypothyroidism...
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2. i can admit that i'm lazy. the only exercise i was getting was lifting my arm to my mouth to fill it. i let a couple injuries be an additional excuse, lost some before donating a kidney to my sister 2 years ago, and then got back up to my worst again.
sadly, i ignored the fact that i saw it. instead, i waited until the doctor pissed me off by asking if i had considered lapband surgery...
now, i'm changing my habits, exercising regularly, and working towards a healthy body fat %!0 -
Emotional eater here, happy, sad, bored, stressed, any emotion you can name makes me want to eat, and then the guilt of overeating (5,000 cals is not unusual once i get started!) makes me want to overeat again, if im not careful this goes on for days!0
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I just got older and hungier. I know I can get back to being thin again and I will I just have to work a lot harder to get it than I did back then.0
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Emotional eating after break up of a 16yr marriage, gained 20kg. A few years later got into another serious relationship and 6 years later when that ended, put on a few more kg's (more emotional eating). Then I injured both feet and couldn't walk without extreme pain, so gained 13kg in 6 months. I then got on an awful cycle of 'can't exercise without pain but not exercising is making me gain more weight which is putting more pressure on the injuries'. I have had cortisone injections in both feet and they are better at the moment than they have been in a long time so I am getting off my butt and walking while I can and while I'm at it I am eating healthy too, I need this weight off. I am on a waiting list for an operation on one ankle and the other one is starting to hurt in the same spot, I am hoping that losing the weight will fix these problems and I may not need the operation after all.0
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looks @ it... uumm lets see... was always big... it seems, through when i was 12, though over weight, i wasnt huge... hormones kicked in and 4 stone in 2 years. Why am i fat, NOW.... same reason, then as now....i think.. its the only thing that loved me for me.... didnt put me down.... loved me cause i ate everything... so on and so on... 40 plus years of it loving me. Its now a blanket to keep everything away... you name it.... now im lazy... on top of it. My friends would go, your making excuses, AGAIN... maybe i am.... it doesnt hurt like not being loved by family.... it doesnt strip u off your confidence, though later it becomes a part of it. But yes
Now i am just lazy and want me time.. and thats doing nothing.... for the moment.0 -
I was 230+ pounds by the time I was 13. Too much conflict in home life growing up (mostly alcoholism) and I swallowed my emotions.... and then it took me a long time to learn how NOT to do that!0
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I love food, I love eating, I love sugary drinks and sugary alcohol, I love going out to eat and I love feeling full.
I'm also a boredom eater - I snack snack snack when I'm sitting in the house. When I'm away at uni, if I buy a box of biscuits I won't just eat one, I'll eat the entire box, just because it's there. And rather than keep having to go to the kitchen, I'll just drink the entire 2L bottle of coke that I have in my room (I live in a student flat / last year I lived in the attic room of a house).
And exercise... I swam and danced when I was younger but my main hobbies since about the age of 11 have been RC car racing and playing musical instruments - not a lot of calorie-burning there!
And finally... I hated being sweaty and sticky and hot and damp. But thankfully I think I've finally been cured of that after living in the eternal humid greenhouse that is Tokyo for a year. A year of being constantly dripping with sweat makes it feel normal!0 -
Simply years of over eating and little exercise. No more no less...0
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Pregnancy followed by a job in a take out. Spend my wages on food or take the food they would have otherwise thrown out at the end of the night and save the money. Seemed like a no brainer at the time!0
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i got fat because of me.. yes alot of factors made me emotional but in the end i chose to fill that gap with food instead of something healthy, maybe i wasnt in the right happy frame of mind to think clearly but to be honest i just didnt give a dam, food made me feel good, lately its a good and bad feeling, when i eat the taste is awesome, when i overdo it by the smallest bit it becomes hatred, i have made peace with the fact that forever i will have a love / hate relationship with food, for 8 years being single mommy it was my "parnter" my medicine when i was sick, my comfort when i was lonely, my stress reliever and also my anger management cure.
so i will admit i love food, i have grown so much in the last 2 years, in losing 48kg and then after saying i will never go back, gaining 10kg back.. now my mind is in a differrent space, i have accepted and acknoledge i have an eating problem, now i have started actually listening to my body, when i am hungry i eat, when i am bored i either drink water or continue writing my book i want to publish next year.0 -
I was always super active, ate healthy, and pretty much maintained a consistant weight since high school... Until I moved to a new country when I was 27. Then I gained weight because...
1) I didn't stay active. I took too long deciding on a gym to join and finding a yoga studio, which resulted in a year off from fitness.
2) Belgium has amazing food, beer, and wine.
3) I met the love of my life and was too happy to care about my weight gain.
4) I discovered that I had developed hypothyroidism.
5) A small weight gain for 5 kilos turned into 10 to 15 kilos.0 -
Because I didn't care about anything and whenever life got too hard, I would eat to numb the pain.0
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I was an Egyptian Fisherman for years( I was in De Nile)
Diet was poor, and knowledge of food was poor.0 -
i made me fat....i can't blame it on food, or ignorance or anything i KNEW i was eating too much and not burning the extra off...i just didn't care at the time....didn't care enough about myself to exercise....0
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Pregnancy coupled with an unbelievably intolerant and stressful work environment.0
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Because I love food.
Up until the start of this year I walked everywhere, 1 hour a day at least. But I ate so much food, and lots of the bad stuff. Pasta is my weakness, and savoury anything. I will have 2 bowls of dinner because it tastes good, but would have been full father half of the first one.
I've almost doubled my body weight in the last 8 years.0 -
Mine is simple : I ate too much. People were encouraging me to "eat for two" so I did.0
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Too much beer and eating out.0
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I got to college and stopped playing sports, traded real ones for video games. Of course there was the partying aspect too and the all you can eat cafeteria for at least 2 meals a day. After graduating I was hired at a job where I sit for 9 hours a day and sometimes work events at night. I just have never eaten properly as an adult and it made me go from a fit athlete to a fat desk worker!0
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I went from being a broke University student that had to walk everywhere... To having a well paying but sit on my *kitten* job... Combined with a new Bf, my own car and lots of eating out / getting take out, not to mention I now work day and night shifts sporadically. Fast forward 3 years and +40 lbs and you have me at my heaviest weight. I guess just being too comfortable and not self aware.
I've been maintaining the past month but this year my weight loss has been slow and steady
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Being given food as a child to be sexual abused
Being content in a marriage
Laziness
Oversized portions
Alcohol0 -
I got a new job where I travelled a lot and ended up eating out in hotels/restaurants in the evening. When travelling I ate the junk that was available on the train, and would pick up croissants for breakfast instead of something healthy. It was a totally new way of working for me, and I didn't manage it as well as I should have done. It could have been worse, I could have had the cooked breakfast in the hotel, luckily I never fancy a full breakfast first thing!!0
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using the terrible excuse of im eating for 2 twice over. Also come from a non exercising family. i have lost 4 stone but need some toning x0
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Because cookies are just too damn good man.0
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I eat my feelings.0
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because i stress ate when my hubby was in basic training, and i was raising a 2 and 3 year old alone..and obviously started when i got pregnant0
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I got fat because as a child I was taught that food, and lots of it, was great for celebrations and for comfort. The better question is why did I stay fat once I became an adult and knew better.0
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I liked to be lazy and eat food while being lazy. Not any more! 0
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