how you got fat?

LINIA

Excellent article --- very interesting:

http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city

healthybodyhealthylife

I went through a super depressing and stressed phase right after my engagement and it really affected my relationship. I also got sick just before that time and lost 10kg and lost all my curves so being an idiot I assumed our relationship problems were because I lost my body. Sooo I went on an eating rampage in attempt to 'recover my curves' where I ate ALL THE FOOD I SAW. Lasted a few months. I got my curves back but it came alongside awful skin, constant low energy, depressed mood (again), bloated belly and hair falling out in clumps. It was the worst few months of my life but it really taught me the value of living a healthy, happy life and whenever I feel demotivated I think back to those days and realize being lazy/eating ALL THE FOOD really isn't worth it.

bearkisses

pizza

Sinisterly

Emotional eating. Better than other options considered.

JefferyArnold

I stopped tracking anything I ate and went through a bout of emotional and stress eating. Throw the holidays on top of it all and POOF!! fat

PghPensFan69

Sinisterly

Oh, you put on a fat suit. I never thought of that.

Lovely_77

Gestational diabetes when pregnant, stayed fat for two years due to laziness and comfort eating to forget that I was fat lol sick cycle

SomeNights246

Actually a long story in my case. Sit down and grab a beer.

I am about 133 lbs now. Give or take (weight fluctuates and all that), but I was 220 lbs at my highest. When I was 15-19, I was actually a VERY active person. I walked everywhere. I walked my dogs every day (and at the time, we had 7 dogs! - I walked ALL 7 by myself every day, 30 minutes per set of dogs so that was 2 dogs 30 minutes, 2 dogs 30 minutes, 2 dogs 30 minutes, last dog 30 minutes). I walked to the rec center and got on the swing. I was active. My weight stayed between 130-150 lbs. I've always had fluctuating weight. Yoyoing. Because of financial reasons, my dietary choices are often poor. Plus I've always had a weakness for Little Debbie (that I finally broke. Her cakes make me sick now)

Then, the attack happened. When I was 19, I was attacked by dogs while walking to the store. I don't remember it much. Everyone always asks me if it hurt, but I couldn't tell you. I dissociated when it happened. But I heard it. And the sounds left me traumatized more than the pain. For a while, I seemed alright. But slowly, slowly, I withdrew. I became afraid to walk. Afraid that it would happen again. And so, I stopped. I stopped going anywhere. And I got lazy. And a lot happened from 19 to 22. A death, a stressful move, my mom's loss of a job... I withdrew into myself. I became an emotional eater. And slowly, the weight just piled on..

cassy_runs

calories consumed > calories burned.

coretemp

overcompensated caloric intake for weights

victal

having two kids, both nearly 9lb!!! took me ages to lose it with my last 4 years ago!!........... don't have to worry about that now hubbys had the snip!:smokin:

j0705

3 months on a sofa after injuring my back, having to order out for takeaway food or no one would eat because i couldnt stand long enough to cook. :P

djones209

I never really thought about it until I read this, but I also liked feeling stuffed. Wow......,

Sinisterly

I never really thought about it until I read this, but I also liked feeling stuffed. Wow......,

I just totally took that the wrong way!

mercurybubbles

A boyfriend who loves to eat junk and constantly brings me goodies. Now I dont blame him I ate the stuff but before him I didnt eat sweets or like half the foods I eat now. Its not easy to eat a plate of veggies while your partner is stuffing his face with cheese burgers and pizza! Fml lol.

TheEffort

Fast-food (3 to 4 times a day)...a sedentary lifestyle...low self-esteem.

FattyFeast

Always been slightly overweight my whole life
Large portions
Alcohol
Injuries stopping me exercising for months on end.... but not reigning back on my calorie intake

jjennyb4

Fast food, junk food & pure laziness! It was my own fault!!!!!

FreshKrisKreash

I got fat against my will. When I was a baby I was very tiny and a neighbor said jokingly to my mom, "Wow. She's so tiny. Aren't you feeding her?" she took it as an insult to her mothering skills and way overfed me and my brother. so by the time I started kindergarten I was 100 pounds. after my dad died she really overdid it and by 6th grade I was 180. that was my heaviest. at 12 years old I had to tell my mother to stop cooking for me and had to start figuring this stuff out for myself.

Ohnoes

Depression and drinking. Traded beer for hiking, still eat the same, 50 lbs down

MorgueBabe

College Double science major and lots of concert/jazz band activities ( I graduated HS weighing 95 (too thin very very fast metabolism) and I graduated college weight 145)
Eating lots of high calorie vegetarian foods - french fries, pasta, bread, chips, avocados, peanut butter etc.

rexiecatmeow

I never got over weight but I got unhealthy and added some body fat b/c I was a competitive figure skater and then I stopped in my late teens, when I was on the ice countless hours a day I never had to watch what I ate, so I continued not being active and didn't watch what I ate and I went from a very low body fat to a normal person and I hated it b/c it wasn't what I was used to. I got over that after I got pregnant with my first.

boobeey

I got fat by eating fast food everyday while in high school, began taking birth control and became a true lover of cooking and tasting everything i cooked.

deepthavinay

Just loved junk food too much as a teenager..

Gwen_B

I have never really been over weight, but I did gain 10 pounds one summer. My daughters were playing summer ball and had us constantly running, had us eating fast food more times than not! It made me sluggish and lazy which kept me from working out! By the time they were back in school, I was on a mission, I am back to rarely eating out again and working out regularly. I lost those 10 pounds and then lost 20 pounds more than my original weight.

davemap

Upon getting my provisional driver's license i then had the Tool's to get around everywhere (with out my skateboard), Then next came the fast food as my parents were not into it. Slowly but surely the combination of not exercising and and eating takeaway alot got the best of me.

Having said this i was always prone to being chubby when i was younger.

kittyd7015

kebabs and takeout

Jerrysdugan

I find it amazing that for many of us, the weight gain seems to be the result of something else we were fighting within ourselves.

For me, it was mostly I enjoyed food, lots of food, and I disliked exercise, especially any exercise. Tied in with that was my perspective of the future. At some point I must have lost hope even though on the outside I carried on like I had hope, and I also lost confidence in myself having gone through a professional ringer for a few years. It took my son wanting to be active with me, my wife sharing her concerns for my health with me, and my daughter asking if I looked forward to dancing with her at her wedding (she was only 9 years old at the time, so this kinda freaked me out.)

bearkisses

I got fat against my will. When I was a baby I was very tiny and a neighbor said jokingly to my mom, "Wow. She's so tiny. Aren't you feeding her?" she took it as an insult to her mothering skills and way overfed me and my brother. so by the time I started kindergarten I was 100 pounds. after my dad died she really overdid it and by 6th grade I was 180. that was my heaviest. at 12 years old I had to tell my mother to stop cooking for me and had to start figuring this stuff out for myself.

your mom is effed up. a 100 lb kindergartener. I am pretty sure that is child abuse.