Why Did You Get Fat?

I like food....in my mouth.

I use food when I am bored or stressed. I also have a weak heart, and instead of that being an excuse not to exercise, it should be even more of a reason to do something.

I finally had the money to buy enough food, and the time to sit down and eat it all

Ignorance. I was drinking can after can of energy drink and Coke, eating whatever I felt like eating, including huge plates of roast dinners, takeaways, microwaveable burgers and snacks, and ignoring/not seeing what I was doing to myself.

I got fat cause of my children, emotional eating, lazyness, and areas rolled into one. Eating out everyday, etc... I now can't stand the sight of any fast food let alone resteraunt food where I'll order a steak with veggies and drink water. I used to drink pop every single day, now I limit myself to one cup every other week. I call it my treat. It was bad for awhile. I gained my lbs I lost along with 10 more... Now its time to ne healthy for me. I have a genetic condition and a an aneurysm in my heart. So Dr says make heart strong and exercise. :-)

Freshman fifteen. Many hours spent sitting on my butt, stuffing junk food and sweets into my mouth while studying. Too many nights spent partying and drinking beer instead of sleeping.. Shame on me.

i love food and alcohol - i had no idea of moderation

Bout sums it up for me too Lmao

Everyone gains the weight for a reason. Some have emotional struggles. Some have health problems. Some are just lazy and /or love food!

Myself, I've used food as medicine, or like a drug, to help me to deal with negative emotions. But I've experienced a lot of emotional healing and want to not turn to food anymore. I want to be healthy and look good!

Ditto to the above. I'd eat to console myself, eat to celebrate, eat through boredom and then feel bad about eating so I'd eat more to feel better. Makes no sense at all, but really did at the time!

I saw eating as more than a massive inconvenience that has to be done to stay alive

I was a super fit kid....very muscular...worked hard on the farm after school...played every sport going at school...

And then I became a 'young woman' and it wasn't cool to be a tomboy, and I stopped moving.

Nobody taught me about nutrition, and the fact that I should have eaten far less once I stopped moving. I had absolutely no idea.

I had a lot of negativity in my life, emotional and psychological abuse. I was called fat, worthless, hopeless, ugly....from my brother and my father. I still had no idea how to stop gaining weight, so then I also got depressed as well.

I then had my thyroid removed when my son was 12 months old. I went from being able to eat anything I wanted (hyperthyroidism) to having no metabolism (hypothyroidism) and I gained 20 kilos in 6 months.

I battled it for years. Tried a few 'diets', but generally STILL didn't learn about nutrition. So without the skills I needed, I kept putting it all back on plus plenty more!

I met men who saw I was a big girl, and decided I must really love food! So they would bring me cake! (nom nom nom!)

I've lost 25 kilos so far, and I'm still going. And this time I am equipping myself with the knowledge and the information I need to keep it off.

1) New relationship with lots of nights spent in front of the TV with a bag or two of chips, or pizza, and sodas.
2) The chips and sodas became sort of an addiction and started to edge its way into my everyday life. I could finish off two bags of chips in one night without thinking, just because I got a craving and didn't know when to stop.
3) College life - partying and an overall unhealthy lifestyle.
4) Quite a disinterest in cooking. Did the same cheap and simple pasta dishes all of the time without realizing that I could eat 2,000 cals in one sitting... General ignorance about what was "healthy" food.
5) Eating lots of junk food

depressed, emosional eating i guess. I was 11 confused about who i was and how different i felt.

In high school I was a dancer and also anorexic... when I stopped dancing I went from being ecstatic to extremely depressed and suicidal, from anorexic to working at maccas = free food, my metabolism was already screwed. I ate like I had never seen food before, I GORGED myself. I just filled in my diary for tomorrow as how I used to eat just to give myself an idea... almost 10,000 calories! Plus I was.. almost an alcoholic and smoked and drank every day. I also completely stopped any other form of physical activity when I stopped dancing. I was on antidepressants/acne tablets which completely screwed with my metabolism further.

I finally had the money to buy enough food, and the time to sit down and eat it all.

^^this!

2 babies...no exercise....poor eating habits