Why Did You Get Fat?

Going on birth control was the main cause; but also not dealing well with deployments during first two years of marriage.

I have always had a love for food, but managed my weight pretty well. Then I got married was un employed for awhile and fell into a depression. The only thing that made me feel good was food. I would wake up at 3:00 in the morning to eat and ate fast food and other horrible junk all the time. Now I have a dependency on food and large portions that I am trying to shake. But it is tough..... but I am not giving up!!!

I moved less and ate more

I have used food to avoid emotions before... but I usually could control it.

I just started developing binge eating... and it was more often than normal... (I mean normal could be 1-3 binges a year...which I never considered a big problem. I didn't notice much weight gain from them, either. ) But the binging became more often...started happening every week... Bleh.

Oh well ! I'm on track now, I'll be to my goal soon enough. I won't give up. I've been finding other coping mechanisms.

For me it was the death of both my parents, then the loss of both of my wife’s parents plus a brother (only a couple of years older than me and in far better shape) and a sister of hers. I got in to booze big time and crawled in to a hole and stayed there for a long time. The more I drank the more hungry I got so the more deliveries we got. My wife is one of the lucky ones who don’t put weight on so it didn’t hit her that I was getting so fat. That’s why I’m on here, I’m losing weight for me and the only person that can do this for me is me. Rant over, peace and love to all.

i love food! especially fast food...and when i was younger thats all i knew and was fed so i got into the bad habit. and then i stopped dancing/cheering and playing basketball and still ate junk. and also im an emotional eater

College! My dining halls are all-you-could-eat buffets. I went from 165-200 in a semester before I realized what I was doing to myself. The next semester I gained another 25 cause I didn't know how to control it. Last year I bought a scale and eventually motivated myself to start losing. I want to lose another 60 lbs so I need to get back on it!

I quit smoking and started eating ice cream.

I got too comfy in my relationship after haveing out new born x

This was me, plus my lifestyle changed also. I used to always be out with my friends before I got pregnant and I loved to dance! Once baby came, that was me in all the time so my treat became a take out and drinks in front of the TV!

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1) I've never been fat, or even clinically overweight, but my heighest weight resulted from a medication I was taking. It changed the way I processed food. I went off it, and in terms of my weight history I think it was the smartest decision of my life.

2) The next most important reason I've gained weight, or had more trouble maintaining it,is getting older. My metabolism has slowed down. In addition, by the time you're over a certain age you may have had certain injuries or you develop vulnerabilities that keep you from working out as hard as you once might have been able to, although I've never liked exercise. I'm short, slight, and can't eat many calories. I also don't carry weight as well as other people.

3) Finally, boredom has caused me problems. When I've been at a job I disliked and there was a vending machine in the office, I would find myself gaining 5 to 10 pounds over the course of a year.

4) Bad habits that don't support my weight goals. I'm someone who has a tendency to binge, or at least overindulge, and I don't do well when I buy anything I like in bulk. I need to remind myself that a discount doesn't help if I'm going to be paying a "weight surcharge." I'm better off paying a bit more for, say, energy bars, on an individual basis than buying a box that I consume in a week or less.

Being an overweight kid and teenager, resulting in brutal bullying, resulting in clinical depression, resulting in not caring about what and how much I eat and not caring about what it did to my body and my well being.

For me, it wasn't a single factor: middle-age (and it's attendant change in natural metabolism), maternity, anemia-based depression, sedentary lifestyle (work, reading, blogging...), and ignorance of the content of what I was eating.

The big question for me is actually, "Why did I wait until I was 60+ lbs overweight to do anything about it?" Part of the reason was that I didn't realize that I had gained that much weight (didn't have a full-length mirror, didn't weigh myself and, bought larger more comfortable clothes), attitude (once I realized how much I weighed I thought it was great that my size now matched my attitude!),and again, ignorance (this time not only about what I was eating; but the forces at play by the food & marketing industries.)

I tried to lose weight twice before and I while I didn't succeed then, I used those experiences to figure out what I was doing wrong and, this last time, how to do it right! :-)

I was lazy and I love to eat

6 lbs prednisone weight gain.
10 lbs moving stress.

Began with a sports injury in high school - believe it or not I ran cross country, best shape of my life, but my injury required me to barely exercise AT ALL while I was recovering on crutches. Combine that with parents' divorce, and realizing "hey, I can eat whenever / whatever I want, don't only have to eat what Mom puts in front of me" and soon I was eating randomly. Got worse in college - I'm a procrastinatory eater. If I was studying I'd go grab a candy bar to put things off.