Share the REAL reasons why you're fat (or too thin)

Pregnancy!

But before that it was cupcakes.

Depo Provera! (aka "The Devil")

Weeelllll ... once I hit my teen years, I worked in several places where I had unlimited access to soda and food that wasn't the healthiest. While I wasn't technically overweight, I was developing the bad habits. I joined the Army straight out of high school and, while my activity levels were really high, my eating - and drinking - habit just kept getting worse.

Fast forward seven years when I got out of the Army. All of a sudden, I'm still eating like an idiot and not exercising at all. Hence the fact that I gained 80 pounds over the next 13 years.

A little over two years ago, something finally clicked for me. I joined WW online at first, then joined a gym and started seeing a personal trainer. I decided I wanted something I had more control over (or at least that was a little more transparent) so I quit WW and switched to MFP. I lost 50 pounds that year and then just kind of quit going to the gym and got pretty lazy about tracking. I gained about 10 of those pounds back over the course of last year.

My lesson from this is... While I was doing everything right and seeing results, I don't think that I really understood that I couldn't just start slacking off.

So, I'm back to tracking, back in the gym and seeing a trainer again. This time I really need to finish what I started, get to my goal, and then keep on keeping on for the rest of my life!!!!

I've been fat all my life; but the real trigger was before I was born: I had an older brother who died after 18 months, so this traumatized my parents; during my childhood I was overprotected and never told NO.

But also, I was a stupid kid trying to get the time of hard working middle class parents. Overeating became my way to demand attention; and for them, working to bring the food was the only way to justify the lack parenting. Now a man, I understand that life and kids are not easy.

Then with money as a teenager and early 20': more food, drugs, alcohol, etc... until a couple years ago I decided to change once for all my lifestyle; and get a solid future while i still can.

Now I have a great relationship with my parents and with myself. Forgiving myself and the others, helped me alot to break the downward spiral.

If you are lost, return to your childhood and evaluate as a rational person; usually thats where the triggers are.

before i met my ex-fiance, i was at my lowest weight ever, fitting in a size 9-11 jeans. once i started dating him, and adapting to his eating habits (especially after we moved in together) i gained about 70 pounds in three years. we ate like slobs, stuffing ourselves with fast food daily, sometimes twice or three times a day. he also added much unneeded stress by pressuring me to go to school for things I didn't want to do, being unfaithful, and keeping me away from my family and friends. I became secluded and stopped leaving the house.

Now that i removed myself from the situation, i feel so much better about myself and my outlook on life.

I love food. I especially love sweets and I used to eat too much and not exercise. I am turning that around now

I like to eat. Not the full feeling, but the act of mastication, tasting, feeling it go down. But I also have really poor eating habits, back to even before puberty. In middle school I had to do a month long food diary. I wasn't getting much more than 500 calories per day before loaded snacks. It was really bad junk that got me to 'optimal' number of calories per day for someone my age, like chips or donuts or cookies. The vegetables we had were usually potatoes or corn, but it was far more common to have chips as a side for dinner. If you didn't eat those sides, you had hardly anything the whole day. Don't get me wrong, we were fed, but you get far more food for the dollar when you're buying stuff that isn't good for you.

So now, at the age of 21, I'm not fat, overweight, or even too skinny. I'm at the high end of average for my height and sex, but I'm trying to break the bad eating habits (even now only 800 calories in a day is normal without carby foods), removing carbs as a long-term aspect, and hoping to get back to the body I had when I was athletic.

Quitting an addiction. I replaced substance with food. I am a compulsive binge eater, it's like a drug. I also got comfortable in a 3yr relationship with someone who cheated, dumped me, took all of my money and ruined my finances. I have barely a support system, and the one I do is very unhealthy.

In the long and hsort of it, I overate. Society hasn't helped with this when you look at portions from the takeaway and when we eat at pubs (bars that serve food) too.

Everything from a pub is served with chips (thick cut fries). The portions are OTT so when doing food at home you get into bad habits of controlling the size of your portion. I was also have takeaway too often, always eating the meat loaded pizzas and loved pie and chipc (fries).

Cake ad chocolate are definitely my downfall. When I got stressed at work it's the first thing I would reach for and given the number of different Birthdays where cake was brought in a couldn't say no.

That's pretty much it!

Wine, Wine and more Wine! Calories add up when your too tipsy to count!

^^that's the one. Self medicating. 'What? Guilt starting to set in? No worries. Have another drink...'

I've always been big, all through growing up, but recently it's just been to much crappy food and not enough constant exercise. I train three times a week, but coupled with a poor natural metabolism and eating terribly, the lbs just piled on.

I was extremely clumsy - always last to be picked, the worst person in my class in pretty much every gym class I was ever in, and resented all forms of exercise and being told to go outside. I still hate all sports. Even so, I never had a lot of love for food and was only slightly overweight (170) in high school. When I got out I ate a lot more fast food, quit smoking, and tended to order more than I needed, and eat too fast because I was in a hurry. Alcohol didnt help either. I gained up to 250 within 6 years of graduating. Then I slowly gained another Fifty over the next five years.

Now I'm tired of it. I have a lot of willpower once I decide to commit to something - quit smoking, drinking, with no problem, and losing weight is now finally a commitment for me. I am going to walk, and after I lose enough eventually maybe bike as those are a couple exercises I don't resent.

I went through a stressful time workwise and spent a fair few months living on takeaways and vodka! I was spending most of the day (and night!) sorting out lots of heavy paperwork so very little exercise, very little sleep, lots of booze and a takeaway diet. Very quick weight gain!

Because I got lazy.

I became a recluse.