Why are you fat?

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  • xerothermic
    xerothermic Posts: 80
    Have you tried cake? It's delicious. Also, wine/vodka.

    But really, I was using food as a treat. I've finally learned food is fuel, not a treat.
  • TLwineguzzler
    TLwineguzzler Posts: 289 Member
    because I like too many foods beginning with 'C' - cake, chocolate, cheese, chips, crisps, curries, cream :happy: and I possibly drink a bit too much alcohol! :drinker:
  • TrinasFitness2013
    TrinasFitness2013 Posts: 3
    I am overweight at the heaviest point ever. Because I use food to cover my addiction to drugs. I eat rather then get high or party.
    Comfort food, anxiety of being alone.

    I eat most when no one is around.

    I thought I was fat at 95 pounds so always been a issue for me.
  • minnimonster
    minnimonster Posts: 1
    coz i think i eat to much people say im a fat cow anyways so it must be true but hopfully ill loose it soon :cry:
  • toofatnomore
    toofatnomore Posts: 206 Member
    Years of Calorie Surplus.
  • peachcats
    peachcats Posts: 99
    Lack of nutritional education + parents not wanting to cook meals for me as a child. Most of my dinners as a kid were hotpockets.
  • jjscholar
    jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
    While I am not technically fat right now, I still feel very fat. I am currently maintaining my weight at between 175-180 lbs.

    I am just so used to being fat and ugly that when I still look in the mirror, I still see myself as fat. I sometimes wish that I could drop below 134 lbs. But, I am too weak to be able to do that...
  • illykitty89
    illykitty89 Posts: 6
    Well I was always a little bigger and move developed as a child-teen, so my self-esteem isn't great... Then in my mid-late teens lost weight (was around 115 pounds) but I admit it I didn't do it properly. I wasn't eating much at all.

    I fell in love with my husband at 17... I didn't think about food and calories as much anymore. I was crazy in love and started eating more. I though hey I'm still thin... Yeah not anymore! Piles up down the line!

    So I'm trying to get thinner again, I'd prefer to not be so giggly. I'm not great at keeping up the exercise since it's hard to keep motivation up with depression. Hopefully I can add some exercise to this as I'm getting better mentally, but at the moment I'm focusing on eating better.
  • RangiRose
    RangiRose Posts: 42
    because I like too many foods beginning with 'C' - cake, chocolate, cheese, chips, crisps, curries, cream :happy: and I possibly drink a bit too much alcohol! :drinker:



    this ^^^ esp chocolate cheesecake and cream cheese with crackers :embarassed:
  • forevertoday
    forevertoday Posts: 101 Member
    Coca-cola :/
  • cedarblack
    cedarblack Posts: 63 Member
    CAKE
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    Always been overweight (there's a piccie somewhere of me looking like a beach ball at my Christening!) Then, between very low calorie diets (zero fat - I've still got a psychological issue about eating too much fat), the failure of said and fairly low self-esteem leading to "I can't do this" and "fck it, I'll just have another beer", I hit the top of obese.

    I'm still working through this - between the "no fat" (cheers, Rosemary Conley) and the repeated failures of previous diets, I'm really struggling to get through a stall. The temptation to give up doubles every time I see the scale stay the same or move upwards. Grr.
  • janatarnhem
    janatarnhem Posts: 669 Member
    'cause I'm damned greedy!
  • TamaraKat
    TamaraKat Posts: 533 Member
    I'm not fat now, but when I was younger, I used it as a coping mechanism...
  • siegte16v
    siegte16v Posts: 139
    Party animal at weekends lots of drinking n late nite feasting after 12 years it catches u up...plus I'm a lazy *kitten* ha all change now though ha
  • Topsking2010
    Topsking2010 Posts: 2,245 Member
    I had an addiction to junk food and fast food.

    Became more active and started eating healthy.

    Things are a lot better now.
  • Thruen
    Thruen Posts: 80 Member
    World of Warcraft
  • bernied262
    bernied262 Posts: 882 Member
    Interesting question. I am not fat anymore but it all started when I was 16. Up until that point, I was thin and reasonably fit. My main sporting activities were skating, Netball and hockey. Then things happened in my life that I struggled to deal with emotionally. I stopped doing the sports I had enjoyed and just kinda vegged out for a couple of yrs. I put a bit of weight on during those 2 yrs but was still considered 'healthy'. My life improved and things were going well for a few yrs, then it all took a nose dive again and the weight piled on. I topped the scales at 189 lbs, actually maybe more but I stopped weighing myself at that point. I am 5'1" so this was not a good look. Eventually, I gave myself a good talking too, I dejunked my life, got rid of the negativity (including people) that had surrounded me and put myself first. Best decision ever. I am the happiest and healthiest I have ever been, and have rediscovered my love of exercise :) Now down to 127lbs, goal is 126!
  • chimanlifts1
    chimanlifts1 Posts: 23
    People are fat because they eat more than their body needs. Emotional reasons, bad habits and sometimes genetics play a part-but that's what it boils down to.
  • MADLifestyle
    MADLifestyle Posts: 14
    For me, I've always been overweight.
    When I was 2 years old I got kidney cancer and so I constantly had to be taken up to the age of 6 and has been lying around in the apartment were i get "spoiled" with food of my parents.
    Until i was 14 years old, i was overweight and a computer freak like hell. I started with sport activities (run) and so i lost weight very quickly . I've always eaten a lot but since I've started with the train, my weight is more than 60 pounds less.

    I’m no longer overweight and i can say that my decision 4 years ago to change my life to a better one was the best decision i could make.

    I pay attention to my diet and daily sport activities. This is now my new Lifestyle and i love it.

    (sorry form my bad english...)
  • njbh86
    njbh86 Posts: 38 Member
    I ate too much because I was lonely and depressed and needed comfort. This went on from late 2009 to about 2 months ago, during which time I gained around 70lb. I am now happier and eating more sensibly (not perfect, but better) and I have lost about 8lb over the last month. Today I dipped under the 17st barrier for the first time in what feels like forever. Hooray!
  • Brainless64
    Brainless64 Posts: 27 Member
    I like food, and unfortuantely my body is not good at recognisisn how much it needs, equals more caliories in than out.

    Doesn't take a lot. Worked it out to about 150 excess calories a day over last 4 years to get to where I started in June.

    I hate calorie counting/dieting, but my appetite has never been reliable for coincididng with my caloric needs, and I am a binger.

    Have been up and down with my weight all my life.

    I lack the vanity to do something about excess weight when ti's only 10 or even 20 pounds LOL, so it creeps up over a 3 to 5 year period, and on the merry go around again.

    Thsi time is different, at approachign 50, I have started getting painful arthritic knees, which is hampering my comfort when walking (I have 6 dogs to excersise).

    With MFP having such a great food database that we can add to, I think I wil be able to monitor calorie intake/weight long term, without it being a major chore.

    Intend to stick with it for maintenance and see if I can kep teh weight off, which I have never managed to do before, for more than a year or so.
  • jamie610811
    jamie610811 Posts: 1,735 Member
    It was easier to be lazy than fit, and bad food is so nice :-( That's my story
  • PennyM140
    PennyM140 Posts: 423 Member
    Im lazy
  • jeffd247
    jeffd247 Posts: 319 Member
    It's the Chinese food and beer industries that made me fat. I can't be held responsible for loving those two things more than everything else.
  • lbybrown
    lbybrown Posts: 2
    I've always had lethargic energy-levels, and fatness (not morbidly, but overweight) runs in the family. I'm not fat now, but I was, for a very long time, and now I just can't stand the way my body is shaped, so I'm going to do something about it.
  • bebeXchyM
    bebeXchyM Posts: 32 Member
    Genetics, made wrong food choices and was sedentary. But I think the major reason was that I was on prednisolone for allergies for most of my childhood years until mum realised it was the culprit.(was an obese child tho, 50kg at 8)
  • EdTheGinge
    EdTheGinge Posts: 1,616 Member
    I'm not fat, I'm just big boned
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    copy pasting from my profile

    These are my excuses as to why I got into such bad shape. Honest truth time for me

    - Laziness. I was too lazy to move and make a change in my lifestyle. Fast food (which I hate btw, I really hate most of the food from BK and McD's) was just easier even though cooking for myself wouldve been cheaper and healthier.

    - Excuses. I made excuses. "I will do this some other time." "I will do it starting tomorrow." "Oh I ate bad today? I will recover tomorrow by not eating" and ofcourse that led to binging

    - video game addiction: World of Warcraft. I cannot even begin to explain how much that game have ruined my life, not just health wise but everything. I know I'm to blame but that game alone have ruined the last atleast 4 years of my life.

    - being a coward: Whenever I got hit by stress, I tried to confide in food or cigarettes. I just didnt wanted to face my troubles like a man but in the end, I had to anyways. Stress didnt went away because of eating or smoking but it sure did put on some weight.

    - Just not stopping: I couldve stopped with the bad habits when I hit 200, I was aware of the weight issue. I couldve stopped at 220, 240, 250, 270, and now I'm at 280. Each time I knew what was up but I didnt do anything about it. I was ok with the fat man in the mirror. I hated him but I didnt wanted to do anything to change it

    I am now in charge of my own faults and failures. I will try my best. I urge my friends on MFP to not let me get off the course. I have a few real life friends who i've asked to do the same. Hopefully, this time I will conquer my own mind.
  • kennie2
    kennie2 Posts: 1,170 Member
    im fat? :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:

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