how you got fat?

Excellent article --- very interesting:

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

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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

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

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..

overcompensated caloric intake for weights

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Just loved junk food too much as a teenager..

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.

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.)