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how you got fat?
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Kids. I stayed that way for too long because I was lazy and had too many excuses.0
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How you got fat?
If that is not the silliest question ever. Obviously, I ate food. Good tasting food, loaded with calories and sodium, oh, and soda, pop, fizzy drinks or whatever you may call it. I use to double fist the old Mt. Dew cans, sometimes a Mt. Dew IV. Oh and donuts, God, those are good! Oh, and candy, I blame it on Halloween as a kid, you go door to door, ringing the bell, and somebody gives you candy, sometimes lots, and it was freeee!
Not to mention McDonald's and Burger King. I am thinking about suing those two SOB's for making such delicious food. If it wasn't for them, oh and wait, it's television, I watched so much programming growing up, I didn't have time for exercise. Wait, wait, I will blame video games, I sat playing to many video games.
No, I know what it was, it was college, all the partying and alcohol, and the stress, I gained the freshman 15 times 4, yeah thats it.
No, it's because I got married, and settled down.
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extreme trauma
that resulting in my padding myself so trauma would never ever happen again
thats what it really boils down to0 -
same here. LOL0
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Stress, depression, anxiety!!! I had alot of bad habits.0
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By not eating breakfast or lunch, and having a massive carb tea almost daily.0
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A lot of things went on in my life.
Diagnosed with Hypothyroidism at 5 gained 40 pounds in a month
School shooting
Loosing close family members
Got in a horrible car accident
Surgeries
During all the rough times of life I chose to eat my pain/sorrow away.
I was somewhat active until I broke my neck and back in the accident.0 -
cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger [...]0
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It was a three-step process.
Step 1 - stuff food into my mouth
Step 2 - stuff more food into my mouth
Step 3 - repeat steps one and two
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i basically told myself, "ill start the diet ting tomorrow," every freaking day. also the stress with the exams at school didn't help.0
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i had high risk pregnancies and could not exercise from the 6 month on for both of them. complete bedrest!!!!0
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Gained 50 during my pregnancy. Had postpartum and continued to eat for 2. I've only lost 3 lbs... but it's finally happening.0
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having lots of cider in the evenings0
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Mine piled on after high school. I wasnt cheerleading anymore and didnt realize how important it was to stay active. I was in an abusive relationship and lost all belief in myself. My life got better as I got married(not to the abusive DB, but a nice guy), got my bachelor's and eventually had 2 beautiful boys, but the weight has just stuck around. So now 15 years later I am ready to shed this baggage!!!
I have hypothroidism which makes losing more challenging, but I am willing to fight for what I want and deserve!! \m/0 -
eating up to 4000-5000 calories per day for a long *kitten* time0
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Heavy foods, especially cheese and pastry...
-Macaroni cheese
-Cheese-laden pizza
-Belly pork
-Cream and custard
-White pre-sliced bread- and lots of!
-Pies and puddings
-Tart
-Old-fashioned puds
-Cream based everything
I still have all of the above, but in moderation and instead of masses of cheese and pepperoni on a pizza, I have less pizza, more salad and vegetables on top. I've learnt to balance my diet and have more nutrients in it.0 -
Pregnancy at first. I gained 50 lbs with my first pregnancy. Didn't know how to get it off, tried so many fad diets hoping for a quick fix. Within a week would be so miserable, hungry and discouraged that I would just quit & binge. I also put on a lot of weight when breastfeeding, it makes me insanely hungry. This past year I've put on 20 lbs.
I'm also a huge stress/emotional eater. Oh, and I'd say soda definitely helped put MANY of the lbs on. The past few years I barely drank any water. I had at least 6 cans of soda per day!
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Depression and a cripplingly low self-esteem, paired with living off the food from possibly the worst version of a 'charity food bank' ever - highly processed junk food, almost exclusively. I was 14/15 at the time, and not actually 'fat' - well within healthy ranges, but not as skinny and well-muscled as I had been up until that point. The depression just made things worse over the years and I DID end up actually gaining 30ish lbs. to arrive to where I am now, at 23. It just keeps creeping up with every passing year that I DON'T take action and stick with it.0
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Binge drinking, binge eating and being a lazy *kitten*!
Pretty much sums it up lol0 -
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Stress led to
Alcohol
Late night eating
Further....
No exercise
Desk work0 -
Marital separation was a contributor, but not putting myself first and laziness was really the culprit. I don't blame anyone else and that's why I chose to get fit and healthy again!0
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laziness............that engulfs a ton of issues but it all comes down to laziness0
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Stress and drinking too much to cope with the stress. Thank god I just don't crave it anymore.0
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It was a three-step process.
Step 1 - stuff food into my mouth
Step 2 - stuff more food into my mouth
Step 3 - repeat steps one and two0 -
Once I hit 31, had kids,ate their leftovers, buying them snacks (ate those too), then it grew into a "portion control" issue. Not that I ate the wrong foods, I ate too much food . I was ok at 20 when I had my 1st kid, I bounced right back to a size 7/80
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Donuts, Chicken Wings, Booze, lack of exercise- Been doing great for almost a year straight now0
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Loving food
Using food as comfort
Loving food
Being lazy
Loving food0 -
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A twisted view on food.
I would eat desert for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I was picky to the extreme. Then there was days where I wuld eat nothing at all and broke the 'fast' by eating an entire store bought pizza that I covered in so much cheese that the fat was dripping from it.
TL;DR
Thinking making food from scratch would take to long time and be to hard so I made 'easy' and bad choices.0
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