how you got fat?

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  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    Kids. I stayed that way for too long because I was lazy and had too many excuses.
  • BigBeaver
    BigBeaver Posts: 858 Member
    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.

    (insert sarcasm anywhere)
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    extreme trauma

    that resulting in my padding myself so trauma would never ever happen again

    thats what it really boils down to
  • christalenavanaken
    christalenavanaken Posts: 3
    same here. LOL
  • christalenavanaken
    christalenavanaken Posts: 3
    Stress, depression, anxiety!!! I had alot of bad habits.
  • _Fenrir_
    _Fenrir_ Posts: 471
    By not eating breakfast or lunch, and having a massive carb tea almost daily.
  • BekaBooluvsu
    BekaBooluvsu Posts: 470 Member
    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.
  • jspicher81
    jspicher81 Posts: 26 Member
    cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger [...]
  • BlackRose101
    BlackRose101 Posts: 117 Member
    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

    this
  • amelia1315
    amelia1315 Posts: 4
    i basically told myself, "ill start the diet ting tomorrow," every freaking day. also the stress with the exams at school didn't help.
  • crazie4lulu
    crazie4lulu Posts: 762 Member
    i had high risk pregnancies and could not exercise from the 6 month on for both of them. complete bedrest!!!!
  • CokerShelby
    CokerShelby Posts: 16
    Gained 50 during my pregnancy. Had postpartum and continued to eat for 2. I've only lost 3 lbs... but it's finally happening.
  • emilyisbonkers
    emilyisbonkers Posts: 373 Member
    having lots of cider in the evenings
  • broox80
    broox80 Posts: 1,195 Member
    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/
  • jsj024519
    jsj024519 Posts: 400 Member
    eating up to 4000-5000 calories per day for a long *kitten* time
  • Foodiethinking
    Foodiethinking Posts: 240 Member
    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.
  • kristinhills90
    kristinhills90 Posts: 38 Member
    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!
  • serenity56
    serenity56 Posts: 79 Member
    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.
  • _Danno_
    _Danno_ Posts: 165
    Binge drinking, binge eating and being a lazy *kitten*!

    Pretty much sums it up lol
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  • tushq
    tushq Posts: 3
    Stress led to

    Alcohol
    Late night eating

    Further....
    No exercise
    Desk work
  • Demi928
    Demi928 Posts: 14 Member
    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!
  • ND_Figgzie
    ND_Figgzie Posts: 1,480
    laziness............that engulfs a ton of issues but it all comes down to laziness
  • ChristinaCCRN
    ChristinaCCRN Posts: 89 Member
    Stress and drinking too much to cope with the stress. Thank god I just don't crave it anymore.
  • GabriellaMaria
    GabriellaMaria Posts: 150 Member
    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
    this would be me...:grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :drinker: :grumble: :grumble:
  • ScorpionQwean
    ScorpionQwean Posts: 1,013 Member
    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 7/8
  • jodi41086
    jodi41086 Posts: 240
    Donuts, Chicken Wings, Booze, lack of exercise- Been doing great for almost a year straight now
  • BeautyDoll
    BeautyDoll Posts: 100 Member
    Loving food
    Using food as comfort
    Loving food
    Being lazy
    Loving food
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
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  • Dugleik
    Dugleik Posts: 125
    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.

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