Why are you fat?

I'm 5'3" also, and right now I'm in the 230ish range (I haven't weighed in awhile, it's counter-productive for me), I lost weight before doing WW Core and got down to about 170 and looked and felt great at that weight. Not all of us look good at 130 lbs. No one can ever believe I weigh as much as I do. I guess some of us carry it better.

I was a skinny kid until I was about 11. I don't remember anything really changing to account for the gain. I was still running around with my brothers and other neighbor kids, eating just the same as everyone else. I've hit many plateaus throughout my life where I'll stick at one weight for a long time, never gaining never loosing, and then something will change and I'll jump up to a different weight. Sure, I like to eat, and like most kids/teens most what I liked my body didn't.

Eating far too much of all the wrong things.

Puberty hit me at age 11. I wasn't really THAT heavy before that (though I was always told I was) - pictures of me show that I truly wasn't. It was only after age 11 that I started to balloon upward. Combine that with bad eating habits (my own and my family's examples), bullying in school (yes, it existed in the 1980s, but no one ever had a name for it and we were expected to "suck it up, buttercup") and a lack of exercise.... there you have it.

I have no excuse. I didn't do anything about it and for a long time I never felt a need to change (and indeed, never believed that I could). Now? Things are so, thankfully, different. :flowerforyou:

sweet tea and bread.

I gained a lot of weight during my pregnancy. It didn't help that I had very low blood pressure and I kept being told to keep eating so that my blood pressure could stay up (not the best advice I've ever heard, but they didn't have any other things to recommend me). I stayed overweight until my daughter was 4 years old. Though I tried counting calories and I was actively exercising between having my daughter and until she was 4 years old, I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I finally went to WW as a last resort. And that's when I learned how to eat better and I lose the weight. I went from a size 16 to a 6. I've been a size 6 now for 18 months.

This year I've been working on eating as much homemade food as possible. I work hard not to eat processed foods. It's always a work in progress for me. It's not easy to eat healthy and making your own meals when you work full time and are a mom. But the reason why I was fat was that I just didn't know what I was doing wrong. I thought a calorie is a calorie regardless of where it came from. I was very wrong.

Was always a bit pudgy into my teens..but was also so active it never got out of control.

Got out of school..moved..met a guy....end of story. Was introduced to World of Warcraft and Everquest and spent 8-10 hours a day when I wasn't working playing and eating in front of the PC..I got lazy..and the more I got big the worse it got because of how depressed I was getting. I ate when I was bored..sad..mad..angry..happy..i ate to deal with childhood issues like anyone else. I lived in a small po-dunk town where there were 2 stop lights a Wal-Mart and 25 fast food places. Beer and partying became my new thing..and eating at Huddle House at 2am made me happy...

Theres a ton of reasons why we do this to ourselves..but I don't blame anyone else for the way I am. Its MY fault. Its my own responsibility to take care of my body. No one can do it for me.. We are the only ones who can stop the train wreck. So That's why I am here..to take control..to work through my issues and deal with things I have pushed into the far corners of my mind for years. Its proving to be harder than I thought..but im getting through it. Wishing you all the best of luck.

Long post full of excuses short: I'm lazy. I'm lazy and I eat a whole damn lot. I eat a damn lot of ice cream, soda, Kool Aid, sweet tea, etc. Period. I'm fat because I'm a lazy over eater.

I just believe that, the more I weigh, the more of the Universe is under my direct control.

Couple of reasons...
-when I was younger, I could eat anything and stay a size 5. I no longer can do that, but I still want to eat everything.
-comfort food. I like to cook it, and I love to eat it.
oh, and another reason...
-boredom at work...if it's a boring project I'm working on, the office snack box calls my name.

The Chinese take-away down the road force-fed me.







Yeah, I'm a lazy glutton.

Because I'm an emotional eater...still am. Instead, NOW I eat to celebrate things and not because I'm sad. I get stressed very easily and that's when I used to console myself with food and alcohol. Now, I just use the gym. Whenever I'm really stressed, I just workout. Also, I am fat because I used to exercise maybe once per year...if that. Bottom line: I was lazy and only liked high-calorie foods with little to no nutritional value.

Emotional eating plus the contraceptive implant. I was always big as a teenager but about 4 years ago I worked hard, lost 3 stone and got pretty fit. Then I hit a fairly stressful time in my life, and at the same time as that got the contraceptive implant. I piled it all on within a year.
I know people say the implant doesn't affect it but I felt it did. It's out now and I am back on track, though haven't lost a massive amount yet. I am eating even healthier than I did when I lost weight before, I am now vegetarian and eat a lot of raw food as well. So hopefully it will start coming off again.

I WAS fat my entire life because I just shoveled whatever garbage food I could find into my mouth! Thank goodness I put an end to that trend!!

Was always thin until teaching. Stressful job, eating sugar for energy, then go fat! Lost weight, but the cycle continued with stressful jobs. I tend to eat more when I am doing a job I hate :-(

I am a stay at home mom now, and I'm trying to NOT overeat...I love my new "job" but...being home all day can get tedious.