Why are you fat?

Was an overweight child, then started dieting when I was 11. Lost weight gradually but then got obsessive in my early teens and developed anorexia. Recovered (mostly) and gained weight back.. too much weight. Basically I never developed a healthy relationship with food my entire life! I have trouble knowing when I'm actually hungry, and tend to overeat or undereat, but never "normal" eat. I'm working on getting better at knowing when I'm actually hungry.

My dad said, "Food likes me - every time I open my mouth it wants to jump in." :L

first time I gained weight was due to burning myself out by binge drinking every weekend in college, which stopped my workouts and also being hungover so much all I ever wanted to eat was comfort and/or "easy" food.

this most recent gain was due to me going through a deep depression (still am but at least i'm taking control of my weight again). I was ordering a XL pizza (plus side orders) almost every single DAY because it was the only joy I could get out of life. I gained 60 pounds in 6 months. Now I'm on the loooooong journey back to being slim again. Oy.

Same here.

I've been pregnant twice, each time putting on about 5 stone, of course I was already bigger to start with the second time round so I went up to 17 and a half stone ... I can't blame cravings either because what I craved most was ice cubes. I like food .... couldn't have a cup of tea without a slice of cake or biscuits and couldn't eat just 2 biscuits when there was a whole pack looking at me! Didn't know how to watch a film without doing an hand to mouth motion with take away, popcorn And chocolate.I'm actually supprised I've never been bigger, I could easily eat 4 american muffins followed my take away and a family bag of crisps in one sittin ... I once ate 8 donuts in one go. And I didn't exercise ... i only exercised when I was 'dieting' otherwise it just was not part of my routine ... now I make time for it and enjoy looking after and valuing myself more .... rather than just being the mum and the fiancee .... I make 'ME' time where for an hour or so I'm just simply Louise

I like food and food likes to hang around me. Quite literally.

takeaways taste nice and using fri sat sun as and excuse to binge on biscuits

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I have always been a bored-eater, a sad-eater, a mad-eater, and every other bad-eater you can think of! I have also always had a big issue with sweets ...

I had to sit here and think for awhile on how to respond. All my life I have always thought I was fat. As a 2nd grader, we would weigh ourselves. In highschool I was tiny (but at the time thought I was fat). Good ole college I partied like a rock star to the point of a near death car accident. My parent's shipped my butt from college to a community college close to them, where I continued to party like a rock star, which of course, fast food on the way home to 'sober up'. Ok then....nursing school meant, all work, no play, but I continued to party like a rock star and graduated. At some point I decided I didn't care what people thought of me and just lived life, not worrying if I was fat. And like Oprah, up and down and up and down with the weight. Got married! I was tiny then back in 2006. From 2006 to 2012 I slowly gained and or loss 32 pounds. So that's about 5.3 pounds a year, sneaks up on you. Boom, my start date was May 31, 2012 secondary to a work breakroom Kodak from a company softball game. I looked in shock, when did I get fat? What the heck? So, ended up dropping 20 pounds from May 2012 to January 2013. Maintained for some months, then July 2013 to January 2014 I slowly gained it all back (lots of life issues) and am again, losing. Down 7 pounds and feel great.

So, long story short, why am I fat? Life, life got in the way...
Day by day, meal my meal, I'm gonna get real as a banana peel....:bigsmile:

I have always been a bored-eater, a sad-eater, a mad-eater, and every other bad-eater you can think of! I have also always had a big issue with sweets ...

Seriously, all of this. And especially the bored-eater thing. It doesn't help that my fridge/kitchen is always stocked full of sweets and greasy leftovers (I don't live alone) so when I get bored and wander into the kitchen...well, nothing good comes out of it.

And don't get me started on sweets. There's currently a Halloween-sized bowl of candy sitting in my living room because the people I live with are jerks and it's torture walking past. It's the really good candy, too. Ugh. I can't wait to get y own place.

I'M NOT FAT, I'M BIG BONED!

I've never been the skinniest, but I have Hashimoto's that went undiagnosed for a long time as I just packed on weight because of it. Also, I have to "blame" a small amount on my 3 kids :P

but mainly it"s the hashi"s fault! Thanks to the hashi it really doesn"t matter how much or little i eat, until my thyroid hormones are optimal, i won't lose, or will lose VERY little.

I blame Obama

I live to eat! Hah..

I use to be well within my healthy BMI but even then I was married to someone who constantly put me down so I didn't even recognize that I looked perfectly fine, I thought I was fat then! When that relationship ended and I got into a relationship with someone who made me feel like a human and didn't monitor my eating habits, I went wild.. went from no soda or fast food in years to eating everything in sight. I clearly should have made better, rational choices in both situations. (perhaps marrying an idiot was my first bad choice? Hmm.)

Then I had a baby and although I only gained 20 lbs with that, I went into pregnancy probably 40 lbs too heavy and I did end up with a decent amount of flab left over. I had gestational diabetes so I was on a restricted diet the later half of my pregnancy.. once I was cleared to be free of it, again, wild eating.. see a pattern here? Ugh.

I thought you could measure how healthy a food was by how good it tasted......I was wrong