Who made you become overweight?

My mother has always been pretty overweight, so healthy eating habits weren't a part of growing up. I was always a chubby kid, haven't been under 200lbs since I was maybe 13. Gladly even though I still struggle with trying to lose weight, all three of my kids are healthy and within a normal weight range for their heights and ages. My middle one is even kinda skinny. I make sure they play a lot and have healthy choices to eat. I don't "blame" my mom for raising me unhealthily, but I darn sure don't want my kids having the same struggles in life!

Me, myself, and I

Me. My parents are healthy individuals. I gained weight after I got married.

OH THAT RIGHT.


IT'S THE HUSBAND who got me fat. JK.

Big Pasta, Big Ice Cream, and Big Bread.

i am the victim of three cartels and their conspiracies.

ETA - also, maybe Big Potato Chip. they should be implicated as well.

Yourself.

Cheezus.

I've been overweight since I was 9. I don't know why I was as a kid when my sister wasn't, I played outside all the time, and we didn't have much junk in the house.
I know why I stayed overweight as an adult though. Lazy and too much food. That'll do it.

I developed Hypothyroidism. That caused the weight gain. Come May, it will be two years since that was pronounced on me. I have gone to the gym 5 days a week since. I have gone from 23% body fat to 10-11% body fat. I have worked very hard to look and feel better.

I don't want to die. Thus, I log my food and work out several times a week.

So, to answer the question: My body made me fat. I am making me lean.

Well I was a fat child, so I can blame my parents for not teaching me moderation (they pretty much let me buy all the junk I wanted and eat what I wanted when I wanted). But yeah, it's my fault for not trying moderation when I left the house (although 18 years later I still snack all the time).

Mr Fast Food

My parents knew little about proper nutrition. It's kind of shocking to think of the amount of sugar, lard, white flour and trans fats I ingested as a child. But, I was not overweight as a child, teenager or young adult, so blaming my parents doesn't seem fair.

I can't blame my children, since again, I wasn't overweight after they were born or while raising them.

I suppose I could blame my husband for being so darn perfect (for me) that I chose to give up my exercise time to spend more time hanging with him. But that hardly seems fair either, since he never asked me to do this and I'm an adult.

I guess that just leaves me. I made the choice to stop exercising regularly and continue eating and drinking as if I was. So the blame is all mine.

I am responsible for my eating choices, but my family are food rewarders - we like to make ourselves happy with delicious food. I'm learning to incorporate those treats into a calorie-counted diet.

I've never really been all that overweight, but it was me that got me to a weight I was unhappy at.

However, I answered this question because it made me think of my cousin. She was raised by her grandparents in the hills of West Virginia (like...in a holler, that's how backcountry it was) and they literally forced her to eat every single morsel on her overfilled plate. So, she was always overweight. Once she went off on her own, she'd developed a dependence on food. By the time she was in her 30's, she was over 300 lbs and bedridden because of fibromyalgia and other health issues. She died a couple years ago, but it was her that made me stop myself from judging people for being obese. Yeah, most obese people are to blame for their weight, and she was as well, but you don't know what happened in someone's life until you know.

I have to say it was not only me. as a kid i was forced to eat what the family cooked, that includes my grandmas, grandpas from both sides, aunts, my mum, my dad. if i did not eat what they cooked they acted as being hurt, or i got bullied that I'm being picky. as a child you can't choose too much. it resulted in me being fat, i was 90lbs by the age of 10.
when i was referred to a dietitian i remember she talked about the importance of healthy eating and i wanted to be healthy yes. then we went home with my mum from the nurse and it was all forgotten and my mum continued to cook the fatty, heavy foods and label the nurse "unreasonable, stupid, 'doesn't know anything', 'look at her she is not thin herself so why preaching'". she ignored everything the dietitian said and never bothered to change anything. i grew up thinking that ignoring what a loved one wants/needs is a normal thing and as an adult i heard how uneducated and no-mannered i am. ugh.
this is part of the reason i do not live at home from the age of 19. forcing me to do something, not just the eating but gardening/repairing/building around the house is something i don't like (i mean the forcing i don't like). nowadays when i go to my family's home, i prepare my mind beforehand for the verbal abuse i will get or i simply obey by the rules and pretend it is how i like to live, for that period until i am back to my own home.

having said that as an adult its my fault that i stayed fat and programming my mind for a new way of thinking is rather difficult as i had bad habits for the first 19years.