What made you fat?

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  • baileysellick
    baileysellick Posts: 6 Member
    As soon as I finished my last competitive wrestling season, I started eating the things I had deprived myself of all those years. The result was a weight gain of about 60 pounds.
  • wackadoodle87
    wackadoodle87 Posts: 24 Member
    Pizza and chips and cheese I literally lived on them for 3 years too yummy now I can't even enjoy a pizza taste horrible since changing my diet a few months back :)
  • LiamProctor
    LiamProctor Posts: 19 Member
    Binge eating and drinking fizzy drinks. if my metabolism wasn't as good as it is i would have been in a terrible situation.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Whatever it was, it wasn't my fault
  • shakenthenubake
    shakenthenubake Posts: 1 Member
    The last time I was at a healthy weight was when I was dating my college boyfriend in 2009. We broke up - was extremely nasty, he was a liar and a cheat - and I used alcohol and nachos to feel better.

    6 years later I am engaged to a wonderful man and much better about drinking alcohol, but we are both lazy and enjoy computer gaming and pizza. I finished physician assistant school in August 2014 about 40 pounds heavier than I started (over a 2 year period) and I am getting married in December.

    I am here to get back on track and to hell with excuses this time. I don't have PA school to blame, I don't have a crappy boyfriend to blame, it is time for me to do me.
  • 50452
    50452 Posts: 170 Member
    I have struggled with my weigh my entire life. But I did get to a healthy weight with proper eating and rigorous workouts. Then...

    I turned 40
    Quit smoking
    Suffered a significant back injury
    Diagnosed with adult onset asthma
    Diagnosed with Meniere's disease

    Ta-dah!

    I've gained 50 lbs.

    Oh, and I eat more than I burn. :p
  • paulaviki
    paulaviki Posts: 678 Member
    edited March 2015
    Eating too much delicious food, being lazy/doing no exercise and an underactive thyroid. A trio of things guaranteed to mean fat!
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    mrsjb1984 wrote: »
    An accident at 19. The 11 following years having 30+ operations and being on and off crutches. Have been in wheelchair nearly 3 years now. Im 30.

    That's really tough and I feel for you. We are here if you need us!
  • LittleNell107
    LittleNell107 Posts: 71 Member
    Being a very active recreational ballet dancer, and runner, up to age 37 - then injury, and surgery to fix the injury, stopped me in my tracks and made me virtually immobile while I recovered... BUT I forgot to stop eating at my pre-injury levels - hey presto... 2 stone weight gain.

    So, basically... eating too much, moving too little (of course!).
  • virelay129
    virelay129 Posts: 43 Member
    Oh I've got all kinds of people and things to place the blame on.

    My mother/my childhood and her lack of teaching me proper eating habits. etc.
    My childhood...dear goodness, lets never go back there.
    My marriage, my job, my emotions, depression, weight gain, lack of will power, etc.

    But really it was me not wanting to say no. A lying "non-fiction" author once said, "Every addiction is the conscious decision to say yes or no." No matter the source, it's still true.

    It was me....not saying no. I take responsibility for the past, but I also take responsibility for my future. As well as my sons. I'm hoping he'll thank me one day. :)
  • otheliemoor
    otheliemoor Posts: 50 Member
    edited March 2015
    When I was 18-24 I lived in a one room apartment that didn't have a working freezer or oven. In addition it was in the middle of town with take away options all around. So I ate to much.

    When I moved to somewhere with a kitchen those bad habits stayed with me for another 4 years before I started cooking food and eating regular meals.
  • Wiseandcurious
    Wiseandcurious Posts: 730 Member
    Eating a little too much for a long time.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    40 years of carb abuse.
  • bfrance
    bfrance Posts: 23 Member
    brownies, cake, fried shrimp, cookies, donuts, In N Out, fried fish, candy, apple pie with ice cream, bagels with cream cheese and thick bacon, milkshakes, etc.
  • Delilahhhhhh
    Delilahhhhhh Posts: 477 Member
    Far to many nights doing this.
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  • Rashanti1
    Rashanti1 Posts: 108 Member
    For me it started when my uncle used to literally by me all sorts of candy every day along with a 1 liter of soda. Also my mom, being from the south, cooked fried chicken A LOT. All of that plus little to no knowledge about diet or nutrition at time along with eating anything I wanted whenever I wanted.
  • HumboldtFred
    HumboldtFred Posts: 159 Member
    I made poor decisions.
  • SteveMFP123
    SteveMFP123 Posts: 298 Member
    Laziness and greed.
  • pineappledreams32
    pineappledreams32 Posts: 24 Member
    getting out of high school and no longer be as active like with sports like i use to then not watching what i eat, back then i could eat a cake and not gain a thing with all the sports. then i just got careless and yup here i am today 80lbs heavier and trying to become a healthier me..
  • opalsqueak007
    opalsqueak007 Posts: 433 Member
    Drinking a lot of alcohol for 25 years and eating junk afterwards.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Lying manufacturers and their inaccurately reported nutritional information made me fat.

    I wish the USDA would make manufacturers honest!
  • thursdayswoman
    thursdayswoman Posts: 60 Member
    Graduate school. Food was always an emotional thing for me, but until graduate school I managed to stay both physically fit and a healthy weight. And then I went to graduate school, and doing anything except studying-reading-writing seemed somehow like a waste of time. And then there was the emotional eating that went through the roof. And straight to my butt.
  • UrnAsh_
    UrnAsh_ Posts: 242 Member
    Wendy's, alcohol, pizza
    Bad habits
  • SonofNorthernDarkness
    SonofNorthernDarkness Posts: 64 Member
    Trying to cover up the thoughts of killing yourself with food
  • Rosie5151
    Rosie5151 Posts: 57 Member
    Is this a trick question? LOL Here is the anwser... hand to food, food to mouth... I take all the blame for my fatness..I have to , no one else fed me. :smiley:
  • angelgreathouse9
    angelgreathouse9 Posts: 103 Member
    Originally got fat when I was a child right after my parents divorced, got it under control as a teen, but didn't know nutrition and ballooned up the minute I moved out on my own being lazy and eating crap, I think I have finally figured it out now... I hope.
  • aemw93
    aemw93 Posts: 134 Member
    I was never fat, thank god for my metabolism, but my parents didn't have restrictions on what I could eat or when so I developed very unhealthy eating habits! Chocolate for breakfast? Sure. 3 bags of crisps in one sitting? Knock yourself out. It was a food free-for-all :p
  • zira91
    zira91 Posts: 670 Member
    cakes.. lots and lots of it..

  • sunlovdove445
    sunlovdove445 Posts: 13 Member
    Losingthedamnweight wrote: »
    vividii wrote: »
    Getting a car. Prior to getting a car, I underestimated how much exercise I got just getting places, even with taking public transportation. Driving everywhere and not adjusting how I ate had a big impact on my weight.

    Getting a car all those years ago definitely contributed to my fatness. Before, i would think "Mcdonalds' sounds good. But i don't wanna take a bus and then transfer and then come back. Thats a long trip. And i'm not gonna walk 3 miles! I'll just get it later".

    After i got a car "hey. It'll be a 20 minute round trip and i don't even have to use my legs!" Fatness came easy

    Definitely same for me. I had to bike to get to nearest food joint and that always deterred me. As soon as I got a car though, the drive in at Wendy's was always an option! #2, medium fry and a few other things every week to binge on. Oh and I got no exercise.
  • runnrchic
    runnrchic Posts: 130 Member
    Thinking I could eat whatever I wanted, because I run lots of miles. You can't out train a bad diet.

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