What made you fat?

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  • vgnfarmer
    vgnfarmer Posts: 108 Member
    I have always been extremely active but finally started eating less and slowly lost weight through 2014. In February 2015 I decided to eat what and how much I wanted for a week just to see what happen "when left to my own devices" lol
    I logged everything and ended up 12,000 cal over goal for week. Sure I was eating more than I problably would overtime becaise I knew it was just for that week but my goodness! 3500 and 4000 cal days are nothing for me. Put that in with a 2500-3300 TDEE and duh. No wonder I've never been at a average BMI (ever, even as child) So long story short I was fat because I overate and you can't out train overeating.
    Plus my favorite food is Pizza....
  • Rashanti1
    Rashanti1 Posts: 108 Member
    I was a pretty small kid until I was in middle school. My uncle lived with us and spoiled me with junk food. I was drinking about 2 liters of soda a day plus all the candy that he was giving me. On top of that my mom would by us a bunch of junk when she went grocery shopping and she wasn't really monitoring what we ate at the time, so I would drink as little water as I could and as much pop and juice as I could. It progressed from there.
  • toriraeh
    toriraeh Posts: 105 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Meds led to a huge and sharp gain, then lifestyle aggravated it

    Same for me. I never realized that my meds helped me put on about 50lbs until my doc pointed it out, three years or so later. Granted, I ate like crap, but I literally put on about 40 lbs in a year. He changed my meds and within six months, without really changing my diet at all, I dropped 25lbs. Gained 15 back through eating like crap again and now I'm happily the lowest I've been in about 6 years. Still have about 25lbs to go, but I'm quite happy now. And I even had Mac and cheese for dinner and pizza for lunch :)
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    Sweets. And my husband :p No but seriously after leaving a very active job for a desk job years ago I never changed my eating habits.
    So I ate like I was still at the active job.

    Along with that I indulged in stuff I didn't eat earlier on in my life (I told myself I deserved it for being a responsible adult).

    Every time I started a wait loss journey it was all or nothing. I would jump straight into intense 2-5 hours of working out a day And only eating healthy small meals. I didn't track them but they were most definitely too few calories.

    When I would fail, because oh yes I would fail, I always piled on what I loss plus some. That was until I dieted my way up to the weight I was when I started here a month ago!
  • Malasaurus
    Malasaurus Posts: 6 Member
    My parents allowed me to request McDonalds for dinner every night and never eat vegetables. I became an overweight child, then an even more overweight teen... then I evened out in my mid-teens but it's been a process to stop eating the large portions I grew up on and to replace high calorie treats and meals with variety.
  • PrimroseFlower
    PrimroseFlower Posts: 110 Member
    Flab2Fab27 wrote: »
    Thought this said "what made you fart "... Never mind, then.
    Fiber one bars....every time. I blame it on the cat. :o
  • ljashley1952
    ljashley1952 Posts: 275 Member
    Laziness and getting out of the exercise habit. Early in marriage I indulged in too much of what we liked and not enough of what would be healthy to eat. Less activity and more carb and fat laden food made me fat. Now I'm constantly yoyoing trying to correct a lifetime of poor choices.
  • knt217
    knt217 Posts: 115 Member
    Me.
  • ncfitbit
    ncfitbit Posts: 1,058 Member
    Not being aware that all the little stuff can add up to a large number!
  • lalangela
    lalangela Posts: 23 Member
    Chemotherapy. I was within 5 pounds of my goal, one pant size, and cancer struck. The steroids they put me on caused my to pack on 45 pounds. It's been a battle, but 16 months after treatment ended, I'm finally losing weight again!
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    ShareenaFulton wrote: »
    Me. I definitely made me fat.

    Me too! :D
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    Satan, of course


    And eating way too much as well as being a lazy butt.

    :D
  • chubbard9
    chubbard9 Posts: 565 Member
    I think the biggest factor in my weight gain was due to emotional eating. My father passed away at the beginning of my senior year(I quit Cross Country, quit Track&Field, etc. I didn't "feel" like it anymore), and I turned to food... A lot of it. Definitely ate way more than was needed, and couldn't find it in me to really try to lose the weight. I blame CI, but losing my father caused a downward spiral for me that I am just FINALLY coming to terms with, six years later :( But now, I know my father would be proud of the efforts that I am making now(and how disappointed he probably would have been when I quit sports & activities in school)
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    MzShelleRenea wrote: »
    Swallowing too much . . . .

    :D
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    SwankyTomato wrote: »
    Eating out, cookies, and potato chips. Damn those Daisy girl scouts I bought cookies from yesterday...they were too cute...but I ate a whole sleeve of Thin Mints.

    I have no restraint around cookies and chips.
    They are a sly bunch aren't they? :(
  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    dyemysoul wrote: »
    I got married, became a full time mom of 2 boys(5-8) and started caring for my very sick father all in the same month, while still working part time. Along with gaining weight I also went a little cuckoo... Go figure. Took 6 years for me to finally find a balance... Thank God I finally did! I'm down 47lbs and only 27lbs to go. :D
    Yay!
  • Emily3907
    Emily3907 Posts: 1,461 Member
    edited May 2015
    I could blame it on so many things....bad relationship that led to marriage, his cheating and then divorce (all before the age of 21), too much alcohol (way too often), too much chipotle, too much ben and jerry's and way too much eating out. Oh and no exercise at all.

    But, ultimately, it was just me. No self control and in my darkest times not enough self esteem to care.
  • zeinmr
    zeinmr Posts: 79 Member
    carbs and carbs and carbs
  • dmiivanov
    dmiivanov Posts: 49 Member
    Milk... A gallon of whole milk a day..
  • shrinkingletters
    shrinkingletters Posts: 1,008 Member
    I won't say it made me fat, but it definitely put me over considering I used to be very athletic and in great shape: I dated a chef who also happened to be an abusive *kitten* for a few years, and during those three years two of my favorite people passed away, my mother fell ill, I was laid off from my job, and my younger sibling fell into drugs as a side effect of schizophrenia and poor guidance from his father.

    I was very depressed and for a while because of Chef Jerk, very well-fed. I put on about 20lbs and lost my athletic figure.

    I'm getting there, though. Things are much better, and I'm stronger.
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