What was your main downfall when it came to packing on the pounds?

Clo747
Clo747 Posts: 112 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
WINE! Oh dear, I really lent on the bottle in hard times. I thought I was making myself feel better, but it really did me no favours. And it also made believe I could eat whatever I want and stay the same weight. Wine, it turns out, is bad at math. :s
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  • mburgess458
    mburgess458 Posts: 480 Member
    edited June 2015
    Definitely eating at night. Like another meal or two after going to sleep, not just the timing of eating my regular meals.
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    Ditto everything OP said except it was beer.
  • JohnBarth
    JohnBarth Posts: 672 Member
    Laziness. It's so much easier to sleep in rather than get up to exercise. It's so much easier for my wife to stop somewhere and pick up dinner via carry out or drive through than it is to cook.

    Lazy, pure and simple. Fortunately, those days are behind us!
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Probably milk and corn chips.

    I could easily go through about 1200 calories of milk while eating a bag of chips with homemade salsa and really not even feel full.
  • GreenValli
    GreenValli Posts: 1,054 Member
    Food! Sweet things, salty things, and crunchy things. I am amazed sometimes now when I realize I don't have as much of an appetite as I used to.

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Being way too sedentary and lack of moderation when it came to serving sizes.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    eating.

    and eating and eating and eating and eating and not moving and eating more.
  • luisgerry16
    luisgerry16 Posts: 10 Member
    Laziness and a love for everything sweet. It's easier to lay on your couch and eat a whole bag of oreos while watching your favorite show than to cook a healthy meal and go to the gym for an hour and a half.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Too many calories. Mostly in the form of Dr. Pepper.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    A complete disregard and ignorance of the calories I was consuming compared to what I actually needed.

    In other words, I ate too many calories.
  • jessicapk
    jessicapk Posts: 574 Member
    Coke, Dr. Pepper, and gooey cheesy foods. General laziness, as well.
  • richardositosanchez
    richardositosanchez Posts: 260 Member
    Eating lots and lots of bread, chips (and I mean the entire bag), eating lots of sugary things. And laziness as well.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    edited June 2015
    Sweets were (and still can be) my biggest downfall. I was never one to limit portions. Instead of one Krispy Kreme donut, I might eat 3 or 4 in one afternoon. Instead of 1 or 2 servings of Froot Loops, I might eat half the box or more while watching a movie. I used to drink soda like others drink water. 2 or 3 large pieces of pizza. Large ice cream servings. 10 Oreos or more at a time....

    Much of it was mindless grazing. I still fight that habit. Even though I had a ginormous breakfast today (over 500 calories, was trying to see if I had a lot of my daily fat/protein in the a.m. if it would help me overcome the afternoon munchies that always get me. Nope.) I still want to munch.

    It's a hard habit to break....I haven't broken it yet though I'm trying to make more nutrient dense / satiating choices....
  • crazyjerseygirl
    crazyjerseygirl Posts: 1,252 Member
    A cross between not believing in myself and wanting to believe hype over what I knew was scientifically sound.

    Very embarrassed to admit that :/
  • juliebowman4
    juliebowman4 Posts: 784 Member
    I substituted any and all food for filthy rotten cigarettes.
    Plus an attitude of "It's better to be 20-30lbs overweight than be a smoker"
    Plus holding the couch down as if it would escape while I binged on Orange Is The New Black and Doritos. And cookies. And pizza. And milkshakes. And McD's.
    Friday's became known as "Poutine Day" and Saturdays were fish and chip day. In one sitting I could easily consume 4000cal. (After already consuming around 3000-4000cal through the day)

    My entire life has been a series of overindulgence of things that I believe make me feel good.
    One substance at a time.....I'm learning to live without some (alcohol, cocaine, codeine, nicotine, marihuana, assortment of other pills) and learning to moderate others (shopping, food,)

    Why oh why doesn't my brain get off on exercise?!
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    alcohol
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  • FullofTrixie
    FullofTrixie Posts: 41 Member
    Wine and cheese and crackers and bread. That is my favorite meal but a loaf of bread in one sitting with s bottle of wine and a pound of cheese is not good for the waistline
  • soozquu
    soozquu Posts: 66 Member
    Pizza and ice cream and inactivity.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    juliebowman4 wrote: »
    Why oh why doesn't my brain get off on exercise?!

    it took a long time, but mine does now! LOL! (Things I never thought I'd say....)
  • Winterlover123
    Winterlover123 Posts: 352 Member
    Ex bf would bring McDonald's home for lunch and dinner as well as I slept way too much. Ate stupid amounts of food and slept all night and most of the day. Lazy.
  • jessilee119
    jessilee119 Posts: 444 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    Being way too sedentary and lack of moderation when it came to serving sizes.

    Ditto. It's crazy how in high school it didn't matter what I ate because I was at least active enough to keep it off, and even though I ate whatever, I didn't eat too much. That all changed as the years went on...

  • juliebowman4
    juliebowman4 Posts: 784 Member
    FullofTrixie wrote: »
    Wine and cheese and crackers and bread. That is my favorite meal but a loaf of bread in one sitting with s bottle of wine and a pound of cheese is not good for the waistline

    Bread and cheese.......mmmmm......

  • terrenceobrien1
    terrenceobrien1 Posts: 22 Member
    Alcohol abuse and its associated depression halted any progress. I would drink heavily and eat heavily, then pass out. I would wake hung over and eat junk. I would get bouts of depression from alcohol and eat heavy fatty foods for temporary relief of the symptoms. I lived off of pizza for weeks at a time. Oh, the stacks of pizza boxes!

    I quit alcohol nearly six months ago. Now eating plant based and everything is better!
  • Elle_Bronwyn15
    Elle_Bronwyn15 Posts: 296 Member
    Besides my hormonal issues making gaining weight VERY EASY (pcos and a pituitary Adenoma)...my downfall has always been eating the wrong foods or too much of them, and then starving other days...It has damaged my metabolism but I am working to fix that.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    Sedentary days, no decrease in calories consumed. Alcohol. Going from eating almost everything homemade to eating out 5+ times a week.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I graduated college and took a desk job and started a family. I was always very active and had a 6 pack up until I was about 30...I think I might have started getting a bit of a pooch at 28 or 29, but not biggie. @ 30 I bought a car and started working a desk job that included about a gazillion hours and tons of travel...I packed on about 50 Lbs + in 8 years.
  • Wiseandcurious
    Wiseandcurious Posts: 730 Member
    Ignorance.

    I thought the only way to lose was to diet and eat way less than usual and avoid some foods. That was really hard and felt all wrong when I tried it once so I didn't do it.

    I thought a fat girl doesn't have any muscles and it would take hours and hours of hard exercise to burn fat or train muscle and I would never be able to do any significant exercise with my body anyway. So I didn't exercise.

    I thought being fat and weak, I would kill myself if I tried learning a new sport like cycling or ice skating, so I didn't.

    Ignorance is not bliss, ignorance and fear are just a mire that keeps you down.

    Then I came here to try the calorie counting tool, on the off chance that it might help. Then I read this thread in the "getting started" forum, and a bunch of posts by some clever helpful floks on here, and the studies and articles they linked, and then it was *easy*. Oh, up and down and with the occasional stall, but the trend is down and my fitness level keeps going up. I feel reborn. And much better educated about the whole thing.
  • Clo747
    Clo747 Posts: 112 Member
    juliebowman4 wrote: »
    FullofTrixie wrote: »
    Wine and cheese and crackers and bread. That is my favorite meal but a loaf of bread in one sitting with s bottle of wine and a pound of cheese is not good for the waistline

    Bread and cheese.......mmmmm......

    Yes! I'm avoiding all these things for the moment because I really can't contain myself.



  • erockem
    erockem Posts: 278 Member
    My wife. Best cook ever.....
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