Why are you fat?

I am fat because I ate too much - and exercised too little....... that is the reality of it - the moment I started managing my portions and got my butt of the couch I started shedding the weight!

Frankly blaming it on anything else is not being truthful about the real underlying problem that needed to be addressed....

Frankly, there are plenty of medical issues that can directly contribute to weight gain. Just because you may not have experienced it does not mean that somebody isn't addressing an underlying problem, often certain medications or health issues can be the problem itself - e.g. thyroid issues, contraceptive injections, PCOS.

I personally exercised too little, and whilst I didn't eat much in the way of quantity, I ate calorific foods. Furthermore, I also have PCOS which can accelerate fat storage, IR and weight gain - although I believe that anybody eating what I ate would have gained a lot of weight

I agree with the above, and have PCOS too.

My weight went on through emotional eating/stress eating ( big portions of the wrong foods), but the PCSO makes it hard to get it back off again. I really do have to go to extreams to get it moving.

I'm fat because my parents are fat, and we were quite poor so I was fed processed junk food as a child, coupled with depression, emotional eating, PCOS, and IR.

I'm fat because I was never taught proper nutrition in my athletic days. As a athlete growing up I was told to eat a lot for energy. And I did. No one never told me that once I slowed down from playing sports that I would have to make a huge change in my eating habits. When I was pregnant I thought I was entitled to eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and how much I wanted. I never realized that it would be hard to lose because the rule of thumb was just breast feed and it will fall off...NOT!! I also didn't know that when I had my last two children that I wouldn't snap back like I did with my 1st....well not really snap back but I lost a greater amount with my 1st pregnancy than my last two. So I ended up 324 freakin pounds!!

Back then when I gained my weight it wasn't about emotional eating. I just ate because I needed to/wanted to. Now that I'm an adult, I now realize that presently I find myself wanting to eat at times when I'm feeling like I'm not in control with certain situations but then I realize quickly that I am in control of what I put in my mouth so I don't sabotage myself.

I am being very proactive in my weight loss journey because for so long I didn't have a clue. I refuse to be ignorant to being healthy no longer. I am actively teaching my children the things that no one thought important to teach me. I'm breaking the cycle.

I am fat because after having the kids I started eating when I was bored. I'd do the house work then have a sit down and a cuppa and some biscuits. The children would have a sleep and I'd put my feet up and have some tea and a choccie. We'd go out for a walk and rather than walk for the sake of it the shop would be the destination and a choccie bar the reward. That combined with the mirena coil did nothing for my waistline!

I wor part time during the day now and when im at homeI exercise when I have a break rather than put my feet up and watch tv. I enjoy it, I feel better for it. I find it also curbs my appetite and gives me more energy. Less sitting down less eating rubbish and if i want something naughty I work out and 'earn' it!!

I am fat because I have a skewed version of what I should look like. I grew up being told that there is no reason I should ever weigh more than 125lbs unless I was preggo. I spent the majority of the last 20 some odd years trying doing whatever I had to to get to that point and so I would diet/starve/exercise like crazy to a certain point then break down and give up because the results never came. At my lowest point I was a size 4-6 and weighed 132 lbs and still wasn't happy about it (I'm 5'9"). At one point I cried to my dog with ice cream in my hand that at least he would still love me- he doesn't care that I'm fat he's just a freakin' dog. I'm am now learning (with a LOT of help from MFP and a trainer that really cares this time) that maybe more than just a weight issue I am dealing with some body dysmorphic dysfunction.

Last night I went to dinner with a couple of super close friends. They are sweethearts really - but beautiful AND tiny (A couple of weeks ago when we went out some guy had the b**** to ask if I was their bodyguard- I mean seriously?) Later in the evening I was talking to my husband (who is super supportive by the way) how hard it is to have friends who look like that and I guess I have a choice-- I can either be the fat chick or the chick that looks like she can beat the SH** out of everybody because of the way my body is starting to change due to strength training (not to mention the shear amount I'm lifting- it's strange).

So- I'm still struggling because I know I'll never be the "textbook" thin girl, and I'm also struggling because what I want isn't happening fast enough. I get very frustrated because of the amount of work I do and it seems everyone else around me looks awesome, pats me on the back, then goes on about the business of eating and drinking whatever they want and still looks awesome. It does take work for me as well as some blinders on to just keep on truckin' and not give up and start talking to the dog again.

I'm fatter..beacuse I have a huge appetite, I can't control my portion size, add that to 12 weeks sitting on the couch with torn ankle tendons and ligaments and a broken fiblua, then 2 months in an orthopedic boot, and quitting smoking. and here I am at my highest weight ever.

OUCH! Hope all is healed up and better now.

Te first time I was overweight was because I was an emotional eater and very depressed. I lived with very controlling parents who didn't support my desire to be active and actually tried to keep me from leaving the house... Even for positive things. Io was depressed and ate because of it. Eventually I moved away from them and lost all the weight.

The second time I gained weight was manly because I continued to eat the same as before but hurt my lower back and couldn't run or jump or even walk for about a year. Instead of finding alternatives like swimming ( I was a big runner before ) I did nothing and gained 35lbs! Now I'm determined to loose it and found the low impact elliptical :-) my back is also better so I can do short 10 min jogs and a bit longer walks. I really need to get a bike already.

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I'm overweight because I denied the fact that I was getting older and continued to eat like a teenager. I am also an emotional eater, in college I drank away my problems then when I matured from that I ate them. For a while it didn't effect me becuase I had a physical job (waitressing) which helped keep the lbs down, and my body was still in that young stage where it can eat anything.

I ignored the changes in my body and the fact that my desk job took away my physical activity. When I couldn't fit into the wedding dress I bought a few months prior (a year ago now, for my wedding in October) I realized I needed to match my diet to my age. I'm not really that old, or that overweight, but in that I am lucky I noticed when I did.

Now that I've started changing my diet and exercising more I've found I'm happier, more energetic and less cranky.

Between three pregnancies with having hypothyroidism I gained at least 50 lbs with each child after being a thin child, a divorce thrown in there and lots of emotional eating there you have it. I cant help the weight gain with the pregnancies the divorce is done and over and Im remarried happily so now I have to learn to deal with the emotional psychological issues to reverse and the inactive thyroid makes losing weight harder however not impossible because I lost 65 lbs between my 2nd and 3rd child