What made you fat?

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  • redfish33
    redfish33 Posts: 6 Member
    edited February 2019
    Like others have said: years of eating just a few hundred more calories than I burn a day. Letting my activity dwindle down slowly to nothing. Creeping alcohol - from one drink every now and then, up to a couple of beers/glasses of wine after work daily. Not taking care of myself emotionally - and physically - until the numbers on the scale got too uncomfortable to live with, and the wake up call of borderline HBP at my last doctor's visit. Down almost 20 pounds from my highest weight (which I never recorded here...too embarrassing). Just that small loss led to lower BP, the uncomfortable reflux is gone, and my mood/sleep is starting to improve. Mindful eating, cutting out most sugar, and forgiving myself for days that I don't eat the "right" way are slowly leading me to a healthy relationship with food. Exercise was never the problem, just laziness from that side of the equation.
  • kali31337
    kali31337 Posts: 1,048 Member
    Prioritizing the fun instead of what I should be doing (happy hour, going out to eat ALL of the time, fast food for hangovers).

    Also having an ex who LOVED to cook and because he was skinny, he didn't think about the calories in the food he was making and tried to show his love for me with food. After we broke up, I had ZERO skills in the kitchen so I turned to easy delivery or freezer meals. After 3 years of singledom, I'm finally figuring what seriously works for my new life...
  • swirlybee
    swirlybee Posts: 497 Member
    I changed jobs about a year and a half ago and I got more sedentary. At my last job at least I was able to walk around a little bit and even walk to lunch. Now I'm in the middle of a business park where I can't even walk anywhere, so I got a little less active and started eating a little bit more. The weight creeped up slowly.
  • BaVIP073
    BaVIP073 Posts: 22 Member
    Too much booze and baked goods. I am a good baker and enjoy it. What I have learned to do is to continue baking, but share the majority of what I bake with others. That, and I was inconstant about working out. Still working on that last part.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I love food, I find it pleasurable, so I ate a lot because I enjoyed it. I'm also lazy, so I didn't move enough to burn all the food I was enjoying. I still find pleasure in food, but I have to make certain sacrifices and be more mindful to be able to enjoy it without the drawbacks. That includes increasing my activity level to be able to eat more, and being wiser with my calories by not wasting them on things I don't like much.
  • Opalescent_Topaz
    Opalescent_Topaz Posts: 132 Member
    I wasn't paying attention to my body. I had a job I hated and then I got really sick so I got distracted. But, those are the underlying issues. I really just ate more than my body was burning.
  • lx1x
    lx1x Posts: 38,330 Member
    Being couch potato .. ate too many sugar filled stuff.
  • whatalazyidiot
    whatalazyidiot Posts: 343 Member
    Eating too much, not being active at all. What led me to eat so much is a combination of compulsive overeating, always going for fast food instead of cooking, stress eating, a bunch of other factors. I started gaining almost immediately after high school, which is when my habits changed.
  • azzeazsaleh5429
    azzeazsaleh5429 Posts: 77 Member
    I was eating cake and cold stone a lot during a 2 month period and put on 15lbs as a result making me 70lbs overweight. It doesnt take much of lousy eating to get up there.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    Pop, the lack of portion control, too much grazing or eating out of boredom, alcohol, laziness.
  • steelergirl314
    steelergirl314 Posts: 17 Member
    Depression and eating my emotions... Happy day/celebration? EAT! Sad day/bad news? EAT! I knew what I was doing and just didn't care.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    eating more calories than my body burned
  • amring
    amring Posts: 21 Member
    Happy marriage - my husband introduced the concept of breakfast lunch dinner evening and night snack. Before I only used to have a small lunch and dinner!
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,759 Member
    I'm not sure about when I was a kid but I was permanently cemented to my couch/computer desk in adulthood (except when doing the social *kitten* thing when I was on bbses) and eating lots of delivery food where whatever they brought was one serving. Whole pizzas, containers of chicken fried rice and ribs, some kind of pasta dish...not to mention all the yummy crispy chicken sandwiches and fries I'd get at select fast food restaurants. All in the same day.

    I knew I was overweight but it wasn't something I really cared about.
  • witchaywoman81
    witchaywoman81 Posts: 280 Member
    A LOT of different things, all boiling down to eating my calories than I burned. More specifically, though:

    - thinking of some foods as “forbidden,” then binging on them later. Lots of binging. Classifying foods as “good” and “bad.”
    - Eating out of boredom, emotional eating, etc.
    - eating scraps of food off my kids’ plates because I didn’t want to waste food.
    - Being brought up to clean your plate, eat foods I don’t like, etc.
    - Not keeping track of what I ate
  • brittlb07
    brittlb07 Posts: 313 Member
    1) Loving food made me about 5 pounds over weight
    2) Going through depression the last year made me 15 pounds over weight

    About 15 more pounds to get to my goal weight of 118. I know I can do it if I keep at it!
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    I was slightly underweight until I got type 1 diabetes (age 9). Immediately after diagnosis and treatment began, I gained 20 lbs. in the first month, doubled my weight in the first year, and tripled my weight within a few years. Granted, I was still young and growing, but it was much more growth outward than upward.

    It's a night and day difference and the cause of being overweight is very clear to me.
  • MurrayElliot
    MurrayElliot Posts: 17 Member
    Food
  • booze :D
  • DesireeLovesOrganic
    DesireeLovesOrganic Posts: 456 Member
    edited February 2019
    Active social life with too much booze and Happy Hour junk. I do fine when I stay at home! LOL Also, we love brunch. Oops.
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