What made you fat?
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Being couch potato .. ate too many sugar filled stuff.1
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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.1
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Not what but who... ME. I just plain ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.6
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I made me fat, my choices.6
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Childhood eating issues that were the result of being an extremely picky eater and having family that didn't understand I wasn't just being stubborn. Their pressure taught me to eat as much as I possibly could when there was food I liked, because I didn't know when the next meal I could eat would come. Take that to adulthood, when I could eat whatever I wanted, and it ain't pretty.6
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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.1
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Pop, the lack of portion control, too much grazing or eating out of boredom, alcohol, laziness.1
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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.4
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Things that contributed:
I walked to work and lived in a 5 story house and I worked 2 jobs. When I moved from that house to a one story condo I gained some weight. Then I left my second job, gained a bit more. I finally quit all my jobs and moved out of state and became essentially a housewife. I am also disabled and about when I moved here my ankles failed on me and I had to have surgery so I went from being active to totally sedentary.
Now I am trying to reverse all the damage done. I'm about 82 pounds down so far with 40 to go8 -
eating more calories than my body burned1
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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!4
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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.1 -
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 ate1 -
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!1 -
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.2 -
Food3
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I was bitten by a radioactive adipocyte.14
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booze0
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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.2
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A lifetime of bad decisions. Consistently eating WAY too much of the wrong (read: high calorie, low nutritional value) foods and not moving enough. I was super morbidly obese. Make that super DUPER morbidly obese. I also ate my feelings. Something to celebrate? Food and booze! Sad? Lonely? Depressed? Angry? Meh? Food and/or booze! Bored? Hey! There's your old friend food!5
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