What made you fat?

Eating all the food my kids don't finish... and all the snacks after they went to bed. Stay at home parenting is tough on the waistline if you're not careful!

I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted and didn't exercise at all. I was eating mindlessly to deal with stress and issues in my life instead of dealing with them the right way and ate when I was bored.

Consistently eating a ludicrous amount of extraordinarily high calorie foods far to frequently and over a long period of time.

Beer.
It’s easy to drink a pound’s worth of calories in beer in a week.

Eating too much, lack of dedication and laziness.

Bluebell Christmas cookie ice cream

Obviously eating too much, but the question is what caused me to stop caring about it.

That answer is depression. Severe depression. As in not wanting to leave bed, not caring about anything, and wanting to just die. So I wasn't cooking and I wasn't active. I ate too much fast food, drank too much soda, and lived on just whatever I wanted because "who cares how I feel and look and I don't deserve to be happy and healthy."

Ate all the “crap food” I wanted in my teens. Absolutely hated gym class so as soon as I was done with it- didn’t do it. But then I loved to ice skate. Pregnancy then came, to me,meant I couldn’t do that anymore. I gained so much weight, and since I hated exercise- I didn’t lose the baby weight- in fact I gained. Thyroid also became an issue after my son came. Things were stressful and I got a desk job- loved food! And turned to it for comfort. Just packed on the pounds over the years. - lack of exercise, eating lots, stress, and evidently just not caring about the weight(because family and financials were more important than how I looked- the health issues that were creeping in were just merely more *kitten* to deal with- go to the doc, get a pill, and keep moving.). And then when the opportunities came- just pure shame of my “athletic inabilities” was enough to even stop trying. (Think-“Ican’t do this so why try?” Or “I can’t do it so it’s a waste of time to even bother”) and then when I did try and was ready to give up there’s those thoughts of (“all he wants is an arm charm, *kitten* it” - which was only partially true or “ why am I doing this, shouldn’t I be accepted as I am?” Or “aren’t I good enough as I am?”- the ex telling me if I didn’t lose weight he’d find someone new didn’t help this (although he thought it was motivation)). Depression set in once the ex was gone (and the reasons why- I won’t say- were really triggers). And anxiety over being a single parent, didn’t help either. My weight took a back burner to what was going on in my life. Now I’m ready. I am accepted as I am. - current husband accepts me as I am, and is very loving and supportive. I am good enough as I am. But, this is for me- I want to look and feel better. I want to do fun activities instead of sitting on the sidelines. - sorry about the long post, but It was quite “therapeutic” to write it out. Thanks for asking the question!

etherealanwar wrote: »

I was put on anti-psychotic medications that caused my appetite to sky rocket. So, I started matching my 6'2" husbands (who was already eating too much for himself) portions and I gained 60 lbs in one year. I wish I would have noticed it sooner

same here, I was put on a whole slew of depression meds and gained 50 pounds in a year, I have lost about 35 of it but it has taken forever, I'm on track now to lose the rest but wish I had never taken so many meds, for me they didn't even help and just made me sicker

I have terribly weak physical appetite cues, strong mental appetite cues, a tendency to get ‘hungry’ when bored, and a low boredom threshold. Result: every day was binge eating day...

Excessive sugar consumption

I think alcohol had a lot to do with it, that and bad food choices plus lethargy.

Eating too much, especially carbs. Then came the yo-yo dieting.

So much takeaway and just being obsessed with trying out all the new restaurants. Snacking got out of hand and i was eating a couple of sweets at night at first next thing i was eating the whole jar:/

Hedonistic eating. Just not caring. Eating like I did when I played football burning 5k calories a day...... hmmm....