What made you fat?
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Anxiety, Stress, comfort eating. Blood Pressure meds and Beta Blockers.0
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Excessive sugar consumption1
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Procrastination and not enough introspection. Years and years of bad eating and too many excuses not to hit the gym. High amount of carbs and fat like Ice Cream lol.0
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I think alcohol had a lot to do with it, that and bad food choices plus lethargy.0
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When I was younger, I overate to comfort myself. In hindsight, my family was unstable and my young mind perceived the instability. And then it just became a habit. And another habit I had was not being physically active. Since then, it has been a struggle to adopt new habits. I've lost weight successfully a couple times, but here I am preparing to lose it again. This time, I want to perfect maintenance.1
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Eating too much, especially carbs. Then came the yo-yo dieting.1
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This is going to be a bit dark but my answer is abuse.
Also me not controlling my eating habits and coping with food.
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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:/1
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I swear I dont think I have a full button. When I plan my food I do fine. Otherwise, I just dont think of the consequences. I have a very dysfunctional family also and got to the point who cares and overate but finally started caring about myself.4
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Hedonistic eating. Just not caring. Eating like I did when I played football burning 5k calories a day...... hmmm....3
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Obvously eating too much and not moving enough. I was already overweight and was going to have back fusions and needed to quit smoking so the bone would grow, it's less likely to do so as a smoker. I quit with the patch but had to stop that too so I quit it days before the first surgery. The hardware was too big for my body and spasms were bad enough I was coming off the table. I had to wait a year for the bone to grow to get the rods removed and spent most of that year in bed, didn't eat horrible foods but too much, I gained 50lbs. I've lost 100 and maintaining now.4
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Mindless eating and a desk job. So I started paying attention to what I ate and riding my bike again. Problem solved.1
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brenn24179 wrote: »I swear I dont think I have a full button. When I plan my food I do fine. Otherwise, I just dont think of the consequences. I have a very dysfunctional family also and got to the point who cares and overate but finally started caring about myself.
I also don't have a "full" switch normally. It's amazing how much I can eat... normally. But I found something interesting recently. I ate keto for a little more than a year and found that I did better that way, but still had to make an effort and stay hungry to lose weight.
But then, I switched to keto carnivore. After eating a carnivore diet for a few years, I've recently been trying to switch to the lion diet (just beef). I was close until a couple weeks ago... almost entirely beef, water, coffee. But then I wasn't able to buy beef anymore because of hoarding. So I've been eating some pork, turkey, cheese, eggs (still staying carnivore, but not lion diet) recently. Over the past 3 years that I've been carnivore, I've tracked food and just eaten to satiety. That has allowed me to maintain my weight through running a whole lot (18 marathons and a 50K in the past 12 months, plus some shorter races and lots of non-race running) and eating a whole lot as well. Mind you, I still have 20 lbs. of fat that I would like to lose at some point.
With all of my races getting cancelled, I decided to spend some time not running and healing some injuries that have been nagging me since Nov. I thought I would start gaining weight fast because I'm used to eating a lot for a lot of running, but that hasn't happened. Interestingly enough, my appetite has decreased along with less activity. So I'm still maintaining weight - even if I have 20 lbs. more than I want - with that decreased activity and I'm still not feeling like I'm starving as I would be if I was still eating plants. It sounds odd, but carnivore has worked really well for me.0 -
SSRIs. They made me hungry which increased calories in and sluggish which decreased calories out. When I finally got off of them 10 lb melted off without effort. I'm working on the last 10 now.0
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Lack of movement. Too much food and booze. Fixed the first two and cut out the third completely. Oh what a difference...!0
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My mom’s dad abandoned the family when she was a young teen in the 50’s, leaving grandma with four young kids, no income, and often no food. When I was a child, she had a closet stuffed with snacks and junk food and we could eat as much as we wanted. She would never say “no” if we complained we were hungry. I get that.
Somehow or other, I managed to remain underweight and weight gain didn’t affect me til after my first child was born.
Not having an “off switch” developed early for me. By the time I found it, at 55, I was off the chain. I’ve calculated on other posts on MFP that it was easily in excess of 10,000 calories a day
While I get her response to food, what I don’t get is, when I started having a weight problem, if she noticed I was losing weight, she would bring in (family business) sacks and sacks of junk food-cookies, candy, pastries. She was deliberately manipulating me to stay fat like her. When I finally realized it was intentional, she just laughed at me and told me I’d always be like her.
I can only truly blame my own lack of willpower and general ignorance about food, but.....
Being on MFP has been akin to a college level education in nutrition, goals, and self motivation.
I am NOT like her. She has been bedridden and making folks miserable for years. I woke up one day and told myself that is not your fate, you have the means to change yourself, YOU are the only one who can, and you deserve to breath happy air.
It absolutely frosts her goat that I am thin and active. Her complaint is “I should have done what you did”. She never tells me how awesome I am, what a great daughter I was, how I propped them up financially for years. Only how ugly I am as a thin person, how fat I was for years, and how worthless I was for walking out on the family business.
I now choose to surround myself with people who love me. Don’t need the family toxicity, which has poisoned three generations.
Wow, that was a lot of baggage to unload, simply to say life is GREAT now. 😇15 -
@springlering62, that was insightful and inspiring and I want to virtual-hug you, but MFP only gives me one click-reaction. So much good insight and (implied) counsel in one post - thank you!3
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My weight gain was ultimately caused by making more poor choices than proper choices. Poor choices that were made because I wasn't paying attention, didn't understand a few things, denial, and willful indulgence. Not all at the same time but I am sure there were crossovers. I was not perfectly bad though. I made a lot of good decisions while I was gaining too. Just not enough.
My weight loss is being caused by making more good choices than bad ones. I pay attention now and I have learned a lot. I still willfully indulge at times but just like my gaining period was not all bad choices my losing period doesn't have to be all good ones.
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My ex. He was a Scorpio.1
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I have a condition called PCOS which is a women's hormone imbalance thing... It makes me insulin resistant and harder to loose weight... Things like carbs and dairy aren't good for me0
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