Why did you get fat and what triggered the change?

I got fat because I ate terrible food and didn't get enough exercise. Weighing 301 pounds the day after I gave birth to my son was what triggered the change for me.

I just plain didn't have healthy eating habits. I was very athletic in my teens and twenties and could eat literally anything I wanted. Then I started a sedentary job and kept eating like I was used to eating. I got it mostly under control and then quit smoking and gained 35 lbs.

I dressed like a slob and never wore any makeup. Now I love to dress nicely and wear makeup all the time. I am much more confident about myself now.

Menopause. You think it's hard when you're young. Just wait.
I was always thin. When I started with menopause I gained 30 lbs doing the same thing I always did. Now I have to watch everything! Lost it all though. :drinker:

I got fat from being sedentary and eating bad food. Pretty simple. A couple things triggered my drive to change my lifestyle. First, getting married and realizing that I want to live a happy, healthy life with my beautiful wife was the biggest reason. Secondly, being back in school finishing my docotorate in physical therapy and learning all about the terrible effects of obesity on every body system and mood was a real eye opener.

I started gaining weight after I gave birth to my twins, when I got their diagnosis (Cystic Fibrosis). I was severely depressed and I started eating for comfort. I didn't exercise because having to exercise was foreign to me ( was blessed before kids ) and didn't have a whole lot of spare time to do it anyways (with newborn twins & their disease to care for).

I knew I had gained weight, but I covered it up with baggy sweaters & loose pants. I always wore hoodies, or oversized t-shirts. My turning point was my wedding day. I didn't feel beautiful ....... I felt fat, and disgusting & unworthy. I looked at my wedding pictures & I vowed to change.

I've lost 40lbs since and I feel wonderful

These are the major things that contributed to be gaining weight.

1- I had a complete tear of my ACL.
2- Then I got married and adopted my fat husbands eating habits.
3- I had a complete tear of the ACL of my other knee.
4- Seditary life style. TV and eating were entertainment.
5- Had 4 babies in 6 years.

Bottom line is I ate too many calories for my lifestyle.

Reason for change?
1- I want to change that now that I am feeling it in my knees (doc says extra weight is no good for them)
2- Flirting with High Blood Pressure, it runs on my mom's side.
3- And I want to look hot again while I am still young enough to.
4- And to have more energy.

Thanks for asking. It really cleared things up for me to actually think about it.

The first time I got fat: I hit puberty, quit ballet, and sat around eating crap like nachos all day. (I was also really short. My brother told me "eat more and you'll grow!" Well, I did...it was just the wrong direction.) Then I saw a picture of me on my 16th birthday and cried. It was awful. So I went on a diet (along with my parents) and dropped down to a better weight and kept it off for a few years.

The second time I got fat: College. It started around my sophomore/junior year. I was under a lot of stress, eating junk, drinking, and started taking birth control. Then graduation, being less active, etc...all caused my weight to go up gradually over a few years.

I felt fat and icky, and it was kind of depressing, and I kept saying I needed to do something, but all I did was stop the weight gain. Then a few months ago, my employer had us do biometric screenings for health insurance, and I discovered that I had officially crept up into the "overweight" category, and my blood pressure was a little high. That was my wake-up call to get off my butt and do something about my weight.

I've always been fat but it never showed because of loose clothing and having a small frame.

Then one day I stepped on the scale and saw 200. Changed my diet that day.

I was always really skinny until I met my boyfriend. I then steadily put on weight over two and a half years and kept lying to myself that I still looked good.
I just said one day that enough was enough... I was so sad and unhappy with how I looked (I refused to buy UK size16 jeans, my lowest size was UK6) I started dieting using MFP. Haven't looked back since then!

I started gaining when I got a desk job and kept eating as if I didn't have a desk job, but I stayed in a healthy range until, in quick succession, I lost my mom, my job, my dad and (to a lesser degree, but it still threw me for a loop) my cat. Depression made me eat more and move less.

Finding out about the Warrior Dash was the trigger. It sounded crazy. It sounded fun. It sounded like something I wanted to be able to do. So I set about making the changes to get my life back.

I've probably been slightly overweight the majority of my life. However, when I was away at Grad School, I think I was a bit depressed. All of my friends left after graduating from undergrad and I was basically alone... I became lazy and ate fast food almost every day. I looked up and I was 1 lb shy of 200 pounds! I eventually gave up red meat and pork and lost about 20 lbs over the course of a year. Then I got prego... I was 230 when I delivered my son. A year later, I had only got down 31 lbs. I got serious at that point and lost 40 lbs. With the exception of a few lbs, I've maintained my weightloss for about a year and a half.

1. I started dating and always ate out
2. stopped swimming/water polo after high school
3. Ate carbs like i was still swimming and playing polo. HA!


Trigger:

Picture of my fat 'ole face and clothes that wouldn't zip up.


WAS TIME FOR A CHANGE!

I gained weight after miscarrying on my first pregnancy, at 32 yrs old. Both myself and my husband went through a big depression and month after month of medical problems and trying to conceive (with no success) saw the weight coming on. Then I finally got pregnant again and was so happy that I didn't care too much about the pregnancy weight gain. End result was a 50 lbs weight gain Now I have a beautiful 20 month old boy and a loving husband but very bad habits. I have lost 25 lbs since the spring but am really struggling with the last 25 lbs.

What changed for me was seeing pictures of myself with my son. I wasn't a fat person growing up but I saw a fat person in those pictures. I want to be healthy and provide a good example for my son.

When I was pregnant, I was living with my parents and my fiance, and in between my parents' marital issues and coping with pregnancy, I did a lot (A LOT) of stress eating. I gained 60 pounds during that pregnancy and I've only lost 20. I'm overweight and very round.

I've been wanting to lose weight for a while, and I've been dieting here and there, but it wasn't until yesterday that I almost broke down into tears with the need to get in shape.

I was watching videos of my son playing, and I was in the video, and I had NO idea I was that big. I almost burst into tears and vowed to get my behind in shape.