Why are you fat???

got sick when i had my two kids, preclamsia on the other (high blood pressure) and gestational diabetes on the other (put on special diet). and, my over active thyroid (my helper) went away... just accepted all the weight and got lazy (stayed at home). We also eat out a lot (vietnamese food, chinese all u can eat and mexican burrito)

I ate too much junk and sat on my *kitten* too much.

1) Going from an active job to a sedentary one.
2) Going from walking 45mins to work and back to getting the bus everyday.
3) Stopping all exercise and yet still eating like 1 and 2 hadn't happened.
4) Comfort eating.

The biggest factors in my weight gain though have been eating too much and eating the wrong things.

The best part about knowing all this? Finding this place, and FINALLY losing some of that weight

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I went on a medication when I was 17. The average weight gain for people on this medication was 50lbs a year. I was on it for a year and a half and gained 150 lbs. There was a recent class-action lawsuit against the company behind the drug, because not only did many people gain a ton of weight, but many developed diabetes as well. I was lucky enough to not develop diabetes, but as a teenage girl, a 150 lbs weight gain was horrific enough.

Many reasons. I believe part of it was I went undiagnosed hypothyroid for many years, and while I am controlled now, it's still hard to lose weight. Growing up, I was not allowed some junk food things, so I would sneak them and binge eat, which I still sometimes do today. I have knee issues which often times prevent me from exercising because I am in a lot of pain. My gene pool is horrible.... I do not have a single healthy-weighted person in my family. And finally, I let all these excuses add up to an even bigger reason that I am fat, and don't always have the self control to tell myself it's because I make poor choices, not because of the cards I have been dealt.

Stress from law school and eating everything my boyfriend ate when we first got together.

I hated myself because i was fat (whole family are) and then theres the bullying and lack of friends at school so i comfort ate whenever i felt down or upset and then being a total nerd i would sit at home studying/playing computer games instead of doing any sort of exercise.

So bottom line ate too much, moved too little

wow, those meds can do way more harm than good!!

For me it is really simple. I LOVE bad food. I LOOOOOOOOVE fast food and all junk food. I LOVE to eat until I feel like I am going to explode.

I HATE working out. I HATE eating healthy food. I HATE almost all fruits and veggies. I HATE being hungry.

I could say it is because of my PCOS or my brain tumor or my thyroid, and I'm sure these have played a part in it, but the simply face is I love to eat and I love to eat bad food. And I hate getting off my lazy *kitten* and doing anything.

I'd like to blame pregnancy, but I can't.

I'd like to blame soda, that damn addicting fizzy satan, but I can't.

I'd like to blame being run over by a large truck and being stuck in the ICU for a week, then on serious restrictions for the past 5 years, but I can't.

Why can't I? Because I was fat before that. I'm fat because I didn't hold myself accountable for the things that I put into my body. I skipped meals in favor of grabbing a sugary drink from the vending machine and heading down to the school library. When I did eat, it was pizza, chips, glorious white carbohydrates. When I finally did diet, I went vegetarian for 40 days. I lost 40 pounds. Why? Because I was eating vegetable soup every day. It wasn't healthy. I was weak, tired and so, so sick. I tore into my first serving of bacon wrapped meat on that 41st day and gained most of that weight back.

I'm fat because of me. I will lose this weight because I am undoing the damage that I caused. No one can take credit for my gain, but an entire network of support will be able to share in my victory.