Why are you fat???

I was in the military and I got hurt on the job. I ended up with some spinal damage and some nerve damage in my right leg. After the accident, I couldn't work out at all. The best I could do was some pretty basic stretches. After the first round of surgeries, the doctors kepp me doped up on pain killers - which made me tired and lazy. After a decade of surgeries and pain pills, I got fed up. When my doctors wanted to put me on methadone (this is what they give heroine addicts who are detoxing) - that was my breaking point. The doctors were telling my husband that he neede to watch me as I might fall asleep talking or eating as I could choke. I couldn't believe it! If I couldn't be trusted to have a conversation or feed myself, how could I keep working? After that appointment, I weaned myself off the morphine and decided to take control of my life. I do on occasion take pain medication but, that is usually after a surgery or if I am in terrible pain. I have always eaten low fat food and I swore off fried food in the 90's. However, the ten years of being a cough potato has made the overweight person I am now. I am hoping MFP can help me get back to a normal weight.

College & laziness

I am fat because I do good one day,then do bad the next. I am not too consistent with the whole weight loss thing. I have been battling with my weight ever since I can remember. I weigh 241 now, so I am very obese. You would think that would make me so dedicated to losing weight, but that still isn't enough for me to stay on track. I have a membership to a very nice health club, that I also should be using on a consistent basis. When I think about dieting it is always I will start tomorrow. Now I am tired of what I look like. I just eat a whole bag of m&m's that I consumed in about 5 minutes. I need to change my life, and do it now. I wanted to reach out, because I have not managed to do this on my own, obviously.. I want to change. I just need some assistance in doing so. Thanks in advance for any feedback one might have. ...... Take care

i'm losing weight in order to take control of my life. my mum always said i was fat and ugly as a child ( when i was not fat) i then entered a very abusive relationship when i was 16 (he had total control of me and my body) and my now ex said i was fat when i was 9 stone at 5ft 7. i remain in that relationship until i was 19 or 20 and left 15 stone. i lost weight started socializing meet new friends, but raped a year or so later by a friends brother and within months i was back to 15stone. i have used my weight as a comfort blanket for many many years now. i have only been in 7 sexual relationships 3 of them absive. Now it's time for me to take control and not let what they did to me have any further control on the rest of my life ( if that make sense). i would also live to enter a loving and caring relationship and with the possibity of having another child or 2.

I am so LAZY. Seriously my favorite thing in the world is to sit around doing nothing. All day. You give me a laptop and I can manage to only get out of my bed for water and the loo for days. No Lie. Also sleeping, is the best thing ever. I got fat because of genetics and medications in my childhood and stayed that way by eating like crap and living on my couch.

Being pregnant 3 times in 3 years happened to me. Along with the gestational diabetes and the bed rest, i packed on a ton of weight. about 130 lbs on 3 years. But i'm down 50 lbs. And i'm gonna get back down to my old weight, eventually

I never learned how to eat or make healthy food when I was young, PCOS, and I looove to eat. My husband and I love to cook gourmet, I love to bake and we both like to pretend we are foodies and critique restaurants. hahaha

I'm not fat, I used to be very underweight and over the past 3 years I have reached an acceptable weight (around 9stone) in the last few months I have put on nearly another stone and I am now nearly 10, I want to lose the last stone and learn to keep myself at a decent weight that I am comfortable with.

I used to be very thin, around 115lbs. I hated food, I thought everyone saw me as fat, I saw myself as fat. I'd eat one meal a day which was anything from a half a pack of biscuits or a bowl of canned tuna with sweetcorn or a cheese sandwich with Sunday lunch on a sunday.
I then met my boyfriend who made me feel beautiful,I forgot about all my wories. for a while we were still only eating one meal a day, he was as thin as I was at only 135lbs for his 6foot in height. But eventually his family introduced us to food... that was it from then, I was taught to love it and packed on over 3 stone.
I only really started to notice this year how much weight I had gained and now as well as eating less I am aiming to be heqlthier than I was before because I know now that I look back I was very unhealthy and was heading down a bad road.

Beer, beer, sweets, and beer.

When I hit puberty a few years ago, I randomly gained weight, without much of any change. I get sick a lot, and my parents tried to force me to eat more, to make up for being sick.

I ate far too much high calorie food and didn't exercise at all- I was ok for a little while but then the weight just stacked on.

I`m fat because I let food become my best friend. Food has always been there, through all the ups and downs and Ive had more downs than ups.

Food was comfort when I was in a phsyically, emotionally, mentally abusive relationship and it was there in childhood when there was emotional abuse. It was there when I gave up completely on myself and just let it go.

I dont feel anything while I am eating food, so I just keep eating it....then afterwards I feel like a complete slug!!

Food has been there while dealing with a teenager with mental health issues and the stress that comes with that every single day.

if it wasnt for emotional , binge eating and constantly numbing my feelings with food, i would have this thing figured out by now.

What i need most is everything in moderation and a regular excercise routine and I am working on that!!! .....oh and most importantly something to do when the stress hits!!

I love food! I hated or should say I was too lazy to workout! Did I mention I love food! No other habits! Don't really drink, don't smoke never did drugs! But did I mention I love food! LOL

Not saying no...and the damn pcos