Why are you fat???

I'm fat because I had 2 babies within a year.

I spent 4 years going to school online to earn my Bachelors. Sat there and ate and ate and ate 40 lbs on. I'm convinced sugar helps me think because now I'm doing an online Masters program without sugar and it's like the brain is vacant. But, I can't indulge it. Gotta find another way.

Several reasons, so the short version (in order) is: Inactivity, eating while bored, genetics, poverty, and lastly school. I've put a lot of thought into it, so I put many more details below, if anyone cares to read.

-Genetics. (My mum is very obese, my dad is overweight, a couple of my aunts (Mum's side) are overweight, a couple uncle's (Dad's side), and my maternal grandparents are all overweight.)

-School. (School takes up tons of time, and leaves me both physically and mentally exhausted. After all of that, I have homework to do, studying, re-writing my messier notes, sometime I tutor (via email or text), research to stay ahead of the game, extensive reading, and I sit for hours on end.)

-Poverty. (Long story short, my Mum can't afford fruits, vegetables, or meat/fish as easily as junk. Where I'm from, that kind of stuff is more expensive than junk unfortunately (Or at least it is much more available in the area that I live in). I can't control what my mum buys (Her roof, her money kind of thing) Another part of this is that I could never afford sports growing which is the easiest way to stay fit for me, plus it's more fun (again for me). Plus not playing sports made me depressed which added to the gain)

-Eating while bored. (Suffices to say I probably do this once a day. I've gotten better at it though by drinking water or chewing gum.)

And most of all:
-Inactivity. (Now that I'm older, I don't have the poverty excuse. I live in an apartment building with a small gym. I should use it more often but ironically inactivity makes me to tired to start (or at least want to start). I know that the exercise will nullify the bad food my mum buys, help me sleep better so I'm less tired, and the inactivity that school brings. I just need a swift and big kick in the rear so I'll keep up with it.)

Almost seems like a ton of excuses most of which are valid (or were when I was little), but I know that once I turned 16 (the age you are allowed to use the gym in my bulding) that it was my fault for staying overweight.

Same as MsD, above, plus a mother who also loved by feeding me and bribed me with food, for example, don't tell your father about my secret bank accout = have an opera roll!

Btw if you don't know what an opera roll is, it's probably a good thing. Six inches of fresh-made nougat coated in caramel and rolled in cashews, from a proper konditorei. And yes, it was all mine, every time my mom went to the bank with me, and I never saved part of it for later. Why on earth would I?

Also, I got that way before nutritional info was included on packaging not to mention before the internet made info more available.

I also thought that quick fixes would fix me and instead of getting down to work, I tried all sorts of fad diets, none of which worked.

I weigh about 165 since I had too many treats at Christmas and not enough exercise. I have to work back down from there, but fiendish addiction to MFP should help with that!

I got post-partum depression after my last child. It went untreated for a long time and by the time I got help and treatment I was obese and then depressed over my weight. I just stopped caring about myself and focused all my time into my family and home. It finally took me looking in the mirror and realized what was the point of focusing all my energy into what my family needed if I died of a heart attack and stopped being there for them entirely. So I decided to take the time for myself and turn my obsession from my house to my lifestyle to ensure that I was there for when my children had their children.

I'm fat because I love food and I'll eat even when I'm not hungry. I gained most of my weight because I fell in love and got too comfortable. We've sort of gained weight together. Now we have a 15 month old, and we have excuses about being to busy.

Why am I fat? There are so many reasons! AS I sat here reading these testimonials I was munching on cheese popcorn. I am so good at sitting at my desk and mindlessly eating. I also like to eat when I am stressed, alone, bored and tired. Sugary foods are a major downfall. I will eat almost anything and I mean anything!

I spent a year teaching in South Korea and I was called fat, pig, elephant and a slew of other names almost daily by the students and adults. I decided to do something about it. I got a membership to the gym which was literally next door to my apartment and I started watching what I ate. I made sure to plan healthy snacks and meals ahead of time. Eating healthy in Korea was so much easier. Sure there was fast food and pizza around but the healthy food actually tasted good there. By the end of the year I had firmed up (worked out over 2 hours a day at least 5 days a week). Oh I also cut drinking back to once a week...I used to drink 3-5 days/week!

Now I have been home for one year and 5 months. I have put back on just over 20 pounds of weight. I moved in with my boyfriend who loves unhealthy food and over sized portions. I stopped working out as much and am struggling to not gain more! I currently weigh 170. At my highest in 2009 I got up to 199 then back to 185 and in Korea to 145. When I was 18-19 I weighed 125 and looked damn good. My goal is to get to 135 but right now it seems impossible as the scale keeps tipping in the opposite direction.

Why does food have to be so delicious?!

I simply didn't give a hoot about exercising, and I love food.

Simply put: I didn't care.

I am fat because that is the way I was raised. I've been overweight ever since I was in probably 2nd grade. No one ever taught me portion control or what were the right foods to be eating until I reached about 12 or 13 years old. I just loved food in general and that is all I knew. I'm not a very picky eater. If I was not extremely active in sports like I have been my whole life, who knows how much I would weigh today....

These days I still struggle with portion control and still have slip-ups on what I'm supposed to be eating. That's what college does to ya. Another problem that I've been dealing with my whole life is eating way too fast. I'm not sure why, but I don't know how to eat slow. That just isn't the way my family eats.

I also believe that I look much fatter than I really am because I have extremely large bones and muscles for a girl. I think this has come from intense weightlifting from softball in high school. Yes, I know that a lot of the extra weight is fat, but I don't believe that my body will ever look skinny. That's just not how my body was created. My entire family is like that. I got the Cuban curves from my mom's side and my muscles from my dad's side (especially my calves).

Could never find motivation to exercise, lacked will power to stick to an exercise routine for long, and I LOVE CAKE!!

I like food and I binge eat from time to time
I also eat out of boredom or because I'm anxious

Because of alcohol and some diet choices. I don't think I eat horribly but I think I could do better.

BUMP - will post later!

I'm with you there I have 7, ages from 12 yrs to 8 months bed rest with all but one of my pregnancies and here I am a nice 50 lbs overweight!

LAZY,like to eat, eat when not hungry, over eat, drive thru, take out, not cook at home, drank too much, then got a hernia and had hard time with surgerys and recovery was real hard, then hernia came back and more surgery, still have to have surgery to fix hernia for the 3rd time, gottta lose weight was too hard on me the last 2 times, so going to gym 5 days a week and working on cutting down the intake amout and so for have lost 1 pound, but one leads to 2 and I just plan on building on that..