Why are YOU fat?

Prednisone.

Same. Had a bad experience with it when I was 5 and it screwed me up for years.

Mine is a long one. MMMM
Ok when I was 12 I dont remember what class it was but we had journals and every morning needed to write a paragraph. One morning the teacher asked about child abuse. I said that it was okay but it thought childen how to behave, because my dad used to hit me with a belt. The teacher read it and of course called CPS. CPS went to my parents house and of course my parents told me that they werent going to hit me anymore that now I would get grounded. They grounded me for a good month or so and of course that meant eat and watch TV. No more going out with friends and run around. I gained a lot of weight and the scale kept going up since then. By the time I was 19 I weighed 250 pounds.

Thats my story.

I was an overfed baby.

Emotional abuse during childhood.

Married an abusive man. Later divorced same (and lost 80 lbs!).

Married a wonderful man ... custodial parent of 4 ... and me with no coping skills for stress except food.

Fibromyalgea flare ups generally mean restricted activity levels... so exercise dropped off.

Oh, and I am an INCREDIBLE cook... unfortunately, for the first few years of my new marriage, I used my skills in the kitchen to win over my new family. Most of what I knew how to cook was solid, heavy comfort foods from the Midwest.

On the bright side, I am NOT a prisoner of my past. I AM moving in a much healthier direction! :happy:

- Depression
- Genes
- Love of food (healthy more than junk food) and eating too much of it
- Going to the fridge whenever I felt sad/happy/bored/angry/frustrated/etc.
- Changing schools and being shunned in the 2nd grade (when I started gaining weight)
- My mom passing down bad eating habits to me
- Failing to follow proper nutrition after a crash diet/eating disorder and gaining twice the amount of weight I lost back
- Being sedentary
- Going to the bakery next door after dance class as a kid (no wonder I dropped out, and the teacher kept me in the back and wanted me to go down a level which killed my self esteem so I quit)
- Keeping some sort of weird social armour.

So many reasons, some have disappeared, some haven't, but none of them will contribute to my being overweight anymore.

I eat out at fast food too often, I like to bake, I like to eat and I hate exercise. I know none of that is a good excuse, but Im ready now to take control. I hate the way I look and feel. I need ideas to help me get going.

i like to eat..

Because the hole the food goes into is much larger than the one it comes out of.

No excuses here but I was very depressed as a teenager (suicide attempts and all that, diagnosed with depression, generalised anxiety disorder and an eating disorder). I didn't care if I lived or died, so I just stuffed my face non stop. I conquered it though, for the most part. I still struggle a little these days, but it's only the weekends with the drinking and a bit of junky food that's hindering my progress. Need a plan of action to target it!

I never saw the 'fat' me when I looked in the mirror. I never 'felt' fat but knew I was overweight.

That's me. I never think of myself as overweight till I look at pictures of myself. Can't deny it then. No wonder I hate having my picture taken :blushing:

I knew I was overweight but I never felt "fat". I know I'm still overweight but I'm moving in the right direction. It's a choice each day. Some days I just make better choices than others :laugh:

Not eating properly and not getting enough exercise.

I moved in with my boyfriend & ate meals the same size as his && a lot of meals was heavy in carbs (pasta, rice, meat, lasagne, etc.) because they were easier to cook!

Depression.. and food was my comfort. I gained a lot of weight just after my pregnancy when I thought the only thing that could make me happy and relaxed was food.
I also had no respect for my body so I never saw the need to give it all the good stuff it really needs, unfortunately. I was lazy and that stopped me from exercising. Sitting on the couch complaining about how fat I am was easier.

Basically I let myself get fat because at some point I just stopped caring. All my fault, my bad choices and my own stupidity.

pregnancy!! its the only time I get fat

1) Emotional/Binge eating
2) Marrying someone who also had those same problems
3) Disability getting worse over time and becoming a wheelchair user
4) Lack of exercise due to 3
5) Rather bad depression because of 3
6) Increased appetite when going on to testosterone injections
7) Stopping doing the sports I loved because of disability
8) Continuing to eat the same amount of food that I was when I was active after I had stopped all the sports
9) Bad food choices
10) Lack of portion control

there were some things in early childhood that I think are part of it... and then in my teens I was extremely athletic and could eat everything and not gain because I burned tons... and in my twenties, I stopped sports and didn't change how I ate. And then I yo-yo'd the last 15 years...