Why are you / Why were you fat?

For me, I think it's a psychological thing. When I was kid my parents tried to be really really healthy ALL the time. They hardly ever let me have sweet or fatty things. But when I was older and I had my own money I could buy them all the time, so I craved what I had been deprived and ate them all the time.
But that is going to change.

I ate too much

I ate too much

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Portion control! I haven't changed what I eat at all. I just changed how much.

I think that I'm over weight because when I tried to be healthy in the past, people I cared about made fun of me and what I was eating and I let them talk me into cheating and giving up. Also people would make comments like eating too much of a good thing is just as bad as eating bad stuff, even when they had no nutrition credentials or the right to state their opinions.

I think most of these people were jealous or wished that they could eat like me, but I let them win and stopped eating right and working out.

Well not this time, BRING ON the MEAN COMMENTS AND LAUGHS, because I can take and I will win!!!!

too complicated and personal to write here. would share through email maybe. Wish it was easy to sort out though.

Major depressive episode when I was 19/20, and I was away from family in college. I wasn't around anyone who could tell me that I needed help. I also had a terminally ill parent, and her disease was genetic. I had a 50/50 shot of having a disease for which there was no cure. I expected to be symptomatic by now, and figured I would eat what I wanted because weight would be difficult to keep on later. I part, being fat ensured that I didn't have Huntington's disease.

During my teen years, food was a way to control my life. I was always a normal weight but had body dysmorphia and very disordered eating patterns. I've spent years trying to figure out why--therapy, an eating disorder program--all to find that the answer wasn't going to change the fact that without changing the behavior I would remain fat and unhealthy.

Starting again with watching my diet and exercising has been very hard. There is a lot of fear that I'll find myself falling into old self destructive behaviors.

One day at a time...

I was fit and active till I had my first child.
C-section was a mess and had a difficult time healing so my stomach muscles were very weak.
Then I got lazy and into the habit of not being active.
Then I had a second child with the same results. A terrible C-section.
I'm not using that excuse anymore. My second was born 4 and a half years ago.
It's time to put on my big girl pants and do something about it.

severe depression, antidepressants, moving to the "fattest city in the US"

i was working 12 - 16 hrs a day 6 days aweek, stella artois became my switch off mechanism and also the reason why i gained so much weight,,,,,,,, 2000 calories a night just in beer

As a teenager I was always thin. Size 0-3 thin. Got married and had a baby at 20. Gained a little but was still at a nice weight. Got pregnant and had another baby at 24. Guess I was hovering around the 150 mark. My now ex husband always had a comment about my butt size. Divorced him and remarried at age 26. Our new favorite thing was eating out. We both LOVE to eat. Hit about 212 lbs by the time I was 33-34. Started WW and lost 70 lbs. Had twins at 35. Started the weight loss journey again at 37. 192 lbs. Lost 30 lbs then gain half back. Here we go again. I am now 171 lbs at 38 and trying my hardest to get this off for good. My downfall is food. I don't have to be mad or happy or sad or anything. I love food. Especially ethnic foods. Wish I had my metabolism that I had as a teen back. I could eat anything and not gain an ounce. lol I've decided that growing up sucks. lol

I haven't been my "ideal" weight since the second grade. In 9th grade my mother pinched some fat on my tummy and told me I needed to go on a diet, but she never did tell me what or how to go about that (She is obese). That was when I first noticed I was heavier than most other girls my age. Later, My Father would see me eating ice cream and would say, "Fat, fat, fat! The boys aren't going to look at you!" And he didn't offer any advice about the issue either. I ate whatever I wanted, when I wanted and no one told me different. It wasn't until college that I learned about calories, exercise and portion control.

Since then it's been a battle I can be a fit 140-150 and then lose track and go up to a sloppy 175 and back down again. THIS TIME I'm on the down swing for good Thank you MFP!

I've always been a bit "bigger" but not fat until now. I thought I was fat but looking back I think it was more a lack of toning. I was a good weight until I moved to the big city in my 3rd year of University. During that year I was intolerant to the cafeteria food and actually lost weight (thoroughly unpleasant). Then I discovered eating out and it became something I loved to do. Add to that birth control and an antidepressant and less exercise and one heck of a challenging degree. Here I am! I think it was the eating out/portion control that did me in. Working on it but still everyone wants to go out and celebrate everything! Bah that was longer than intended. Actually pretty enlightening to just put it out...stop eating out and eat less...duh. My brain makes it so much more complicated.

for me its boredom ven eva i get bored i just eat so frm today m neva gonna binge. just focus on eating healthy

Too much work for the most part. It's easy to eat pizza and chips, salads and veggies, and drink coke, whiskey, and beer while sitting behind a computer monitor--- doing my day job... then coming home and doing the same thing for my "future" job... plus typing school papers, etc. Who has time to exercise? Seriously- there is stuff that needs to be done. So when I am done with it at midnight, 2am- I go to sleep, then wake up at 6 or 7am and start the day over again. It's a bit hard to get a cardio run or weight session in when there's sh1t to do. And working on a computer, especially at the day job is at times boring, which leads to eating and maxing out past your BMR almost daily.

Boils down to priorities, really. So alas, here I are. Working to undo the damage I've done over the last 3-5 years.