Why are you / Why were you fat?

I love cake

I'm not very good at anything..... but damn, can I cook!
from chocolate croissants, cakes, roast meals,
well,
I am pretty good at eating too!

Poor eating habits as a child, back & sight problems limited sport options & now I love to bake & I love to eat what I bake ..... Been fat, been slim, really need to find a balance.

I love to cook
I love to eat.
I love to drink wine when I eat.

I started packing on the pounds after graduating college and transitioning to the life of a desk worker.

I'm in the military and spent a year overseas at a very middle of no where base, i've been back in America for about 3 weeks and have successfully gained at least 8 lbs. At this rate i'll be fat soon, already fatter than i'd like to be. Thank god for me, I have no choice but to stay in shape, hoping this little blunder is over, ate healthy food at work today instead of going out to Burger King even though I was VERY tempted.

I ate and drank way to much and never moved unless it was to a party or to a kitchen, basicly a fat lazy slob!

Then I got fed up lost 120 pounds lifting, cardio, sweating my *kitten* off and eating nice clean foods and after getting in amazing shape I had a virus attack my heart, leading to heart failure and I gained 3O back primarily from meds and some from depression and not moving.

Now that I am better I am having a hell of a time getting rid of this 30 although my diet and workouts are spot on. I kicked fats *kitten* once and I will kick its *kitten* again!!

Alcohol.

Me too. Too much booze and munchies. Dont drink or smoke anymore and run. I went up to 18 stone

I used to be active and eat 'ok' and was actually a little underweight at the time. Then I had an injury, was required to be sedentary for months, and the pounds packed on. After the injury was long gone, my new less-than-stellar eating habits combined with the lack of activity kept the pounds continuing to pack on over the last 8 years, until I reached 206 lbs in April 2011.

I was HORRIFIED that I was over 200 lbs, from being 120 lbs only eight years ago.

Well, I got active again, started eating properly, and now I'm 130 lbs 10 months since getting back on track. I'm aiming for 127 lbs, because I have grown a little bit since then so 120 lbs would not be ideal as it was back then.

I'd like to change my answer to:

1) corn.
2) My poop sank.

OMG! This just totally made me LOL. And I understand your comment cuz I was just on the corn thread. lol

I would have to say that I got to the weight that I did because of continuous love of junk food and cheese. I also tend to be a binge eater, which is difficult to stop. No joking, there was like almost a year where I ate fast food every day. Sometimes I would go to one FF place and then go to another to get something to add to my meal.

I did this too, except I think it was more than one year for me. LOVE fast food restaurant hopping! I am addicted to sweets and junk food. It started when I got my first job at a fast food restaurant. Ate candy and soda for lunch everyday of high school and ate fast food for dinner. Not a good start to my adult life. I thought the whole calorie counting was a big joke.
Three children later, I take care of me, including exercise and a good balance of good foods. I eat minimal processed sweets and I don't buy tubs of ice cream or blocks of cheese anymore. Fast food is limited to once a week...usually. Trying hard to model good eating habits for my kids.

After my first couple of years of college, I stopped being busy all the time. I got a sit-down job. I took all kinds of antidepressant and other psych drugs I didn't need that had weight gain as a common side effect that were pushed on me when a decent psychologist was all I really needed during a difficult time in my life. Been drug-free for nearly a decade but the pounds are hard to take off. Became less and less active, to the point where I actually got to be the couch potato I used to never understand why people could be that way. But it was me. Hit 200 pounds for the first time in 2004 and been hovering on the +/- side of 205 pretty much ever since, going as low as 160 and as high as 226 (not pregnant) and 236 (highest pregnancy weight). I would eat because I was bored, not hungry. Because I was mad, not hungry. Because I was anxious, not hungry. So I am trying to curb the emotional eating and get back to being active, or at least busy.

1) Being lazy
2) Eating too many high calorie foods
3) Being on the Depo Shot (which wasn't the only cause of weight gain, but it sure didn't help as I tend to gain weight on progesterone only birth control)
4) Not actually changing any habits for the long term the LAST time I lost a ton of weight
5) Not having an active job where I spent most of my time outside instead of sitting behind a desk.

Too much fatty foods and nil exercise.

Divorce-led to 20 lbs because I ended up drinking toooo much, I then had a child in 2009, 2010, and 2011. So, my pregnancy weight helped. I got my tubes tied Dec 19th, 2011 when I had our 3rd and final child. I came out of delivery weighing 228, I am 191 as of today, so taking a while, but Im getting there. I just needed to have a break in pregnancies, but 3 kids was enough for us, so I decided to stop there, now its focusing on me

I was a chubby bunny as a kid. Pinchable cheeks, all that. I got into intellectual stuff early and steered clear of physical activities (I hated gym and never played sports). I wasn't fat as a teenager, but I wasn't "skinny" either... then I moved out of state and got depressed, got a full-time job, etc. I found that I loved great, heavy, calorie-laden beers and Irish whiskey... but it didn't matter because I was on my feet most of the day. Then I decided "screw this full-time customer service crap, I'm going back to school" - which I did - which caused me to start sitting all day, and I've really been sitting all day since. I was/am a nerd and my undergrad consisted of history (hours upon hours in books) and anthropology (more books and a little dirt). I finished that and went on to grad school: first law (more books), then more history (more books) and finally information science (computers! and books). I also build computers and have always played video games, and spend plenty of time reading. I am sedentary.

I noticed about 5 years ago that I was becoming more or less rotund and the "chubby bunny" was reappearing because of all of this. I ignored it because I was in school, working, or both. I finished my Master's and started Real Life Work, and noticed that I'm extremely tired much of the time, very lazy, and have a much larger posterior than 90% of my coworkers. (Not too big a tummy, but I have as my sister calls them "baby-makin' hips" which naturally bear more weight, and so, therefore, do my thighs.) I still work in front of a computer, I read a lot, and I build computers/play video games.

I also realized when I started MFP that I ate a LOT of sugar just to keep myself going during the day. That's changing (slowly)... but I can't tell you how tired I was at first. I'm now a lot better (but still feeling it). I also just started really exercising, and that's a major improvement in my energy levels.

Anyway, short answer: alcohol, school, and nature of hobbies, and nature of employment. Maybe I need to look for work doing something away from a desk.