Why are you / Why were you fat?

im fat for many reasons. the lifestyle my family set. no activities and bad homestyle ccoking. it got worse when my grandmother moved in when i was 7. her way of contributing was feeding us. its a constant struggle trying to keep her out of the kitchen. its ridiculous. and i was always active as a kid, but i never got into sports. that was a huge downfall.i strted getting chunchy when i was 8. (notice the timeline)i slowly kept gaining wight until freshman year i weight 195-200 lbs. i remained there for 2 3 years. then i had a lot of health problems and had to do homeschool. BOREDOM killed me. if i didnt have anything to do i was in the pantry. what else made me fat? i love food. im not one of those people that wont try something and lives on chicken nuggets. i love experiencing different and strange foods. so that means i ate. a lot. i was aware i was making bad choice but that didnt stop me. at 19 years old my highest weight (before the lap band surgery) was 289.6! 289.6! i felt distgusted. i had tried to lose weight before but never succeeded. and i mean REALLY try. so i decided lapband was for me. but now that ive had the surgery i see it was more of a mental tool. i still have pretty much all control over how much and what i eat. but getting the surgery made me FEEL like i had that help. i had the thing that would cause me to succeed. it ovbiously does helt physically as well but for me thats how its been. im 5 weeks post op and im down 27 lbs. i WILL keep going. i have no doubt.i will have hard patches but i cant imagine going back to where i was. this is my new life. i cant wait to look back 2 years down the road and see where i came from.

I was 16 when I met my (thankfully now ex) husband. I weighed 120. He was awful and mean. He told me I was fat. I'm an emotional eater. By the time I was 22 we had 3 kids. Then I was a size 14. He continued to be awful and mean. I finally left him when I was 30. When I was 32 I had my 4th child. I was hovering around 190. Over the next 2 years I struggled with financial, relationship and drug problems. In July 09 I heard from my first true love. We were married in July 2011. Life is amazing and he loves me now matter what size I am. That is what makes losing and getting healthy so much easier this time around! I'm doing this for me. Not for some selfish man who wouldn't know love if it kicked him in his @$$ :laugh:

I'm still an emotional eater. But I don't find myself emotionally eating on a daily basis. I have learned that if I have a bad day at work I can eat a piece of wonderful chocolate. I no longer feel the need to eat the whole bag! Lol...My dear husband is very much a meat and potatoes kind of guy. So I eat a big bowl of salad at the beginning of each dinner. That way I only eat a small portion of steak and mashed potatoes. : ) It's still somewhat early in my journey but having loving and supportive family and friends by my side is monumental!

being italian, bread a pasta at every meal lol

low self esteem, fat or skinny, what's the difference?

low metabolism, from years of yo-yo dieting and starvation diets, my metabolism was basically nonexistent.

bad genes, i don't care what anybody says...some people got it, some people don't....

too fat and too tired to exercise, even a short walk outside would feel like an intense work out.



no time. college full time, and 3 jobs. no time to prepare meals, go shopping, exercise, or sit down and figure out a plan.

no money! eating healthy is definitely more expensive, and sure, you CAN do it for cheaper, but if you have the TIME (see above) to figure it all out.

take your pick lol

It's alcohol for me. I eat right and I don't crave food but I turn to alcohol to relieve my stress and now it's become a habit. I get off work and come home and crack open a beer or pour a glass of wine everyday!!! I do go a few days here and there without drinking and I'm fine. I actually sleep better. It's hard to find motivation because all you see is "don't eat the bad food". I need to hear "don't drink that bad alcohol" lol!

Alcohol.

Me too!! I don't crave food and I eat well but I turned to alcohol to relieve stress and now it's become an everyday habit, ugh!

I'm fat because i love to eat, normally too much of the wrong foods.

I am an emotional eatter...and i love food! To much intake not enought output...not a big fan of exercise, but i'm changing that:)

Congrats on your weight loss!

For me, most of all my family members are heavier. I grew up thinking it was okay to be unhealthy and that it was just in my genes. Also, already marginally heavy I got pregnant and used the excuse for eating for two. Once I gave birth I still refused to take accountability for my own health and body. I became brutally honest with myself and realized that one is going to lose the weight for me.

I never considered myself "thin". I was atheletic - curvy.
I enjoy food (the wrong food) too much.
I played sports year round in H.S. then once graduated (1996) I kept gaining.
In a group of friends there was someone always "bigger", so I never felt bad and thought to myself I would
not let myself get that way. Well here we are - 2 kids later. I weigh more now that when I was pregnant both times.

Baby weight. I gained 50lbs. I thought pregnancy was a free for all. I wish someone would've told me to put the fork down.

This! I busted my *kitten* to lose weight that I had gained before getting pregnant and I was in pretty awesome shape and then I was pregnant during the winter. It was horrible. I ate way to many gyros and did little to no exercise.

I have been overweight ever since I hit puberty. I lost all sense of control when it came to portions and what I shouldn't have been eating. Every time I got stressed out, it became ten times worse. I would find myself mindlessly eating one thing after another until I felt sick or ashamed. I'm currently working very hard to overcome emotional eating as well as eating out of boredom. I lost 20 pounds last year, but stopped working out and gained 11 pounds back. I definitely do not want to be where I was before, I refuse to let myself be overweight all my life.:noway:

I went up & down through high school with the season, but never much. After getting married to my husband who loves to cook, I put on 25 pounds slowly. Gained 50 more with first baby. Kept that weight and had 2 more babies over the years. All of a sudden, I am almost up to 300!! I have a huge sweet tooth and hate to exercise. I have really had to kick myself in the butt to get on and stay on this journey. I cannot be lazy anymore. I will be 40 in August and refuse to be this size. A lot of the women in my family are larger. We just hold weight and that has been my justification. My wonderful sister is on this journey along with me and we encourage each other. I couldn't do it without her!

Hi....I was a young alcoholic, then a drug addict....As an adult, rather than fix myself, I transferred every addiction I had to eating. Period. Now I've chosen to exercise, seek inward for peace (rather than hope for external things to "make me feel better". I 'm learning to actually know myself....it's painful to be honest with myself a times, but I'm committed to getting well..., and it's getting better all the time.

I was always a chunky kid and i've been going to nutristionists since i was like in the fifth grade. you have no idea how much that takes a toll on some one's self esteem.