Why are you fat???

Emotional eating.

Hi my name is Gaynell and I'm overweight because I let life take over! Boyfriend, Pregnant, Lost BabyFat,T Living together, Marriage, Pregnant again, the second baby did it for me, didnt go back to work, tv and food, tv and food, tv and food!

I'm fat because in the space of nine months I lost my mother to cancer, my child, caught my ex cheating and lost my brother to a hit and run. Between these losses I medicated myself with food. At the end of it I was 300 pounds and still grieving. I realized I was only hurting myself so got my *kitten* into gear. Now Im 41 pounds lighter, 400 percent happier and dealing with my emotions in a healthier, happier way.

Sorry for this but great to see you're living

Learned some very bad eating habits from my family and friends, had a really bad break up, I'm an emotional eater and am fighting depression, I use to hate exercising and was very lazy, marriage, not able to find a job (emotional eating) and birth control.

Post Partum Depression with each of my children. Anxiety so bad I didn't want to leave my house. Worked 3rd shift and never slept.
Never took care of me until I finally got my wake up call to.

I eat too much and I don't exercise near enough...

Yeah, that about sums it up.

^^^ this.

Only I ate way too much and NEVER exercised.

I have no other excuses.

Outside of "ate too much, worked out too little", I chalk up the rest to not paying attention to my genetics. I've always been a "growing boy" - started out at 11 1/2 lbs from day one! Thankfully my parents didn't overfeed me into juvenile diabetes or worse. The problem started when I hit puberty - I started packing on weight like no tomorrow. Started high school at 175 lbs, graduated at 275. Thanks to football and wrestling, a large portion of that gain was muscle, but I gained fat as well because I would eat like a horse.

That just continued for the past 15 years - 6 years of martial arts and 6 years of amateur strongman has kept adding muscle, but I would just eat and eat as well, so I never had a serious weight loss period (I did cut about 30 lbs about 7 years ago, but have gained all that back, plus some). I didn't really concern myself about it, because I would convince myself things were manageable ("I can still do a cartwheel/see my toes/jog a mile, so being 370 lbs isn't that bad") I needed to take a good look at myself and start working on tuning the engine, not just adding more horsepower. Because someday I'm going to stop the athletics, and if I don't watch it, I'm gonna hit 400, and in the bad way.

At first, wasn't aware of what I was eating & the calories in what I was eating.
Pushed that aside and got to a good weight 137lbs, then I got pregnant.
So yeah, at the moment, I blame putting on 50lbs during pregnancy my reason of having some fatness.

I absolutely LOVE food!

I came off a medication that suppressed my appetite and to some extent controlled my allergies. Then I sat around for a few years refusing to have anything to do with anybody (I still prefer to be alone most of the time) and playing on my computer. So basically I became your stereotypical MMO basement dweller, but without the neckbeard.

It was fun, too, very relaxing after all the sleep deprived, stressed out years of trying to fit into a world I will never, ever fit into. I just decided one day that it wasn't going to keep me going for the rest of my life. So now the world is going to make some room for me. Or else I'm going to conquer it and rule. Actually, I prefer the second option anyway. Be afraid, be very afraid, and all that nonsense.

4 surgeries, and quitting smoking... = +70lbs

When I gradutaed from high school i was in the best shape of my life! All through out high school i was always a thicker girl but i dropped about 30 lbs before my senior year. I barely ate, partied and danced all my calories away then bam! after my freshman year of college gor pregnant. That was all she wrote. I slowed down tremendously after I had my daughter and gained 65 lbs during my pregnancy!! My weight has been a disaster ever since.

Now trying to get back down to my pre baby weight! (shes two now)

The first time I gained, it was too much food and not enough moving because I was used to being naturally thin and then I suddenly wasn't. This time, it's my birth control. :-(

Bad eating habits when I had a quick metabolism that didn't change after I started having babies and eating for... like, nine. I gained too much weight while pregnant and never adopted a healthy lifestyle with food and exercise in between so I kept getting mushier and mushier. I weigh less now than I did before kids but nothing is in the right place and I'm more skinnyfat than anything. Working now to tone and get rid of the jiggle.

I was recently in a long distance relationship prior to getting married to him in March. The problem? I lived in the east coast time zone, him on pacific time. We stayed up late at night talking because we could never really talk till after 10pm his time (1 or later my time)...so I wasn't getting any sleep and my body required more "fuel", never got enough rest so I could never do high impact workouts...so that's where most of my gain came from.

I lost over 100lbs., but 20 of them were gained back over the course of our relationship apart this past winter.