How did you become overweight?

Blancita said:
That's exactly my point, the underlying reason my sister was eating more was BECAUSE of the pregnancy since she normally does not eat like that.
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That was my point exactly, being pregnant didnt make her gain weight - eating excessively did. Just because you crave stuff doesnt mean you have to eat it :)
 
I never had any whill power

I always told myself tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow untill I ended up close to 300lb

I drank a ton of soda every day

I soothed my boredum or hurt feelings with food.

I never opened up to anyone about it I told them im fine with myself when I really wasnt.

I have a very controling mother and back then when I was younger I felt that food was the only thing I could control but it took control of me.

But now im taking back the riegns
 
Good for you! take that will power and give it the slapping of a lifetime until its working right *G*
 
wishes said:
That was my point exactly, being pregnant didnt make her gain weight - eating excessively did. Just because you crave stuff doesnt mean you have to eat it :)
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Funny thing is my sister does not CRAVE "stuff" as you put it, her body just tells her to eat more. She is pregnant again now, and she gravitates to lots of fruit, veggies and healthy things, but her body is clearly telling her to gain and she has the hunger pangs (that she does not normally have) to prove it.
My best friend is another one who is really really model thin normally and 6' tall and is now pregnant and gaining fat. She's gained 30 lbs in 3 months and her doctor is actually happy about it. Given that she's gone 28 years being rail thin without any diet or exercise (she never ever actively tries to stay thin, she just does because she has a small appetite) and is now gaining excessively, clearly the pregnancy is the UNDERLYING cause (though it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that she's eating plenty more now to put on that extra weight).

Your repetition of this same point, that eating more is what makes pregnant women gain weight is just stating the plain obvious (so no need for you to repeat this point yet again). I am giving the reasons WHY many women gain a lot of weight while pregnant. And these strong biological urges often cannot, and in many cases should not, be discouraged. For those who are overweight to begin with, perhaps they should try harder to avoid "cravings" or ignore hunger pangs to minimize excessive weight gain, but I found it was all of a sudden a lot more difficult (to nearly impossible) to manage my weight than prior to becoming pregnant.
 
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I was really thin, and not really a fussy eater, but really uninterested in food, till i was about 8. I was more interested in going out and playing. My mums quite paranoid though, so i probably didn't get out running about as much as i liked, but i did get a lot of excercise.

When i was about 8 i moved schools, i tended to go out playing less because my freinds lived in different areas. I was shyer in my new school, which i think is also what made me as shy as i am now, it was a private school, and i didn't speak like them, or do things that they did like horseriding, i had friends in school, but not the way i had before, where i was friends with everyone.

I was pretty much slim through primary school though, it's when i went to high school that i gained weight. I was never very fat, but when i was in school, very few people were fat at all, there was one boy who was pretty big, and a few who were sort of chubby like me. I didn't care much about my appearance either in my early years at school, not that i didn't cdar ebut i didn't work on it. My hair was always tied back and i neve rwore makeup.

In my last two years of high school, i dieted a bit and lost some weight, leaving me pretty much where i am now, (i've never weighed much more than i do now, but i was shorter)

i gained a lot of weight in my first year at uni. I didn't work, and wasn't going out a lot. I didn't make many freinds at uni, because of really big classes, hard to get to know anyone and the fact that i'm shy. I went up to not far off 11 stone, which was really heavy for me and i looked terrible, as soon as i started work though, in the holidays the weight pretty much fell off and i dropped to about 10st 4 which was always my average.

Since i went on holiday i've gotten down to just under 10st, and i'm finding it easy to keep my weight at this level, but not to get any slimmer.
 
1. Marriage - cook those good home cooked meals to keep my man satisfied. ;)

2. Pregnancy - eat for two you know! :D

3. Eating junk - hohos, twinkies, you name it - if it wasn't real food I ate it! :santa:

4. Not exercising - never did when I was younger so why start now? :angel:

Ok so that's the run down of why I gained weight.
 
i love to eat pizza, fried chicken , real butter one of my favrote snacks at night while watching tv was to take 2 pieces of bread spread a thick layer of real butter on both slices 1/2 inch thick layer of peanut butter put in a bowl and pour real maple syrup over the top .
 
My weight gain well....

Use to play basketball at the end of my 8th grade year of school I got sick because of depression, peer pressure, teasing from other students. I was planning on playing basketball through high school but during the summer of 2002 I gain about 15-20 lbs I wasn't going to the basketball conditionings...I basically layed around all summer. I was sad and depressed and gainning weight wasn't helping.

I wasn't depressed all through high school though I broke out of it durning my Freshman year but what had happened took a huge toll on my body and my mind. By the end of my freshman year I had gained another 20 putting me at 40 lbs in one year.

I also believe that during my freshman year I was sexually harassed by another classmate and nothing was done about it. I think that I gained even more weight that year because having this happend to me made me feel violated and I probably thought that if I make myself fat then no guy will ever do that to me again....

I went from about a 115-120ish to 155-160lbs. With not being active except through the winter musical I just kept gaining. Now at 185-190 (194lbs being my highest) I realized that this isn't me. I don't know who me is anymore. If you look at these pictures on my before pics I have a time line at the bottom of the thread showing my weight gain over the past 5 1/2 years. http://weight-loss.fitness.com/before-after-between/15284-new-before-pics-starting-all-over.html

Every time I would lose a little bit of weight I would just gain it back and then some. It was a never ending cycle.
 
I was never, ever an active child. we had a computer in my house by the time I was 4 (anyone remember Commodore 64s?!) and that was the end of my love affair with the outdoors. run? jump? no thanks...I preferred to stay inside and play video games, many of which were actually educational. in fact they were so educational, I was way ahead of fellow classmates once I started school. I was also way behind in my desire to exert any form of energy on the playground, and I absolutely detested P.E. I was forging excuses from P.E. by the time I was in second grade. I was complimented on my "smarts" and accepted the fact that I sucked at being physical...I never realized I could actually improve if I tried until much later in life. I never played any sport in high school, and phsycial activity was pretty much my biggest enemy...there was always an excuse to stay still...like once I started wearing cosmetics, breaking a sweat was my biggest fear ;)

I also come from a family that expresses love with food. The more we like you, the more we like to see you EAT. we also throw lots of parties...for baptisms, new jobs, graduations, promotions, new family pets, etc. etc. etc., and there's always LOTS of rich, homecooked food sitting on the help-yourself buffet style tables. we don't like to eat alone, either...I suppose you can say our motto is you don't have to be hungry to eat in our home.

over the years I've seen how other people live, and I'm ready to try their ways of exercise and moderation. it's going to be a long haul!
 
Gotta Agree With Wishes!

I ate my way to this, too much food and not enough exercise. It started as a child, so my perents did have a hand in forming my bad habits, but i am a adult now, i know that it will kill me one day yet i still overeat, and sit on the couch to much. :newangel:
 
It wasnt until i was in junior high that i began to be a "chubster" lol
my so called "friends" use to tease and make fun of me, and call me fat
so i started to believe what they said and began eating! I ate to be happy,
but i wasnt happy with who I was, it was a vicious circle!! Now that im older
I know not to let things like that bother me! People who make fun of other people are very insecure with themselves, and in order for them to feel good about themselves they need to make other people miserable!

THe best was when i ran into this "bully" who use to make fun of me and beat me up, and she was HUGE!!! I felt SOOO good because I was WAY smaller than she was!! Karma is a bitch!!
 
What a great thread! I think really looking at where you have been can keep you on the straight and narrow for where you are going:)
My parents were the "clean your plate" variety and I grew up with that mentality. I still have it in fact lol. I don't think I have ever been in the shape I am in now. I was always on the heavier side. Gradeschool killed me because I had a kidney infection that made my face swell up so I was considered fat even though I wasn't too bad.
College I did well and took a lot of aerobics and dance classes. Ate whatever I wanted so I was ok but still hovering around 165lbs.
After college I wasn't as active and gained 30lbs, got a job then got pregnant... then married (really wanted crossed shotguns on the front of the invitations.. but my dad didn't think that was funny). Gained a lot being pregnant. I remember going to the nutritionist and she was trying to tell me what servings were and how to eat right and I just wasn't listening. I decided to let go for pregnancy- and I did. I ate for 12.. not just 2 lol. I gained another 60lbs and was at my heaviest of 240. That's a lot for a little 5'3" me!
It's what they say. I ate too much... way to much and I didn't exercise. The biggest thing I am getting from this journey is that just because there is food on your plate doesn't mean you need to eat it all. Still a hard lesson to break!
 
Growing up I was always the active kid. I took dance lessons 3 days a week, was a cheerleader, did gymnastics all of it. Looking back I think I really had the mentality that I couldn't get fat. Wellll....
In high school my weight would fluctuate constantly between 130-160.

When I went to college I started running which took my weight down quite a bit and I got back into that whole "I'll never get fat" thing. I got hurt running that summer and just quit but kept eating the same foods. Then I moved into an apartment, realized cooking took time and I really didn't know how, and then made Wendy's my best friend.

Oh then my 21st birthday came along and I started drinking way too often and it's hard to work out with a hangover. It was hard to get away from that behavior because as a college student most social activities revolve around drinking.

Basically, long story short, eating (and drinking) too much, exercising too little with no consistency. :doh:
 
lazy city life did it to me ^-^. Up untill about 12 years old I always lived on the fringe of town or in the country. I rode horses and bulls. My bike took me everywhere and I ran and played just as hard as local boys. the idea of being overweight back then was insanely. I always ate a bit more than others but i burned it off on chores with the animals.

Then we moved into the city and life changed. I wasn't allowed to ride my bike out of the little complex due to moms fears and I finally had major t.v channels. I was a YTV junkie very soon, and I lived for each new episode of my fav shows. Though i'd been reading for years before then I got majorly into a few new series and when I wasn't watchibg t.v I was reading.

From that point on going outside was bleh, I found that any real exposure to sunlight make me feel too hot and ill even in the winter.

that combined with my love of food lead to where i am now.
 
For me it was a lot of factors that together built a lifestyle that insured that I couldn't help but gain weight.

It started when I was 6 or 7. The major thing, I think, was that my Mother went to work full time (after my Father left home). I reacted to the stress by staying inside watching TV and eating. I think that set the stage.

Of course, back then very few kids were fat and the ones that were got teased and were outcasts, so all of us "fatsos" clung together. When you are fat from a young age you develop your self image around being fat and even if you lose weight for a time (like in High School when I was involved in sports) it's always there lurking. When you begin to gain weight again it's a self-fulfilling prophecy and I accepted it more than I should've, waiting until I gained a lot of weight before doing anything.

Being fat limited my social life which added to the depression and it all snowballed until I was 305 lbs!

No one thing made me fat beyond eating too much and not being active enough, but the reasons I ate too much and exercised too little were very tangled and complex.

I used to think that in order to heal I needed to understand how it all happened, but it's too murky and I think it's enough to learn how to change now so that for the rest of my life, I am healthy.

David C
 
I think the pounds started after I got married. I was happy, and comfortable and didnt really "worry" about my weight. Also, a real lack of exercise contributed. Then the kids came. Bottom line, I guess I loss focus of being healthy and taking care of myself, and then was in denial for a long time.
 
I was extremely healthy and fit before getting knocked up. My pregnancy jacked up my thyroid. I was eating healthy and exercising throughout the pregnancy but still gained 65lbs. I am now on thyroid medication and the weight is finally coming off.
 
I was really thin a few years ago - probably a bit too thin, because of illnesses. So one of my friends took it upon herself to fatten me up...so i've gained 5 stone in about 3 years, mainly because i discovered alcohol, Pizza Hut and steak in that time. I also gave birth to my first child back in January, so that hasn't really helped my belly...although i actually weigh half a stone more now than i did just after the birth lol.
 
I was always a healthy weight up until i was about 17.

I cycled a lot, generally ate well etc..
Then came my driving license...and the cycling stopped, along with all other excersise.

And the year after that...of course..the pubs.
So no more regular excersise, introduction of alcohol. Hmmm.
Year after that i left home, got my own place, beers with the lads most nights, followed up by take away food most evenings and no excersise.

It all adds up.
So really, lack of excersise, alcohol and junk food. Probably the stereotypical way of starting to gain weight, but thats how i got my belly. :(
 
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