What (honestly) made you fat?

[loveday]

I want to know what bad habits people had that got them overweight in the first place! It's intriguing because we all have our personal food demons.

Mine were finishing the kids food and eating huge portions and hovering by the open fridge door and picking.

What were yours guys and gals?

Xx

 

[Butterfly_lady]

Food

 

[louloumoo]

Every sort of eater

Comfort, happiness.
Big portions, grazed all day.
Had to eat until feeling ill.
Punishment and reward.

But ultimately is was GREED!!
Why I'm greedy? I don't know, I just am.
Maybe being 1 of 4 kids!!

 

[los in it]

mindless eating
boredom
sadness
happiness
because it tasted nice!
buy 1 get one free!
"would you like to go large?"(at burger king)
not wishing to upset someone who had made a meal for me
"one more wont hurt ...will it"
because your big people think you need bigger portions
beacause your big YOU think you need bigger portions!
thinking your starving but really your needing a drink.
its easter/christmas/birthday/any hoilday!
cant stop at 1 bite have to eat the lot
all seems so shameful when you write it down doesnt it

 

[los in it]

forgot to add the SMELL of food
cooking onions
bread
bacon(hummm bacccooonn)
cake baking
popcorn
chip shop chips
the list could go on !

 

[sarahrob]

I have always been fat. As a kid I was fed huge quantities of very cheap food, because we had very little money so we'd have the likes of mashed potato sandwiches and we'd be sure not to waste a bite.
In my late teens and early 20s I fell into a series of abusive relationships. By the time I was 25 I was single and terrified of relationships, so I packed the weight on as it felt safe. At 25 stone I felt invisible to men. I'd go out with mates, they would pull and I would watch men's glances sweep straight past me and I'd welcome it. I ate ever increasing portions, I loved the sickly feeling of being overfull.
I've dealt with some issues, but my issues around food are still with me.

Slightly more complex than "I love Ben & Jerrys", but that's the truth of how I got where I am!

 

[bichonbabies]

I love food and I eat massive portions. Love takeaways meals out socialising... Just food in general!! Fell in love and got far too content. He loves food too then got lazy and over worked and stopped food shopping and just lived off takeaways. When I cooked cooked huge portions and then the left overs never got in the fridge just down our throats!!
I have poly cystic ovaries so they say the weight is difficult to shift. If I'm honest I wouldn't know because I never tried that hard to loose it before.

But love and pure happiness and contentment put the last 4 stone on... I have the best family in the world no one ever said to your getting too fat or I was fat until I couldn't conceive... What a great post

 

[xkirsty88]

I was a big child.. From about the age of 6 I started putting weight on.. Was really hard to shift, even when just eating healthy.. Even tried a jelly diet where I'd eat jelly and ice lolly's - obviously now I know that's just empty calories.. My dad has sold fruit and veg all his life and I never shied away from the stuff - I love fruit and veg... Tried lots of suggestions via doctors/hospitals/ dieticians and nothing ever made me lose anything. Then came secondary school, along with the bullies, horrible evil girls, then the boys started as I put more weight on... I never realised if I'd comfort eaten, or not... Mum also have big portions, and I'd also been brought up not to waste food.. I suffered with depression from about 14 to about 16, and then obviously I'd comfort eat.. Then it became eating out of boredom as well. I got to about 18/19 stone before I finished school. I was wearing size 24/26 trousers. All was good for a while after that, then I started working as a carer. After 2 months I injured my back and couldn't work, lost 2 stone in those 2 months (I was around 23st and got down to 21st) but then I started eating out of boredom again, then depression hit hard, so the comfort eating started. And I shot back up to almost 26st. The heaviest I've been.. I'm trying my hardest now, to control my portions and the kinds of food I eat, but sometimes it's really hard.. This is why I'm hoping for the wls.. Kirsty

 

[chummy]

I'd like to think it was bad self control. Sadly I know it's not.

I meet a hypnotherapist a while back who I worked with for a very short period of time. It was fascinating because I know I was trying my best to hide the reasons for my over eating - but not to him.

It basically boiled down to an unhappy childhood - father an alcoholic and a mother who tried her best but money was very tight so we lived a very sparse lifestyle - food being limited. I was never overweight as a child, but as soon as I could earn my own money I would buy food to satisfy my need. Thereby the over eating began. And I gorged until I had my first child. Then life changed a little. Sadly I didn't end up bringing baby home so this escalated my eating until I meet my husband. But when out marriage feel apart (infidelity on his part) I ballooned again.

I've since lots all the weight by diet and exercise but put it all back on again with a life style change. Now I'm doing this again but for the last time. My band is a tool to aid me to keep it off. I'm doing this for me, for a healthier life and a longer existence. Oh and so i feel confident to meet the man of my dreams. I know he's out there somewhere.

Good luck all xxxxx

 

[bichonbabies]

Chummy u had your op the same day as me can us ask how much you gave lost so far

 

[chummy]

Chummy u had your op the same day as me can us ask how much you gave lost so far

2 1/2 stone. How you doing?

 

[Yvessa]

I still don't really know. How messed up is that?

 

[chummy]

I still don't really know. How messed up is that?

Don't worry hon. We're in it for the long haul. I only had a fill two weeks Tuesday as my stomach was too sensitive and I'm not feeling restriction yet. I'm hanging on in there by not eating for more that 20 mins.

Hang on in there. Xx

 

[Yvessa]

But that's my point. I am still me, still like my food but I can stick to a plan. And I couldn't before. And I can't in all honesty tell you what's different. But something must be or I would not have lost as much as I had.

 

[Yvessa]

And equally I still don't think I ever ate enough to justify being 30 stone never mind the fact that I had a job that saw me on my feet for 5hours a day. It just doesn't add up.

 

[Samstb]

Obsessed with food.
Not even the cheap nasty stuff, I mean the good stuff! Michelin star restaurants etc...

Contentment too!

Been with my fella since I was 15, so we became content very quickly.

I stopped thinking of food as just fuel and saw it as something to be cherished!

I've come to realise I'm going to start missing out on the things I really cherish if my love affair with food doesn't end.

X

 

[Summerband]

Eating too much of the wrong stuff.

I was a grazer and loved cakes, chocolate, biscuits, bread, pasta....complete carb junkie, had no idea about the issues too my carbs create or how they can impact on your body and health.

I have always hated being full, and rarely felt hungry....because I would constantly much little bits and pieces.

 

[Lippyloirston]

For me I never experienced the feeling of being full and satisfied.

 

[selena100]

I just liked to eat ,that made me fat . I liked food

 

[WeightlossDreamer]

i made me fat! living to eat not eating to live, full box of french fancies yeah why not ill eat the lot IN ONE GO!!!!!!!!! takeaways all the time, eating out all the time!
I look back and am disgusted with myself.