What (honestly) made you fat?

[Wendy1]

Cream cakes, i use to love them if i saw a special offer i was in heaven. Know i never even look at them ( love my bypass) xx

 

[Smallerme]

I wasn't an overweight child and didn't start putting on weight until I was 19. By the time I was 20 I'd put on 4 stone in a year. I think it was the combination of drink, drugs, food, shift work and stopping burning off the weight like you do when you're still growing. Then babies, I actually weighed less than I had in years after my first but a combination of bereavements meant I was very big by the time I had my second. Lost weight again. More trauma, a third baby, PTSD left me very big. Lost 4.5st a couple of years back, piled 5.5st back on.

My basic diet has always been good. It's the crap I ate and drank on top of it. I love good, homecooked food and all veggies in pretty normal portion sizes. And then evening hit and I'd be in and out of the cupboard & fridge all night. 2-4 packets of crisps, most of a packet of biscuits sometimes but mostly overeating by going back for more and more. I'm an emotional eater through and through.

I've addressed some of the big issues in my life this last year and feeling very much like this is the last big thing to tackle.

 

[bichonbabies]

2 1/2 stone. How you doing?

Good for you chummy.. 2 stone 10 how you feeling now

 

[borogirl]

I was in denial and didn't realise how big I was. Over confident in front of people, and a secret eater. No exercise. Convenience food and takeaways far too often.
Contentment and a love of nice food and drink. Too much todo therefore eating whatever come to hand played a part.
My parents did, and still do try to reward with food but its not their fault. All down to me.

I would eat for any and every emotion, happy, sad etc...

 

[shelleymarie]

I'm the reason I'm fat because I put the food in my mouth but why I did that was comfort. Food was my friend when no one else could comfort me the way it did or the way I thought it did. When I was little my family had this awful thing that if you fell over you got a packet of crisps or if you were sick the biggest bowl of cheesy pasta you could imagine. I never felt full, probably in my head and it was never enough. I'd feel good for a bit and then I wanted to feel that stuffed feeling again. From the age of 9 I was put on all sorts of strict and unusual diets. The cabbage soup diet, weight watchers, egg diet, shake diets, cereal diets etc. All very unhealthy for my age but the doctors badgered my mum about my weight so much she thought she was doing the best thing. Each time I lost weight I put on twice as much as I lost as soon as I was allowed to eat again. My mum and grandmother suffered the same way. No one ever really taking the time to teach us the real healthy way to do things. My nan was even hospitalise at 25 stone back in the '70's and fed nothing but oranges for a month. Crazy isn't it? Anyway I became obsessed with food and developed binge eating disorder. It wasn't until got cbt for it and then the surgery I felt that I could finally get a grip on it. I still think about food too much though and I doubt that will ever change. I just hope I've learnt enough now to recognise if it ever got out of control again.

 

[loveday]

It's so interesting. So many emotions are attached to eating and so many of us have used food as an emotional prop. I think when you eat huge portions your stomach gets so big that you get to the point that you never feel full. I certainly never seemed to feel full.

I used to find an excuse to eat for every occasion and emotion. Happy, sad, worried, birthday, hard week, good week, etc etc!

The biggest change since the band is the feeling I am liberating myself from how much food dominates my thoughts.

PS 2 months post band and 2.4stone down but not with any major restriction yet. But the scales are nudging DOWN not UP!!!

I think everyone who has taken the step to get surgery has taken control of their lives back and should be proud. It's a brave step and choosing surgery requires a level of honesty about the state you have got yourself into that not everyone has.

 

[femfrankie]

Now let's see ..
I used to blame
My health being a reason for taking no exercise
The courses of steroids I have to take

Sitting down and looking seriously as to why I had gotten so big wasn't so easy to do and the only person I would be kidding was myself

1 .. yes I had so many health disability issues that made exercise extremely difficult but what I really lacked was the motivation to go find something that was suitable for me to do.

2 .. Steroids are well known hunger boosters but there us nothing on the packet that says you have to devoir everything & anything that comes your way. There were healthier choices out there I just chose to ignore them.

3 .. My eating regime was non existent. I could go all day without food or fluid until late afternoon by which time I was like a ravenous bear and there was just no stopping the munchies.

4 .. Portion control... What was that?

5 .. Emotional eating. Stressed I'm not stressed as two packets of Maltesers bite the dust in minutes

6.. I loved food to the extreme

Simple x

 

[Banderbird]

I just got stuck into a routine of dieting, giving up, then going into denial about my weight.

It's never stopped me doing anything - I go the gym, go skiing, go on roller coasters, fit comfortably in plane seats and get clothes/boots from high street stores .. but I just hate being 'big'.

I've never been thin, even as a young teenager - I was a size 12-14 at secondary school.

I first went to Weight Watchers aged 15, and weighing 13 stone! I lost a stone and a half, but never kept it off.

The over the years I tried Rosemary Conley, Atkins and Slim Fast - then five years ago I joined WW again, this time weighing 14st 11.

I lost over 2 stone then got stuck on a plateau. I went to my doctor and was prescribed Reductil. Then I started taking laxatives, and I was permanently starving.

I ended up getting down to 11st 4 and I was a size 12! I loved being so slim, but I just couldn't sustain it.

My GP said I'd lost enough weight, and took me off the Reductil. I put on half a stone within a few weeks, and from there the iron will crumbled and it all crept back on again over the course of two years.

I joined a gym to try and get fit and keep my weight down, but in my head this also meant I could eat what I liked.

I knew I was getting too big, so I went back to the GP in January this year and was prescribed Orlistat, and given an NHS subscription to Slimming World. I only lost half a stone over the three months, and hated going to the meetings. I also hated the way it works, it doesn't address portion size at all.

I soon put the 7 pounds back on, and more.

So this summer I ended up at 15 stone 9, the heaviest I've ever been.

Oddly enough, because of the muscle I'd gained at the gym, I'm still a size 16 - I had actually been an 18 before.

Eventually, I decided a band was what I needed to stop the miserable cycle of yo-yo dieting once and for all.

The reason I put on weight was simply eating too much of the wrong things, and loving junk food a bit too much.

I had no intention of ever getting to 16 stone or above, so action had to be taken.

I'm now looking forward to being slim for good.

 

[WeightlossDreamer]

I just got stuck into a routine of dieting, giving up, then going into denial about my weight. It's never stopped me doing anything - I go the gym, go skiing, go on roller coasters, fit comfortably in plane seats and get clothes/boots from high street stores .. but I just hate being 'big'. I've never been thin, even as a young teenager - I was a size 12-14 at secondary school. I first went to Weight Watchers aged 15, and weighing 13 stone! I lost a stone and a half, but never kept it off. The over the years I tried Rosemary Conley, Atkins and Slim Fast - then five years ago I joined WW again, this time weighing 14st 11. I lost over 2 stone then got stuck on a plateau. I went to my doctor and was prescribed Reductil. Then I started taking laxatives, and I was permanently starving. I ended up getting down to 11st 4 and I was a size 12! I loved being so slim, but I just couldn't sustain it. My GP said I'd lost enough weight, and took me off the Reductil. I put on half a stone within a few weeks, and from there the iron will crumbled and it all crept back on again over the course of two years. I joined a gym to try and get fit and keep my weight down, but in my head this also meant I could eat what I liked. I knew I was getting too big, so I went back to the GP in January this year and was prescribed Orlistat, and given an NHS subscription to Slimming World. I only lost half a stone over the three months, and hated going to the meetings. I also hated the way it works, it doesn't address portion size at all. I soon put the 7 pounds back on, and more. So this summer I ended up at 15 stone 9, the heaviest I've ever been. Oddly enough, because of the muscle I'd gained at the gym, I'm still a size 16 - I had actually been an 18 before. Eventually, I decided a band was what I needed to stop the miserable cycle of yo-yo dieting once and for all. The reason I put on weight was simply eating too much of the wrong things, and loving junk food a bit too much. I had no intention of ever getting to 16 stone or above, so action had to be taken. I'm now looking forward to being slim for good.

I definately agree with u about slimming world I first tried it at 16 weighing 11 and a half stone I lost 2 and a half stone but like you could not sustain it! They make out so long as you eat their recommended food u can eat as many as you want x

 

[ClaireMarie]

Greed, lack of control. Seeking comfort.

 

[tealovingsleever]

Eating too much and for the wrong reasons.