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fat folks, how did it happen?

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i like to drink chocolate milk! hehe i can lose 10 pounds im sure i have like 1 little roll and weigh 225 6'3" but my weight changes alot i go from 215 to 225 in 2 days of eating then lose it in next few days. My diet is not eating french fries and no soda (and i dont even stick to that tho i dont order it ever just eat the kids fries if they dont) everything else is game =P
 
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Food is good, and metabolism change. I used to be 110 and eat eat eat eat all the time, when I was in college. Even when i started working full time, I gained a bit but not much, and I ate fast food almost every day (help desk job, lot of overtime/working through lunch etc). I noticed recently, maybe in the past year, now I actually have to watch what I eat. Guess my metabolism has slowed down. I'm actually 155ish right now. 😱 Been being more careful now. I don't get why people let themselves go. I slowed down on pop, and decided to eat smaller meals and less snacks. My goal is to be around 140-145ish.

Thing is, I have just a bit of fat on me and find it uncomfortable. Some stretches are harder to do, etc... I don't get why people let themselves go and don't feel uncomfortable doing it. Not good for the heart either.
 
RedSquirrel said:
Food is good, and metabolism change. I used to be 110 and eat eat eat eat all the time, when I was in college. Even when i started working full time, I gained a bit but not much, and I ate fast food almost every day (help desk job, lot of overtime/working through lunch etc). I noticed recently, maybe in the past year, now I actually have to watch what I eat. Guess my metabolism has slowed down. I'm actually 155ish right now. 😱 Been being more careful now. I don't get why people let themselves go. I slowed down on pop, and decided to eat smaller meals and less snacks. My goal is to be around 140-145ish.

Thing is, I have just a bit of fat on me and find it uncomfortable. Some stretches are harder to do, etc... I don't get why people let themselves go and don't feel uncomfortable doing it. Not good for the heart either.
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i think 140 pounds = weakling , i want to see pics of op he prob would lose a fight with any person he called overweight in this thread
 
Gooberlx2 said:
Ballooned? 5'5" and 130lbs is like a size 6-7. Give me a fuckin' break.

...or she lied and was larger than 130lbs.
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this. but apparently you like skeletor model chicks, so whatever.

im still overweight, it gets easy to shrug and say "whatever" after a while. especially after a few attempts at getting rid of the extra weight fail. i gained when i changed from a strenuous, physical job (loading semi trailers by hand) to a cushy desk job that i have still. i need to lose about 100lbs, but the extra weight hasnt kept me from doing a whole bunch of stuff. i still go places, hike and do things with my kids. i play volleyball daily with my daughters as well as help out during their practices, i ride bike with my kids as well. at one point i actually dropped 95lbs and was feeling great about it, ready to keep it off and lose that last 20 everyone struggles with. then my wife left and i reverted right back to old ways and gained it all back. in like a year. sucked.
 
hanoverphist said:
this. but apparently you like skeletor model chicks, so whatever.

im still overweight, it gets easy to shrug and say "whatever" after a while. especially after a few attempts at getting rid of the extra weight fail. i gained when i changed from a strenuous, physical job (loading semi trailers by hand) to a cushy desk job that i have still. i need to lose about 100lbs, but the extra weight hasnt kept me from doing a whole bunch of stuff. i still go places, hike and do things with my kids. i play volleyball daily with my daughters as well as help out during their practices, i ride bike with my kids as well. at one point i actually dropped 95lbs and was feeling great about it, ready to keep it off and lose that last 20 everyone struggles with. then my wife left and i reverted right back to old ways and gained it all back. in like a year. sucked.
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nope, she's a very curvy 110ish, with a nice set of D's. she's got some extra chub around the tummy but still has the hourglass figure.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
.00001% of the population has weight related thyroid issues and all of a sudden everyone is quoting this as if it were the #1 reason.

i hate this cop out excuse.
for 99.9% of people, you're eating too much and exercising too little. it's that simple.
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Aren't 84% of statics made up? And good of you to soundbyte my post to a single sentence, where the rest of it clearly placed the blame at the person who was overeating.
GJ! 🙄
 
Deeko said:
Well, that's not a huge increase. Its not too hard to put on 20 pounds if you're lazy and overeat. What I don't understand is the people who go from relatively thin to BIG. Like, lower 100's to 200-250. How do you let that happen to yourself?
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yeah. I would think that 20# increase is typical for aging, as metabolism slows down. Seems difficult for it not to happen in most people without life adjustments. ...also seems like an easy fix for those willing to work at. More of a mental issue than a physical one.

gaining 100+ #, as you said, is the true wtf.

130# for an average height woman isn't terribly unhealthy, imo. I can't imagine that it looks that bad, either, as it was the accepted ideal not too long ago. Thin as a rail is far worse

...then again I can't visualize what that would look like at 5'5"--those people hover a few atmospheres below me, so I guess I wouldn't notice them anyway 😀
 
Juddog said:
Going from biking to work every morning and back home at the end of the day, while working a physical job, to driving to work in a car then sitting at a desk all day. I used to be able to eat 4000 calories a day and still lose weight, now if I eat 3000 calories in a day I gain weight.
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This is a big one for me. Right out of college, at 23, I got a job as an Aquarium Biologist. I was swimming or scuba diving nearly 3 hours a day, and the rest was running around a huge facility, carrying 5 gallon buckets of water from one place to another, bending, lifting, etc.... I ate a metric ton of food to maintain 160lbs at 5'11". I had jobs like this for a few more years until I changed career paths and got a desk job. Of course, my appetite never changed and I had this black hole for a stomach because of my previous eating habits.

Now I'm 30, been working a desk since late-2007, and peaked at about 190lbs sometime in 2009. I've really been working at keeping, and trying to stick to an exercise routine since the New Year. I've lost ~10lbs so far and have about 15lbs to go before I'll be happy. I want to get back to a 32" waist.
 
I've gained 11 pounds since I got married in June. Then again, I was a beanpole to begin with, so I'm probably still underweight.
 
Dietary, lack of physical activity.

A year and a half ago I was at 210 lbs. I had a desk job, rarely exercised and ate fast food alot.

Fast forward to today. I am 165 lbs. I still have a desk job, but play soccer and tennis a few times a week. I still eat out alot, just healthier food.
 
I'm currently just under 6'5" with a weight of around 280. When I was a senior in high school, I think my lowest was down around 180, which at that point I was pretty skinny for a tall guy. A couple years later I met my future wife, I was probably around 195.

We moved in together 2-3 years after that, and that's when my weight gain really started. The first problem was that I had just started a new job which was right next door to a gas station. I worked there for almost 4 years, and looking back on it now, pretty much every day I was walking next door and getting a 32 oz. fountain drink and a hot dog or two, sometimes some candy of some sort. Plus, my now live-in girlfriend was fixing dinner every night, something my bachelor self rarely did. I always ate a big lunch and that was pretty much my food for the day. Even if I ate 2k calories at lunch, that was all that I would eat. Now I was adding dinner and all this soda and junk on top of it.

I ballooned up towards 250 around when we got married. Now 4 years later, I've hit 280. That was a month ago. I'm at a job currently where I sit 8 hours a day, and I do nothing when I get home. I still play basketball when it's warm, but not enough to make a difference. About a month ago after finishing up a basketball league here at work, I was pretty mad at myself for being so tired and soaked in sweat after just 10 minutes on the court every game. So for the past month, I've been going to a local church that has some equipment and I've been running/walking on a treadmill at least twice a week. I've also been trying to cut down on eating out for breakfast and lunch and making healthier choices all around. Honestly, that's a work in process.

In my month of somewhat getting better, I've dropped about 4 or 5 pounds, which isn't much, but I'm trying (still have some mental work to do). Another basketball league starts up here in about 3 weeks, which I will combine with my treadmill running. It'll also be warm out, so I'll be playing basketball even more at the park.

I don't currently have any kind of weight goal, but I know what I need to do, and I feel like I'm slowly getting there. If I could get down to 260 by the end of June, I'd be ecstatic. We'll see how it goes.
 
Juddog said:
Going from biking to work every morning and back home at the end of the day, while working a physical job, to driving to work in a car then sitting at a desk all day. I used to be able to eat 4000 calories a day and still lose weight, now if I eat 3000 calories in a day I gain weight.

It's one of the reasons I wish that more cities in the US were bicycle friendly; if we didn't have cars to take us everywhere I guarantee the fat epidemic in the US would go away pretty damn quick. Instead we have the current situation, where in many cities it's outright dangerous to bike around (I was hit by a car, while totally following the road rules and having the right of way, by some 73 year old man that didn't know what he was doing / wasn't paying attention).

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My bike trip to work took approximately 40 minutes to get there, and another 40 minutes to get back. So that's close to 1 1/2 hours of biking a day, every work day.
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Yep. I can think of 2 situations in my life where I gained weight because of reduced activity (for the record, I've never been even remotely overweight. Even at my worst, I'd still be considered fit).

I ran varsity track and cross-country in university. The summer of my second year, I put on 10 lbs over 4 months, despite running a similar amount (5-6 times per week). The reason: I got an admin/desk job over the summer. Once I got back to school and I was walking all over campus to my classes, the library, cafeteria, etc., I lost the weight again.

A couple years ago, I went traveling to Europe for 3 months. I was a fit 135 lbs before leaving (5'9"). I didn't run at all while away, but I walked an average of 6-8 hours per day while sight-seeing. I drank a fair bit and ate whatever I wanted. I was up to 145 lbs when I got home.

Now I'm back under control - lost those 10lbs and put on 5lbs of muscle. I'm now a very fit 140 lbs.

The quality and quantity of food makes the largest difference to people's weight, but I do think that simply incorporating more activity into daily life (walking more or biking) would be very helpful for most people.
 
I gained a lot of weight towards the end of college because I ate too much unhealthy food and was living a very sedentary lifestyle. There were some bad things going on in my life at the time, and I guess pizza and General Tso's chicken were comforting. I don't wish to sound like I'm making excuses, just explaining how it happened. A couple of years later I finally pulled myself together, made more of an effort to eat healthy and started jogging & biking regularly. Sure enough a decent portion of what I gained was burned off. Sadly I'm still heavier than I was six years ago, but I've lost a lot of what I gained and I feel MUCH better now that I try to maintain a decent level of physical fitness.
 
loki8481 said:
speaking for myself, I was always a big kid... I hit the 200 pound mark around 4th or 5th grade, 300 by the time I graduated high school, and 400+ by college graduation.

my parents were complete and total food nazis... the way my parents were about things like soda or candy was kinda like how other parents are about drugs and alcohol. I got in more trouble for the time my parents found a bag of chips in my backpack than the time I came home drunk in junior year. so spending my allowance on junk food was like my version of teenage rebellion.

after being told for my entire childhood and adolescence that no one would ever love a fat person, eventually my attitude was just fuck it and I stopped caring. after college, I got a job working overnights and my roommate and I did nothing but smoke pot and eat pizza/hot pockets.

when you're that big, it's kinda shocking how much food you require just to not be hungry. an average lunch for me would have been a 12" sub (with mayo, natch), 20 oz bottle of mountain dew, and a slice of cake or a candy bar. and good luck exercising when you get tired just walking down the stairs.

it took some not-insignificant events to kinda like wake me up from my fugue state... I don't know for sure what my highest weight was because I didn't have a scale that could measure that high, but I'm guessing it was in the ~450 range. currently down to 165.
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Truly inspirational. Well done! :thumbsup:
 
loki8481 said:
it took some not-insignificant events to kinda like wake me up from my fugue state... I don't know for sure what my highest weight was because I didn't have a scale that could measure that high, but I'm guessing it was in the ~450 range. currently down to 165.
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Kudos, that's really impressive.
 
Depression. Sense of helplessness.

MY poor body is like greenland: Gone up and down 60 - 100 lbs at least 4 times...

Going down and staying fit this time for good...
 
it's funny, I was always convinced I was big-boned/had a large frame until I lost weight.

turns out I can wrap my fingers around my wrist and connect my thumb/pinky.
 
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