Why are you fat? Time for honesty!

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COVID19 has brought obesity to attention. The greater risk of becoming seriously ill or dying with COVID19 if you are overweight cannot be denied.
64% of the UK is overweight or obese yet many seem to be in denial or not aware that they are in fact overweight.
Time for honesty- if you are overweight or obese, why? Is it will power? Money reasons? Lack of knowledge of health eating?
Have you been in denial about your weight? Has coronavirus alerted you to the fact you are indeed overweight?
I am speaking from experience as I was in denial for years - thought I could eat anything I wanted and didn’t put on weight. It wasn’t until I went with the friend to a WW meeting (only went to keep her company as she didn’t want to go on her own) and I got weighed and was shocked that actually I was overweight be a good 2 stone!
So- why are you fat and are you going to bother to do anything about it?

I. Like food. Particularly chocolate and carbs

My reasons are many-fold!

I love food. I mean, my life revolves around it. When I book a holiday I choose a hotel based on the restaurants that are nearby. I choose day trips based on the lunch they serve Etc. When I go away with DP for a weekend we try and time our day so that we can have a big breakfast, afternoon tea and a proper dinner all in one day

If we go for a walk, there’s usually a good shop or cafe at the end of it!

I sweat - A LOT! So doing any activity means my clothes get soaking wet and I smell sweaty. This makes me reluctant to eg hoover or briskly tidy up. Everything i do, I do gently and slowly because it doesn’t make me as hot that way.

I eat late at night out of boredom - a bowl of cornflakes or a bar of chocolate at midnight, two or three (25g) bags of crisps while watching TV.

I’m not that fussed about looking thinner, I’m actually ok with a bit of a covering! The thing that pushes me to want to lose weight is finding bending over hard or being breathless, not what I look like.

My DP also doesn’t make me feel bad about being overweight (he is too) so I don’t have that pressure/incentive to lose weight that many people have.

I also have an underactive thyroid which doesn’t help matters. Currently changing my medication and struggling - have put on a stone in about a month.

I do like some fruit and veg, but given the choice, I would never waste a meal having salad.

Plus I live for cake. I’m a great baker, so even if I don’t buy cakes, I have the wherewithal to make anything my heart desires within minutes!

I think that about covers it.

FWIW I just joined BIWI’s bootcamp thread so hopefully in 6 weeks or so, I will be significantly less fat!

I'm a size 14 to 16, I exercise, but I do have big portions and love food. A small portion just doesn't full me. I was slim before children, I think my metabolic rate has changed. I'm going to try harder to shift some pounds. I have stopped snacks.

I'm 5'11 exercise regularly, and before Covid-19 never concerned myself about my weight. My husband's gained a few pounds over the last 20 years since we met.

I am very active but genuinely always feel very hungry. I'm always ever so slightly overweight, despite my best intentions.

Because I'm an emotional eater, because I used being chronically sleep deprived for the last 16 months as an excuse to crave sugar, because I used breastfeeding as an excuse, because I have lost my will lower and sense of self, the list goes on

Welcome to Mumsnet. What an interesting message

Oh and I joined the gym. First couple of weeks I did some weights etc and used the running machines. I would go in the spa pool afterwards. Then the exercise got shorter and the spa session longer, until I stopped bothering with the gym part altogether

I’m a hedonist. What can I say?

I'm lazy and I eat too much because I'm bored and have zero self-discipline. Not because of CV, this is me every day.

I’ve got fat since lockdown, went from a 10 to a 14. Don’t recognise myself anymore, I now work from and study so spend around 13 hours a day in front of a screen and barely move. I need to sort it out!

The best way to deal with the obesity crisis is to properly invest in mental health and stop crapping on poor people.

*from home

Portion size and snacks

Crisps

I eat the wrong food. I know how to eat right. I just don't like it. I also don't move enough

I'm fat because I have no willpower, I just can't stop eating even when I know it's not helping my health (like now). I hate it, I haven't got hardly any photos of me with my kids, I refuse to have my photo taken, I don't go swimming on holiday, I dread summer but yet I still stuff my face like the big fat cow that I am, I sat out of camera view on a zoom quiz this afternoon with my dh's friends because I can't look at my face. I seriously think I need some kind of professional help. I'm so terrified I'm going to catch Covid and die because of my weight that I barely leave the house now.

I feel like I need to go to fat camp and be put on a restrictive diet!

So I'm fat because I have no willpower and I don't know what to do about it.

Because I’m an emotional eater. I have two children with disabilities. We’ve had to go to court on behalf of one before and life in general is stressful. I wish I hadn’t turned to food and I’m massively ashamed of how big I’ve gotten.

I've been up and down in weight for years. Yo-yo dieting. Food replacement diets weight watchers etc.

When I'm thin I have ravenous, uncontrollable hunger, which virtually compels me to overeat till I reach obese.

When I'm fat, my appetite is stable, but I still love and am possible addicted to delicious foods like ice cream and chocolate.

And I never, ever feel full or satisfied. I'm always either hungry or slightly peckish.

I put on weight because I gave up alcohol and actually started eating (too much) cakes, biscuits, sweets. I decided to cut back and was shocked to find out how much effort it took just to stop gaining let alone losing. Fortunately lockdown anxiety completely stole my appetite and am back down to a healthier weight.

Because I take steroids every day for the rest of my life because of asthma and Addison’s disease. If I don’t want to put on weight I’d have to really limit my calorie intake to about 1000 a day. I’ve tried and that’s the only way I’ll lose weight. Anything over that and with the steroids my weight just creeps up. I’m currently 5ft 7 and just over 13 stone. Pre asthma and Addison’s I was always about 9 stone. I haven’t changed what I eat. It sucks. I do a lot of exercise too.

For me it was due to comfort eating and binging on rubbish food after becoming a first time mum. I hate the person I have become and very rarely look in the mirror!

I'm also so fucking bored even before lockdown, kids are at school, dh at work and I'm at home. I don't work because I do odd bits and pieces for dh (works for himself) so all day I'm on my own from 9-4pm and I'm so bored and lonely I just eat. Biscuits, crisps, chocolates whatever I can find in the house.

Profoundly under-active thyroid undiagnosed for 12 years during which I put on 10 stone. Thanks NHS. Never given any help to lose it, either.

My in-laws are overweight and seem to have just given up.
They were not brought up to eat healthfully or exercise portion control.
They also admit to "stress eating."
The last thing I want to when I'm stressed is eat.
Heaven forbid I be too stuffed to move when the sabre-toothed tiger/psycho killer/over-eager recruiter for school committees comes after me...

I'm fat because I feel panicky and anxious when I'm at work, this sometimes makes me feel light headed and I feel the solution is to eat. So basically at work I'm constantly grazing. I know it's mad. Since being in lockdown I'm eating way less than I would at work.