Why are you overweight?

[amillerjones 0]

While I voted for poor food choices; I would like to go deeper into why we make poor food choices and lack of excercise? What made us feel like we weren't worth the better food choices and excercise?

[gjray 0]

Great question. I was an overweight child. I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family and going bite for bite with my daddy. The rest of the family would stop eating and wait for him to finish. Me I'd continue to eat as long as he did. That allowed the discussion to focus on me and daddy. I slimmed down as a teenager. My daddy was to proud. I went on to become an active teen. I had always been a good student, but I always heard"...but she is fat". My response was usually "but I'm not ugly". So when I lost the weight I became one of the 'in crowd'. I had poor eating habits and usually found comfort in food. Not junk food, meat & potatoes. This became my comfort food. As an active teen I was moving too much to get fat. However as soon as college was over and I settled into marriage I began to grow and grow. My comfort weight went from 140 to 165 to 198 finally settling at 230. The hardest part of the lap band process has been finding other ways to handle frustrations, stress and having to make a decision to attempt meat & potatoes and risk and 'spit-up' or waiting out the emotion and waiting until I'm truly hungry

Gjray

230/199

5/30/2006 - Today

Goal 146 - June 2008