Weight Problems Acquired How?

[mensimageconsultant]

If you don't mind answering a poll, if weight wasn't a problem in childhood, what made it become a problem? Or someone can point to research that covers the poll options.

 

[wEstSidE]

I was incapacitated for a long time and that made me gain a lot of weight (ca. 20 lbs.). It took me a summer to lose it.

 

[Huntsman]

There copmes a point in time when, if you like to eat and cook like a Frenchman, you realize that you no longer metabolize it like when you were 18. It is a sad day. I'm up about 15lbs, and my better suits are a little uncomfortable. This I must fix.

~ Huntsman

 

[kmwrestle]

stress depression for me....a good 140lbs in 3 yrs

 

[Brian SD]

stress definitely. I weigh less than i did when i started college. 140 down from 145!

 

[Matt]

busyness combines with laziness

 

[Nantucket Red]

No option for lack of exercise or a lifestyle that makes getting enough exercise difficult?

 

[CTGuy]

Definitely stress and laziness combined with what NR said. Presently trying to lose some lbs after a a hectic last year of law school, taking the bar, and then working on a senate campaign.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Living in the South + desk job + lack of exercise options

 

[Impulse155]

i'd say its gotta do with ur diet. i know

40 lbs (lost)! woohoo!

 

[mensimageconsultant]

That's usually part of it, but not always. Not including an option about limited time to exercise (or at least "Other&quot was a mistake. (People wishing to choose that option might as well select "Stress.&quot It is nice to be getting replies.

 

[sho'nuff]

i used to be a svelte 175 lb korean dude who was able to bench 305 lbs.

5 years later i am a 210 lb. korean ***** who can still probably bench 250 if i tried. i havent touched weights in a long while though.



...dont mind me, just wanted to boast.

i forgot to add, that i gained the weight over the years just due to plain slowing down of the metabolism, and lack of time to do exercise like i had when i was young.
i think my eating habits changed for the better though.

 

[LA Guy]

Never any real weight problems. I base my schedule around my workouts. If you have health, everything else is secondary, right?

Edit: the lack of time thing is not a valid excuse, imo. It's really misplaced priorities. I know world class scientists who also have heavy administrative workloads (they work about 12-14 hour days) who are in top form (barring knee injuries, etc...) in their 60s. You might say "These guys have flexible schedules", and whatever. But I also know junior I banker types and junior associate lawyers who have their schedules dictated to them who get up at 5 am to work out, or get in a workout at 11 pm directly after they get off work. It only takes a membership to a gym close to work or home and dedication combined woth force of habit to stick to something like this. And in the event that you *really don't have time* (like those days you have to pack in all nighters to meet deadlines, get up from your desk every half hour, on the half hour, to do 30 burpees. Takes about 2 minutes.

 

[globetrotter]

its a number of related things -

1. some people have more of a natural tendency to gain weight than others. genetics and a number of other factors play here. it doens't mean that you will definatly be fat, but it means that you have to work harder. I spent most of my life working very hard to keep fit, even at my most fit, if I stopped running for a few days I would start to gain weight, even at a diet that was, theoretically, low in calories for my weight.

2. with me, when I started living with my (then girlfriend) wife, I pretty much stopped going to the gym and running. I have been going to the gym 4-5 times a week, and running 2 KM a day, pretty much for ever. I started commuting about 1 hour to work each way, and then, when I got home, I had to decide if I wanted to go to a gym full of sweaty guys, or stay home and have some sex and ice cream. guess what won.

3. when the stress builds, I put on more weight. for some of us, food is very comforting

4. i eat in some very good resteraunts for work. and then you get the situation of "well, I am going to be in Italy for 2 meals this year, do I have a salad and grilled sole, or the torellini in cream sauce and the roast lamb?"


so, I have just ballooned up in weight since I met my wife, I weigh twice what I did at 18. I still get to the gym once a week or so, and my blood pressure, my blood sugar, my cholesteral and other vitals are all very good, it just looks like ****.

 

[Thomas]

Weight was a problem in childhood, from moving to a new city and losing interest in physical activities. I lost most of it by college, and never looked back. I weight less today than I did during middle school, over 20 years later.

It must be noted that my mom is overweight, dad had his share but has trimmed down again, but beyond that, weight is not an issue among the ancestors.