antipsychotics/antidepressants can fuck you over weight wise. Mental illness can fuck over your motivation
I gained 10 lbs when I hit menopause. I don’t remember eating more or exercising less, but there it was, right around my middle. Dieting doesn’t seem to affect it, nor does exercising. It annoys the crap out of me, but it appears that I’m stuck with it.
I dunno whether to blame myself for it or not. I’m pretty disciplined, but I do allow myself to eat whatever I want when I go to a good restaurant. But that’s just occasionally, so I doubt that’s the root of my problem.
80-% me – I eat badly and at the wrong times (too heavy late in the day) and don’t get enough regular sustained exercise.
The 20% are the joys of adulthood today. Too much work influencing my life and schedule and not as many hours in the day as I would like. Also traveling for work now and then and it all adds up.
110% me.
I love beer and weed. I enjoy good food. I’m old so I don’t really give a fuck.
100% me. Too much beer and junky food. I’m hella overweight right now and I know I can lose most of it through diet and exercise, but I will never be slim and trim because I don’t want to work THAT hard. By nature, I am a very lazy person and I know this.
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I’m not sure how I would put a percentage to it. I currently am hauling 24-28 pounds of diseased kidneys in my midsection. Remove them and I’d still not be thin, but I would weigh less than I did 20 years ago. Kidney failure tires a person out, so exercise is not super high on my to do list every day, but I try to get into the pool at least twice a week. My diet is abysmal use to restrictions and what I like.
Sorry for not making my humor more clear. I’m not fat, God doesn’t exist and nearly everything in my life is my fault. 
Probably not as bad, but it still puts a strain on your heart. If you are actively lifting you’re holding a lot of blood and water in those muscles, you can switch your exercise to something that will make you leaner and reduce that somewhat. I’m no expert on the matter but some muscular athletes do that when they’re no longer active in their sport. Also the extra weight is a strain on your joints and your back. OTOH you are probably way healthier than a thin but sedentary person.
This thread is motivating me to get rid of those extra pounds. I gotta get some swimming or other low impact exercise going.
For the past five years I’ve taken up jogging a min. of 5.5 miles, ave. 8.5 miles every day (even those not conducive, which has elicited conptemptuous attacks on my sanity by motorists). This season, extra determined to not lose much “progress”, I’ve taken up jump rope. I do a min. 1 hour with a few 1-2 minute breaks (more for my feet’s sake than heart and lungs’) five days a week.
I don’t count my calories, but I don’t eat junk or snack between meals either.
I’m a good 30-40 pounds overweight with prominent paunch. I’ll leave my degree of culpability to you.
I’ve a sardonic attitude towards fitness.
According to bmi I’m 30 pounds overweight, but I feel like I’m in good shape and exercise alot. I’m perfectly comfortable w myself and have never felt overweight. I really feel as though ones body fat percentage would be a more accurate measure. But to answer the question, I don’t realy think its my fault.
I voted 70/30. It’s mostly me, because I eat too much and move too little. The 30% is for the meds I’m on. The periods when I’ve had to use them, I’ve always put on weight. They also make me a bit puffy, so I look somewhat heavier than I am.
I’m 6 foot tall and weigh around 225 pounds. I’ve signed up at a gym now, so hopefully I can get in a little better shape.
This is one of those mysteries of psychiatric treatment to me. Dr: “You say you’re massively depressed?” “Well take these pills, twice a day, every day and tell me how you’re feeling in two months.” {two months later} “Well, how are you feeling today, Patient X?”
Patient X: “Well Dr., my original feelings of severe depression centered around the dissolution of my family have been replaced by feelings of severe depression centered around my body image and lack of sexual functioning.”
Success story? 
When I was taking psychotropic drugs, the first thing I’d do with every new prescription would be to look on message boards and see what people were saying about weight gain. Because not being fat is one of the few things I’ve got going for me. I didn’t want to wave it good-bye.
It surprised me how many folks would say that although the drugs made them pack on a ton of weight, they didn’t care. Being fat was better than the hell of whatever mental illness they were combating. I think hearing this over and over taught me I wasn’t sick enough to be taking meds.
This makes me question the veracity of both the poll and the thread responses themselves.
Just Jamie being Jamie. Nothing personal. Or nothing, personal.
I’m sorry, I thought the humor would be self-evident by me “blaming God for 100% of my fatness, just like every other problem in my life”. In hindsight, the sad face emoticon probably didn’t help make my humor clearly detectable. A different emoticon should have been used. Again, my apologies. 
Fattie.
Been overweight my whole life, but also been fit and active my whole life, which makes me not that bothered. I probably should be, but if it means laying off the ale and cheese then it’s not really happening - so I guess that’s 100% me.
Very noticeable when I can’t train as normal, say I’m ill or work is manic, then I start to feel fat. All other times I feel fit 