Why are you a dick? Have you ever tried to not be a dick?
This goes for all of you assholes on this thread who say crap like "Just lose weight, it's easy, you have no excuse." You haven't been any of these people on this thread and you don't live their lives in their bodies. You're as bad as the rich assholes who just think that poor people are lazy.
Seriously though, OP if you're not being a dick and are actually curious. I am fat because I've always been fat. I have been fat since I was an infant. I was raised by a mother who was a psycho and a drug addict and a father who, at the time, didn't want kids, was dealing with a drug addict for a wife, and was working 11 hour days 7 days a week. I ate what I was given and I grew up with a fucked up mentality about food. You eat it fast when you have it and you buy as cheap as you can.
Since I was fat my entire life I have been shamed for it my entire life. It's not motivating if it's been happening forever. It's just another thing to deal with. I was never shown how to work out or when and I walk everywhere and work a physical job that has me moving and lifting things all day but I still didn't lose weight and I really didn't care to lose weight. I was who I was and didn't feel the need to change for anyone. I went through some hard shit in my life (15 surgeries, wheel chair bound, drug addict parent who OD'd, raising 2 siblings, etc) and I didn't care what others thought.
Depression doesn't help and my family and depression go hand in hand like a child start and a cocaine addiction. I always figured I'd be dead by the time I was 47 of a heart attack anyway so why try to do anything other than just be happy right now?
Anyway, I never knew how to work out or diet and when you go to places like /r/fitness it's truly daunting all the things they tell you and they don't really just explain it in black and white.
Something happened recently, and I don't know what, but I purchased a gym membership and started counting calories. I've been going to the gym for an hour, 4 days a week and I've stayed below 2000 calories every single day, including the one cheat day a week I allow myself. Most days I am below 1600 calories or even closer to the 1300 calorie mark. I'm not dieting because this isn't temporary. I changed my diet and created a new habit and hopefully I will be able to stay alive until I can finally see all of the phases of Marvels cinematic universe.