What made me so big? Genetics and love of food. My dad was always a big guy. Hardest working man I've ever known in my life, but he was still a big guy. And I've always had a love of food, especially sweets. Didn't matter the first 18 years of my life, but when I turned 19 and my metabolism slowed down, not to mention that I was in the military stationed overseas where you were of legal drinking age as long as you had money to buy drinks, all that beer didn't help either. But then being single with poor eating choices and hatred of exercise made me slowly but surely put on weight until I decided to do something about it and discovered bicycling.