why did you gain the weight?

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  • Hi_Im_Jess
    Hi_Im_Jess Posts: 347 Member
    My thyroid is a jerk.
  • eazy_
    eazy_ Posts: 516 Member
    Ate too much, drank WAY too much, and didn't exercise at all
  • wildcata77
    wildcata77 Posts: 660
    Same as eazy_

    I had a super high metabolism as a kid/teen. I could eat anything (and did) and did a lot of organized dance/sports/theatre/swimming.

    Then I hit my 20's and kept eating the same as my activity gradually decreased.

    Also, I'm pretty sure I have developed a food addiction, which is extrememely difficult to control. Sometimes I have to make food choices over the course of an hour. I have literally sat in my car after work and spent ten minutes talking myself out of hitting a drive thru on the way home.
  • chandanista
    chandanista Posts: 986 Member
    So I could wear a fatkini!


    No, seriously, I got a grown up job working at a desk all day. I had two babies and really struggled losing the extra poundage while breastfeeding. I hated chocolate but ate it anyway. Hated the aftertaste of taffy but ate it anyway. Grabbed a slice of cake on coworkers' birthdays, hated the cake, ate it anyway. Cleaned my plate every time I ate.
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    because i stuffed too much food in my face and didn't exercise. oh and i used my ACL injury as an excuse not to do anything for 5 years (AFTER i had surgery).
  • gopherfan53
    gopherfan53 Posts: 17 Member
    Chipotle. Didn't discover it until I went to college...
  • ktliu
    ktliu Posts: 334 Member
    Quit smoking and ...man do I have an appetite or what!
  • baja572
    baja572 Posts: 94
    To get healthy..I quit smoking and had to give up my two pots of coffee per day because they went hand in hand. knowing I would gain weight, I went on a diet of salads. 60lbs in six weeks .Little did I know, I was entering into pre menopause. and lets just top it off with a very stressful divorce. All said and done.. I played with the lastest diets to loss weight fast only to gain back and then some.. I didn't give up. changed jobs for a year to whip myself back in shape. Exercised four hours daily and ate very little..lost nothing...and here I am...still battling these fuffy rolls.
  • NatureChik1985
    NatureChik1985 Posts: 79
    I was a lazy couch potato who ate way too much...
  • MsEndomorph
    MsEndomorph Posts: 604 Member
    I had a baby and breastfed for a year, and man do I pack on the weight while bf-ing! My blood sugar drops and I just want to eat, eat, eat sugar! Combine that with the lazy life and lots of eating out...recipe for disaster.

    Then I went back to school. Stress, Starbucks, wine, and late night study sessions at Denny's all gave me an extra twenty pounds in just four months!
  • ClareWantsProgress
    ClareWantsProgress Posts: 173 Member
    NovaSure isn't b/c. It's procedure involving edometrial ablation for treatment of heavy bleeding. It usually stops periods altogether so is only offered to patients past child bearing. My doctor gave me some info on it a couple of years ago.
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    Sorry, I realized after I hit "post" that my answer was going to read wrong. I know it's not b/c. I just meant that since I'd already HAD a D&C ablation, they weren't going to essentially do it again, and people tend to assume if you're on b/c it's for the "normal" reason of avoiding pregnancy. The side effects of NovaSure sound worse than what I'm already going through, too, so that makes me uneasy. At this point it's the hormonal migraines that are my biggest issue, other than the weight gain/hair falling out side effects. I haven't had a period in over a year because I'm on the pills full-time now.
  • Alatariel2002
    Alatariel2002 Posts: 65 Member
    I've been heavy pretty much since the onset of puberty...mostly in my butt, hips and thighs. After many years of yo yo dieting, I lost around 80lbs. After years of a not so great marriage(long story)....I made what I consider a pretty major mistake in my life. I let myself go, allowing the pounds to pack back on...the fat to shield me and protect me from ever being in that position again. Five years later, my marriage came to an end, and at that time...I decided it was time to take controll of my life. I enrolled in an online college to get my degree, and slowly started the process to reinvent myself.
  • Mommylicous
    Mommylicous Posts: 121 Member
    No excuse other than: I love food. So much to the point where I didn't monitor/control my consumption.
  • markbolch
    markbolch Posts: 24 Member
    Because I’m a Food Aholic and had no self-control coupled with sofa syndrome most my adult life… Geeeez why did I wait so long to fix my brain and realize that’s no way to live. Fat and happy or Happy and Fat was truly just Fat.. Now I am Fit and Fantastic and so much happier. Life is Good but you can never forget what brought you to the party so you don’t go back. Always a work in progress.
  • ja9smakinachange
    ja9smakinachange Posts: 144 Member
    Hit my 20's didn't change the way I ate/drank
    Had a baby
    Had another one.
    Didn't move very much

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