How did you gain the weight?

RozayJones

Ignored health problems and gained weight for almost 2 years. By then I had gained 25lbs. Had a full thyroidectomy due to cancer, had no meds for 3 months which = no energy. I literally slept 18-20 hours a day. Would eat while I was awake and at most do laundry. By the end I 35lbs heavier. It's been almost 2 years and I am just now done with the excuse "I had thyroid cancer". This is my body and I will take control and get rid of this unwanted weight.

SemperAnticus1643

Baby number 2 and then an office job where we ordered in all the time and I worked long hours. I am currently on the downward track to the how much I weighed at the end of my pregnancy. I was a very skinny girl pre-pregnancy. My husband doesn't dig the really skinny women. :noway:

aschroeder2749

Mine was a combination of a sedentary lifestyle catching up with me, portion sizes that were double what they needed to be, and drinking beer nearly every day.

kell2116

I just got comfortable in my relationship and then realized I need to do this for myself to live a better life. I wasn't obese but still the extra weight was not nice.

Exactly the same for me! Happy, contented relationships wreak havoc on the waistline!!!

Wildflower0106

I ate to much and I was lazy... bad combination LOL!

einzweidrei

Decided to go away to school one year and gained about 12 pounds. Was eating garbage (which I always did) but I wasn't walking everywhere anymore like I was back in the city. Stayed at that weight for many years and was still in the healthy weight range.

Started working nights. Was doing fine at first but after working there for a year, I started gaining weight. Gained 15 pounds. Had NO idea because just like the first time I gained weight, no one really noticed. But---now I could technically be considered one pound overweight.

27 pounds since HS and barely anyone noticed!!! (Good thing I'm tall?) But I noticed---and that's what is the most important thing. As of this morning, I was down 20 of those pounds (didn't update yet until I see that number consistently.) Only my sister has noticed.

FlabFighter86

Changed from a shop floor job to office. Ate far too many takeaways with the new salary. And I ate while I was stressed, which my bad relationship didn't help with.

JustYandy

BEER,Liquor,Wine

JeanSoCal

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MoreThinx

Through self hate and boredom:/

1two3four

I ate too much, I drank too much and moved too little, for too long. Period.

comrade_questions

The first time I just stopped caring about what I ate and didn't participate in any sports. The second time was basic training, where I ate my weight in peanut butter every day.

RobP1192

I think it's common when people get involved in relationships, that they start eating out more and not paying attention to their diet. Then it all goes away. At least that's how it's always been for me. It's hard unless your partner is on the same page as you, wanting to be aware and live a healthy lifestyle.

bettermistakes87

Always been a tubby kid, but a back injury right before starting graduate school was the kiss of death to the limited success I had been having. Oy Vey!

limpkitteh

I was always about 10-20 lbs overweight fluctuating, but when I met my boyfriend in college his mother introduced me to the world of sweets. I never had a sweet tooth before that, but once my boyfriend moved in with me I was eating sweets every day. Also, my job at the time made me really depressed so it was the combination of a bad diet and drinking beer about 5 nights a week!

My boyfriend has now made the commitment to cut out sweets and junk foods as well as work out with me... he has never been a drinker. And I have also cut way back on alcohol. Maybe every two weeks or so I have either a glass of wine or brandy. So far it has been success for us, and we do not even want to go back to our old ways at all!

Edited for spelly error

ERMBSN

When I as a kid I had Astma really bad. When I was 11 I weighed about 60 pounds. Beacuse of the sevarity of the attacks I was always burning calories. I went to the ER about 3 to 4 times a week. In order to gain weight I had to eat about double what others my age would eat. I just got used to eating alot.

Bama56

football injury caused me to go completely sedentary and i continued to eat like the high school lineman i was. this led to gaining over 100 lbs in a year.

Bernadette60614

I had 5 IVFs to have a baby, and then our son had colic, acid reflux and sleep apnea (tonsils and adenoids so enlarged he could neither sleep restfully nor form words.)

He has a learning disability and a lot of time was spent finding the right schools and therapy.

He's now doing wonderfully, but I ate a lot of candy bars and donuts to quell my fears!

didans

Traveling for work and getting spoiled with the free meals that came with it. I got a little out of control in my experimenting with new cuisines. I'm back to reality now and see a different person in the mirror! Oy!

Qski

Major confession time for me - I had a gastric sleeve operation in 2006 to help me lose weight. It did help, I have a much smaller appetite and it took me about 6-8 months to get from ~100kg to 64kg. I did not learn to exercise.

I was restricted to about a side plate of food at a time....

Then I learned to graze... and I also learned to eat the yummy stuff first (ie the bad stuff), and that I could have a side plate of chocolate or ice cream.

I am much more tolerant of myself and my body now than I ever was prior to surgery and I know my weight gain was a deliberate choice (~30kg 66lbs) in 7 years. And I know that if I had just continued to eat normally and incorporated exercise into my life that I would not be where I am now. I also realised that the skinny people I wanted to look like worked damn hard to look the way they do.

Now I am ready to work that hard. I still have appetite restriction - I can definitely not eat as much as I could prior to surgery, but I have stretched my tummy to the point that I can have more than enough bad food to gain.

I still think that overall surgery was a good option for me at the time and is a reasonable option for some - especially if they can learn good habits post surgery and incorporate that into their lives.

It is part of my growth as a person and I would not be able to be here now accepting responsibility or committing to changing my lifestyle for good, if I had not had that experience.

OMGeeeHorses

Got comfortable in my marriage and gained some weight, then was in a bad car accident and couldn't do much of anything for 2 years and just ate to make the pain go away and such.

Hbazzell

since about 16 I left the house at 7:30 and was either at school, work, choir practices, theater practices, or driving between them until 10 o clock at night. I made a habit of eating on the road by grabbing a burrito at taco bell and munching on whatever garbage was in the vending machines at school and practice. I did this until I was 22 and graduated college. Between that time I had gained 20 lbs. I was active but I never really worked out or ran ever. Then I joined the Coast Guard. bootcamp was hard as hell for me since I was so out of shape but by perseverance I somehow made it through. Now I am the about the same weight as before I joined 3 years ago but I ran 8 miles today, love the gym, and eat healthy. Fast food is a once every several months event that makes me sick, not my go to. I care less about the number on the scale now because I know i am making my body healthier and I am happier.

Artaxia

I was down to 190 lb, at a decently healthy weight....gained 90 lb thanks to my pregnancy (gained the majority of it in the last 2 months). Now...I'm trying to work these 90 extra pounds OFF!!!

RhonndaJ

Over the course of a lifetime.

A childhood where food was pleasure, comfort, 'the carrot' and celebration.
Adulthood where I didn't care, was emotionally out of control, lazy, etc.

happysherri

Depression triggered after birth of my now 16 yr old daughter. Depression lingered and got worse, i just wanted to lay in bed all day.

haymancm

With each of my 4 pregnancies that were back to back over 5 years. I felt I was pregnant all the time!! Even though I was waiting tables for 10 years during 2 of the pregnancies I just did not have the desire to lose the weight. My mom was/is obese, & I thought that was just the way it was going to be for me too!! Once I quit working @ the restaurant & started my food blog, the weight came on like crazy over 1-2 years, as I was not as active as I was as a SAHM.

brensan1

I am a CPA, and own my own business. So I sit and work about 18 hours a day from January until October 15th every year. So in a nutshell, I eat snacks and drink sweet coffee to stay awake, and don't get hardly any exercise! This is my first post BTW, and I am very happy to have found MFP. Been logging my food for 1 week now, and already learning a lot!

Rockmyskinnyjeans

There are a few reasons that I initially gained the weight that got me to 334 lbs. I was in a car accident, I was also on heavy medications that caused weight gain (including Depo Provera). I was very sedentary after the car accident and recovery. I gained a LOT.

In late 2010 on into late 2011, I regained 60+ lbs of weight that I'd lost. I give some of the credit to medications (including Lyrica, which I'm no longer taking), but the rest I take all the blame with laziness and bad eating habits. I joined MFP in March 2012 to lose that weight and I've been maintaining for around a year now.

jiji29

i gained it after giving birth to my son then i lost much of it but i m starting to gain it again i m not sure but may be cause h love foods and making yummy ones

carlydawn101

lost someone and just didn't care and didn't see it but its too late now don't know how everyone can lose the weight but I cant!