How Did You Gain Your Weight??

viclee1

This is a good thread! It really makes you think! For me it was definately a bunch of things. 1. Genetics 2. Not being taught proper nutrition. 3. Loss of activity (in high school I played rugby, hockey, and did high school rodeo, university came and I studied.) 4. Too many desserts (university year I used to go to grandmas house for lunch which consisted of a full course meal including dessert, then went home to have supper that night I then gained around 15lbs) 5. Got comfortable in a steady relationship. 6. Emotional eating leading up to the wedding. 7. Started battling the bulge even harder during and between pregnancies, 2 pregnancies, 2 miscarriages in 3 years. 8. Stopped breastfeeding, I could eat almost anything when I was bfing, but when I weaned each child (I know I should have learned after the first!) I didn't adjust my eating and easily gained 10lbw +. 9. Birth control, I got the depo shot in January of 2011, and within 3 months I had gained 20lbs (this had happened to me before). As you can see my weight has always been an issue up to 50 lbs. I've gone through times in my life when I've lost and sadly gained. This time though is it, I'm going to get it off and keep it off!

gazerofthestars

Reading some of these posts made me tear up. I can relate to many of these. Congrats everyone for choosing a healthy lifestyle may you have more success in the future!

How I put on weight: Growing up, I was one of those kids who actually found it hard to put on weight no matter how much they ate... Or so I thought anyway.

I went from being a healthy 60 kgs (and skinny all my childhood) to 100 kgs within 5 years! It was due to my eating habits combined with my terrible sleeping schedule (staying up late all night studying/playing games/watching movies). I also developed some symptoms of insomnia. Staying up for a continuous 24 hours was a norm for me. And in between I would binge on cokes, chips, pizza etc etc. By the time I was 20 and in college, I no longer was able to associate myself with any social groups and my life and health were in the dumpster. I also got bullied and picked on through HS which just made the situation worse, as my mother was undergoing treatment for a life-threatening disease at the time.

Eventually, some of these things made me realize how dishonest I was being to myself and that it was time for a change.

And here I am after a year at 75 KGs, healthy. And loving my life.

I just wish my insomnia would go away though

keesh1123

Got pregnant & pigged out basically lol

THIS

keesh1123

Sad Version: My mother went from a physically abuser to an emotional abuser. Our first "family" Christmas he bought me a cow outfit (complete with a real live cow bell) and paraded me around our family and friends even when i cried.

I learned to eat to feel comfort and to make jokes about myself before others could.

Wow. I cannot EVEN imagine....#speechless

serenity216

I fluctuated first due to stress and then due to a car accident and whiplash I had as a result of it. I was also eating very poorly that whole time.

serenity216

That's terrible. Those abusers will get theirs one day!

Sad Version: My mother went from a physically abuser to an emotional abuser. Our first "family" Christmas he bought me a cow outfit (complete with a real live cow bell) and paraded me around our family and friends even when i cried.

I learned to eat to feel comfort and to make jokes about myself before others could.

ThisisMiss

I was born to a family that had diabetes on both sides of the family and one side had a lot of morbidly obese women. I think I was destined for health problems. I was never thin and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get thin, As it turns out, I have PCOS which contributed to a lot of my health issues. As many of you know, it makes gaining weight so easy and taking it off harder than for the average person. It also leaves you with most of the fat around your belly. I know women have been able to still lose weight and get down to a healthy weight, so that's what I am trying to do here!

leavingfat

Ate a lot. Didn't move very much.

I mean, sure, there's the whole "reacting to bad events in my life" stuff and the overweight parents stuff and the growing up poor stuff, but honestly? I just ate a lot and didn't move very much.

AmazonIcePrincess

i gained my weight when i got pregnant with my daughter and i never had a chance to loose it so im trying hard now to loose it but lol it seems to be taking forever i gained over the 20 lbs that a pregnant woman normally gains in a pregnancy and its been so hard to get rid of this weight plus i love food and its hard for me to control how much i eat and i love sweets too but i have been working hard at trying to cut back

sharonucd

my husband was a cook and he used to cook delicious food for us all the time. i gained weight being married to him. when we got a divorce i lost 40lbs immediately. then in the last two years i slowly gained that weight back b/c i was in an abusive relationship (it started out with emotional abuse but then led itself to physical abuse so i left when he laid hands on me) then right after I left, my grandma died...then my mom died last yr and now I have been stuck the last year being a caretaker for my 92 yr old grandpa. I know what stress is...big time....i am trying to get a handle on things now and lose the weight again (preferably 40 lbs). I am slowly but surely getting there and this site helps ALOT!

sevencallmemom

I was in some abusive situations as a child/teen and ate to try and cope...then my marriage went through hell and I ate to cope...then one of my youngest (twins) was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and, you guessed it, I ate to cope.

I think people assume I gained a ton being preggers so many times, but pregnancies were the healthiest periods of my life. I took amazingly good care of myself for the babies. It was between pregnancies that I acted a fool with my health.

TamImbrogno

I gained all my weight from being put on medications that made me gain 50+lbs. They make me constantly feel hungry! Despite that I have to do something to stop it so HUNGRY or not I will lose weight lol

PompousClock

Letting myself eat (and often drink) as much as my 6'3" husband (who was also eating and drinking too much).

Terasome

I'm so sorry some of you have also been abused it makes me sad to think what you have been put through. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, well for me there was.

As for how I gained 20 + kg.

4 children in 9 years, gestational diabetes with 3 of them the last one with insulin. No energy, not eating breakfast or lunch alot of the time, snacking on chips, biscuits, coke, chocolate just because it was easier. My brain couldnt be bothered telling me to make a sandwich instead I would buy crap.

Now I am happy to say I dont rely on any of that stuff, I havent had coke in over a month and have really limited my chips and chocolate intake to one or 2 pieces once a week and a handful of chips even less. Same with biscuits I have gone to healthy alternatives.

clydethecat

combo of medication, poor eating habits, no exercise, mc donalds and ben and jerry's phish food...

HauteP1nk

I gained it becasue I wasn't watching what I ate...especially after my father passed away. I was in a sad state of mind and it was easier to eat away the pain and guilt.

kardowling

Took on a full time job, used to be a stay at home, active, long distance runner. Could eat whatever I wanted. Now I sit, and sit, and sit 40 a week. Can't find time to workout like I used to.. I will get back but a MAJOR life change.

mangozulu

Got pregnant & pigged out basically lol

I've never been so hungry in my entire life as when I was pregnant! That's what stuck me with 15 extra pounds (stubborn ones:)

tataliciousd89

I ate too much. I was always a very picky eater so my parents would feed me anything to make me gain weight when
I was young and that led to bad eating habbits when I got older. Simple as that for me.

10acity

My parents did the best they could but to this day are not particularly healthy eaters. And I have a mean sweet tooth! But I have never been thin. I mean, I was a chubby 2-year-old. I just have to work a lot harder than some people at maintaining a healthy weight, and it took me years (22 of them, approximately) to figure that out.

By the time I realized I was on the fast-train to Three Hundred Poundville and wearing a size 20, something just clicked. I got sick of myself. I joined a gym, started paying attention to what went into my mouth (really, that's all I did) and lost 50 lbs. About 2 years after that, I stopped making time for the gym (which I really had to work at while taking 18 credits in college and working full-time) and did a lot more eating-on-the-go, and about 15 lbs crept back on. It snapped me back to reality, and then I worked really hard to lose another 40 lbs (net = 75) to reach my lowest weight ever. I hit a plateau and got discouraged, having 35 lbs left to lose and not budging for over 6 mos no matter what I did, then I moved. Didn't join a gym (I'm just the gym rat type), devastating breakup, blahblahblah... I just got super lazy and started eating a lot of crap, and it shows. I now need to lose a grand total of *cringe* 45 lbs. in order to reach my ultimate goal weight. But it's gonna happen!

eatandexercise1

Emotional eater, add that to having a baby, and voila! But I'm trying and failing and trying again to lose the weight and be healthy.

SassyCalyGirl

by opening my mouth and inserting food!

Sherrygunnabefit88

:embarassed: I gained weight as soon as I hit puberty and ever since then I have been struggling to get rid of it- once I had my belly buldge it only got worse without excersice and poor eating.

auroranflash

I just want to say HOORAY!!! for all the women who were in abusive relationships and chose to leave, be they emotional, physical, or otherwise. :drinker: :flowerforyou:

Do not let ANYONE disrespect you, especially the person whom you choose to let closest into your life!

marckilgore

Sadly, I have no excuse. I was an athlete in college and used to being able to eat as much as I wanted. When I stopped being an athlete, I didn't stop eating as much as I wanted. I had no self control but I am changing that now. My biggest problem is that I just love food too much. I've now accepted the fact that I can still love food if I am willing to pay the price and work out to burn off those calories. Not fun, but everything has a price.

robot_potato

I gained & maintained 165 pounds to be on the boys' rugby team after the girls' team disbanded in high school. I had some medical problems and was unable to eat most things for months. When i was able to eat again i stuffed all sorts of crap in my face. I had a very premature baby who had serious medical issues, gained 20 pounds from the stress/craziness of it all. Lost the 20 pounds. Had another baby, gained 70+ pounds with that pregnancy. Was dismayed to find that only 9 pounds of that was baby. And then I was 231 pounds. I Lost 45 pounds, maintained 185 for over a year and now I am back to finish what I started.

Soapstone

I found out I was pregnant and broke up with the father in the same week, all very unexpectedly. It was a devastating time for me. I ate twice as much as I needed to while I was pregnant, began college in my last trimester, and sat a lot, as a student and an employee, after having worked jobs that were much more physically demanding for years and years before that. I never corrected my eating habits- I wasn't fully aware of my eating habits or that they had changed through all that stress. As a mom, employee, and student I ate too fast, whenever I could because I was so busy all the time, usually standing in my kitchen or hitting a drive through.
My first post-college job was a desk job, and incredibly miserable. I did it for a year and a half and then quit to stay at home with the kids and reassess my life goals. I HATED sitting at that desk 10 hours a day. HATED it. When I quit I was almost 200 lb, and losing the weight and getting healthy was forefront on my mind. It took me six months to even get real about it- to get real about what it's going to take to change, but I know I can do it.

emmameredith

Hi all, I just joined the site. I lost loads of weight during a bad relationship and then gradually put more and more back on. Lost some and then it came back! Now I am literally twice the weight I was at my thinnest. I HATE it.

I have been walking every day and doing UFC on the kinect for the last 3 weeks and also cutting my food intake down. I have tried to increase all the fruit and veg and so on but I don't eat much meat or any fish so I am struggling to get any protein.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

LesliePierceRN

I was always active and ate pretty well.. and then I had my daughter. Pregnancy didn't put the weight on me like most moms.. I only gained 24 pounds and in a few months it was all back off. But, here's the deal: My daughter is very fragile, she's a very complicated special needs child. She had night terrors for the first five years she was alive. So I only slept in 30 minute increments those five years. I was always tired, so I guzzled coke to keep up. And I could not leave her with anyone, she was too fragile. I had to watch her to keep her alive. So no time for going to the gym or exercising or anything at all besides her well being. So I packed on the weight. In a few years, she got stable, and I joined a gym and got the weight back off. Then I had her brother. Same story. He didn't put the weight on me.. this time it was only 29 pounds and I got it back off for the most part. But he's Autistic and only slept (NOT EXAGGERATING) 10 minutes every 24 hours for three years. So again, I was exhausted, guzzling coke and eating sweets to stay awake.

Now they are 15 and 12, stable and happy, so I took up running a year and a half ago. Now I have time to devote to myself, and I use it profusely. I work out anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes a day (sometimes twice a day) five to six days a week. I'm smaller now than I've ever been as an adult. It feels really good being able to take care of me now.

cherriewilliams

- 400lb mother who cooked everything coated in flour and fried in grease.
- 3 kids went from 130 to 186 with my first, 2nd went up to 205 and 3rd went up to 230
- lost some weight and got down to 205 last spring then my knee problems got worse.
- had to quit my job
- had knee surgery and it has been 4 months and I still have to walk with a cane and have alot of pain.