How did every 1 gain weight

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  • gg9nerak
    gg9nerak Posts: 29 Member
    9 children in 13 years...depression after one a child died 15 years ago...but mainly eating and not exercising.
  • deniseearheart
    deniseearheart Posts: 919 Member
    My mother died and I drank myself nearly to death... Beer really is VERY fattening
  • deniseearheart
    deniseearheart Posts: 919 Member
    9 children in 13 years...depression after one a child died 15 years ago...but mainly eating and not exercising.


    WOW 9 children ...
  • CandaceyD
    CandaceyD Posts: 74
    Wow, that's nice

    The cooking? The bad habits?
  • 1toInfinity
    1toInfinity Posts: 68 Member
    All my weight came from 3 close together pregnancies and poor eating afterwards.
  • CandaceyD
    CandaceyD Posts: 74
    Yeah, pregnancy seems to do it for a lot of people.
  • tilfordj
    tilfordj Posts: 54 Member
    For me it was a combination of a few things....I had a hysterectormy and then quit smoking 3 months later. The weight came on..I blamed not smoking....then the weight went out of control...even when I dieted and exercised...so I went to the Dr.....found out it was my THYROID.....

    that was 15 years ago.... :angry:
  • treehopper1987
    treehopper1987 Posts: 505 Member
    I've been pretty much overweight since I was a kid (even though I've always been pretty active) with a roller coaster history of weight loss/weight gain. A lot of it probably stems from southern style cooking (growing up) as well as the genetics in my family as almost everyone in my family is overweight. I'm trying to trick my genetics to being skinny from now on :wink:
  • waldenfam2
    waldenfam2 Posts: 203 Member
    I've been heavy on and off my entire life. Started when I was 8 years old or so, lost weight for a while in junior high and high school, then had my first child at 15 years old. I did manage to get my weight back down somewhat after my first, I'm 5'4" and got down to 160, but shortly after that I started gaining massive amounts of weight.

    My heaviest was 280 pounds after my second child was born. Frankly I ate whatever I wanted. Deluded myself into thinking that whatever I was eating wasn't that bad, and compounded it by not exercising. The lowest I've been since I've had all three of my kids is right this minute at 186, but I was diagnosed with diabetes and I'm finally serious about it.
  • Myles_D23
    Myles_D23 Posts: 51 Member
    Beer and video games haha
  • Shae3891
    Shae3891 Posts: 53 Member
    I got caught up in Grad School and stopped "finding time" for the gym and then when the weight started coming on I thought well I'm already fat, what difference will it make if I eat that. The my mom died suddenly and I just gave up all together. Luckily I graduated and I don't stay depressed for long and I'm bouncing back ;)
  • iRebel
    iRebel Posts: 378 Member
    dieting.
    really. I wasn't fat at all when I started. (thought i was, though.) Then the undereat/overeat starve/binge thing did me in.
  • Elf_Princess1210
    Elf_Princess1210 Posts: 895 Member
    Mostly lack of exercise and eating too much. I also suffered with depression and emotional eating after the physical and emotional abuse at the hands of my father and ex. I still struggle with emotional eating; but I try to not let it get out of hand.
  • Bermudabarbie
    Bermudabarbie Posts: 568 Member
    Living in resort areas. Drinking martinis and tropical drinks and eating too much. Buffets. Expense Accounts. Unconscious eating -- just enjoying! The so-called "Good Life!" I had no idea I was wrecking my health!
  • crazytreelady
    crazytreelady Posts: 752 Member
    I was never a skinny child.. I was fit though. When I was 12, I was 120 pounds. And over 7 years, managed to gain another 20.
    So I do not know, if this is my natural weight or not...

    How ever, I was a strange child.. I would melt cheese in a microwave and eat... I'm guessing it was because I ate like a fatty hahaha.
  • greenmm25
    greenmm25 Posts: 175 Member
    3 Babies and being lazy, And sugar I love Sugar so yeah lots of reasons but I am trying to make it go away now.
  • luhluhlaura
    luhluhlaura Posts: 278 Member
    Three reasons:
    1. Having junk food every night for dinner my entire child/adolescent life up until I started making my own money and buying my own food.
    2. Not getting enough exercise.
    3. Chocolateeeee
  • yogamom16
    yogamom16 Posts: 114
    having kids.
  • BoatReadyBody
    BoatReadyBody Posts: 376
    3 big boys!! Oh yeah and cookies ::laugh:
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    To quote a random person at a party, "I didn't get fat by being industrious." Most hilarious ice-breaker I've ever heard.
  • peacemerc
    peacemerc Posts: 18
    Went from a sprint triathlon a month and being single to being a husband/ dad and an unhealthy addiction to WOW for 4 years.
  • cookieibuck
    cookieibuck Posts: 21 Member
    After my 4th child I weighed less than I did before the 1st child, however; it was Halloween, followed by Thanksgiving, followed by Christmas.... and 14 years later I am heavier than I was with any child. So I blame it on kids... holidays... and my unwillingness not to stop eating their treats. I am hoping to be down 15 pounds by summer (June) * I have 60 to lose and have lost 6 so far!!! I have done a few diets here and there, but I really like this one because if I want a candy bar, I just put it into my calorie count, and I am soooooo happy that I can still have that kind of treat. And then lots of lettuce and tomatoes and celery later (which I remembered from my childhood that celery was my favorite snack food, and pickles..) So far... Thanks myfitnesspal and my Wonderful husband who got me started on this program.
  • abusethedog
    abusethedog Posts: 3
    I've always been a little overweight. I went on a medication called Risperidone, which is a medication notorious for messing with your metabolism and causing weight gain. I soon found myself STARVING. I gained 60 pounds in the year and a half I was on it. I'm addicted to soda, and fast food was my weakness. I also have a hard time exercising because of a chronic pain condition.

    I went off of Risperidone and went on a weight-neutral drug, and in the first 3 weeks, I lost 27 pounds. The first 20 left me without me even trying. I know that's a drastic weight loss and it means I probably won't be able to keep it off, but my doctors assure me it's normal because the medication had messed with my metabolism so badly (they did bloodwork and tests before removing me from it).

    Good luck losing your weight!
  • jamietoddmiller
    jamietoddmiller Posts: 4
    Deciding to have another baby in my late 20's ... my baby is currenlty 18 months old and still have all the weight on.. but I have decided to go ahead and loose it .. Its time.. I was a size 4 before and want to be again so badly.. I have just been so down about it :(
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    As soon as I had my first after school job I got to eat everything that had always been forbidden or restricted. And no, I never got tired of eating it.

    So my first diet as a teen was about as healthy as you'd expect. Those over the counter diet pills and way under a thousand calories a day with ridiculous weight loss goals (lose 5 pounds every week was standard).

    Over the years, I have never stabilized. I am always either gaining weight (quickly and easily) or struggling to lose it (with a lot of effort and until lately always with the help of pills).

    I'd love to trade this body in for one that's easier to maintain and doesn't crave chocolate, but I haven't figured out where to mail in the complaint form.
  • Losingweightforgood2019
    Losingweightforgood2019 Posts: 173 Member
    I think for myself it may have started by NOT having sweets/fast food growing up? I mean in a way it should make a person grow into adulthood with the same behavior, but when I got away from home, I felt ALL the fast food/sweets were fair game:-) My mom's idea of a "dessert" was taking the twin debbie snacks and splitting them up to where each of us girls (3 sisters) got one....At the time we didn't know any better and that ONE debbie snack cake went far and was eaten slowly....And eating out? That happened only once a month in our house. So, I guess upon leaving I was playing catch up?
  • NguyenovaA
    NguyenovaA Posts: 5
    Eating everything in sight ..
  • kristen581
    kristen581 Posts: 13
    damn depo shot! gained 30 pounds
  • marynmarty
    marynmarty Posts: 89 Member
    When I went to college all we ever did was go out to eat and drink (instead of freshman 15 it was more like freshman 100 lol).....Than I got married and that's all we did was go out with friends until we finally decided to have kids....Now I have 2 little ones and have decided that I needed to get all this weight that I gained in college off LOL
  • slemington
    slemington Posts: 15
    I was athletic, quite, ate ate ate ate ate ate ate, went from 165 to 265 in 8 years, I am now at 194, was at 183, calorie counting is the key for me

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