How did y'all gain your weight?

Kindone

More or less ten or fifteen pounds a year slowly... and suddenly I had 50-60 pounds to lose. After a few years of dating post divorce i got tired of the shallow dating scene and the constant need to be "hot" all the time and began putting weight on. I think that subconsciously i wanted to focus on other more important things like my children and my career and allowed the gain. Now I just want to feel strong and healthy again and look wonderful for my guy (who loves me as I am).

masterofktulu

By eating like a kid. Chips, pop, fast food, horribly overflowing pizzas, never drinking water, sleeping 5-6 hours a night. What a mess I was.

melscrum

I remember when I hit 100 lbs on the scale. In third grade at 8 years old. I hit 200 lbs at 13 years old, and 300 lbs at 20 years old. I'm now 23 and 322 lbs (started out at 330). I've always been overweight but I've always found great comfort in food. Even now it's a foreign concept for me to not go to the bag of potato chips or candy when I'm not feeling overly full. But I'm a work in progress and everyday gets easier

gaiareeves

The first time round, being brought up with bad food choices, always taught to clear my plate, having a serious sweet tooth, etc.

The second time 'round, recovering from EDNOS badly; I stopped the restricting/purging but I was not taught how to break my unhealthy relationship with food, so I kept binging.

Nicci93

I worked at a Chick-Fil-A my senior year of high school.. and with the stress of AP classes and drama practice on top of a 30 hour a week job I did not work out to counter the meals I would eat at CFA during my lunch x.x

1LRoy

Thyroid

For the first time in my life I have to pay attention to what I eat and I've not done an awesome job of that so far. Let's just say that I finally understand why dieting can be so difficult.

hiyomi

I gained mine when my boyfriend got a job and all we did was go out to eat fast food with no exercise

goron59

Ate too much, exercised too little.

BeetleChe13

Eating almost entirely junk food and never ever exercising. I relied on my job to up my TDEE, and it did, but couldn't support the low quality food I was eating.

KuroNyankoSensei

I always ate unhealthy snacks and whatnot as a child on top of my Asian diet. I was never overweight as a child, and was even considered skinny by my friends/other people. I was always a little bigger than other Asian children my age though, they were usually stick thin ;x.

I was considered skinny throughout middle school and high school too, and I ate a loooottttt . . . but pounds didn't really start to show until I finished my first year in college, and my mother made a remark of how fat I've gotten, (I was 130 at 5'2"). Asians are extremely harsh about weight. If you're fat, you're disgusting, and lazy, and all you do is stuff your face, as so my family likes to describe. o____o Working on getting down to 95-100 for my sister's wedding, she'd starve me if I wasn't skinny enough since I'm one of her bridesmaids and she's all about the aesthetics XP.

knowlesy182

As a child my mother suffered from anorexia, and so my grandparents fed me KFC, ice cream and all the good stuff (or so i thought) so I wouldn't become anorexic like there daughter.

BeetleChe13

Asians are extremely harsh about weight.

I'm not asian, and I try not to generalize, but I did have an experience with a Malaysian woman who went to my church while I was growing up, so I know how harsh they can be (or seem). Every time I saw her, she commented on how much weight I had gained, and she was smaller than I was at twelve years old (and not overweight). Looking back, I think she meant more that I was growing, not getting fat, but that's not how it sounded to me at all. :laugh: I thought she thought I was a piggy.

tremilla

Birth control. If I had to do it all over again, would never go on depo provera or the patch EVER!

Thankfully I didn't gain any weight on the two years I was on depo

maritzaa91

I have always been on the chubby side. I'm 5'9" and carry my weight pretty evenly. I was on the DEPO shot for 3 months and as soon as I got off of it I gained 30lbs. Never again will i get back on it. Biggest mistake ever!

tremilla

I was very active in dance, flagette, and step in middle school. Once I reached high school I stopped the activities and the pounds started coming on. I entered my high school's nursing program and indulged in the delicious food at the hospitals during clinicals. Bad food choices +sedentary lifestyle =weight gain. Once I graduated high school I started the fad diets and my weight begin to fluctuate. 134>150>175>150>200>170>215>182. Hopefully with my new lifestyle changes I will lose the weight and maintain my healthy habits.

monicamk1975

I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, mostly from stress/ emotional eating. I had great excuses when I was pregnant and then used breastfeeding....etc....

Glad I finally decided it was time to take care of myself and my health

Gini_L

Deep fried chips, and crisps almost everyday, accompanied by at least one soda or beer Can't believe I did that to myself.

junepinktigger

I gained mine when i was pregnant with daughter, and never lost the baby fat between her and son, there is 17 months difference, i went from 8st to near 14st after both i was determined i was doing all motherhood chores alone and i let myself go even more, i gained nearly 10 st in 11 years,

denisebme

Cancer at 30 changed everything for me. I survived, but was less active, my immune system was a problem, hormone deficits didn't help. A knee injury a couple years later, followed by a car accident and a serious back injury, and I simply stopped moving but kept eating. I've been slowly putting on weight for 15 years, and now, I just want to regain control of my life!

catwoman1982

Stressed out during the day from overworking, so when i went home I just ate good and slept. i didnt want to do anything physical....

samandlucysmum

I gained my weight, starting at the school canteen sausage rolls, yumm....then orange aeros and chips at college, 6 children, 1 ectopic, and a miscarriage followed, after that, a divorce, and more stress, plus depression. Anyway, I am in control now, except, sometimes stress hormones take over, and I make wrong choices, but I am getting sorted, and on the road to better health and weighloss.

eig6

Dont know, I cant remember. I was 7...ask my parents. I went on my first diet in middle school and lost 30 lbs to get down to what I weighed when I joined this site. Just sad really that I was dieting when I should have been playing.

k2charmed4u

Comfort food. Bullied on a daily basis at school for about 7 years. Beating, tauntings, pushed down stairs etc got to much for me. School wouldn't help me so I ate and ate and ate :sad:

But now i'm away from school and i'm working on changing my eating habits.

Jeebs71

One word - Doritos!

Far too many of the huge bags of Cool Original )

losingthehealthyway

Stuffing my face, starving myself, then stuffing my face again. Vicious cycle. Emotional eating.

4thehardman

I was the fat kid, thats what my Mum told me. Looking back on photos she was totally wrong and I will never forgive her for the emotional stress that has put on me forever. Then a family friend abused me but hated when I got chubby so I got Fat and he lost interest ( I was 13 he was 37), I was chunky when I met my husband and then we ate out alot and I gained. Then I had my daughter Sophs. 6 months later I fell pregnant with the triplets and wham, there I was creeping towards 300lbs but I'm back to being confident, I have discovered running, I will never ever go back. I've said goodbye to 250lbs+, next goal, say goodbye to the 240's

HeatherLeahxx

I gained mine when I went to college....Started drinking, eating fast food all the time, and skipping my lectures and staying in bed nursing my hangovers.....put on about 2.5 stone ......lost a lot of it in the last two years...in my final year now and have gone fitness crazy :flowerforyou:

thebigcb

I gained mine after college. Worked out 2 or 3 hours a day when I was in college, once I started working full time, sitting at a desk and working late, the weight went on

Took a long hard look at myself in the buff about 2 months ago after seeing a holiday picture from when I was 18 and ripped and decided something had to be done. Was fooling myself for years that it was "relaxed muscle", "filled out" blah blah balh

bigjax1

I have a very warped sence of what I look like... mother put me on a diet at 10 as I was 9 stone and all her friends babies were 2-3 stone lighter...the fact they were a lot shorter than me was not important I was fat... looking back I was a slim and leggy child who just happened to be at the start of puberty ...so therte began my warped sence of self

I got fast the first time because I overate and ate the wrong stuff... add to that, having 4 babies, cleaning their plates, a failing marrage (very abusive husband but at least when I was fat he stayed away from me) and depression and there I was fat

then 10 years ago for no apparent reason I began to gain more... thyroid was under funtioning so go put on thyroxine and wow my diet began to work..I lost 5 stones and it was great and kept it off for 8 years

then last year the weight began to creep up (just stopped smoking) then one week i gained 8lb WTF began food diary and gained 6 lb the next week and was in huge pain cut down calories to starvation levels and gained 5lb saw doc told to keep an honest food diary... did 300-472 calories a day over the next week and a 7lb gain next 4lb next 9lb next 6lb then the doc did a thyroid test because she could see how ill I had become and TSH was 10.9 (normalis 0.3 - 3)so it was no wonder that I was gaining at the rate I was ...over the next couple of months the tyroxin was adjusted and the gaining has stopped and I have managed to lose 3lb in the past 2 months

ColleenPosley

Let me preface this by saying I LIKE TO EAT. I really do. I don't eat to live, I live to eat. However, keeping active it never seemed to matter.

I was diagnosed with a college-graduate-level case of chronic depression and my doctor gave me Paxil. Turns out, that drug makes you lethargic, apathetic and helps you gain weight. A few years later I was diagnosed with arthritis in my lumbar area. The combination of the drug making it difficult to even MAINTAIN weight, and the inability to move caused my weight gain.