How did y'all gain your weight?

munkey418

I put on my first major addition of weight during pregnancy without even trying. I was even dieting to stop gaining and couldn't. So my Dr wld lecture me about gaining too much and for dieting all in one visit... I hoped to lose it after but that clearly didn't work out... I didn't change any eating habits from before pregnancy but my body changed. The hormones kicked on PCOS and while that's not the only reason (poor diet and no exercise duh!) it sure didn't help, neither did getting a desk job

Still a desk jockey, still dealing with the side effects and unpleasantries of PCOS BUT changing my eating habits and have added a ton more exercise than I was doing and I have fantastic support from friends on and offline. I'm gonna show my body who is boss and get the old me back!

s_bell2012

Horrific football injury that took 3 years to heal properly and during that time could not train at all. During that time i piled on the pounds, after going from training 4-5 times a week to nothing but yet still taking in the same calories. Once leg was better i was too fat to go back to football so gave up.

Now had the proverbial kick up the back side and back on the fitness campaign

kayl3igh88

I ignored it. The End. :sad:

Thesoundofwolf

I was always chunky. In middle school I was breaching on the size 15 US Women's, then in high school I was around 18's. As I progressed in college, my life style put me into a size 23 at it's worse.

Between bad gaming habits, depression, anti-depressants, and birth control my weight has yo-yo'ed incredible levels. And I'm tired of it. I don't want to be 'skinny', I want to be 'healthy'. I don't want to 'diet', I want to change my life.

mrswattie

Dealing with emotional issues by eating and indulging in wine :drinker: Not anymore though :happy:

mrseelmerfudd

i put on over 4 stone when i was pg with my daughter, and then i just kept eating for 2, and put on another 2 stone after!

ktrn0312

Initially birth control pills. Twenty years of consuming two (20oz ) Pepsi sodas daily and all the cookies, cakes, & sweet stuff I could consume. Now I know better- moderation & portion control.

scotslass

Pregnancy, gained 3 stone going from 11stone - 14 stone (154lbs - 196) Started exercising / Diet got down to 174, gained all the weight back on year later then some, started again at 14st 12lbs (207lbs) Now sitting at 11st 2lbs 156lbs.

Been a long journey but getting there x

stickwithme

Bumping for later

beachlover317

Thousands of calories in + very few calories out X 10 years = Me (before starting MFP).

Kathrynha77

Partly eating too much and not exercising enough, but a lot was cos of depo birth control.
Then I'm a comfort eater and gained 4 stone (56lb for none brits) after my brother died.

umer76

I did not eat a lot but high carb diet and ice creams resulted in my weight increase. NO exercise or NO running is the biggest reason for my weight gain. If I would eat as I was eating but regularly do running, walking I would have been fine. I am just been lazy for years. Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn start running/cycling/walking now. I constantly tell myself:)

marketdimlylit

Through pregnancy - put on 50lbs, yay. :grumble:
I had just got down to a decent weight before pregnant too damnit ><
So back on that journey to my post preg weight.

sarahmoo12

My partner eats a lot of fast food and so I picked up on the habit. 3 years of junk food realy takes it toll.

DanetteNel

After stopped going to gym and partied too much in my early thirties! :drinker: I gained 1 kg a year so it really crept up on me!!!!

Stopped partying long ago, but the weight just stuck.

BUT - I intend to be in better shape at 45 than I was at 35! :bigsmile:

psyhunter

used to exercise regularly but stopped for no reason and still ate much. steroid change from MS relapse also affected

twinmum1982

Gained mine through pregnancy, dealing with stress and depression and comfort eating, but slowly getting my head round my issues and just dealing with one day at a time and not beating myself up when the healthy eating goes a little off course.

lkcuts

My problem was I didn't know why I gained weight. I have lost big 2 times in my life mostly from just starving,then I thought once i got it off it won't come back that I can have a normal life like people who's genetics don't make them gain weight. I would whine.."Why couldn't I have had the skinny DNA?" Even though I walked alot in High School, I was still about 20 pounds over weight, and am big boned at 5'9..
After the 1st child I gained 50 pounds,went down some and had the second and gained another 30 pounds. Through out highschool I stayed around 170. Later i bloomed up to 225. Lost the weight to 184-188. gained back ,then lost again. It creeps up slowly and before I knew it I was back at a higher weight of 258 pounds.
I tried a few times dieting and gave up. I read to log your food, but had no way to keep track of my calories before MFP.
Wow I didn't realize how many calories and large portions I was eating. when I first started using regular portions I thought I would die. How can anyone survive on only 3-4 ounces of meat and only1/2 to 1 cup of anything I thought. Now its plenty! my goal is to go in my weight where I should be between 145- 150. I have never been that thin in my life (except 120 in the 6th grade) lol.
Right now ,its a long way off to reach that goal,something i have never achieved, but with MFP and my friends here, i feel I can do it this over time and not crash dieting again..ever. Good luck all on your journey!

misschubbybutterfly

When I was pregnant with my son, I assumed that meant I could eat everything in sight and all the weight gain was "the baby"
Oh to be young and naive.....

Hasu

Two things, both of which doctors didn't want to acknowledge until I got so big they were trying to shove me on the operating table and under the knife for some type of weight loss surgery.

1. Steroids - Asthma Medication
2. Thyroid Issues

You add these 2 fun things together, both of which can pack on the pounds just fine ALL by themselves and I got HUGE. However, I'm finally starting to get it off although very SLOWLY. I'm hoping working closely with my doctor that it'll start to fall off a little bit faster.

Samstudent88

Pregnancy - I would get lectured by my doctor because she said I was too heavy to begin with to be gaining much weight at all, so I got to the point during my pregnancy all I would eat was popcorn...to keep from gaining weight..it didn't last long..so I packed it back on..
Being unhappy= Eat
Being unemployed = Not moving enough
Not caring enough about myself to do something about it.

crimsoncat

My problem was multi-pronged:

-Low self esteem. If I couldn't ever be pretty why did my weight matter. (obviously, this line of thinking has changed)
-I loved snacking in front of the tv. My favorite was making cookie dough and eating it raw.
-What's exercise?
-What's portion control?

ksandford

Eating for ten during my pregnancy!!!!!!!! I've always been very controlled with my eating and exercise and when I was pregnant I just seemed to go a bit mad and put on 3 and half stone!!!!! I've lost 3 stone so far :happy:

SLBry6024

Four kids in 6 years.
After each baby I lost the weigh but thats when hubby got my pregant again. But with the last one I got my tubes done and found that my body did not work or lose the weigh the same way. so for the past few years I have been re-learning my body

fatchiick

I've always been fat lol.. since birth... spoiled rotten.. I have to admit I still find it odd when I see a child in the grocery store, that grabs a candy at the checkout and the parents say NO. Ive always equated that to poor people because my parents never told me no. Only time I remember a No is when my mom said she didn't have the money. Which was very rare. So its bizarre to see that even to this day even though as an adult I know, it has nothing to do with money and you're not suppose to get candy whenever you want, if the ice cream truck comes down your street 5 times you're not suppose to go 5 times....when I was little I always thought it was bizarre and only poor people, thought mcdonalds and pizza was a treat, I remember my neighbors had never had pound cake and they were happy to get cake and I had two loaves yes two loaves of pound cake in my hands and I shared it with them, that was my first inclining that you weren't suppose to eat whatever you wanted, I remember the neighbor kids on the other side had their doritos in lunch bags portioned, that was the weirdest thing I thought why can't they eat as much as they want...

In high school my best friend never ate out until she met me and I remember going to her house and she had a whole cupboard full of plastic taco bell cups and she would tell.me fast food use to be a treat until I met u.. her and her family, her boyfriends family etc ate out everyday after meeting me, my good friend now that I have only known for a year plus told me Friday I never ate out before you, now I eat out everyday, I remember when I was little McDonalds was a treat, now all food is nasty and just food.. I.mean dang I have corrupted everyone...

Basically just being able to eat whatever I wanted. I've never been a glutton.. I've never really eaten mass amounts of food just calorie dense garbage and snacks with very little exercise.


The crazy thing is I will spoil my kids rotten too.. they wont think cake or fast food is a treat but simply food... but within limits. If I go to the store 4 times they wont get 4 candy bars or 4 bags of chips.. they wont think they can eat anything and it wont have results.

WhitneyAnnabelle

A **** ton of psychotropic drugs.