Why did you gain weight?

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  • puffidredz
    puffidredz Posts: 119 Member
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    work at home job + not a lot of money + depression from not being able to find a job out in the real world that i really want to do + more depression that i had to move back with my mom + sitting at my pc all the time gaming & stuffing my face with fast food and take out almost every day + no exercise = gained weight.

    i went from 140 to 198 lbs. i never bothered to weigh myself because i didnt care.
  • PandaDreamerGurl
    PandaDreamerGurl Posts: 45
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    I moved to be with my boyfriend (now husband). Transferred jobs (with same company) but the new place wasn't as, for lack of a better word, nice as my previous employers. So, I asked my boyfriend if we could afford for me to quit because I couldn't take it anymore. And so, I went from a high active job to being a housewife. No friends nearby and so I pretty much just stayed at the house all day reading, watching television, playing online or just sleeping. I didn't really eat "a lot" but what I did eat was very unhealthy and chalk full of calories and fat of the awful kind.

    Thus, the pounds started to add up.
  • PixiePickle
    PixiePickle Posts: 68 Member
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    I'm not gonna lie, I just moved to the same street as a Dominos!! Plus there are a ridiculous amount of take away places within a stone's throw of where I live. added to the fact that I indulged in a glass or two of wine in the evenings :blushing:
    So, I was cheap & weak! LOL! But now I've realized that I'm not in my twenties anymore, I'm trying to make wiser choices and get in shape.
    :happy:
  • Vgrindle
    Vgrindle Posts: 23
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    My reason for weight gain was laziness, being addicted to fast food/junk food, being depressed because my husband was on deployment, having a baby, having a less than happy marriage and low self esteem. I've been overweight since high school but with time things just got worse. Working on that now to become a healthier, happier person and get my life back on track :smile:
  • inagaddadavegan
    inagaddadavegan Posts: 46 Member
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    Sitting on my butt. I spent the better part of a year on a pity pot after an orthopedic injury, trying to let it heal on its own wearing a boot, then surgery and protracted recovery... I ate whatever I felt like and didn't exercise any of it off, even for a while after I was really able to!
  • stephdg89
    stephdg89 Posts: 37
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    I had a baby and gained 60 lbs with my pregnancy, but lost it all quite easily in about 8 months. I was on a prescription medicine though that caused me to lose weight. I could eat anything and everything I wanted and still be tiny. Then in February I decided to go off the medicine. I was so used to eating about triple the amount of calories i needed with no consequences, so I didn't change my eating habits and over the last 5 months gained almost 20 lbs. It really hit me when my "fat" pants I wore when my daughter was only 7 months old didn't fit anymore! HELLO!! Total wake up call. I started working out hard but started actually eating more. I heard about MFP two weeks ago and started logging my food and realized I was way over eating. I've lost 5 lbs this month, two of them in the last two weeks since using MFP. I would like to lose between 7-12 more lbs and be back in a size 2. Or at least a loose 4. :)
  • purpleacacia18
    purpleacacia18 Posts: 21 Member
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    I went through a season of loneliness, depression, and low self-esteem. Food was my comfort and friend when I felt lonely. Thing was, sitting around doing no exercise and eating at the house just caused me to gain weight and did nothing for my self-esteem.
  • alpine1994
    alpine1994 Posts: 1,915 Member
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    Developed a love for cooking and baking! I was making really rich, saucy, cheesy dinners and tons of desserts and not giving nearly enough of them away. Now I use (and create my own) healthy recipes and no baking! I know if I bake something "healthy" I will eat enough of it so that it stops being "healthy"!
  • SarahElizabeth416
    SarahElizabeth416 Posts: 52 Member
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    I have pretty much been overweight since I was 7 or 8 years old. I honestly believe I have a food addiction and along with that I am the worst emotional eater. A lot of things factor into why I am fat but I think my emotional eating as well as stubbornness to accept the fact I needed to change are the root problems to my weight.
  • Rey01009
    Rey01009 Posts: 2
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    I was diagnosed with Hypothyrodism about 5 months after I had my first baby. Gained 20 lbs in 2 months after i lost all the baby weight plus 10 lbs. Sad. So I am trying to get the weight off, but it is really difficult with taking meds for the issue. Thyroid operates your metabolism...not good to have a slow metab, need to speed it up.
  • onichikun
    onichikun Posts: 21 Member
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    I was a really fit kid... climbing everything, running around etc.

    Then my dad got my my first computer ;) Old 8086 box... then I started sitting infront of a screen.. Throughout my entire academic life, I have been ruled by my computer. I would wake up, use my computer, goto school (sitting all day in class), come home, sit infront of my computer, eat, sleep, rinse and repeat.

    I don't eat terribly bad... but the inactivity of my lifestyle just ruined me. When I was 16/17 I was required to take a physical fitness course for high school and took it online for credit. I did realize then that I had a problem, since a mile took me around 2 standard deviations above the mean to finish at such a young age.

    Now I am an engineer working on my PhD, and I still just sit infront of a screen. I just have modified my diet to fit my lifestyle and now exercise for atleast 1 hour 5/6 days a week.
  • tripitena
    tripitena Posts: 554 Member
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    Was severely injured a few years ago. Surgery, pain meds, steroids, immobility. Add to that lazy compulsive eater and there I was, some 60 lbs overweight. Lost is all through stress starvation, gained back half of it. Now losing the right way and finding its not as hard as I whined about it being :laugh:
  • Nikki_Nx
    Nikki_Nx Posts: 27 Member
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    Depression, low self-esteem and lack of support from family. A number of bereavements as well.
  • iluvmycats
    iluvmycats Posts: 29 Member
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    There are so many reasons.. lets see if I can list a few

    depression
    self loathing
    hypothyroidism
    laziness
    A love of eating and not moving
    loneliness


    the first two were the primary reasons i would overeat and spend my fridays gorging myself with pizzas and chips and candy..i never cared enough about myself to ever think i deserved better or that i should treat my body with care. It was like i was punishing myself with food until i could see i was out of control.

    And now its a battle i still fight but this time im at least doing something about it. Its a mental struggle everyday!
  • JenniferNoll
    JenniferNoll Posts: 367 Member
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    I had to take steroids for a health condition for 3 years straight. Made me gain 70 pounds.
  • ahelgers10
    ahelgers10 Posts: 376 Member
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    I gained weight when I had kids. I got pregnant with my oldest son while in high school. I finished my senior year on the varsity dance team working out 5 days a week for 3 hours with frequent performances and competitions in the evenings and weekends to being pregnant and doing nothing. I never got the motivation after he was born to get the 60 pounds I gained off.
  • pancake100
    pancake100 Posts: 23 Member
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    Too over active not feeding my body enough, got very low body fat, now trying to gain weight and body fat on purpose, by eating alot of healthy food :)
  • redhousecat
    redhousecat Posts: 584 Member
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    laziness, but I've been back on track for quite a few years now!
  • Artemis726
    Artemis726 Posts: 587 Member
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    I had an eating disorder for over 10 years- totally messed up my metabolism. When I got pregnant- I cut it out immediately and ate normally with some craving splurges- which equaled some pretty incredible weight gains and a long road to repair and healing.

    I've got it now the healthy way. :)

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