Why did you gain weight?

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.

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

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.

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"!

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.

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:

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!

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.

laziness, but I've been back on track for quite a few years now!