What triggered your weight gain?

Hmmm, it all started when I got a boyfriend and mainly all we did was Eat out!! Then I had my son and I got bigger. Then married and I got bigger! My second son and I got a little bigger. Also, eating when I was bored. My first "real" job and always eating out for lunch. Never exercising. Eating all junk food/bread/ w/ large portions.

I had a job where I didn't get breaks and if I was lucky I got some food during shift, but what they served there was very unhealthy and full of fat,cheese and sauces.I used to panic and before my shift id eat loads then id end up getting food and eat it then too, to give me energy when I didn't get food I would drink endless cans of coke on 10 hour shifts.
I wasn't happy whilst working there so would eat loads of chocolate and treat myself to hot chocolates, mochas,desserts on my days/evenings off.I have been gradually putting on weight since getting with my boyfriend last year but this job made it accelerate.

When I got to the heaviest weight I had ever been and was eating stupidly, really all I wanted to eat was chocolate..like even for breakfast I new I had to sort this out once and for all!

So that was my trigger , the horrible job.
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What Triggered my weight gain? Two things really:
1. My relationship with my BF. He has a hungry appetite...I would eat whenever he would eat and would eat as much as him. He had (at the time) a higher metabolism than me. So I gained 20 pounds in a matter of 6 months.
2. I turned 30.......my metabolism went to crap and gained another 15 pounds the first 2 months after turning th3 bg 30.

My weight gain wasn't triggered by a damn thing. I ate like a pig since childhood and the only reason it didn't catch up with me until my teens was because I kept active via swimming. At a certain point in my early teens though I had a skin cancer scare that made me paranoid about being out in the sun anymore, so I stopped swimming and became sedentary. So my eating habits caught up with me.

I was always fat. I can chalk that up to a lot of things - an abusive childhood filled with comfort eating and wanting fat to protect myself; not being taught a damn thing about nutrition; being completely disregarded and ignored when I begged for help to lose weight as a child; and simply loving food.

I lost a lot of weight when I was 24 or 25 and my living situation changed and I wasn't under as much stress. I lost about 130 lbs without even trying, I just naturally didn't want to eat like I was before (i was still fat, just not *as* fat). This was a problem because it sort of put the belief in my head that I didn't have to do anything, I'd just lose weight as long as I avoided fast food (which was my big vice before).

After I got married when I was 28, I moved to the UK to be with my husband and almost immediately started gaining weight. I think this was due to a few things. It took me a long time to find a job, so I spent a lot of time just sitting at home. Not only was I not really moving, but boredom is a huge cause of my overeating, and I was super bored. The other thing is that my husband is one of those tall, skinny boys who eats like a horse but doesn't gain an ounce. I was doing all the cooking, and just got used to eating as much as he was. Add to this my mindset of being able to eat whatever I want and lose weight, and most of the weight I had lost came right back.

So that's what triggered *my* weigh gain!

I used to be a total health and fitness nut. I was 5'6" and weighed 132 lbs. I could run 3 miles in 24 min. But then I got in a really bad relationship. Not only was he mean, he had horrible food habits and I absorbed them. I gained 20 lbs during the first 6 months of our relationship. Then I joined the military. I lost all the weight during training but when I got back I ballooned up to 180 lbs. The combination of a bad relationship and military stress just broke something inside me. I forgot all of my healthy coping mechanisms. But, I've had some therapy since then and am doing better. I feel like I'm finally in a healthy mental state, and I can't lose weight when my mental state is all wrong. Losing weight takes a lot of self love.

my weight gain has been a yoyo since i was a kid but lost loads in teens from walking everywhere, MEN lol men trigger my eating through me being too happy to upset to depressed im just an emotional eater, then i found weight watchers great lost 2 n a half stone in 4 months was happy in the mirror again then went travelling all over the world enjoying lots of yummy food pilled the weight back on and a lot more!!!! whats stopped me this time is learning about food and controlling what i eat

Depression, family troubles, relationship troubles then pregnancies and just eating too much and of the wrong foods.

Hormonal birth control

Laziness and overeating, period end of story.

Yup. Anf my BF....the one with the high metabolism.....when he turned 30 he ballooned. And was so confused as to why he had gained so much weight in such a short amount of time when he was eating the same exact things he was when he was in his 20's. He didn't understand that his body changed and now he has to watch what he eats if he wants to keep the belly weight off.

Yup. Anf my BF....the one with the high metabolism.....when he turned 30 he ballooned. And was so confused as to why he had gained so much weight in such a short amount of time when he was eating the same exact things he was when he was in his 20's. He didn't understand that his body changed and now he has to watch what he eats if he wants to keep the belly weight off.

I hear ya Lynn. I still double takes at myself in the mirror.....its like flipping a switch! We should be friends and help each other.

I quit smoking and ate my body weight in ginger biscuits.

being fat and lazy...

I think most of us can attribute our weight gain to this if we stopped blaming others!!
I know I can but then again, it could be because my gramma and mom were overweight, oh and my ex loved Tim Hortons doughnuts and always wanted to go there for a snack...at least 2 doughnuts a day then I caught him cheating on me..or maybe because my husband died..oh wait no it was because I had two kids, hum...lets face it, I was being lazy...and got fat!!!

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