How did you gain the weight?

I lost it during holidays....during standard weeks I just maintained the weightloss but then at easter (2 weeks off with the children), summer same again and Christmas...I gained around 5 Lb each holiday and then just maintained so never got the excess weight off, hence 2.5 stone on in 3 years :grumble:

I was comfortable in a relationship with an obese junk food addict & then I got a job working at a supermarket next door to McDonalds.......leaving him, finding a new job & discovering this wonderful site changed my life for the better

After having my son in 1993 I never stopped eating. I did less & less exercise & drank nothing but coke 24/7 I even had a big bottle by my bed at night.

always been big. tried to lose repeatedly and succeded to a point, but i always put it back on.

Honestly I don't know I was skin and bones until I had my second heart surgery when I was six but I was on the swim team and was a wrestler and played soccer in elementary till 9th grade and played football since 6th grade . I was always playing sports. I left the oilfield for mining and after the mine closed I gained about 100+ pounds. I always blamed it on heart surgery when I was little because I got chubby quick after but I am pretty sure it was the home cooked all you can eat buffets living with a farming family and the junk food. But I fixed my mistakes and have never been happier! :drinker:

I used to have quite a "pick & mix" approach to my training... a bit of spinning, a bit of boxercise, lots of lifting, some short runs, lots of yoga...

I used to eat equally eclectically... a wide range of foods.

Then I got into distance running via a group of friends, and then into distance triathlon. I was told to stop lifting. I got indoctrinated into the whole carb loading culture that permeates endurance training, and the wide held belief that if you've run for 3 hours or cycled for 6 you can eat whatever the hell you like.

I learned the hard way.

Did my midlife crisis Ironman. Got that out of the way. Now fixing my body.

Just being lazy really. I work full time and have two young kids so was happy to come home from work and grab easy food that was too high in calories. Or eat out and get take aways. I was too tired to exercise on a night. And I thought it was ok to eat the same size portions as my husband (he's 6ft 3 and I am 5ft 4) so even if I had a "healthy" meal I was still eating far too many calories.

Once I started cooking more, eating better and getting more exercise I realised they were all just excuses. Things that I just had to figure out a way round and make the time to do this and lose the wieght.

I ate too much

Pretty much this! No excuses!

Living with a man who could eat a tub of lard and wouldn't put on weight. His diet consists of doritos, followed by bread with half a tub of butter followed by half a dozen full fat lattes. Oh and cheese pizza, lots of cheese pizza. How he hasn't died of lack of fiber/nutrients is beyond me.

Either way, I picked up on his slack eating and over about 3 years put on 15kg(30lb). Now I have to get it all back off, and watch him eat whatever delicious food he wants to. Sometimes it sucks being a girl.

Sounds boring but just eating a little bit too much and not exercising enough. I was always chubby, even as a child, so this is the first time in my life that I'm actually slim.

following a serious accident, i had to give up work, gym etc but stoooopidly i didn't give up the way i was eating. still ate the same diet but moved way less. the pounds have added up over the last couple of years and now they have to go.

My college job was at a gas station on 3rd shift. I worked 12 hour nights, and we weren't allowed to sit down. I went straight from that job to a sit-down job as a 911 dispatcher. The weight PILED on! I had always eaten kind of crappy food, but I guess all the standing and walking around kept the weight somewhat in check. Before I knew it, I hit 225lbs! So I started dieting and exercising and lost 60lbs. Then I became complacent and started a happy relationship, and healthy eating and working out went to the backburner again... and I gained 24lbs back.

I've lost those 24lbs plus 3 more now and hopefully can lose another 12. Having to lose weight I had lost once before was a nasty kick in the pants. I do NOT want to have to do that ever again.

I just ate way to much as a kid and wasn't that active. Then I gained more after I got married in Nov 2002 and got "comfortable" in life. More pounds came after a very bad car wreck in Jan 2008 which led to excessive narcotic/alcohol use. Then, in Nov 2008, I gained more after my mother was diagnosed with end stage cancer and passed away 17 days after being diagnosed, which was the day after my 6th wedding anniversary and 3 days before Thanksgiving of 2008.
Life was turned around in Jan 2010 and it has been amazing!!

Wow. That's a lot to deal with at one time. It's very impressive that you've been able to turn it around.

Working 2 full time jobs about 75-80 hours a week for a year, no sleep, running on take out food and caffeine mostly soda and a little coffee with A LOT of creamer lol...

Plus I had gotten into a fight with an ex-marine, and needless to say he whooped my *kitten* and didn't hold back, majorly injured after being slammed on a concrete floor, only fight i ever lost

I was a vegetarian who fell for a die hard carnivore. Being in college full time and working full time it wasn't often feasible to cook at home for us, especially different meals so I began eating meat. Since he can't cook whenever he took care of a meal it was fast food. I gained 70 pounds without even realizing it.
On the plus side we're both losing now. He's one who can eat almost anything and still barely gain so he doesn't have much to lose but he's still getting healthier.