How did you gain the weight?

How many people attain childhood obesity - by eating crap and sitting too much. Even as I played sports, I was a chubby. I was little until about 1st/2nd grade when I started to gain little bits of weight, and by 4th grade I was chubby, and that got worse in middle school. My kids will not sit around and eat junk!!

I gained wieght a little at a time....sure I had seriod shots to help heal a back injury,and i also took medication for depression that made me gain...but it seems since i hit 30 i've put about 5 pds a year on thats not comin off. Now i'm 38 and 160 pds.

A combination of long hours at a desk job...then coming home and spending most of my evenings on the computer doing assignments for online college. Throw in the stress eating related to work and school, and I was a disaster. Didn't help that my significant other is a junk-food junkie...although I take responsibility for every potato chip, Hershey bar and quart of Ben and Jerry's that I shoved in my face. Since then, things have calmed down at work so I've had more time and energy to plan healthy meals and exercise. I'm still in school, but have found that actually going to class instead of taking online courses makes it easier for me to avoid long nights in front of the computer. I'm a work on progress...always will be...but I'm happyI'm moving in a positive direction now! Thanks, MFP!!!

I ate and ate and ate. I knew I was gaining weight but thought it wasn't that bad. It was only when I started watching shows like the Biggest Loser and such where there were other ladies my height and my weight that I had to face that it was that bad.

I can't be sure, but I think it was by eating more calories than I burned while not weight training to gain muscle.

I was never able to gain any weight before, no matter how hard I tried. I was and had been more active most of my life. The last two years I lived with my parents, my activity stopped. Still, I could not gain the weight I wanted. I met my husband and by then I didn't care about gaining any weight. I had started birth control after we got married as well as became even less active (not very active for 4 years total). That's when I started gaining weight. I had gained 30lbs. Going from a 120--125 lb fit person to a 155 lb not so healthy person drove me nuts. I started working out as much as possible at the time. Which was only 30 mins a day. I got down to 150 lbs. I had even lowered my calorie intake. I don't like blaming others or other things for my issues but the birth control was keeping the extra weight on me. After I stopped it to get pregnant I went down to 145 in only one week and 142 in the second (didn't even work out!). I got pregnant soon after and am back at 158 after losing about 30lbs of baby weight. I lost it fast. Now I'm kind of stuck. I don't really want to stick to counting numbers as I have gained quite a bit of muscle back. I just want to lose some of the fat around it and be at a healthy weight. I also want to eat as healthy as possible. I also have a moderate risk of diabetes.

Depression & too much liquor!!

I gained with each pregnancy and never lost it afterwards. I ate pure crap food and was comfortable enough in my marriage that I thought it was okay. Clearly it was not.

I got very overwhelmed during my first year of grad school. I stopped working out, sleeping well, eating well, and grabbed whatever was quick and easy to eat (i.e. prepackaged, process food and pizza, lots of pizza). I also felt hungry all the time due to stress and lack of sleep. Over the summer, I overhauled my eating and exercise habits I lost most of the weight I gained. I am now in my second year and making healthier choices. I am getting up extra early to work out, and I snack on fruit or veggies if I need a quick and portable meal. Still not sleeping well, but I'm working on it! Good luck to everyone!

Got into a relationship
Then got in a car accident (at work)
Same day of the accident the car i had just bought was delivered to me
So i got comfortable, got to drive everywhere instead of walk and take the bus, and got terrible rehab from my accident.
I even worked with a trainer before, but i was in so much back pain i didn't want to do anything as just working was painful.

It took a second car accident (and much better rehab this time), and a sisterly idea to run a 5k to get me really back up and at 'er

I was a very active child and teenager. 110 pounds soaking wet until my junior year of college. It was moving off campus that did me in. Rather than my 5 mile walks while living on campus I parked as close to my building as possible and just stopped moving, but didn’t change my eating and drinking habits. Before I knew it, it caught up with me and I’d gained 30 pounds easily.

I gained some during college- I stopped being as active as I was in high school and started being in control of my diet rather than my parents (read: I ate tons of crap since no one was telling me not too). I lost it after college the year I worked 1 full time job, 1 part time job and was taking classes at night on top of planning a wedding. Then we bought a house and I was helping to fix that up too. I also lived with a friend who was a healthy eater and a good influence on me. I was at my thinnest ever, and I was healthy too.

Then I got married. I gained comfort weight the first year. Then I got pregnant. And I got fat. Not just pregnancy weight either, I gained 50 lbs while pregnant with my oldest. I lost 45 of it after she was born. Then I got pregnant again 18 months later. Didn't gain as much that time but still gained quite a bit. I lost most of it but held onto another 5. Then I got pregnant again 15 months later. That time I did weight watchers and LOST IT ALL!!! I was at my thinnest, and healthiest, since after college.

And then I had baby #4. I've been fighting to lose all the baby weight for the last year. We've had some major changes to our life and every time I stop watching what I am eating I start gaining it all back. I'm down to the last 5-7 pounds that I want to lose. I am carefully adding exercise this time and bought myself a used treadmill so that I can exercise while the kids are sleeping at night and don't need to worry about working around their schedules and dh's. Plus the cost of a gym membership is not in our current budget. I also walk my kids to school as often as possible, 1/2 mile each way adds up to 2 miles a day while pushing a double stroller. That burns calories too!

I am VERY hopeful that I can make changes that will enable me to keep the weight off this time. There are no plans for another baby so I won't have pregnancy weight to deal with again. Now it is just the "getting older and not taking time feed myself" weight. I take care of everyone before I take care of myself. Case in point: it is noon and I am eating for the first time today (not counting the bite of eggs I grabbed this morning).

I weighed 8lbs 12 oz. when I was born (first sign), by the time I was 5, I was a professional eater! I am 36 now and I've decided to change careers! Bahahahahahahahahah!!!

all through hs i was around 115-120 (ran cross country/pole vaulted). in college i really didn't gain any weight mostly because there were barely vegetarian options so it was salad and cereal all the time, relapsed with an ed and lost 10/15 pounds. after i graduated i had a job i loved but then the hours got cut so i took a full time job that i hated, doing case management for adults for substance abuse/mental illness. stressful, ****ty pay. was angry all the time. long story short, started drinking daily, about 3-4 mixed drinks of flavored rum with orange strawberry juice. so freaking delicious but those drinks alone daily had to be almost 1000 calories extra. got to my heighest of 127 which is still a normal weight for my height of 5'4", but my face and arms and tummy were getting chubby. down to a lower weight than i was in hs now. i rarely drink anymore because i have a bladder disorder and i really cant or it irritates the piss out of it, feels like i have a uti all the time. without those 4 drinks a day, it really makes a difference.
so long story short, a ****ty job and drinking too much put weight on me

I gained it the same way I'm losing it.....one day at a time.