what was your mistakes that made you gain weight

1) Stress eating!! Now I will find somewhere that I can walk and think it all out
2) And if I had a really busy day, I would get fast food instead of cooking, putting TRASH into mine and my childrens body, at least twice a week.
I guess what really turned my life around is seeing how my grandparents are struggling. My granny has diabetes and she has to take 3 shots a day. My grandfather died two weeks ago as a result of bad life choices.. The flu attacked his lungs and they were so damaged from smoking so many years that he couldn't fight it off. Seeing him suffer the way he did, I never want that for myself or my children! I haven't ate fast food since and I have lost 11 pounds so far
(I know that eating unhealthy is totally different than smoking but it all sends you in a bad direction, that was my point)

I ate too much and moved too little. Six months ago it was easy to sit around and eat, now I don't have as much @$$ padding, so I don't sit as long, and since I don't like eating while I'm moving around I don't eat as much.

Rigger

Not so much a mistake really...

I was always pretty active and ate a lot to fuel that activity. I was an athlete growing up and participated in everything from swimming to track and field to gymnastics to football. After high school I joined the Marine Corps and was with a combat ready unit so also very active and fit.

I was somewhat less active when I cycled out of the military and went back to college...but I didn't own a car and rode my bike or walked pretty much everywhere. I also was pretty active just recreationally with hiking, skiing, golf, etc. I gained a small amount of weight in college, but basically went from maintaining a 10-12% BF ratio to being around 15-17% or so...so no biggie. I was still pretty active and ate a lot to fuel all of that activity.

I graduated college just after my 30th birthday...which is also when I started my first "real job" sitting at a desk and staring at a computer screen all day long. I bought a car so rather than riding my bike everywhere, I was sitting in my nice plush leather seats driving to work and then sitting for 10-12 hours per day, generally 6 days per week. Due to just being busy, my recreational activity pretty much ceased to exist and basically I went from being quite active to sedentary almost over night but was still eating the same way I was before and as a result put on about 50 Lbs over the course of the next 8 years.

I lost 40 Lbs last year and am primarily re-comping at maintenance at this point. I still eat pretty much the same stuff I always ate...I just moderate my serving sizes and eat to a level that properly fuels my body for the activity it is performing.

i lost a lot of my weight planning my/our wedding. i wanted to be skinny for it. i wanted to look good for it. i ate like a bird for months on end and exercised like a mad woman - working out 2-4 hours a day. yup i dropped the weight. i wore a size 4 and a size 2 in dresses. a year after getting married i injured my knee (pretty bad acl injury); PT, surgery, PT again - a year later of not doing anything i gained 20lbs (at 4' 11-3/4" that's a lot). fast forward 4 years later at my 30th birthday i was my heaviest (almost 45lbs heavier than the day i got married). yes i exercised but because i was exercising i ate anything i wanted because i told myself i exercise i can eat 2 hamburgers and an extra large helping of french fries.

what were my mistakes thinking i could eat anything i wanted because I exercised; milking an injury for 10 years; not taking full responsibility for gaining all my weight (no one stuffed the food in my face hole i did it all on my own); thinking i looked good in my size 14s.

I'd eat to my hearts content, rather than stopping once I was full. A whole large pizza? Sure. Why!? Plus, I never exercised.

I know when I came home hungry I use to grab just anything, pizza, fast food. Now I plan and if I don't plan I eat lean cruise or soup.

I watch myself and look after me instead of putting work,hubby and other stuff first. So true, trying to take care of me and be assertive and say No sometimes. I know I read the other day someones hubby would not let her shovel the snow, heck just say yes I am shoveling.

Use to eat with stressful situations (still do sometimes) Now go to the gym and exercise when stressed. Also get out pen and paper and try to problem solve and sometimes tell myself to just be patient like when my car was in the garage.

I don't think I have the full button so I need logging, if I have eaten most of my calories I say I can have this and not that, I can have the other tomorrow.

What do you think were your mistakes and why you gained the weight?

When I get bored or stressed now, I just go to the forum and laugh at all the funny gif's. :happy:

Not liking myself enough to change. Using food or lack of food as punishment for being me. Cycles of VLCD and revenge eating. Splitting up with my then girlfriend and now wife, which packed on the final couple of stone due to emotional eating. Oh, and apathy.

Sigh - it's my head I need to shrink, not just my waistline.

Eating in response to just about any emotion - boredom, loneliness, excitement, anxiety, sadness, etc. - rather than just eating when I was hungry. Food became a catch-all drug for dealing with my emotions.

Not logging my calories, not drinking enough water and drinking alcohol. Not that I drink a lot, but I have found a glass of wine every night is just enough to cause me to retain water weight. Don't want to talk about the occasional Mexican night with a margarita that I'm sure has >600 calories and then add chips and dinner. Ugh...miss that, but not enough to screw up my current losses!

I stopped watching my food choices so closely and stopped my exercise regime. It really is an all out marathon to keep your body healthy. No sprints here. I got comfy with my man and put back on 30 lbs. Now, I'm not comfy with the 30 lbs.

^^^^^^^^^^^^This!

Me was just 1 cheat day, I didnt think it would have a huge difference in weight gain, I expected maybe a 2 Pound increase but instead I get 5 pound gain

I was always thin in high school and didn't have issues with food. When I went to university I just started eating all kinds of crap food (unlimited meal plan) and drinking/partying every night. Ever since then, I have been up and down with my weight. It was my own carelessness that caused me to be in this situation and it's a hard trap to get out of.

Not really being conscious of the amount of calories i was consuming on a daily basis. When i started tracking I realized how high my consumption rate was. That and drinking...

I'm sure I ate a few too many sweets, Popeyes chicken, and loaves of French bread with cheese for dinner, but overall my diet was pretty healthy and balanced. I definitely enjoyed too much beer and wine. I was eating and drinking just a little too much of everything and barely exercising so didn't offset the extra calories. It was a gradual gain, but It added up to 15lb. more than I wanted.