How did you gain your weight?

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How did I gain my weight? Well, lemme tell ya lil lady :laugh: I did the all American , old fashioned way. By gosh that was good 'nuff for my folks and it's good 'nuff for me too see!:bigsmile:

OK, very simply I abso luv food, and also luv beer, and luv martinis, and luv single malt scotch.:drinker: And by the time I woke up to what was happening, I turned 50 and, even though I DO workout, I got Metabolic Syndrome.:noway: So, here I am doing all of that no fun stuff I used to laugh at all those "other" people who couldn't control themselves, and simply think off the pounds! :sad:

I gained mine from eating too large of portions and from drinking wine.
I love wine....I was having 2 glasses per night along with large portions......I worked out, but not at high intensity....I was just going through the motions. These past couple of weeks I have been pushing myself....I feel so accomplished....now, I look forward to exercise to relax me instead of wine...what an amazing feeling!

I've never been an overeater. I always ate til I was comfortably full with an occasional splurge. I avoided red meat, for the most part, sticking closer to chicken, fish, eggs, pork. I just couldn't justify eating something that required 1000 gallons of water to produce 1 lb of finished product. I also didn't have much of a sweet tooth - maybe once a week a regular size chocolate bar. I didn't drink carbonated beverages. I didn't eat out a lot, because for a long time, we couldn't afford that. I was lightly active - going for 2-3 walks a week. Until about 5 years ago.

What I'm about to reveal about myself is a little embarrasing, but it's ony a part of why I gained weight over the last 5 years. I smoked MJ, DAILY, for 4 of those 5 years with only a few week-long breaks here and there throughout. Between working 2nd shift, drinking more regularly, MJ, bad eating habits (like -BK 3 nights a week), having next to ZERO exercise, and stuffing my face for NO GOOD REASON after smoking myself silly, the weight crept up on me so insidiously that I was quite alarmed when I realized after NOT OWNING a SCALE for the last 15 years that I'd gained 40 lbs. I"m pretty certain that if I'd owned a scale to check regularly, I may never have gained this weight.

The impetus of this all was realizing that part of the problem was the MJ, the other part was finding something to do with myself to resist and avoid the urge, and understanding that my metabolism was eventually going to slow down with age. I'd quite smoking cigs 2 years ago, it was time to GROW UP and finally get ahold of my weight issues before they were beyond out of control.

Hi

I was thin growing up...after baby#1 I was in my pre-pg jeans when he was 12 weeks
I became stressed when I got pg with baby#2 when ds was 18 months...it was planned....but after it happened...I became petrified
Didn't gain too much weight while I was pg, but put on MORE after she was born
I guess it was the stress/exhaustion of taking care of 2 babies 18mnths apart with no family/friends close by to help
Plus my dd was the WORST sleeper...waking 4-5x per night
I felt isolated, alone...so I ate..didn't make time to work out etc

Kim

Stress from the left

Stress from the right

STreSS

Not really overeating. Slowed down on exercise a bit (but still pretty active.)
Stress seems to have been the main player. Oh, and then the added stress.

Just a stress filled time of life.

I used to play a lot of sports at school ...
...I love the alcohol and was (ok, still am) a fairly big drinker.

beer will be my downfall again if i let it slip as i have the portion control thing down and now really could not stomach the meals i used to eat.

You have hit the nail on the head my friend! :drinker: I can sooooo totally relate to just what you are saying! :glasses: Altho, I guess that's rather the point of this place after all?
But yes, I was also a jock all thru school, and then "life" caught up to me. So nowadays, it's all about making choices with the realities that we have NOW. Not as much fun, maybe, but then stroke, obesity, and diabetes aren't exactly real high fives either, are they? :huh:

Being too lazy/tired to make real food. We ate fast food every day, and a frozen pizza every night. Plus we went to the bar 2 times a week and got drunk and ate bar food... That was my last 60 pounds. Before that was just being a picky eater and not having a variety, and being severely depressed.

Well I wasn't really fat, just big boned. :bigsmile: Ok not really but that was my mom's excuse. My excuse is MENOPAUSE I TELL YA! NOT MY FAULT!

Ok seriously, I gained weight because of eating way too much fast food and not exercising.

And there you have it. :huh:

First I ate whatever I wanted. Then I didn't work out the way I should. Then I got preggers and wound up preecclamptic. Ultimately, it's my own damn fault.