When did you start gaining weight?

I've always been small, 5ft 2 and 8stone 5lbs, but when I was 42 I had a brain stem stroke , lack of mobility and not being able to work anymore, I lolloped about all day and put on weight.

After about a year my partner got me a greyhound and I started walking again, but I still gained weight. I have balance and sight issues but I can walk, so i'm slowly losing the weight again :happy:

This is what happened to me too.

College...blame it on the keg stands and munchies

I don't think there is trigger for that... ?
If you ate too much and lie down after eating like a couch potato definitely you will gain weight

I gained weight after giving up smoking, which was the start and then my Mother suddenly passed away a few months later. I gained 25kgs within a year.

I was a chubby child, then lost my 'baby fat' around 13. Then I was average sized, I guess, through high school. I got married at 20 and started college, and was still pretty much average size, or maybe a little soft. I played sports through jr high and high school, but not after. I think that kept my physique in check through those years, but married life and then having two kids put a damper on phyiscal activity. In late 2010, at 39, I found myself with a 16 year old and a 13 year old and I was 190 pounds (the heaviest I've ever been without being pregnant) at 5'2". I was fed up and refused to buy bigger clothes or live in sweat pants. I began C25K with a friend and in 9 weeks had dropped 30 pounds. I kept running, signed up for races and branched out in my workouts. I began lifting weights, doing bootcamp classes and have now progressed to obstacle/mud racing and martial arts. I lost about 45 pounds initially with running, and put another 10 back on in muscle lifting weights. I am around a size 6 now, and was 16 at my heaviest.

Late 30s when I started climbing less often.

The advantage of having weights at home is that I can now do some kind of resistance exercise even if I'm not going out to a sport.

I actually weigh the same as I did 2 years ago but look the right way round. )

FWIW, my free weights aren't that heavy compared to some of the monsters on here but I am happy with how I look. Naturally, I know there are areas I could improve on but that's mainly down to muscle size rather than unwanted fat.

I graduated from high school 2 weeks after I turned 17. Throughout high school I played volleyball and basketball and stayed at around 140 (for reference I'm 5'8"). However, after I graduated I was still eating the same amount but no longer had sports practices for multiple hours each day and the weight just piled on.

When I got pregnant with my first child. 20 years ago. But strangest thing. I weigh now what I did about a year after I had him. I was 160 then I got pregnant went up to 210, came back down to 180 and went back up to 210. Im wanting so bad to be at 160 again. I know the number seems high but boy do I look good at 160:bigsmile:

my late 30's i gained alot of weight fast from being inactive for 3 months and eating nothing but takeawy food after being bed ridden when my back went (prolapsed discs) while i was carrying my teenage daughter to safety during a seizure.. after losing 3.5 stone the doctors were checking me over a month or two ago to see if i was fit for surgery to fix my back and found i also have an under active thyroid which is most likely why the weight gain and the knock on effect of being over weight is that my pancreas is shutting down too and not producing insulin and the insulin it is still producing is no good, im now looking at prediabetes and i have a heart arrythmia... but im sure i can fix it all if i lose this weight fast

When I was 14 and my family fell apart. I had always been a little chubby, despite lots of exercise, but suddenly i was comfort eating and gained 20 lbs this continued my first year of college, when I gained the Freshman 15 lbs thanks to crappy food and beer. I subsequently lost it all and more through extreme dieting and exercise, until I was under 100 lbs on graduation day (and miserable!). In my later 30s I slowly gained a healthy amount back and began to treat my body better and get into fun exercise (rock climbing). Then I tore 3 ligaments in my knee, was sidelined before and after surgery and then had kid #1 and #2....and fell out of the exercise/healthy cooking regime.

Some time before my mother brought me home from the hospital. . .

Oh. You probably meant something about gaining weight in excess of personal ideals for height and activity level. Carry on.

At first, I needed to gain weight because I was too skinny. This was in 2010. I was about 91 lbs and at a point where I needed to gain weight for health. At first the weight gain was on purpose. It was on purpose until I hit 110 lbs, where I continued counting calories and I maintained weight for a year.

In 2011 I met my boyfriend and I began eating out. At first it was slow... weight gain and eating out. I started out eating out like 1-2 times a week and then by 2013 it was just about every day. I slowly gained 10 lbs throughout 2011 and 2012, from eating out and exercising lightly. In 2013, things got worse.... eating out almost everyday, barely any exercise, and not counting calories at all. My weight shot up 15 lbs in 2013. After Christmas I decided to lose.

Menopause. Was thin my entire life til that hit. Had 2 kids, went right back down to original weight. Then menopause hit & its been a battle ever since. What a booger.

When my wife passed away giving birth to our daughter....

Wow, I'm so very sorry for your loss.

Oh my gosh-what a great thread! It is so comforting hearing everyone's stories.

For me, I was a "chubby" child, but once I hit puberty, I thinned right out and of course, spent the next 20 years losing 10-15 vanity pounds every year to wear this or that outfit! LOL However, I started college and then grad school at 40 and eventually became a college professor. All that sitting at a computer, reading and studying and then going through menopause right in the middle of it all really packed on the pounds. Brains require a lot of glucose to learn and teach and I made sure mine was well supplied! :blushing: I finally reached the point where I could not teach my classes without ending up in extreme pain in my knees, feet, and back and when my son and I tried to hike a mountain that we had always hiked and I could not even get 1/4 of the way up, I was DONE WITH IT!!!!!

So, in Aug, 2012 at 59 1/2 years old, I was looking for a "calorie chart" as I wanted to start to counting calories (it was my method of choice for my vanity pounds back in the day) and found MFP. It has basically given me back the old me only better. I work out more now that I ever did and I am much more healthy than I was when I was younger and weighed much less. I am so very grateful to the wonderful people on here who have taught me so much about what good health really is! I suspect I will use this site for the rest of my life because I am not going back to over 200 pounds ever again!!!! :noway: