How did you gain weight in the first place

I got lazy and ate out way more than you should (which is never that stuff is garbage with zero nutrition lol) played to much final fantasy (supper addictive online game) So ate cap and sat on my *kitten* basically lol summer came tried to hike my favorite trail and was like why the hell is this so hard!!?? .... So here I am.

Parent's didn't eat well when I was a kid. Bad habits passed on. I didn't pay attention to my always high weight and didn't exercise very much! I don't know what I expected to happen, but I consistently gained 20-30lb every year. Minus 2 or 3. Changing that now! Time I got control of this weight and shed those 64lb that has gained on my 5'2 frame.

How did I gain all this weight? Simply: I ate junk and I ate a lot of it.

I have depression, OCD and post-traumatic stress disorder. I also have chronic migraines. I'm on all kinds of lovely pills from my pharmacist. I could blame my weight gain on all of that.....but I'm not going to. There are healthy people who have all those same issues.

I have a husband, two teenagers, two crazy dogs and I work in a criminal court - all of which can be rather stressful. Those aren't to blame either. Healthy people are married with children and have insane jobs.

Plain and simple: I ate junk and I ate a lot of it. I didn't care. I didn't pay attention and I didn't exercise. All my fault.

This!! Congrats on not making excuses!! Hearing constant excuses drives me nuts, I was happy to read this!! :-)

I agree! I am on thyroid meds and a few others. They haven't caused me to gain weight. I gained weight because I let it happen.

That's something that I always have to remind myself of, no matter what you might tell yourself in the end you are in control and you can change it. It's true! TOO MANY EXCUSES ARE SAID (even by me) about why people gained weight.

My parents never limited my eating -- they didn't even understand good eating habits themselves (though they are both normal/skinny). They bought me chocolates and ice cream whenever I wanted, as well as any other foods I asked for (I could have McDonald's every day, if I wanted it). I was very skinny as a child, because I exercised a lot. Then I stopped exercising, but didn't change my eating habits, and I ballooned up to 130 pounds (which is quite stocky on a 5'0-5'1 teenager). I was really uncomfortable all through my teenage years due to my 'chubby' weight, and I have only just got around to losing some of it.

I see all these people putting their reasons and then-but I don't want to make excuses it really was my fault.....Well just so you know, their are cases were it CAN BE NOT YOUR FAULT...like not being able to walk on one leg for a year and then a month ago getting A METAL PLATE WITH SIX SCREWS, AND TWO METAL CAGES AROUND TWO DISKS IN MY BACK....so excuse me if that sounds like an excuse, IT'S NOT.....I Guess I COULD EXERCISE if I WANTED ANOTHER ROUND OF A BACK SURGURY THIS IS #2. (I'm still using a walker and reacher but hey that sounds like an excuse I should get my lazy *kitten* up and run a marathon! lol)

I got really sick. Every doctor had two more scripts . Every script (while not relieving the pain) made me more tired and threw me more out of wack. I relied on take out and I eat anything that comforted me and I just kept thinking someone would give me the "magic cure " and then the weight would fall back off.

in short. 25 years of overeating and choosing food as my priority.

I was overweight as a teenager...combination of genetics, hormones etc. I genuinely didn't eat too much and I was active. I lost loads of weight at uni, by not eating much, definitely under 1200 calories. I joined a gym when I started working and lost even more.

I moved in with my now husband and did teacher training. The combination of stress and too big meal portions made me gain weight, plus I was so busy I didn't exercise enough.

So I lost 40+lbs when we got engaged, then I was pregnant a month after our wedding. Despite exercise and eating well in pregnancy, I gained. I lost it all, then got pregnant again. I was lazy this time and gained loads. So then I lost it all and more, then got pregnant again lol. Baby no.3 is 11 weeks old and I'm losing weight yet again. No more babies for me!

Years of suffering from undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea. In simple terms, sleep apnea causes a deficit of oxygen which next to calories is the body's primary energy source. So your body needs energy but it is not getting it from oxygen so you eat more and gain weight. When you gain weight the apnea gets worse, decreases oxygen requiring more caloric energy, so you eat more, gain more weight, which again exacerbates the apnea; and on and on and on... This is a very slow process that is undetectable at first and by the time you start snoring, you are severely overweight if not obese.

I have tried to sensibly lose weight (CICO) since I weighed about 150 after my second child and was concerned with my weight gain. All that did was cause me to be severely fatigued to the point that exercising was impossible. I was an athlete in HS and had been active running and walking when my children were babies and toddlers. So I knew something was wrong but it took almost 18 years before I finally stumbled upon the answer.

My sleep apnea was caused by having my nose broken by a baseball at 16. Which pinched off the left side of my nose which not only caused the sleep apnea but affected my awake breathing as well. Which is why exercising only made the whole situation worse.

I always just ate whatever I wanted. All the women in my family are the same size (5'4" and about 160-170 pounds). I could honestly have traded pants with my grandmother before losing this 40 pounds. It is always where women in my family stop gaining weight, I don't pretend to know why.

It is probably just that is where our maintenance calories are around where we like to stop eating mashed potatoes and brisket and fried okra lol.

I just decided I would rather watch what I eat and be 125 pounds than not watch what I eat and always be on the high end of average.

I'd have to say it was a combination of watching how my father ate.... (my mother barely ate at all and was the polar opposite,) my grandmother who would feed me hostess cupcakes by the box, and also the fact that as a 90's child, our generation saw a huge advance in television shows geared for kids, as well as video game systems..... it made a lot of us sedentary. I can safely say I spent more time playing Nintendo, Sega and playstation moreso than I was active outside with my friends. I also had weird food cravings..... I would go to the fridge consistently and eat slices of Oscar Meyer bologna and pickles... and I would do this consistently. People started noticing the weight gain from the time I was in 2nd grade. I started not fitting into my normal sizes and eventually I became a little porker.... and once I hit that point, I felt pretty helpless and depressed from it... and up until very recently that's what I believed.

I have been overweight since I was about 8 years old and became obese as a teenager. I think there was some genetic predisposition there (NOT saying that's the whole reason at all, but I do believe it's a factor) but MAINLY I think it was my family's lifestyle of being fairly sedentary (we didn't just sit around watching TV but my parents usually drove everywhere, no sports participation, lots of reading, etc) and eating almost exclusively restaurant meals, processed snack foods, and dessert after every lunch and dinner. There also was not a wide range of vegetables served and I had the typical "kid tastes" so I didn't really like a lot of veggies until I was in my late 20's. Honestly I never really binged or ate huge portions, but the food I ate was pretty high in fat, calories, sugar & sodium and lacking in other areas. I thought nothing of having cookies & milk, a huge Danish, or cake for breakfast especially as a teen.

After reaching the mid-200s I stayed at around the same weight for many many years, however I gained about 50 lb around hitting age 30 and I believe that was due to the job I had creating a lot of two things...extra stress and extra income. That meant I was eating to deal with emotions (anxiety, depression, general stress) and had the funds to buy all of the food...daily Starbucks, lunches out, fancier dinners out with alcohol and/or dessert, etc.

I see all these people putting their reasons and then-but I don't want to make excuses it really was my fault.....Well just so you know, their are cases were it CAN BE NOT YOUR FAULT...like not being able to walk on one leg for a year and then a month ago getting A METAL PLATE WITH SIX SCREWS, AND TWO METAL CAGES AROUND TWO DISKS IN MY BACK....so excuse me if that sounds like an excuse, IT'S NOT.....I Guess I COULD EXERCISE if I WANTED ANOTHER ROUND OF A BACK SURGURY THIS IS #2. (I'm still using a walker and reacher but hey that sounds like an excuse I should get my lazy *kitten* up and run a marathon! lol)

I understand that you've been through an ordeal, but yes that is an excuse. You can keep weight down even without exercise. You could lower you calories to reflect the reduced level of activity you've facing currently.

A lot of times people will use an injury as an excuse as to why they gained lots of weight. The injury doesn't force you to overeat beyond your TDEE. It's just that most people who get injured and require rest continue to eat at the level of activity they had before the injury, or they turn to food as comfort and begin to overeat.

Of course people's priorities often change when going through an ordeal like you have, and often body weight concerns fall by the wayside. But do know that it's still your responsibility. I think we all need to own up to our actions.

I was anorexic as a teenager and in college my mind and body rebelled against the starvation and I started eating compulsively. Been yo-yo dieting and eating emotionally ever since...bleh

I was always thin, fit, muscular. The day I got pregnant with my first daughter I weighed 112 pounds. It's been downhill since. Long story short, I drink too much soda, not diet, don't exercise, have an office job and eat what I want when I want.