Gaining weight after marriage

Yep! We would grab McD's and eat junk while sitting around all weekend, until we had kids and theyt made that impossible..but we still ate bad and didn't move enogh....we are now changing that 6 years in, and turning our lives around, for our kids and ourselves!

I know everyone talks about gaining weight after marriage I just didn't think it would happen to me. Within the first year I gained 15lbs.. Now 4 1/2 years in I've gained around 40 lbs! I know I started gaining by matching my husbands portion sizes and we were going out to dinner several times a month. Im sure im not the only one. I would love to hear from other people in the same situation.

Def happened here...BUT i got pregnant two months after being married so that had everything to do with it. It's gonna take effort but you can do it!

Yep! Not married but living with a guy. Gained over 25lbs. It's eating what he does and drinking a lot of alcohol

I gained 40 lbs my first year of marriage. I also became a mom in my first year of marriage so adjusting to mommy hood and wifey hood worked a double wammy on me. I am now at the weight I was when I got married. I think I may be 5 lbs lighter. You can do it!!! MFP, supporting friends and determination is the key!!! Good luck!!!

I know everyone talks about gaining weight after marriage I just didn't think it would happen to me. Within the first year I gained 15lbs.. Now 4 1/2 years in I've gained around 40 lbs! I know I started gaining by matching my husbands portion sizes and we were going out to dinner several times a month. Im sure im not the only one. I would love to hear from other people in the same situation.

Right there with ya! 14 years of marriage and 2 kids (boys) later - my 40lbs came back! I just told my oldest son last night - "Yeah when I met daddy I was 125 lbs and gained 10lbs of "happy fat" and I thought I was fat back then!" LOL

My hubby is using MFP and I really don't want to know what he will lose - he's been the same size since i met him! He loses weight 2 times as fast as me too and it pisses me off!

Happy to join you on your weight loss journey! I'm all about staying motivated and truly love to give/receive support - it's a motivater itself! Feel free to friend me if you'd like another.... :flowerforyou:

I got married in May of 2010, by August I gained 7-11 pounds (I weighed 181.) when I went to the doctor's for a physical. I had to go again last month and I weigh 159 according to his scale.

My husband and I moved in together a year before we got married. In the first six months of living together, I gained nearly 30 pounds. He gained about the same amount. We were eating out a lot, having huge portion sizes, and getting fast food more often than I'd care to admit. I don't know what happened, but I guess we just got comfortable and lazy.

This past December, we both decided that we had had enough. Our wedding was coming up, and we wanted to not only look our best but also to just feel better and be healthier. We joined MFP together right after Christmas and haven't looked back! We've both lost more than 50 pounds and have kept up this lifestyle since our May 28 wedding.

As much as we both contributed to each other's weight gain in the first place, we have since been critical to each other's weight loss success.

Relationships and pregnancy seem to be the most fattening things around! Congrats on figuring it out now and doing something about it!

I've gained 20 pounds in 5 years with my fiance. I think I'm finally learning that I need to follow my own guidelines for portion control and how often we eat out. I also do say no to the alcohol sometimes too. I figure that with all the hard work, 100-300 extra calories per drink is not worth it.

The good news is, I think it will help him to lose weight too (same deal with him), and we will save money with eating at home instead of going out.

The more we can match good habits with them (and not the bad habits) the better off everyone will be.

I have been so down in the dumps lately, and reading this post has made me feel so much better!!!

I have struggled with weight all my life... 4 years ago when I moved back home from school, I surprised everyone with some weight loss! I was at about 190 when I moved home, down from about 250! Met my husband at work and got really comfortable really fast! Between living with gross roommates, and Ray living about 1.5 hours away, we spent a lot of time eating at restaurants and just huddling up in my part of the house! Then we moved in together and the happiness manifested itself in beer, bbqs and other assorted deliciousness! Before I knew it, I had gone right back to 245! What a bummer!
Then came the proposal! I had a year and a half to get some results! I dropped down to 185 with great muscle definition and was feeling good...still not at goal, but looking much less plump! Here we are...6 months post wedding and I am teetering on the edge of 200 again at 198...a promise I had made to myself that I would never again be in the 200's is about to be broken!
I have been trying to get back into the groove but i always seem to find an excuse! This past week I have gotten serious again! I am pushing aside all my complaining and just excluding no from my vocabulary for a bit! I struggle with weekends, so I feel like all my good work during the week is compromised, but that will be my next goal! if I can lose weight, I need to at least slow the gain!!!!
I try and get some Jillian Micheal's dvd goin in the AM before work (which has proven to be more difficult this time around) and rock some cardio with my new pup after work! My first weigh in on Thursday so I am really hoping to see some results! Thankfully my weigh in is before my Vday dinner out with Ray!

So, all in all, I with ya, and everyone else that commented! Here's hopin that habits change, motivation stays high and enthusiasm strong!!!!

I did the same and have been off and on between losing and gaining weight.

PS - When you have kids it gets even worse!

But everything comes around and you can certainly not follow the general rule of thumb.

Yep this is totally my life. My husband is 6' and weights 165lbs. He eats anything he wants to eat and doesn't gain a pound. I think I could just eat whatever he was eating. He didn't seem to care or say anything. I know I am smaller than when we got married but not yet to the size when we met. I am alot more fit than I was then though.

I've been with my partner for 15 years and in that time I packed on 35kg. 2 kids before I was 18, bad eating habits and no exercise and that weight really crept on at first. Then I sort of didn't care and more weight piled on. Then depressed about the weight which led to comfort eating and even more weight.

Now I'm serious about losing this weight and changing my eating habits.