How did you gain your weight?

I slowly put on weight in my early 20's, and after I had my second child it spiraled out of control. I had an infant who didn't sleep well and I was working full time, so I turned to sweets to help me cope.
My "baby" will be 4 this May, and I'm proud to say I'm about 1 lb away from losing 100 lbs since I had him.

Congrats Lady!!!!

I got to 275 by eating..and eating a lot. I would stuff my face with unhealthy things. I would consume more than 4 times the calories I eat now. I didnt realize what I was doing to my body and I am actually suprised that I wasnt bigger. I couldnt buy a "yummy" food and save it for later, I had to eat it, all of it, right then and there. I still feel the need to do that but what I have finally reaziled is that if I do not buy it, I cannot eat it. :drinker:

I just really like to eat. I especially like to eat my emotions.

^^^ This and I like to eat sweets

It was my last year of school, and I had no time to do anything but study. I pretty much ate fast food every day, sometimes 2 times a day. I just stuffed my face all day long, and to be honest, I'm surprised that I didn't end up weighing over 200 pounds. The way that I ate was shocking.

always been this way!

I always ate way more then I needed and never worked out very often.

i consumed the babies of too many of my enemies

I had spinal fusion surgery in May and have been home from my very active job since then.... and with surgery came 28lbs.... ugh!!

I gained mine when I was pregnant with my 3 babies and all 3 were c-sections so I didn't want to move around a lot after. I'm not blaming it on the babies, its my fault I thought that I had to eat everything in sight and was scared of the pain after each c-section to workout so it just stayed.

I dropped out of school, where I a) walked like crazy all day long, b) worked on my feet for 25+ hours a week, c) ate dining common food and hardly any extras, d) exercised on top of all of that, though not very regularly. When I sat out of school, I began working at Friendly's (a family-style restaurant in New England). And eating the food there helped me gain weight - for example, a chicken ceasar salad at Friendly's is 2000+ calories!!! :-o I didn't exercise as much, and due to much higher living expenses & more stress, I started gaining "stress" weight. And I ate out a ton more, enjoyed making baked goods in my own little kitchen a little too much, etc. In the course of 3 months I gained 15 lbs!!!

First my weight gain from pregnancy and then I lost it. Last June after being a vegetarian for a year and a half, I started eating meat and gain a quick 30 pounds. My doctors said my body was having a hard time digesting meat, especially beef (I know it's gross). So after months of pills, I am getting back to normal and shedding the 30 pounds and the rest that I was working on.

I used pregnancy as an excuse to eat everything. I have always been over weight, but not fat until I had my babies. Annnnd I'm a stress eater. I get stressed out so I used eat to make myself feel better, then I felt like poo for it.

Once upon a time I was this weight, then I lost it and kept it off. I gained a little bit at the end of my first year of my Master's program, with "goodbye" dinners and drinks and junk food, etcetera, then a little more being at home for the first and last time in months, but not too bad (call it 10 or 15 pounds total) and I stayed there with no trouble until I was writing my dissertation, 4 months of stress, sitting at a computer, and eating quick, unhealthy and satisfying meals (I switched from lentils to pasta when I found out that undercooked beans can give you food poisoning, which I had been doing about once a week for two months, who knew?!). BAM, here I am 30 pounds heavier.

The short answer: eating too much, exercising too little.

The longer answer: I usually eat good meals and bad snacks - too much processed sugary junk (cakes, biscuits, chocolate, lollies), especially when I'm unhappy, lonely, miserable, alone or just don't have the will to stop. I have a history of getting into exercise, getting healthy and then giving up when something happens that stops me.

I know that my most recent weight gain happened after I lost a baby to miscarriage (and with it, my last/only chance to have a child) - although I knew it was irrational, I kept telling myself that I should be getting bigger everyday anyway (ie, pregnant) so it was OK to be getting bigger by eating junk. The only good thing about this completely stupid mindset is that it had an end date - on the expected due date (just over a year ago) I stopped eating so much junk and started getting healthy again.

I took about 8 months to get close to my goal weight and I've managed to stick around there, losing a couple of kgs more since then. Now the challenge is to keep up the good habits and not slide back into the old ones - especially when I hit a roadbump (like right now - I'm injured and can't run and it's looking like I won't be able to run my half marathon in 2 weeks time).