How Did You Gain Your Weight??

This is a good thread! It really makes you think! For me it was definately a bunch of things. 1. Genetics 2. Not being taught proper nutrition. 3. Loss of activity (in high school I played rugby, hockey, and did high school rodeo, university came and I studied.) 4. Too many desserts (university year I used to go to grandmas house for lunch which consisted of a full course meal including dessert, then went home to have supper that night I then gained around 15lbs) 5. Got comfortable in a steady relationship. 6. Emotional eating leading up to the wedding. 7. Started battling the bulge even harder during and between pregnancies, 2 pregnancies, 2 miscarriages in 3 years. 8. Stopped breastfeeding, I could eat almost anything when I was bfing, but when I weaned each child (I know I should have learned after the first!) I didn't adjust my eating and easily gained 10lbw +. 9. Birth control, I got the depo shot in January of 2011, and within 3 months I had gained 20lbs (this had happened to me before). As you can see my weight has always been an issue up to 50 lbs. I've gone through times in my life when I've lost and sadly gained. This time though is it, I'm going to get it off and keep it off!

Got pregnant & pigged out basically lol

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I fluctuated first due to stress and then due to a car accident and whiplash I had as a result of it. I was also eating very poorly that whole time.

I was born to a family that had diabetes on both sides of the family and one side had a lot of morbidly obese women. I think I was destined for health problems. I was never thin and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get thin, As it turns out, I have PCOS which contributed to a lot of my health issues. As many of you know, it makes gaining weight so easy and taking it off harder than for the average person. It also leaves you with most of the fat around your belly. I know women have been able to still lose weight and get down to a healthy weight, so that's what I am trying to do here!

i gained my weight when i got pregnant with my daughter and i never had a chance to loose it so im trying hard now to loose it but lol it seems to be taking forever i gained over the 20 lbs that a pregnant woman normally gains in a pregnancy and its been so hard to get rid of this weight plus i love food and its hard for me to control how much i eat and i love sweets too but i have been working hard at trying to cut back

I was in some abusive situations as a child/teen and ate to try and cope...then my marriage went through hell and I ate to cope...then one of my youngest (twins) was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and, you guessed it, I ate to cope.

I think people assume I gained a ton being preggers so many times, but pregnancies were the healthiest periods of my life. I took amazingly good care of myself for the babies. It was between pregnancies that I acted a fool with my health.

Letting myself eat (and often drink) as much as my 6'3" husband (who was also eating and drinking too much).

combo of medication, poor eating habits, no exercise, mc donalds and ben and jerry's phish food...

Took on a full time job, used to be a stay at home, active, long distance runner. Could eat whatever I wanted. Now I sit, and sit, and sit 40 a week. Can't find time to workout like I used to.. I will get back but a MAJOR life change.

I ate too much. I was always a very picky eater so my parents would feed me anything to make me gain weight when
I was young and that led to bad eating habbits when I got older. Simple as that for me.

Emotional eater, add that to having a baby, and voila! But I'm trying and failing and trying again to lose the weight and be healthy.

:embarassed: I gained weight as soon as I hit puberty and ever since then I have been struggling to get rid of it- once I had my belly buldge it only got worse without excersice and poor eating.

Sadly, I have no excuse. I was an athlete in college and used to being able to eat as much as I wanted. When I stopped being an athlete, I didn't stop eating as much as I wanted. I had no self control but I am changing that now. My biggest problem is that I just love food too much. I've now accepted the fact that I can still love food if I am willing to pay the price and work out to burn off those calories. Not fun, but everything has a price.

I found out I was pregnant and broke up with the father in the same week, all very unexpectedly. It was a devastating time for me. I ate twice as much as I needed to while I was pregnant, began college in my last trimester, and sat a lot, as a student and an employee, after having worked jobs that were much more physically demanding for years and years before that. I never corrected my eating habits- I wasn't fully aware of my eating habits or that they had changed through all that stress. As a mom, employee, and student I ate too fast, whenever I could because I was so busy all the time, usually standing in my kitchen or hitting a drive through.
My first post-college job was a desk job, and incredibly miserable. I did it for a year and a half and then quit to stay at home with the kids and reassess my life goals. I HATED sitting at that desk 10 hours a day. HATED it. When I quit I was almost 200 lb, and losing the weight and getting healthy was forefront on my mind. It took me six months to even get real about it- to get real about what it's going to take to change, but I know I can do it.

I was always active and ate pretty well.. and then I had my daughter. Pregnancy didn't put the weight on me like most moms.. I only gained 24 pounds and in a few months it was all back off. But, here's the deal: My daughter is very fragile, she's a very complicated special needs child. She had night terrors for the first five years she was alive. So I only slept in 30 minute increments those five years. I was always tired, so I guzzled coke to keep up. And I could not leave her with anyone, she was too fragile. I had to watch her to keep her alive. So no time for going to the gym or exercising or anything at all besides her well being. So I packed on the weight. In a few years, she got stable, and I joined a gym and got the weight back off. Then I had her brother. Same story. He didn't put the weight on me.. this time it was only 29 pounds and I got it back off for the most part. But he's Autistic and only slept (NOT EXAGGERATING) 10 minutes every 24 hours for three years. So again, I was exhausted, guzzling coke and eating sweets to stay awake.

Now they are 15 and 12, stable and happy, so I took up running a year and a half ago. Now I have time to devote to myself, and I use it profusely. I work out anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes a day (sometimes twice a day) five to six days a week. I'm smaller now than I've ever been as an adult. It feels really good being able to take care of me now.