How did y'all gain your weight?

I've always struggled with weight issues since I was 9 years old. I was always about 10-20 lbs overweight, but my mom put me on a very strict diet when I was 11 and I got really skinny. She got scared, took me off of the strict diet where I proceeded to go back up to my comfortable 10-20 lb cushion. Back then I was always told I was fat, even though I look at pictures now and I don't see me being that fat.

I gained more weight after I had my son back in 2002, but then lost 95 lbs of it 3 years later. I then re-fatted AGAIN during my divorce. I ate as a way to cope with the stress of going through divorce, having to explain what's happening to a 5 year old, and trying to put my life back together afterward. I'm now 185 lbs overweight, because I ate like it was my job. Now, I'm ready to lose it again, and I got a great jump start this week with my first loss!

OVEREATING & too much sitting on the sofa watching TV!

Comfort eating. I was extremely depressed during my relationship with my son's father (it was VERY mentally abusive, and occasionally physically abusive) and I was basically cut off from most of my friends and wasn't allowed to have a full time job so food was my friend. Well, frienemy. It was always there for me, but damn it made me fat!

I finally got out of that relationship and into an amazing one (3 1/2 years now!) but at that time my father's health also began to deteriorate due to AIDS. I was his beneficiary and the one to be in charge of everything when he got sick, so it took a large toll on me and I continued to eat my feelings. He died officially of a massive stroke in 2010 (AIDS patients don't die from AIDS itself, they usually die from some disease or event like a heart attack/stroke that their body is too weak to handle), and I slipped back into a pretty deep depression.

Finally, I got help and saw a therapist, and have been back on track and back to my normal, positive, happy self for the last year or so. I felt healed enough from the inside to really tackle the outside this past winter, and now I'm kicking *kitten* and taking names!

I also gained 60 lbs while on Depo which in turn I became depressed and went on Paxil which also contributes to weight gain. I started going to school while working (desk job) so my nights were spent sitting on my behinds studying. 7 years later I have gained almost 80 lbs. This is my year! My year to become a healthy me, a happier me!

I had 2 kids...and gained lots with both of them! Never had a weight problem before that!

I've always had poor eating habits all my life. When I was younger I did enough swimming to make up for it I guess. In my early teens I was told by a Dr I couldn't go shirtless in the sun anymore due to extreme risk of skin cancer so I stopped the swimming and got put on antidepressants. The lack of activity combined with antidepressants allowed my poor eating habits to catch up with me, and in high school I really started putting on the pounds.

I gained mine in my twenties and for years did not know what was going on because I ate good ( or at least that's what I thought) ,and worked out regularly, I a gained a massive amount of weight from thyroid issues. I had previosly went from my normal 175 to 216 during my pregnancy and down to 160 after that only to gain way more from complications due to my thyroid and eating a high carb, high soy diet...soy is my enemy apparantly.

I'm done with excuses, I know what works for me and now I'm going to be my normal, athletic, fit yet curvy self again...

Yeah I've read that if you are hypothyroid soy can be a bad thing. I think it's it may have the opposite effect for hyperthyroidism.

I was slim until I had my last son 13 years ago. I weighed 125-130, 5' 7", and was really skinny. I weighed 150 after pregnancy and lost down to about 140. 140 was a healthy weight for me but the weight has always settled in my ab area. Last year I had done two months of P90X and my mother-in-law died, the beginning of that last month. That did it, I gained about 30 to 35 lbs and haven't been able to get it off. Now I weigh about 170 and I am trying to work my way back down to a nice healthy 145. I'm doing Brazil Butt Lift now, it's been a month. I am committed to do whatever possible to get into shape now.

I've been fighting genetics my entire life. My junior year in high school I was diagnosed with chronic migranes and put on a medication who's major side effect was you would lose weight. I dropped 25 lbs by the time I started my senior year, and another 20 by the end of it. At the start of college I was down a total of 65 lbs. I then went off the migraine medication and learned to control my headaches with stress management and eating healthy.
At the time I went off the meds (it's still on the market and used for migraines, but is not good for long term use if you can avoid it.) I was also dating a guy who was very focused on my weight and making sure I weighed less than him (he had a hyperthyroid issue and had a hard time gaining weight). We broke up and I became an emotional mess (not sure why since he was the loser). Met my husband who said he loved me no matter what I looked like, and introduced me to processed food and carbs. He also drinks a lot of his calories. I put on twenty pounds within our first year dating. And then after we got married I put on another fifteen pounds in our first year married. I'm back at my weight I was in high school prior to the meds.

Drinking mountain dew out of 2-liter bottles

wow, you ARE ME! except I did 4-5-6 cans a day! put on 50 pounds in two years!

Mt. Dew is the DEVIL!