Why did you gain weight?

Mommy and Daddy loved my siblings more in addition to the emotional scars associated with the 4th grade teacher failing to call on me the one time I knew the answer and had my little hand up. :sad:

And my calorie intake was higher than my calorie burn.
That too....lol

Because I'm lazy and I make excuses for it.

Wow, you too?

Several reasons.
1. Little to no exercise, so I was eating more than I burned off.
2. Huge love for baking and baked goods of all kinds. I truly did not want to give this up, but it was a big contributer to my inability to make a change.
3. Got lazy/comfortable - the kind of comfortable that makes you settle into a way of life.

All of those combined put 80 or so extra pounds on me over time.

Now 40 is gone.

No excuses for me just sheer laziness with regards to eating right and exercising. Spent 10 years like this until I had my daughter and realised I didn't look any different 9 months pregnant than when I wasn't expecting!! So have been really trying for my daughters sake to be fit and healthy.

I had four Big babies in a fairly short amount of time. Before getting pregnant i was always in great shape and always worked but once i got married i quit my job and became sedentary. Had no clue how to take care of myself. Never thoight about eating healthy before being pregnant so didnt do it while i was pregnant. I gained 60 to 70 pounds with each of my kids never loosing it all before becoming pregnant with the next one. I only wish i had mfp back then.....would have saved me from alot of health issues!!!

But happy to say i am in kick *kitten* shape now!!!!

same here....all better now.

I ate more calories than I burned.

I gained weight from 1st pregnancy twins! lost weight which caused 2nd pregnancy lost weight again then lost job so gained it back and here I am again!

I gained weight because i was depressed i was always made fun of at school they always seem to find something wrong with me. I am also a emotional eater i could be bored i would eat. I been working on that thou since i lost the amount i have i try not to but i do catch myself once in awhile when bored looking in the fridge :embarassed: then i go do something else.

My busy schedule and just plain laziness is how I put the weight on. Also, I am amazing in the kitchen and whip up the best desserts..that would be gone in 1 day...

I was pretty normal until my close friend and my great-gram (we were very close) passed away within a 3-week span of each other, when I was 12 years old. I just couldn't handle it, which made me lose interest in softball, dancing and riding my bike. I basically became a lazy couch potato and munched on junk food, and it got worse when my grandpa and brother started giving me crap about my weight for the next 4 years. My brother would make fun of me, and my grandpa would tell me I'm fat and gonna die even though I wasn't really FAT-fat (168LBS was my heaviest). Nice, nice :grumble:

It's all good now though When I saw the 168, that's when I woke up and realized I have got to snap out of it.
NEVER AGAIN! :noway:

Because I wasn't training and I ate too much.

Yeah I could go on about my hip injury, but I could have still done something non-impact like go swimming or upper body weights , but I chose not to, I chose to watch TV instead.

That's why.

No excuses.

I started gaining weight when I was a kid due to a traumatic incident. After that, I stayed around 170lbs, up til a few years ago when I started my new job. I've been so busy with it that I stopped eating in the mornings and afternoons. Some times, I'd go without eating or drinking til about 9pm! And when I did eat, I was eating a lot of unhealthy foods.

I'm losing a bunch of weight now because I'm eating every meal, drinking a lot of water, and actually eating well.

So MFPers I was wondering if you're willing share why you gained weight?

For example was their a traumatic event in your life, an injury, just didn't care at the time, had kids, etc.


I gained weight because of low self-esteem. I have been kicked out of college 3 times for bad grades. The last time it happened, I hated myself. I gorged myself on comfort foods and sat around on the internet, and I never exercised.

Low self esteem, lack of motivation, alcoholism, love of food, no exercise, no counting, no support. I could go on. Glad I have MFP now. Add me if you want support.

I have been overweight most of my life. Was never sure why. Just for some reason I preferred to play or work over sitting down to eat. So I ended up gaining weight.Due to only eating around 800 calories... For the past 5 years I worked harder at losing, had to learn to eat more food, in order to lose.

After losing 60lbs. I had gotten sick and had to have a byopsi done to see if I had cancer. But the dr cut too deep and cut my carotid artery.... After dying, being brought back, and recovering from that. They discovered I had (Sarcoidosis) and put me on a high dose of
prednisone! (80mg) for 3 months to try to send it into remission... So in that time frame, I actually ended up gaining almost half the weight I had lost back!

So that is why I joined this site.. To kind of keep track of what I'm eating, exercising, and to get and give support

Have a great day everyone!

I gained for a few reasons; 1). Got pregnant, had baby and didn't go back to working out like I had previously done. I had some depression afterwards too. 2). Stress from work -- I always turn to food (mostly sweets) when I'm stressed and anxious.