Why did you gain weight?

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  • csummer8882
    csummer8882 Posts: 34 Member
    2 kids within 15 months of each other, both c-sections, 2 years of uncontrollable hives and being on steroids for over 9 months to try and stop them. The steroids did more damage to my weight than both kids did. :/
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    Lack of motivation

    Had given up competitive sport so no incentive there
    In a lovely settled relationship
    Was still in the healthy zone

    Got to 16 lbs overweight and was starting to suffer as a consequence
  • reinventingandrea
    reinventingandrea Posts: 323
    My weight slowly crept up each time I had a kid but after my last kid I found out I had 2 bulging disks in my lower back and 2 in my neck that were causing major pain which limited my activity.
  • choface
    choface Posts: 107 Member
    I started gaining weight when i was in 4th grade, 5th grade teacher told me "maybe if you lost a little weight you would have more friends" so I gained more. I was active always but I ate calorie rich food. Ninth grade I got sick and lost 10 pounds and everybody told me I looked great so all I would eat is salad with ranch spray . Went from 180 to 129 in about 3 months. Then I threw up one morning. Didn't wanna go down that road so I ate normal again. 140 senior year. After high school I did cheerleading for one year, transfered to a major university and then sophomore 10 happened and junior 5 and senior 20. :) now I'm down 8 pounds and i'm never giving up again.
  • ovenbird1977
    ovenbird1977 Posts: 13
    Divorce.
  • Dani_wants_to_be_fit
    Dani_wants_to_be_fit Posts: 550 Member
    I have had been diagnosed with several mental illnesses (Chronic epression, BPD, BDD and anxiety) and I feel that contributed to my weight gain a little, however I'm not going to make excuses and say it was the only reason.

    Mainly, I made the wrong choices in my diet. I would eat what I thought tasted good and didn't give nutrition a second thought. I didn't move as much as I should and was pretty much doing nothing other than walking. It was a vicious cycle, I was depressed because I was gaining and I gained because I was depressed. I tried many crash diets and would go a few weeks on just a salad a day, the weight would drop but soon enough I started eating more.

    Now looking back I have no idea how I was able to eat the amount I use to eat. Since changing my diet and incorporating regular exercise into my life I have been feeling so much better and I am keeping my health under more control now.
  • moxiecowgirl
    moxiecowgirl Posts: 291 Member
    Pretty simple reason here. I got lazy. I never had a weight problem until after I had kids, but it's not like my metabolism magically changed like the colored line on the home pregnancy test. I simply bought into the myth that "some people just get fat after they have kids", so I didn't bother trying to fight it. I ate like crap, didn't get out and move, and somehow expected only minor weight gain. Yeah, not so much. I don't recommend my approach at all.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    No traumatic event for me. It was just me being lazy and thinking I don't have enough time to exercise. When in fact, it's just that I wasn't taking the time to exercise. Diet is not the problem for me. I eat love healthy food, but at my age with a desk job, my TDEE is pretty low without exercise and I simply get too hungry to eat little enough to maintain a healthy weight without exercise.

    I actually enjoy exercise, but after a full day of work I'd rather sit on the porch with my husband and a glass wine than exercise. I have to constantly remind myself how important it is to exercise regularly. If I don't, my pants will do the reminding for me.
  • wxchaser
    wxchaser Posts: 173 Member
    When I was a little kid, I was stick thin, then I had my tonsils removed and my grandma/mom would constantly feed me stuff that was awful for my health. I gained a lot of weight and by 5th grade, I was a "fatty". By then, my mom got on my case about it, and it pissed me off, so I kept eating crap just to piss her off. That still continues today, but to a MUCH lesser extent.

    I started trying to lose weight in 2009, but then in Jan. of 2010, I fell and broke the top of my tibia. That required surgery and now I am constantly in pain when I exercise, but I have started to eat right again in hopes that the weight comes off that way.
  • DeadMarsha
    DeadMarsha Posts: 203
    I've never been very active and always ate what I wanted when I wanted (carboholic here!!). I was never really terrible with my diet because my stomach is sensitive to a LOT of grease & fat in my foods, so that kept down my desire for pizza every night, haha. Even so, I was never a really "healthy" eater. I've been "chunky" since high school, but it's gotten worse as I've gotten older, and even though I carry my extra poundage well (when clothed, haha) I'm ready to be proud of my body and "wear" healthy habits! =)
  • DefyGravity1977
    DefyGravity1977 Posts: 300 Member
    I was molested by two different family members at the age of 10 which is when I started putting on the weight. My sisters were always very verbally and physically abusvie towards me as well, being the middle child. I think I used the weight to try to escape from a world that had hurt and betrayed me on so many levels. I thought that the weight would protect me from further sexual abuse and pain, but it caused more pain of another sort. Now that I am losing the weight and finally having to deal with all the emotions and hurt caused by the abuse, I feel stronger than I have in a long time.

    This is horrible. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. A loved one was sexually, physically and verbally abused from an early age too and she used to do crazy things to her hair (cutting out huge chunks of it and such). She says that, subconsciously, she thinks she was trying to make herself less sexually attractive. It's horrendous because it totally wasn't her fault and I get angry just thinking that she ever had to think that way.


    Thank you. It is a difficult situation to come out of. I hope your loved one has found the support and closure that they needed. It has been a long, hard road for me.
  • MelanieLeanne
    MelanieLeanne Posts: 32
    Stopped being active, started drinking (alcohol), boredom eating, my love for milky ways & eating when I'm sad or stressed. lol :(
  • sheila569
    sheila569 Posts: 269 Member
    In May of 1997 the doctor said "congrats your pregnant". I ATE FOR 9 MONTHS straight. Thanks to my cravings for peanut butter and hot dogs (both of which make me wanna hurl now) I gained 103 lbs. Pretty much I gained one of the Olsen twins. Since then I took of a few pounds here and there but until this January I didn't take my workouts seriously. This is the lowest weight I've been in 15 years. I have 25 lbs to go to reach my goal.... but I already feel like a new woman.
  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    Underactive thyroid. Thanks for asking !
  • coltonsmommy2010
    coltonsmommy2010 Posts: 10
    I don't really know y I gained weight.
    From the time puberty hit in 5th grade I have always been bigger.
    I know I used to eat an then get sick an throw up whatever I ate. Didn't do it on purpose it just always happened.pretty soon I just hot used to it. Drs were not concerned cause I had steady weight gain. So I'm guessing my body stored extra fat because of my abnormal throwin up. In high school it didn't matter how I dieted or didn't diet didn't matter how much I exercised or not I didn't gain or lose weight. I was 5'3 150 lbs.
    Than at 21 I became pregnant and went to 200 lbs first time I gained weight. An now I am 240 and can't seem to lose it. I want to. I drink nothing but water. I eat on a diabetic diet and I exercise but I can't seem to go anywhere.
  • gsmithnp
    gsmithnp Posts: 139 Member
    It was a combination of things. Before my oldest was born, I weighed 125 and was very happy with that weight. I think the lowest I've been since was 130 before my second pregnancy. Then I had my second and started grad school a couple years later. Between two preschoolers, school, and trying to work full time, there was no time/energy to cook much. The drive-thru became my best friend. Also large amounts of caffeine in the form of coffee (with creamer, of course) and Pepsi. Then right after I finished school I had two back-to-back miscarriages which totally derailed me emotionally. I had absolutely NO motivation to exercise, and eating out had become the standard for dinner.

    Then I changed jobs and found that the only way to eat breakfast was in my car on the way to work--so back to fast food (and Starbucks). When I finally got pregnant again (this one stuck--YAY!!) I used that as an excuse to eat, although we had really cut back on the fast food for dinner by that time and I was taking my lunch to work. By the time my third child was born, I was absolutely addicted to Starbucks, as well as Pepsi on ice in the summer. I was almost 150 pounds and none of my work clothes fit well and I REFUSED to buy more. Now I'm hovering around 135 and while that's definitely better, I still fight the craving for Starbucks (although I did switch from grande white mocha to tall skinny vanilla latte) and Pepsi.

    (Someone really needs to start a Starbucks Anonymous group--"Hi, I'm G. and I'm a latte-holic.")
  • AimersBee
    AimersBee Posts: 775 Member
    FOOD.. mmmm burgers and pizza and nachos..

    need I say more..
  • direwolfprincess
    direwolfprincess Posts: 261 Member
    FOOD.. mmmm burgers and pizza and nachos..

    need I say more..

    Yes, because you forgot to say bacon. :wink:
  • jimmeezwyf
    jimmeezwyf Posts: 140 Member
    Two pregnancies in two years (one preg. on bed rest), loss of both pregnancies half way through term, then emotional eating to calm my pain due to the losses. I'm still having a very hard time with this because now I'm just a big heffer with nothing to show for it, and it all seems for nothing. My weight has been something I have had to work at since I was 15. I worked very hard to maintain my healthy weight before I got pregnant and to be 233 lbs. from 140 lbs. for nothing is very painful and just another kick in the head for me.
  • Lodge78
    Lodge78 Posts: 3 Member
    1. Depression

    2. Chocolate addiction
  • MadiRose2
    MadiRose2 Posts: 145
    Medication. 3 different meds, ALL cause weight gain. That was fun. Lol!
  • suzywuzy90
    suzywuzy90 Posts: 20 Member
    Hypothryoidism, anxiety disorder, chronic migraines, cancer treatment and my aunt's passing.
  • ptak1sm
    ptak1sm Posts: 172
    Turned 21 (legal drinking age in the U.S.), moved into my own apartment (hated cooking so I ate out a lot), avoided the gym like the plague. I just got lazy. Even though I was in college and walked almost everywhere, it wasn't enough to counteract the damage I was doing to my body.
  • Randyamc
    Randyamc Posts: 365 Member
    Simple, I ate more calories than I burned of every day... after day.... after day... after... well you get the point. :tongue:

    Started with a hernia surgery and a year and a half of pain therapy and 2 more operations to correct the issue. I didn't adjust what I was eating for my new found and extremely sedentary life style. Weeeee
  • rebeccasedwards
    rebeccasedwards Posts: 208
    Eating what I wanted when I wanted it and lack of exercise. Love the all you can eat buffets too much with my sons and husband. Also messed my knee up and that really made walking for exercise painful. So I got the fixed, joined our "Biggest Loser" type contest in our area and lost 40 pounds so far. Not easy but I am determined to keep it off. Hard when everyone else is still eating what they want.
  • momto1g1b
    momto1g1b Posts: 118 Member
    Before my pregnancies I gained weight soon after getting married - neither my husband or I knew how to cook, so we went out to eat all of the time. At the time I still fit into my jeans, and I was going to the gym 5+ days/week so I didn't worry about it too much. I definitely did not have the muscle definition I wanted though, and for some reason I thought that all of the gym time would make up for a poor diet.

    And I used my last pregnancy as an excuse to eat anything and as much as I wanted. Granted, eating was the only thing that helped with morning sickness for the first half of my last pregnancy (opposite of my first pregnancy when I couldn't even think about food without feeling ill), but did I really need to eat that much kraft dinner and brownies?? I ended up weighing the same at delivery as I had with my first baby, so I thought the pounds would just drop off again when I went back to the gym. Well, that definitely did not happen - I had zero energy at the gym after I had my baby because of the long nursing sessions and because I became addicted to coca-cola. I had never been a pop drinker before, so it was kind of strange for everyone around me to see me holding a can of coke.
  • jrlja5
    jrlja5 Posts: 59
    simply put, I was quite a couch potato. My husband got a job that had him working late. I would eat dinner alone then sit on the couch with the dog and watch tv until bedtime. I would think to myself that I should get up and do something but it was winter in new england and well, I just didn't feel like it. Now he's home for dinner and we kinda keep each other in check. Don't get me wrong, I still have to think "get up and move" but it's summer and it's a lot easier. I also workout in the am so I don't feel guilty if I do decide to sit on the couch.
  • stupidloser
    stupidloser Posts: 300 Member
    I gained weight because I drink like a fish, eat like a cow and sleep like a bear.
  • EEpling89
    EEpling89 Posts: 152
    It was a combination of the super unhealthy college lifestyle and my dad passing away unexpectedly that caused me to gain about 50 pounds. :(
  • Lazygal53
    Lazygal53 Posts: 294 Member
    Too many reasons to go into :(

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