When did YOU start to gain weight?

(Most significant weight gain obviously. I don't mean that binge you had last week after you went partying with your friends. :P )

I'm pretty sure I first started packing on the pounds during my preteen years. 

COLLEGE!!!

actually probably a little bit at the end of highschool (i was tiny with no boobs until about 16) but it definitely was most significant in College. Ugh that lifestyle did not do much good for me.

I always thought of myself as a chubby kid, although when I look at pictures of me as a child, I wasn't THAT chubby......but not a stick either, like most kids. I think I gained a-lot during my teen years....then lost weight when I got out on my own.  Then gained weight after a miserable marriage....lost it again when I got divorced, but wasn't healthy....then gained weight after I got happily married to a "southern boy"......then got preggo and it kept going up.....then started getting healthy last year and got serious about the life long change this year when I got a treadmill for my birthday in december. I definitely have the whole emotional, stress eating problem.....and gain weight when I am unhappy....or pregnant (go figure...LOL)

I weighed 98 pounds until my first pregnancy. After the baby I weighed 130 and after many years and 4 more pregnancies I ended up at 322 as my highest. Now I am working hard to eat right. I am pepsiolic but it has been almost 3 weeks since I have had a regular pepsi. I drink diet rootbeer or ice tea now. I use to get so frustrated at slow weight loss, now I take it one day at a time. I know if I watch what I eat that I do lose. I know I will never see 98 pounds again but I am ok with that heck I am ok with even 150. Just as long as I am eating right.

High School. And then continued to gain from there.

I was not a skinny kid, but not fat either. But you can see a big difference from my freshman & senior year pics. Isn't suprising, b/c there was a lot of family turmoil going on during those years. I was/am an emotional eater. I just wish i'd noticed it while it was happening.

I've been overweight my WHOLE life. Big baby, big kid, big teen, big young adult. Hoping to change that last one.

can't really pin it down.  i was so scrawny as a kid that when i filled out at puberty it just took me from emaciated to skinny.  i weighed myself so rarely that i don't even have benchmarks, although i vaguely remember being dismayed to learn that i was more than 100 (108?) when we were weighed for PE in grade 8 (i'm 5'8").  also, i know i stepped on the scale when i got back from a trip to central america, when i was 25, and the number was 122. 

but in my late 20s - early 30s i started to gain 3 or 4 pounds a year.  not a lot, but it adds up.  got to 168 (finally bought a scale) and realized it was dire.  now i'm down to 131; it's good

I used to think I've been overweight my whole life, but I looked at some pictures the other day of me at about 8 or 10 and I realized that I actually wasn't. I just actually looked extremely healthy and the perfect weight. I guess compared to all those skinny kids, I thought I was fat!

Anyway, I'm only 18 so I can't really pinpoint when since I've been growing. I have a been a little chubby most of my life though, unfortunately. My highest weight was probably 2 years ago when I switched to homeschool so I could get my diploma faster. I really just sat around all day munching.

Recently, for an unexplained reason (before I started eating healthy) I started to lose a little weight. I know my highest was almost 190, and when I started dieting I was 177.

3rd grade. My parents didn't try to control my eating. Now I'm at the lowest I've been since I was 11-12 actually.

I have never been a yo-yo dieter, but my acitivity level has always been up and down. I've had a variety of weight ranges, but my heaviest was this January.

Years back in college, I got depressed and gained lots.  Left school, bought a home and worked my butt off on it and lost weight quick.

Shortly after, a met my bf (who is wonderful). Almost 2 years later I gained 20pounds of "i'm in love" fat.

That 20 pounds was already added to the 15lbs I gained in college. AH! My bf is actually really buff and I am so lucky to have someone in my life that never looked at me differnently when I gained.

So far I am down about 20 pounds :) and want to lose another 10-15 (140-145 range).

Knee injury 2 years ago.  I started to gain a little bit going from serious training (half ironman) to couch in the blink of an eye and then post surgery had an infection and needed a lot of meds to combat it.  Being on steroids for it along with several more meds packed weight on fast.  10 months....65#.  Was not pretty.

Still isn't but I'm really back on track to getting my life back.

Since age 6. I actually won a beauty contest and when I went the next year to crown the next winner I had gone from a size 5 (little girls) to an 8X. I cried when I found out that I had to get up in front of all of those people in a home made dress because we couln't find a party dress to fit. I have been packing it on ever since.

November 2007...yup...a month after I met my current bf. I started losing sleep...LOTS of sleep, eating more, and definitely drinking more.  I basically adopted his lifestyle and it took me from 105 to 143 very quickly.  The weight gain doesnt bother him a bit, in fact he thinks I was too skinny then and likes my look better now. But a couple of weeks ago I got fed up with it and joined here.  I'm down to 135ish now and trying to figure out how to get rid of all the bad habits I've picked up from him without getting rid of him. 

meds for depression caused me to gain.  but so did inactivity!!

more activity now and i weigh less (also no meds that add extra weight to me).

 I started to notice weight gain when I started my job at a dealership as receptionist in 2005 then after gaining about 10 lbs in the first 4 months there I joined a gym and within 4 months I gained another 10 so by that summer I was around 150 then in the next 6 months I went up another 7 and just hung there till about January 2008 when all my jeans ripped on me and I had to buy new ones. In the 3 yrs I developed real bad acid reflux and my source for easing the pain from it was eatting constantly which was the main cause of my weight gain. I was on prescription medicine for the A.F. but then my doctor took me off it and wanted me to change my diet. Thats when I was able to lose 17 lbs in about 3-4 month period. Ive been stuck around 140 ish for a yr but im ok w. that b.c im really lean looking compared to what I used to look like. Oh another reason was when me and my bff went xmas shopping in 2007 we were goofing off w. some golf clubs and she took a side pick of me and I was huge! I was so disgusted w. myself.

After high school, for the first (much needed) 20 pounds. I went from 85 to 105 at 5'2". I stopped doing drugs and started eating food, so that was a good gain, although I never exercised and ate terribly. Drank a lot of my calories, too.

I gained another 10-15 pounds when I moved to Chicago for grad school. I drank a lot with the other grad students, ate a lot of deep dish pizza afterward (pounds of cheese!), got my first office job (no more 8-10 hour shifts on my feet) and generally had a poor diet due to my very small income - I couldn't afford to eat anything that wasn't ramen, rice and beans, grilled cheese or spaghetti for a long time. Also no exercise and a lot of stress.

After I hit 115 or so on my small frame, I began to volunteer at a yoga studio, checking in classes 4 hours a week in exchange for free yoga at three different studios. I gained another 5-6 pounds and began to get bulky for the first time in my life, about 120. Mixed training and calorie counting dropped that back down to about 110, and I'm healthy for the first time in my life :)

The first time I gained weight was right after I graduated college. I was always able to eat whatever I wanted and never gained a pound. I was very active. My first job after college was a sit-down job, so, my activity level basically came to a standstill. I even stopped working out for awhile because I didn't have the luxury of the college gym nearby. I went from 130-155 in probably a year's time.

About 3 years later, I got engaged, and knew I wanted to lose the weight before my wedding. I still knew nothing about nutrition. I figured, I would start working out every night with my workout tapes, still eat whatever I wanted, and the weight would come off. In the first 3 months, I gained another 5 lbs. I was determined enough that somehow, and I still don't know how I did it. I actually lost the entire 25 lbs!

I kept the weight off through 2 kids and a divorce (unfortunately, the stress helped me lose a few vanity lbs there). After my divorce, I had 10 lbs to lose to get back to 130, but it didn't really matter if I lost it. My clothes fit great, though I guess you could call me skinny-fat, absolutely NO muscle.

I met my very active, very fit boyfriend 4 years ago. I've been steadily gaining weight ever since. I now know why. He has a sweet tooth, and has talked me on more than 500 occasions, to go out for dessert with him, or get appetisers, etc. I still figured I could eat it since I ate healthy most of the time. I guess I was wrong. Boy am I glad I found this forum before it got too late!

I've been overweight ever since I was born. ><

I would say 10.


My parents introduced me to pizza and mcdonalds and ive gained all my weight from those foods.

Not until I met my husband 12 years ago.  I learned to sit back, relax, and enjoy things a bit better, I guess a bit too much.  From the time I met him till our wedding day (two years later) I gained 40 pounds.  After that food became a comfort thing for me, and sitting eating was so much easier then getting up and being active.  Then after my third child, eight years after meeting my husband I had gained another 40 pounds now up a total of 80 pound in 8 years.  When you divide that up and say that I gained 10 pounds every year, to me that doesn't sound bad, but 80 pounds?  That's when I decided I had to take it off.  Four years later I am down to where I was before I met him.

I was thin all my life, except while pregnant, and never paid any attention to what I ate. I did gain during mye pregnancies but the weight just went away in the year following each birth.  If I did gain a few pounds over a holiday, I'd go on a crash diet and lose it. 

I started gaining weight when menopause set in.  I had an easy menopause with no problems, but the weight just started piling on and I didn't have a clue about what to do.  I tried every fad diet there is.  I put on about 5 to 10 pounds a year, very gradually.

I kept gaining until, at age 60, I weighed 235 pounds.  I did lose 20 pounds, then it stalled for months.  I found CC while looking for an easy way to track calories, and got some great advice from people who had lost large amounts of weight and were keeping it off.  They're the ones I started listening to. 

When CC started the Advice section, I was the number one fan of that feature.  I learned so much!

Now, at age 66, my current weight is maintained in a 10 pound range - 165 to 175.  I hope to regain momentum and lose another 25 pounds to reach a normal BMI for the first time since I was 47.