What triggered your weight gain?

Have you always been overwight or did you do something wrong that triggered your weight gain? How much was your lightest weight and your heaviest weight?

Ahh.

I was about 8 or 9..maybe 10..

I was a boney little kid, HIGH very high metabolism..

So I caught the hives, & at first the doctors misdiagnosed me and I had an allergic reaction to the medicine, so to counteract, I was put on steroids..

My metabolism went down hill from there. :[ maybe 70-80 lbs my lightest,

highest was 230 at age 15, now im 17 @ 139

At around 10 I was a 150 and at 13 I was a 120 pounds. I honestly dont know how I did it, I still ate junk and still lost it.. Weird.

working at a bakery! Oh my my my how delicious it was! And I was still technically at a healthy weight, but because I was always such a skinny teenager and I had a SUPER fast metabolism, I ate what I wished (example: go on at 7, eat about 3 donuts, a pizza roll, a brownie, some parkerhouse rolls, go home, eat some fried chicken and mozzarella sticks, snack on olives and crackers and cheese, eat pizza for dinner, have a huge thing of ice cream and then eat crackers before bed, all while guzzling soda) so I didn't notice I had packed on about 15 pounds (plus, I was growing and maturing so it was only normal) but one day I looked in the mirror and realized "gosh, I'm kinda flabby" so now I just watch what I eat, no more sugar binges for me!

It was a very gradual, post menopausal weight gain, over the course of 15 years.  When I was young and gained 5 pounds, I could diet it off in a month.  As I got older, it became harder and harder, then almost impossible.  It's taken a complete change in the way I eat, exercise, sleep, and even think about my overall health.

I moved in with my boyfriend at the time, and damn life was boring - so I just sat around and ate.
After we split up I was depressed and kept eating.
Then I met my most recent ex (Im so lucky in love!) and he liked me how I was, but I began to diet slowly and then saw some photos of me last Christmas and thought damn, I'm pretty chunky!

I may be single now, but I look good with it! ;)

I had some serious sleep paralysis stuff going on, so I was getting VERY little sleep. So I ate for energy. Then, the doctors misdiagnosed me and kept piling on the meds since they figured if they werent working, I just needed more. They made me lose all controle of my eating and I gained and gained some more. Finally got off the meds and got a real diagnosis and was finally able to start clinbing back down the weight ladder. :)

I've always been fairly slim, 100lbs being my slimmest (in my adult life), but after I was injured in the military two years ago, I started putting on the pounds.
I've gotten married since then, and because of the stress of our jobs, our free time is spent very sedentary. We cherish our days off to lie around and watch tv and veg out. And now...I've reached 155lbs! (On a 5ft frame.)
After a doctor last month asked me "how I'm dealing with my weight gain", I realized it was time for me to diet!
So...here I am!! Already lost five pounds, and still going!

Me.

I thought that I was entitled to eat because I had a very sick pregnancy and survived on IV fluids for 9 months. The baby was born and I was so weak and out of shape and so I rewarded myself with food. 50 pounds later here I am.

I have lost 15, have about 37 to go!

I've always been fat. I was even fat in the first grade. I have a slow thyroid. I was extremely active when I was younger so I don't really understand why that didn't help me. But I've definitely always ate more than other people, I just didn't realize it when I was little and no one was restricting what I ate.

I was always that girl who was a hundred feet tall and skinny as a stick. I played LOTS of sports. Until I really screwed up my knee. Torn cartilage, blown ACL, ripped tendons. I was on crutches for a few months. I still can't run or do any high impact stuff on my knees. So I quit all the sports I was doing (softball, marathon training, soccer, gymnastics, dancing).
THEN, I started working at McDonalds! That's when it mostly went down hill.
Luckily, I'm only 18 so it's not been too difficult to lose all the weight I gained.

honestly, I think it was skipping breakfast! I know it seems naive of me to think that's what cause 50 pounds of weight gain, but honestly, that's the only thing I changed.. that and eating a candy bar instead of a normal lunch, I guess.

9 years old I was an average girl... about 70 lbs or so but when a friend of mine died I wouldn't leave the house, I didn't exercise for a long time, and I would just sit down with the worst food I could have chosen.... I quickly got to 130 and slowly kept gaining

My lowest weight was 96...my highest (non-pregnancy) weight was like 139.

When I was in school (7 years ago) I used to barely eat breakfast and have nothing during the day other than maybe a soda and piece of candy, then I would eat what I wanted at supper. Had trouble gaining weight. However, during the summers when I was home all day (and would eat all day) I would gain a view much wanted lbs. Then as soon as I went to school they would be gone again.

Pregnancy...actually, during my pregnancy I really didn't gain much weight until the last 2 months when I stopped working. Then I didn't go back to work at all.

Got married.

Had two kids.

Got an office job (no more running around college campuses).

Slowly let my eyes get bigger than my stomach repeatedly whenever I ate out or ate at some big feast or party over the past 8 years or so.

My lightest weight was probably when I was a zygote.  Heaviest: 205 at most, earlier this year (now around 183).

hashimoto's thyroiditis - undiagnosed, until after i'd gained ALOT of weight in an extremely short period of time.

so far i've managed to drop about 20 pounds, and would like to lose another 20 to 30. 

getting really sad, lonely, and bored, when I was away from home for a few months, I put on 22 pounds!
emotional eater say what?

BUT Now that I know my problem, I'm starting to fix it, well both of them, good luck to everyone! To healthier, happier, lifestyles!

i was always thin when i was younger.  it wasn't until i started hitting the booze every night with my friends that i started gaining weight.  what a disaster!  i would take it all back if i could just lose some lbs.

i've been up and down for the past 6 years or so. my worst gain period came after hurricane katrina. i was living in new orleans and was in the superdome for it. afterwards all the stress and (brief) mild depression equalled EATING. the summer after (last summer) i had a miscarriage and it equalled another 50 pounds of stress eating weight gain, awesome!! that 50 is gone now but i'm looking to lose another 40ish, depending on how i look and feel.

I was always pretty normal about weight and food.  The only thing that was a bit different was I had a woman's body earlier than most.  I wasn't exactly prepared to deal with it either.   I was a very active kid, too.  Didn't really over eat.  Maybe only my favorite things like Ravioli.  I was always a VERY picky eater, but I always liked fruits & veggies and stuff that's obviously important.  I do recall being in Junior High & 9th grade looking at other girls and feeling like I should have been shaped more like them.  They had more those straight bodies.  No real hips to speak of thighs etc.  I was an idiot.  lol  Old ladies used to pinch my cheeks and say I had the most perfect hourglass figure.  I appreciate that now.  I just wish there wasn't so much sand in mine.  :P   My lowest adultish body weight was somewhere around 110-114 lbs. 

I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome when I was in Elementary school, but I handled it ok until 10th grade.  I was having a great  year, involved in lots of things, getting a lot of attention & stuff like that, then all of a sudden out of no where WHAM!  not only did my Tics get worse but all these other side symptoms I now understand can go with TS.  Depression, Anxiety, panic attacks, you name it!  Anyway, I was in so much pain, both physical and emotional that by Christmas of that year I had given into the idea of medicating my disorder.  I was young & I just wanted it to stop.  They don't really have meds for TS, so they give you antipsychotics in the hopes that they will slow them down.  Sometimes they do, a little.  Generally not for long.  THe side effects are awful.  Within six weeks of going on it, before my next appointment came, I blew up like a balloon.  I looked like a diferent girl.  All my little flared 80s skirts had gotten so short & puffed out during that time where I couldn't wear them anymore.  I was NOT overeating.  It was just one of those things.  I'm sure the nearly incessant lethargy didn't help any.  They did a lot of bad things, not just weight gain, but it became a battle until I was 22 when I finally gave up on all the ridiculous promises of magic cures & the perfect combination.  I had grown huge, I had eventually become a pretty sendentary girl.  I started overeating as well.  Both these things weren't until I was on meds a few years though.    All the anti-depressants, etc. etc. hadn't touched the other symptoms.  Seizures, dystonia, so much other stuff happened as side effects.   I dieted & dieted on and off when I could, but it was nearly impossible to combat what the neuroleptics were doing to my system. 

Since then I have yo-yo'd quite a bit through the years.  My biggest was 214, which was last November before I started the diet I'm on now, but at other times at least twice I had been 209.  My last great attempt was in 2002 where I got down to 163.5 at one point.  That was the smallest I've been in a long time.  I actually looked surprisingly decent then, despite the high number and my height.  I have this box of clothes from then I just want to get back into again.  One of my problems besides the usual lack of discipline and being tired so much is that if I slip into a depression, which I do... it's a fact of life and it can't be treated, it has often knocked me off anything I was trying to accomplish.  It's a viscious cycle because I get very depressed if I gain weight.  I have pretty much grown accustomed to this sort of stuff & I accept it.  I fight the depression when it comes, but usually it takes a while, I don't always win so well & often I have to give in for a couple of weeks before I can sorta claw my way out of it.  That's how it went with my last one a few months ago.  Thankfully, I got out of it. 

This is the best shot I've had since, but for whatever reason, I'm losing less than a lb. a week, if that since i've been on this diet (Since November).  So somehow for now I'm keeping it up & just hoping that eventually something's gotta give.

Ok, I know that was REALLY long.  I'm sorry about that to anyone who's bothered to read this. lol  This really WAS the short version of the story.  :)

Btw, that zygote comment was funny as hell.  :)

Being born, raised, and remaining in the deep south where food is better than sex and it is usually FRIED!  ;o(