Reason For Your Weight Gain?

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Registered: 04-19-2005
Reason For Your Weight Gain?
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Sat, 04-23-2005 - 11:46am

Don't know if it's ever been a topic before (sorry if it has...I am new), but when and/or why do you think you gained all you weight?

I have been trying to figure this out for years. I can't blame it on my pregnancy (had my son when I was 22) because I only gained 19 lbs. during it and had lost 21 lbs. by my 6 week check up. I think for me things started going downhill when I was about 20/21 (I am 32 now). Back then I was going to Nurse Assistant school full-time from 8am to 2pm. I would then rush home (took about 15 minutes) and catch a cat nap until about 3:30. Then I would get up and get ready for my 4pm-8pm part-time job. Once that job was done I would come home and get some more sleep and get up at 10pm to be at my other 11pm-7am full-time job as a NA. Straight from that job I would go to NA school. Yeah, I know I was crazy but I had to do what I had to do. By then I had been living on my own already for about 4 years. And, in order to make the bills I had to have both jobs.

Anyway, being on such a crazy schedule I didn't get to eat right. I would stop off for some donuts after leaving my full-time night job before I'd get to school. It was something quick and easy to grab and eat on the go. Then, when we would have lunch break at school I would grab something else not so healthy (usually McDonalds type places). I wouldn't really eat again until I was on my night-time job. And, it almost always consisted of us ordering out from the one and only local pizza shop that stayed open until 2am.

I think my metabolism got shot from all of this and that is why I gained weight. I never had a chance to exercise. And, sticking to healthy eating just wasn't possible. It was more important to me to get sleep when I could rather than eat/exercise. I stuck to that crazy schedule for about 2 months and just couldn't take it anymore so I ditched my part time job. It was around that time that people started making comments like "are you pregnant?" even though I wasn't. I really didn't see a weight gain but others obviously did. Then, it seemed out of nowhere it all hit me at once. I was heavy and steadily gaining. And, it's been that way ever since. I still find it hard that a few crazy months could do so much damage?

Of course when I had my son I became a full-time mom and have been home ever since. Between 16 and 20 years of age I was always active and walked everywhere. It wasn't until stopped working and stayed at home with my son that I started gaining more and more. Although I wouldn't have missed that for the world and am happy I was able to do that. Thanks to my husband who had just graduated college when our son was born. He found a full-time job in his field right away and I was able to stay home with our son.

I think more than ever my shot metabolism and lack of exercise was/is my biggest problem. Not so much unhealthy eating. I just don't know. I mean when my son was a toddler it's not like I just sat there and did nothing. Shoot, I was running around all the time! LOL! I'm sure some of you can relate! Then, when he started school I became a full-time volunteer at his school and that lasted up until just the beginning of this year. So, I don't know. I just don't get it. It's not like I had/have no exercise at all. Whenever I would go to the doctors he would always say "you are healthy other than being overweight." Like that makes sense. LOL! I guess I will never know why or what triggered my weight gain. But I really think that working that crazy schedule back in the day contributed to the start of my downfall. I'm just hoping that I can finally get myself on the right track again.

Thanks for listening. Sorry it was so long!!!!!!!!

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Registered: 10-25-2004
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 12:34pm

I know I gained weight because I am a big emotional eater and I have a problem with compulsive overeating. I lost most of my weight almost 2 years ago, and managed to gain it all back in this past year because I just didn't seem to care enough to keep it off. I was ok for a while, until I started dating my boyfriend, then it was like I wasn
t so worried about looking great to catch a guy. Then I had a miscarriage and that just threw me for a loop, and I ended up gaining a bunch of weight because all I wanted to do was eat, eat, eat. Good question!

Staci
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Registered: 08-31-2004
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 1:05pm
I gained weight for a few reasons...no real life problem but I just like food...especially fast food!
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Registered: 06-17-2003
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 6:47pm
When I was 6 years old my mother had cancer and everyone felt sorry for me so they would take me out for ice cream etc. I went from being a skinny 6 year old to a fat 7 year old over the course of the summer. In high school it became a silent rebellion against my mother. If I was mad at her I would eat because I knew it would upset her.
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Registered: 04-12-2005
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 9:04pm
I started gaining mine when I was 16 yrs old. I used to eat bird portions of everything I wanted--A tablespoon was about my portions size, but I did eat everything I wanted. I started dating a guy whose mother took a LOT of pride in her cooking. I ate at his house about 4 days a week and she would be offended when I only ate my bird portion. She would pile food on my plate and my boyfriend would urge me to eat it or I would hurt her feelings. So I ate it. And my view of a normal portion got out of control and I discovered I LOVED food. And I couldn't get enough of it. Ever since then, I have been gaining a pound or two a month.