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Old 08-08-2013, 04:52 PM   #46  
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For me my weight peaked when I was in grad school, writing my thesis meant sitting on my butt for months and I drank a lot of "energy" drinks and ate total rubbish. I jumped on the scales one day and I was too heavy for them, so I'm actually not sure what my heaviest was, I only know that I was 292+lb. I would have been this weight for about six months maybe, then after my thesis it slowly dropped a little until it settled at around 265lb. I was in the 220+lb range from the age of 19 until I was 28 and finally got serious about losing weight (the first time, before kids!).

After my first child I ended up back in the 220+ range for another two years, after child number two I got serious again and for the last two years I'm been chipping away at my weight, bouncing back and forth as motivation wanes then comes back. Just shows that fat fighting is a life time commitment not something that is going to ever end.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:20 PM   #47  
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I was at my highest weight for about one year. I started a new job and was living in a new country and I absolutely hated it. I was miserable and just ate all of the sugary stuff. I was in the 190s for a year! Prior to hat my "normal" weight was between 170 to 175. I finally moved back to NY and happy to slowly start losing weight. I am in the 180s. Super excited about starting my weight loss journey.
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Old 08-10-2013, 01:35 PM   #48  
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I think it was only a couple months or so at my absolute max weight (183), but I had been steadily gaining for at least a couple years to go from 145 to finally get there.

I was aware I was gaining, but it was so gradual I wasn't alarmed at first. Friends/enablers kept telling me "oh you're tall, so the weight doesn't show at all".
The tipping points were the doctor pointing out my weight changes. Then going through a couple clothing size changes. I had to ask myself did I really want to spend money investing in a whole new set of clothes to compensate for my unhealthy new shape. Obviously, no!
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Old 08-10-2013, 05:13 PM   #49  
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3 years. I started really gaining after I got married. Not sure what made me think I could stay the same weight while eating like my husband (who's 6'4" and 330 pounds). After being this weight for 3 years the scale went up by 3 pounds and I mentally freaked out because "I have never been above 260", and here I was at 263.5 pounds. That's when I decided I had to stop the scale from ever going up again.
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Old 08-12-2013, 09:49 AM   #50  
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I gained 70lbs with my pregnancy which put me at 193. I blind weighed (struggled with eating disorders for 20 years) so that I wouldn't freak out from the numbers and stop eating. I lost 35 within a few months, then the other 35 by the time my daughter turned 1 year, then I hovered around that until now. I still want to get down another 10-15.

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