im pretty ashamed of the 40 lbs i gained in a year before restarting. wondering what other peoples worst year looked like?

28 pounds was my worst. It was so frustrating because at the beginning of the year, after working do hard, I had managed to get to my lowest weight ever, and throughout the year I put it all back on and then some.

Probaly 30 lbs I'm honestly not 100% sure

Mine matched yours. 40 pounds. Maybe it's the regional water supply?

50! It took me about 9 months to lose that 50, then I put it ALL back in in LESS than a year!

If you count one of my pregnancies -- I had lost down to 175 then gained 20 before getting pregnant then 43 during my pregnancy for a total of 63 pounds in less than a year. BUT since pregnancy is expected to add weight I don't know if that quite counts.

I honestly don't know! I weighed 180 before college and was 240 for my first pregnancy, but that was a three year gap. I honestly don't know when I gained what, but I'm assuming most of that came on between dating and baby (which was a year and a half).

I didn't weigh or have any real inkling of my size for several years, I honestly have no data before I began this journey, and I haven't had a regain of more than ten pounds during the course of it since. Occasionally I get lazy and start sliding up the scale but I always catch myself early and fix it, which makes things easier

hahahahaha! yes! lets blame them over at American Water!

i dont really count pregnancies, thats a different story. isnt it amazing how FAST you can gain it back?

It's very frightening how fast you can gain it back! It was like that November I was in the 140s and by that August I was in the 190s. And for no other reason than my insane eating! My gosh it just makes me cringe!

I'm not sure but I do know over a period of threee months back in 1998 I went from my pants fitting well to not being able to put them on.

I gained 50 pounds my freshman year in college. I had gotten my weight down for my senior year of highschool through a low cal, high protein diet (lots of boiled eggs and greenbeans) but that first year in college it was eating out for every meal. A regular day would be McDonald's for breakfast, a medium pepperoni and sausage pizza with extra cheese for lunch, stuffed burritos for dinner and a quart of ice cream for dessert plus snacks. It was crazy and I was unrecognizable by relatives and others who hadn't seen me in a year because I gained so quickly. I did lose about 30 pounds the following year but college was really the start of my weight being out of control.

I lost 50 pounds in 1997-1998. As soon as I hit the 50 pound mark, something snapped (I now realize that lack of sleep was a HUGE part of it - I had a baby who didn't sleep, was working out of the home, commuting 2 hours every day plus the job 40 hours a week, my mother in law was half living with us as she was moving to the US and needed to get set up and my husband was doing his PhD in a very rigorous program at Wharton. I was trying to do it ALL and I fell apart - I was barely sleeping and survived on sugar - basically).

I think I gained 70 or 80 in one year. I kid you not. I'm not sure... All I know is I went from 185 to 275 - 90 pounds in 3 years, but most of it was the first year... probably 70.

I fortunately have learned the biggest lesson for me - sleep is crucial CRUCIAL. Every major weight gain I've ever had was during times I had little/bad sleep. That time there and when my second son was a baby until 3 years old (who I now know is autistic) He woke up 5-7 times a night - every single night until he was 3 and he couldn't resettle. Some nights he was up half the night, which meant I was up half the night, and then from ages 3-4 it slowly dwindled... I think that's when my health all went to H-E-Double toothpicks. He's now 7.

the biggest weight gain ive had was about 60 pounds when i was pregnant with my son at age 19...i was poor, ate like crap, ate junk food, and was morning-sick constantly...the biggest weight gain i've seen aside from pregnancy was about 25-30 pounds a few years ago over the holidays, when i decided to start this current health journey

I honestly have no idea. I didn't pay attention to it at all as a child/teen, but I remember weighing in at 220 when I was 17. Both of the significant gains I've had since were from pregnancies. Come to think of it, I think I gained it all rather slowly. The 220s seem to be like a stair landing for me, though. I keep getting here again and I don't struggle to maintain it.

I gained 80 pounds in a year.