what was your biggest gain in a year?
 

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.

Oh yeah I did it
 

I gained 80 pounds in a year.

Maybe 15-20? I know in the course of 3 years with my ex, I was up 50 pounds. And I know that in less than 2 months, I gained 14 pounds (while trying to actually LOSE weight!)

30 when I quit smoking.

I gained about 50 pounds in a 6-7 month timeframe in 2008. Divorce can do that to ya!

Probably about 50-60 when I quit smoking

I lost 90 pounds in 1999- got a divorce, got pregnant AGAIN and gained about 25. I then moved and yo yo dieted, gaining about 35-my ex husband died (early this year)Devastating our children and I (we were always the best of friends) and I gained about 40-I sabotage my efforts daily to lose weight.....feel like an obsessive dieter with no success, a food hoarder of sorts-

all the "quit smoking" posts are scary, as ive been considering trying to quit!

i feel like i gained weight FASTER after i lost a bunch.. but maybe it just seemed that way since i had finally gotten to goal and then it all started coming back

juliastl: now, you know we'll be here to help you quit smoking and lose weight at the same time. Go for it! :)

I am ashamed to admit that I gained 30lbs this year already and the dang year is not even finished... However I have taken back control of my eating and exercising so hopefully it will stay at 30lbs.

I gained 70 pounds in under a year when I was younger and in 8th grade, going from 170 to 240. I remember it because I went from chubby to obese and the weight never did come off.

I already regained 16 this year between may and August...

No exercise and never having an idea of what constitues a portion size will do that.

Almost 50 in 2 years. Although since May, I feel I've been packing it on quite rapidly, and I don't know why. Well, overeating. But I don't know why it seems to have happened so fast over the summer.

I've gained 32 pounds in on year *sighs*

I gained 100 pounds between 2002-2003. I kid you not. Which was on top of already being 100 pounds overweight! :o I'd found myself in an abusive relationship, and eating was more than just trying to escape or distract myself, the ex constantly threw fits if I didn't join in on his pigging out. It was easier to cave in than get involved in yet another fight.

Never again.

Well, I caught it at 21 pounds. Would of been a year if I waited till Thanksgiving. And by then who knows what the number would of been.

47 lbs from July 2011-July 2012

I basically gained 30 of it from July 2011- December 2011, maintained around 205-215 then put on the last bit from March 2012-July 2012, putting me at 231.

I don't know about the whole year thing because when I go off plan I tend to not get on the scale. I did gain 35-40 pounds in just a little over a month once!! It was when I had a never ending cycle that lasted longer than a month. My hormones and thyroid went CRAZY and I was diagnosed with PCOS and hypothyroid. I could only wear sweat pants and dresses because none of my jeans or dress pants fit.

40 lbs. I gained 40 lbs my freshman year, pretty much stayed the same weight all through college give or take 10 lbs. Then I gained another 40 lbs my first year in grad school.

So yeah lesson: 40 lbs in a year is pretty much my record and lesson 2, I don't do too well with changing academic environment.

Oh Lord. I had a desk job in 2003 before I went back to Dental Assisting. I went from 143 to 174 in a matter of months. I have never eaten Quiznos since. That was awful. :(

Me too, when I was pregnant. It took me exactly one year to take off that 80lbs!

When I got down to 143p after having my son in 2002 my skin looked much better then than it does now after carrying the 174p for a few years. I really screwed my mid-section with all these weight fluxuations. :(

I gained 50lbs in the year after meeting my husband. We spent that year eating out constantly. I gained 50, he gained 5!!
I also gained 60lbs when I was pregnant with my daughter...but I don't count that.

I lost weight when I quit! I finally took up running, maybe partially because I could breathe.

I gained 50 pounds the year I quit smoking.

I put on 40lbs during my freshman year in college, between 2008 and 2009. Took me 3 years to lose that. What I'm working on now is the extra 100-110lbs that took me my first 13 years of life to gain and carry around for another 9.

I gained 50 last year. :(