If you are 100kgs or over, how did you get there?

[JustCiri]

It's a very genuine question I am curious about looking at all the various posts about weight loss and MJ.
I am genuinely curious to know about how do people get to that sort of weight and any piece of advice from their own experience. I used to be very lean but I am 2 stones heavier now but still in 60-70kgs range and trying to lose weight. I am from an ethnicity which doesn't gains much weight so even this weight is lots for me.

Stress!
I was 108kg. I'm now 70kg. My lightest as an adult was 65kg. I have muscle.
Different bodies are built in different ways.

I am just asking as I am genuinely curious.

Thanks for sharing.

Eating too much crap maybe?

You really can't imagine that some people gain weight differently to others? How odd

I was 92kg at my highest.

I didn't do any exercise and I actually didn't eat much in the way of volume, just everything I ate was junk, processed food. Empty calories. Bad habits. It's very easy to gain weight, our bodies are built to hold onto fat.

I did lose all the excess weight once I learned about nutrition (naturally, no injections or surgery) - I've been 52kg for 15 years now, I cook from scratch, eat very little processed food and exercise every day. I eat far more now than when I was obese. Lots of wholefoods.

…by eating more calories than I was using … the same way that everyone gains weight

I'm about that weight.

I got cancer a few years ago and then had a stroke which has left me permanently disabledand with chronic pain. I am also a carer for my dd who has a couple of disabilities.

My days have went from a physical job where I walked probably 10+ miles a day to sitting in my house with quite restricted movement.

Well I'd imagine its by eating too much & not exercising. For whatever reason - busy life, unhappy, too happy, sad, lonely, poverty, nor being educated on good food, convenience. Ive been up to 90kg - currently at 70kg. It just crept up on me to be honest, and my desire to solve it wasnt enough - I dieted on & off for years until I decided to start walking. Now I feel so much better in my body I am mindful to not indulge too much & to stick to the exercise I need.

I gave birth to my second child and then we had the pandemic shortly after where I had to do online learning with a child in reception while dealing with the newborn and keeping everyone quiet so my DH could work from home. Barely left the house due to restrictions and exhaustion, and the end result was bad mental health which led to a lot of weight gain. Still trying to regain control of it all five years later! I've literally doubled my weight since my uni days 🥴

So yeah, mental health.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences.

Lots and lots of very serious stress and undiagnosed ADHD. According to my psychiatrist, I was eating lots of sweet stuff because I was looking for a dopamine boost.

Wow, I never thought about this before.

Quite right.
We get fat by laying on the sofa inhaling donuts all day from our sheer greed and laziness.
Nothing more to it.
All this nonsense about genetics playing a part, or trauma, or health conditions, or abuse is just that.
Fat apologists!
Stoning would be too good for us.
We should be paraded through the streets on a forced march everyday, made to subsist on a diet of gruel, no wait that’s a carbohydrate and far too good for us - let’s say broccoli, until we are a size which does not cause disgust to the eyes of decent people and we stop being a drain on society.

I was seriously ill, had chronic fatigue. I could just about put two pizzas in the oven a day (as well as just about affording to). Combine 2000 calories with sleeping around 18 hours a day and my weight went up. I eventually lost it, then my Mum died, other things happened and I spiralled and ended up heavier. I now have a few medical conditions and I'm considering WLI.

I was 99kg so I can still answer Stress, arthritis, Covid, I’ve tonnes of muscle because I train a lot (6 times a week) before I got injured a lot because of a connective tissue disorder I hadn’t realised I have and that caused a fair bit of weight gain.

Thankfully I’m on the way (weigh) down with some mild help from MJ I’m staying on the lowest dose because my injuries are improving too due to it’s reducing inflammation properties allowing me to train again too. I’m currently 91kg which I’m pleased with. I won’t get near your 70kg because at 75kg I look very toned due to the muscle levels even though I’m 163cm. I am athletic typically not thin and slight.

How did you get two stone heavier than you were?

I had two babies in 3 years, causing the weight gain.

I had six miscarriages including a very late one that completely screwed up my hormones, I developed PCOS and insulin resistance. I was then diagnosed with another unrelated medical condition that caused pain and fatigue.

During all this I went from considering myself fat at 56kg to 124kg at my highest weight.

That happened because I stopped exercising and cooking healthily, then couldn’t exercise, then developed binge eating and after that I just always seemed genuinely hungry. Dieting was like an impossible challenge, and exercising didn’t seem to help.

Then I started mounjaro, and it was like flipping a switch. I went back to how it was before all that crap, not obsessing about what’s for tea whilst eating lunch, being able to leave my plate once I was full, not sneaking food because there was a voice in my head telling me I was hungry.

Until it stopped again I didn’t realise that I had this constant drive to eat. I think that once you get past a certain point it’s almost impossible to do it on your own, trust me I tried, I really did.

Since starting weight loss meds I have the willpower to make good choices, I always knew what to do, but I couldn’t force myself to do it consistently. I’m 12kg down and back to exercising regularly.

Steroids. They caused massive and dramatic weight gain. I didn't actually get to 100kg but I hit 90kg and at 5ft 6 that's heavy

Serious illness, childhood trauma, coming from a "fat" family/home where junk food is normalised, hormone medication, stressful job, depression, family estrangement, being on the brink of homelessness, bullying at work and then the stressful fallout from whistleblowing, not having proper kitchen facilities, a negative spiral of eating crap, feeling worse and getting bigger and then feeling less motivated to exercise and lower self esteem day by day. All this stuff made me feel so bad that eating gave me a rush as was a fleeting relief from feeling my feelings, basically I binged to cope with horrible feelings, it was a distraction. I'm still nearly 100kg now but life has got a lot better for me recently and I don't obsess about food or binge like I used to. Have lost a bit of weight without trying.

I, like many, many other fat people, have spent countless amounts of time and money on trying to fix this problem. It's NOT simple.

I would say OP that practically NOBODY wants to be overweight/obese. If you are seriously interested in this subject and becoming more well informed, I recommend "Why We Eat (Too Much) by Dr. Andrew Jenkinson.

Busy life, not making time to exercise, a stressful job with lots of eating out and alcohol at events, then ready meals or quick pasta type meals on the nights i was at home as i was too tired to cook for myself properly. That took me to a couple of stone overweight. Then I found out I had PCOS and about a year after the diagnosis, the pandemic hit so i was still getting to grips with how diet affects the condition and i was pretty undisciplined during the lockdowns. Two babies later and I was over 100kg. I've never used weight loss injections but changing my lifestyle got me down to 90kg and hopefully i will get another 10kg off as I keep slowly going. That would take me to BMI 27 (im 172cm), and then I can reassess how things are going and what my next plan should be.

How did i get there...... well well. OK, the only thing that made me get there was what passed my lips. That's it. What I put in made me get there. (I didn't excercise enough either) if I'd eaten less and better i wouldn't have got there.
Ok, I'm not really quite 100 but a bit over 90 and nearly 6ft.

I was 100kg a few months ago. Firstly, I'm tall so while it was of course a lot of weight, it's not nearly the same as someone who's say 5'3 being 100kg.
I have a chronic illness which leads to profound fatigue. But I also have 3 children which is not conducive to resting! So I would eat sugary snacks to give me a quick energy boost to try and get through the day awake.
i had no ability to exercise at all, at my worst I could just about walk 100m down the road before needing a sit down. Recovery from the worst of that illness had to happen before anything else, it's been a 10 year battle to get to the point where I could actually tackle everything else.

Very high dose of very strong steroids for a couple of months, put on 6 stone. Had inflammation in the brain.