OK, just for the sake of argument, lets say it took 2 years to put on 200 lbs. An average person that wears clothes that fit correctly, would need to increase their pants waist size every 35 - 45lbs. Now when you have to buy new clothes 2X in a year and you have to buy larger clothes each time, shouldn't that be a sign? Shouldn't there be a little bell in your head saying "ding, ding, ding, hey, why am I having to buy larger clothes?!?"
When I first joined the ARMY, I weighted 121lbs, I was athletic lean and cut (years of soccer and track) but I just barely made the weight requirement by 1 lbs. After basic training and Ariborne School, I weighed a whooping 185lbs and went from a pants waist size 28 to a 32 in 5 months. My first response was to go talk to my doctor and make sure I was ok. Of course I was, I was built like a brick **** house (god I would give anything to through basic again.........) anyway, even though all I added was basically pure muscle mass, the fact that I had to buy clothes that were 2 sizes larger in such a short period of time made me question my weight. In fact the doctors were actually worried about me as I had less then 1% body fat and I really needed 5% min.
And while I am on my rant, people that have weight problems, they know earlier on that they are having a problem but are too lazy to correct it. They wait on diets to save themselfs. People don't needs diets. They need exercise! They need to pry there asses off the coutch, or get away from the comp for a hour, set down the bag of chips and go for a walk, run, etc.
I loved the ad slogan that 24hr fitness ran in CA a few years ago, "When the aliens come they will take the fat ones first!" What was the first thing out of the "fat peoples rights organization", "We have the right to be fat without persicution." Ok, fine then, you want to be fat, great, but stop blaming everyone else for it!