Did you get fat as a kid?
incisron
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If so, why?
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Nope. Never overweight until my mid-20s.3
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Yes. My disabled mom raised me alone. Her medication and habits caused weight gain. I learned from her. Most of my childhood was spent sedentary and snacking. I don't think I've ever been within the normal weight range.2
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I wasn't ever a skinny kid, but not really fat either. I was always tall for my age, and pretty athletic, but I didn't really start to put on enough weight to be fat until my late teens and early twenties.2
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No, I was in great shape until I stopped being active and started having fast food 5+ times per day.0
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It started after I had a seizure due to an ear infection in kindergarten. According to my siblings, my parents became very paranoid after that and didn't let me run around and play.
Even if that didn't happen, it would have happened later on. The family diet was never great, there used to be pictures of me with a bottle full of soda. Even now, me, my brother, and my dad are the only ones in the immediate family that aren't at least overweight. I never noticed any weight problems in my brother, I lost weight in my twenties, and the only reason my dad lost anything is because of an illness.1 -
Puberty hit me hard. I was actually very thin as a child. By the time I graduated high school, I weighed 200 pounds.1
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Yes. I thought I could eat as much as my two brothers and then we moved away from my friends at 10 and I became really sedentary. My mom had guilt and put me on diets and bought me "special" diet food. So I was deprived of the foods the rest of my family was eating- started a habit of binge eating in private. I now weigh less than I did at 14, but it is still hard not to go back into the binge eating cycle. I should add that I used to blame my parents for my eating habits or my brothers for teasing me about my weight so I became ashamed of eating, but I realized that my parents had good intentions and my brothers were just being older brothers. I think taking ownership of my actions rather than making excuses helps shift my mindset.18
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Almost 9 pounds at birth (my brother was 11+!), raised by parents who didn't quite teach proper nutrition, started binge eating around 10 or 11...yep.0
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Yep, I have been overweight since the 4th grade. My mother was a single mom and she worked a lot so we had fast food almost every day. That lifestyle stayed with me all throughout high school and my early twenties. I decided to learn about nutrition last year and that's when I finally changed my ways. I am one year clean from my fast food addiction
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Yes, and it is mystery. When I was 2 years old I weighed more than my brother, who was 2 years older. As we've grown and gotten well into middle-age, he has stayed slim and I continued to gain. I turned that around January 1, 2000. I lost 100 lb after that date by changing a few habits. I stalled at about 270 for most of the past 15 years. With mfp I have the power to lose down to a healthy BMI.8
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No. I was never skinny but I was fit. I used to maintain my weight easily with sporadic work outs and eating whatever I wanted. I developed thyroid issues and got pregnant with my son around the same time and ended up gaining almost 90lb in 7 months.1
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I thought I was fat but looking back I was actually in a healthy weight range. My younger sisters were extremely skinny as kids so I think maybe it made me feel bigger? I remember feeling fat as far back as 3rd grade but it was clearly in my head. By high school I quit all the sports I played as a child and then did gain a lot of weight.3
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Did you get fat as a kid?
Nope. Not at all. Not even close. I was a skinny kid ... all legs.
I edged out of my normal BMI range, into the overweight range, for the first time when I was in my early 20s, for probably about 6 months ... major surgery, recovery, and then a move to another province ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Stepped on the scale, realised I was overweight, and promptly set about losing it.
I edged out my normal BMI range again in my early 40s, for somewhere around a year ... DVT that hospitalised me for 2 weeks, recovery, and a move to a different country ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Wanted to do a cycling climbing challenge (7 Peaks Challenge), knew I needed to lose some weight for that ... and did.
And most recently, in my late 40s, I stepped out of my normal BMI range and hit my highest weight ever in January 2015 ... two surgeries, recovery, travel, move to a different state ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Stepped on the scale in January 2015, after the second surgery and couldn't believe my eyes. So I joined MFP in February 2015, and lost the weight. I'm back down to the bottom end of my normal BMI range again.
(EDIT: My mother was a nurse, so she had some education regarding nutrition and kept us on a fairly strict diet. Not restrictive -- we got enough to eat -- but set meal times, a protein (eggs, meat, cheese) and veggies at lunch and dinner, fruit for evening snack, 1 cookie and a glass of milk after school, deserts only on weekends, and things like that.)
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I was thin until I was about 14, a few years after puberty. I was very self conscious about my weight which ironically made me start to over eat and gain weight.0
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Yep. Was overweight in kindergarten. I was a premie born 2 months early and have been on steroids since day 1. My parents worked 2 jobs each and we mainly ate convenience food. I'm loosing weight slowly now and learning what works for me2
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I perceived myself as fat from Elementary school, but looking at Lucy's I was pretty slander but muscular for a kid until 15. That year I was in college and ate way too much Mc Donald's and didn't get much exercise. Went from 150 to 200 (5'11") but because it's always thought I was fat the change didn't shock me, only depressed me.1
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I was fed crap as soon as I popped out of the womb, so I've been overweight since childhood (imagine those tubby toddlers you see on Maury). Those habits are hard to kick when it's the only lifestyle you've ever known!4
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I was fairly skinny and then had a bad reaction to mosquito bites. Had a steroid shot to get rid of it. Ever since then I got bigger. Of course ate some bad foods at times too.0
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Yep, my family ate out everyday and I never learned good eating habits. I ate a lot because they let me and sometimes out of boredom although I didn't know it at the time. When I was a teenager, I got in better shape and somewhat different eating habits. By my mid-20s is when I started to slowly introduce more vegetables and more healthier food options in daily eating.2
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No. Didn't have trouble maintaining my weight until after 50. Seriously, if I worked out as hard as I do now at 35 I would look amazing! Menopause and aging is not for the weak at heart. Bwahahahha3
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Yup. I definitely was. I remember when I was 7/8 years old, asking my mom if I was fat (I was a healthy weight at that point). But my mom was very sick with cancer and eventually passed away right before I turned 9.
In retrospect, it was a combination of comfort eating and the fact that my dad was a hard working single father trying to make ends meet that didn't have much time to make us meals. So my sister and I ballooned up both comfort eating and eating out of convenience.
In 7th grade, I slimmed out. Held steady through high school and then developed an eating disorder my first year of college. Went to treatment for that and eventually stabilized until I turned 24. Ballooned up due to newly sedentary ways and keeping my old cruddy eating habits. Lost most of the weight before I turned 27. I'm 28 now and in the best shape of my life. I had a blip this past winter gaining a few pounds but it fell off quickly.
TLDR; yes. I feel I will always have a struggle with my weight due to that.2 -
I wasn't "fat" but I wasn't lanky and lean either. My mother was over concerned about my weight - wouldn't let me play with Barbies cause Id get anorexic but for the love of God Robin suck in your belly! =|
Raised in a "clean your plate" home that had no idea about portion control and candy/soda fully stocked all the time, as well as chips. Rarely any fresh fruits or veggies until summer rolled around for BBQs brought salads and corn. Our veggies always came out of cans otherwise.
But it was when I got out on my own that things went truly sideways. (ab?)Using my independence hardcore with fastfood, junk food, then I moved to Europe.
Oh My God- Swiss chocolate bars. You have no idea. I am wrecked on the crappy US chocolate now.
That was the end of my hopes for ever being skinny.
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I was always at a normal weight as a kid and got in really good shape after I joined the military at 17. It was when I got out 8 years later that I started packing on pounds. I got pretty sedentary and put on a lot of weight over the years. It wasn't until I turned 50 that I decided to do something about it.0
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Yep. Why? Because my parents never really bothered teaching healthy eating habits, and my siblings and I were pretty much left to eat however which way we wanted. I ate like my mom. That is, I ate everything on my plate no matter if I was full or not and ate just to eat. A "seefood" diet you can call it. I wasn't totally sedentary, as I have vivid memories of playing outdoors, but I wasn't really active either. My mom cooked many high-calorie foods, and there was always junk food around. Nearly every day, my dad would bring home junk food for us as a treat (chips, ice cream, etc).* I never refused food, and I was never told to stop eating more than my body needed. In fact, the women in my family are pretty big (especially on my mom's side), and two of my siblings, who managed to be thin in childhood, were always scolded for being too thin.
When I was a tween, my pediatrician started bringing up my weight as a health concern at annual check-ups, but each and every time, my mom would tell me that it wasn't true, and that my weight was okay. As a teenager, I still ate a ton, but played less outdoor "kiddie" games, and I gradually went from being overweight to being obese.
It wasn't until I left for college that I finally lost all the weight.
*Disclaimer: I strongly support moderation and do not believe in so-called "evil" foods, but junk food is easy to overeat, especially when there is so much around, as was the case in my childhood.1 -
I was a little chubby as a kid, curvy as a pre-teen, then through my late teens and 20s I became morbidly obese. Because I was never active, always hated the sun and loved snacking all day every day.1
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Nope, always small and petite. My parents cooked well balanced meals with lots of vegetables and fresh fruit and everything was home made, we couldn't afford eating out.0
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Yes I was overweight as a kid, all the way through high school. Other kids/teens would make fun of me, bully me for being fat, constantly put me down, etc. I eventually made a committment to eating healthier and being more active, lost around 70 pounds, am lean and am in my second year of college. What I find funny is a lot of those people who bullied me back in middle and high school for being overweight are now fat and complaining about it themselves. KARMA RULES!5
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I was always a large child . I remained large until I learned how to use portion control and moderation.
I was large because I consumed more calories then my body needed. Plain and simple. People gain weight because they ate at a caloric surplus.0 -
Yep. My parents brought me and my brother to a kids' weight watchers-esque group when I was in 6th grade (brother in 4th). They were obese my whole life, though we didn't eat terribly...just too much.
I slimmed down my senior year of HS and decided to make myself over as athletic in college (crew team, rugby, kickboxing, half marathons). I've pretty much kept at it (though rather less working out, since I don't have 3 hours a day to work out anymore) and people that met me in/after college think I'm "the athletic one"0
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