Did you get fat as a kid?

arditarose

Yeah. I have been overweight since I was about 10. My mom always cooked heavy/calorie dense dinners. We had large portions and it was okay to eat seconds. I would watch my Dad eat TWO bagels with cream cheese on Saturday mornings, and it was fine if I did the same. I probably snuck some food too, I have memories of that.

From a young age I was always ABLE and ALLOWED to eat large portions. I am literally re-learning how to eat for my smaller body because I can still easily eat so much.

lemurcat12

No, gained weight in my late 20s due to lifestyle stuff.

williammuney

I was fat till age 21 then I started rock c liming and went from 250 to 158

chimaerandi

No, I was thin my whole life, my obesity came as an overcorrection to being clinically underweight after a friend died and it threw me into a massive depression where all I did was drink and run. When I started putting myself back together, I knew I had to gain weight but I didn't go about it the best way. Now I'm at goal weight which is actually about 5 pounds under my original weight. I think the whole endeavor beginning to end was like...4 yearsish?

So basically, I did the weight equivalent of swerving to miss a raccoon in the road ahaha.

daterxies

My parents divorced when i was about 6 - Spent most my time with my dad and with his depression he never wanted to do anything so we ate out... everyday almost. From 6 on unfortunately that created that life style for me... then when i met my wife she was doing really good and my bad habits caught up to her.. we ate out at least once a day, honestly i would eat out twice a day lunch and dinner.

My wife since started cooking (and shes surprisingly good at it!!!) about 2-3 years ago? 3 years ago i had NASH and high blood pressure.. since she started cooking and limiting myself to go out to eat maybe once a week, with better HEALTHIER choices no longer have NASH or high BP.. Im down almost 40lbs since January when i quit drinking soda, and over the past month really started counting calories and i get to watch the scale go down

Zombella

Yes. I was always bigger. I loved comfort foods from a very young age. Even though I was very active, I was always bigger. Also, no one told me that eating way too much cheese is bad for you.

nvmomketo

No. I was in the higher end of the BMI in my late 20's but I was not overweight until my 30's.... around the time I developed insulin resistance. I was also less active then after having a few kids who were with me all day, and after a back injury and developing OA.

srecupid

My grandma was a horrible cook but my dad taught me to eat everything out of respect. Eventually I just ate everything because it was habit

cbeau1991

I first started gaining weight around 3rd-4th grade. My parents and two brothers were both normal weight, which ended up being an intensely painful experience, as I lived my life feeling like something was inherently wrong with me. I think I was heavier than the rest of my family because I was a picky eater and also extremely stubborn, and I flat-out refused to eat the stuff I didn't like. I also had some underlying mood/self-esteem stuff that my parents didn't really know how to address. I have this memory of being 9 years old and having a combined pediatrician appointment with my brother who was three years older than me. They weighed us at the same time, and I realized that I outweighed my brother. I was totally humiliated.

Things got a lot better in high school after I joined the swim team, and I was pretty active through college, too. I started struggling again when I gained 20 pounds during my first year in graduate school because I was super stressed all the time, making quick/convenient meals that weren't necessarily healthy choices, and falling into a pattern of drinking heavily in the evenings to deal with stress. Figuring out how to cope without alcohol was a huge factor in my weight loss. I still struggle sometimes, but I'm working hard at it!

yusaku02

nope, ballooned up in my early twenties and lost it by my mid twenties.

chelseafxx

Yeah. My parents relationship really affected me and I turned into an emotional eater BAD! Now that my parents are finally divorced I'm free from that negative energy

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knelson095

I was a fat baby (8lbs 3oz, which isn't huge but I was only 18" long, lol), chubby as a child, and by the time I graduated high school I was definitely in the obese category. I remember shopping for jeans in 4th grade and none of the girls sizes fit. I had to buy a ladies 10 petite. I think the why of it is that my parents had absolutely no idea about calories and we were a 'clean your plate' family. Mom used to eat little debbie brownies and nutty bars for breakfast and the only thing she drank was pepsi. My mom has learned a bit from me lately (and has had to cut the sugar pretty much completely due to prediabetes), but my dad still has no clue. I watched him make a peanut butter and honey sandwich while I was visiting and I just wanted to yell at him to stop. That thing had to have been 700 calories at least. And it was not even a meal for him, it was his midnight/before bed snack. It made me sad. He just has no idea and he won't listen to me.

Meganthedogmom

I was always the fat kid. Both of my parents are obese and they didn't have me involved in any type of physical activities. My mom has been a yo-yo dieter ever since I can remember and she would try to have me on diets off and on when I was young as well.

kmluecht

Yes. I feel like I was overweight at birth. My mother was also overweight when I was born. Being born in the 80s it was not unusual to be an overdue birth. At 2 weeks late, I weighed ten pounds and twelve ounces at birth. By first grade I weighed 100 pounds. By 7th grade I weighed over 250! I too wad heavier than my older siblings. Since then I have yo yo dieted between 160 and 250. I small currently 31, and in need of major lifestyle changes as I am beginning to feel changes in my health. I successfully reached my goal weight at 28, but sadly gave up maintenance and slowly have gained it back. It seems that some are naturally prone to weight gain without strict dietary and exercise regimens.

Colorscheme

Nope. I was rail thin as a kid until I went to college. Then I got thin again and then I get pregnant and while I'm technically at a healthy weight, it's right at the border between normal and overweight so I want to get down to my pre-pregnancy weight.

JessicaMcB

No I was very thin (despite thinking I was enormous because I was so much taller). I very quickly put on weight after going on hormonal BCP at about 19-20 and then progressively gained weight over three back to back pregnancies and having too much love for food. Not pretty!

Seffell

No, I gained after I decided to be a full time undergrad student once again at old age (32 ) and in a different country with different food culture. I gained 10lbs more when I stopped smoking last year. The later put me at the border with overweight which was my sign to get things under control.

Rogstar

I thought I was fat. I was always "chubbier" than my younger sister. Round face, baby fat.

I developed fast too; I got to my height of 5'-7" 120lbs before my 11th birthday. Went from not wearing any bra to 34D in a couple months. But, I kept comparing myself to my sister, and other girls at school. I was wearing 9/11 (junior sizes) when they're all in the 0-3 range.

My sis topped out @ 5'-1" and 100lbs on a good day. She's never been above 110 and is a marathon runner. So now, looking back, I was never really that heavy. I played volleyball and softball (catcher) so I wasn't fat, I had muscle and super strong legs & arms. I let my incorrect assumptions of what a woman should look like cloud my judgement. Since I felt like the fat kid, I started to get lazy, stopped all the sports and eventually became the fat woman after college.

So, now that I've lost a little weight from my highest, I'm spending the rest of my journey getting strong while losing. Thunder-thighs will be a compliment!

beckygirl177

Yess and it was because I am the favorite little girl so everyone spoiled me like crazy and let me do whatever I wanted and they gave me whatever and still do.. but I would eat candy forever and cake and drink soda and juice..
I would eat healthy too... but I would eat that stuff even if I were full just because I could.

Purplebunnysarah

Had a bad start--I was 10lbs14oz at birth AND my mom had untreated gestational diabetes. Still, I was upper end of normal or barely overweight until high school. Then I gained, stopped eating, lost to upper end of my healthy weight, then regained. I was still overweight (not quite obese) when I graduated, but I was also extremely active and had super muscular legs (martial arts & rugby) so my body fat was a bit lower than my weight would suggest.

Then I went to college and gained 40lbs my freshman year. And then gained a bit more, got married, and yo-yoed between 240-275 lbs depending on the season and how much money we had. I was 250 when I started losing the first time. Got pregnant at 204 and ate all the things. 271 when I delivered. Down to 234 when I got pregnant again. I think I was around 260 when I delivered. Baby is 15 months and I'm about 236. I'm not having more kids so I should manage to reach goal this time!

12Sarah2015

No

Mouse_Potato

Nope. I was super skinny. I was one of those kids who never wanted to stop moving, always running, jumping, or climbing something. Hunger was an annoyance to be quickly fixed so I could move on. I'm still like that. I just took a week off from work and spent every day moving and eating very little. It is the sedentary lifestyle my job forces upon me that encourages weight gain. I was not made to sit at a desk all day.

MeiannaLee

Yes my mom is a fat enabler.

xtina315

Nope. Was actually under weight until I had my first child. And have been over weight since then.

cathipa

Yep. Loving grandmother who would let me eat what I wanted. Was always told it was "baby fat", but when you are a 5th or 6th grader who is picked on this doesn't fly. Finally lost weight in 7th and 8th grade. High school I was pretty much anorexic. Would eat nothing for breakfast, a pack of HoHos and a coke for lunch then pick at dinner. Also didn't help I had a boyfriend who would scrutinize me and say I was fat. So yeah lots of mental stuff there. I still have a poor self image, but am working on it and have really been discovering a healthier way of living for the past 2 years. Daily struggle and trying to raise my kids to understand what healthy eating is like so they don't follow in my footsteps.

megzchica23

I wasn't even 100lbs when I graduated High School. I was a stick until my mid 20's where I finally reached a healthy weight. But unfortunately since I was use to eating anything I wanted and never gaining a lb it hurt a lot in my late 20's. Just like my mom said, it all caught up to me by 30. Heh.

kristen6350

No. Never overweight until my early 30's. I was a very tall little girl that could eat and eat and never gain an ounce!

Ruatine

Yes, my weight issues started when I was about 9. I was very thin, even underweight as a young child. After my family moved to the south, I started gaining weight. I've thought a lot about why that might have been. It's difficult to pinpoint. It was the first time we hadn't lived in housing on a military base, so I went to a school not on a military base, and we shopped at non-military grocery stores, but I don't know if that directly contributed. I was incredibly active as a kid - always riding my bike all over the neighborhood, but we didn't eat well - ice cream for dessert almost every night, big portions, not a lot of fresh fruit/veggies, lots of pre-packaged foods (Little Debbie snacks were always in the pantry). I don't ever remember being taught about nutrition growing up - not in school, not at home. I leaned out a bit in my teens after a growth spurt but packed on even more weight after moving to the northeast and becoming incredibly sedentary as a teen.

In my entire adult life, I've never been at a "normal" weight for my height. It's something I'm very much looking forward to reaching. Should I ever have children, nutritional education will definitely be a part of their upbringing - not in a shove it down their throats, my children will never be fat kind of way, but in an everyday, food is fuel kind of way.

stephinator92

I was diagnosed as overweight when I was 6 years old. I was a VERY active kid but also loved to eat. I learned (probably from my parents) about turning to food as an emotional coping mechanism and my weight continued to climb following my parents divorce at 8-9 years old. Coupled with many, many hours of being home alone my weight still climbed, but was manageable. I had various family members & doctors "helping" by telling me to lose weight, but never quite giving me the proper tools. I found a sport I loved in horseback riding and couldn't continue when it became too expensive, and the lack of motivation for other activities directly related to that caused another weight spike. The final massive weight spike in childhood came the year I turned 13 - 50 lbs in one year. I have never had one day that I could remember where I haven't thought about my weight and it has taken me years to try to disassociate myself from feelings of worthlessness attached to my fat.