Any success stories from women with child obesity

hiker583

Any success stories from women who were obese as a child? I was always the fat kid, fattest in class, fattest on the play ground, and as a child I did not have any unhealthy relationship with food. I ate 4 times a day like other regular kids, and good balanced diet. It was just the way I was. Then I lost all the weight as teenager (mostly be eating only 2 times a day, so sort of starvation diet). Then gained it all back when I lost control of that. Then lost again when I trained for and ran a marathon, and then gained it back again and LOT more after life took over. Now I have a very unhealthy relationship with food, I binge, I stuff myself with food, its almost an addiction.

Now I am waking up, trying to eat healthy, finding something that I can sustain for life. But I am terrified that I would never be able to lose all the weight because its in my genes. My father is obese, though my mother is very very thin.

SharonNehring

I was always one of the bigger girls in my class, although in hindsight I really wasn't that over weight. I played sports year round and got plenty of exercise. For me, the big change was when I went to college. I was no longer active yet was eating anything I wanted. I also developed PCOS which caused a lot of weight gain.That extra weight has stuck with me much of my life.

I've lost a few times and regained but this time is different. I must do this to regain my health, so the number on the scale isn't the most important thing now. This is a total lifestyle change so that I have healthy days ahead of me. I have been successful in the first 3 months of this journey but there's a long ways to go in maintaining this success.

Good luck on your journey!

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Any success stories from women who were obese as a child? I was always the fat kid, fattest in class, fattest on the play ground, and as a child I did not have any unhealthy relationship with food. I ate 4 times a day like other regular kids, and good balanced diet. It was just the way I was. Then I lost all the weight as teenager (mostly be eating only 2 times a day, so sort of starvation diet). Then gained it all back when I lost control of that. Then lost again when I trained for and ran a marathon, and then gained it back again and LOT more after life took over. Now I have a very unhealthy relationship with food, I binge, I stuff myself with food, its almost an addiction.

Now I am waking up, trying to eat healthy, finding something that I can sustain for life. But I am terrified that I would never be able to lose all the weight because its in my genes. My father is obese, though my mother is very very thin.

No..just the exact opposite, I was always the skinnest girl in school and in those days, skinny was NOT cool or enviable like it is today--being stick skinny back in the day it was considered yucky and unattractive (no matter how gorgeous my
face was :noway: )...having a skinny body was worthy of all kinds of jokes and mean comments and I got teased like crazy about it most of my young and young adult life. So even though I was from opposite perspective, I can still understand how you felt and wanted to give you a {{{ Hug }}}...because now I'm fat, to me--it's just as hard and UGH-ish as when I was stick skinny. Sorry you had a kinda rough childhood, you're not alone in that, okay?

Also...remember, your mom is part of your genes too--so you got this--it's just going to take some time! :flowerforyou:

xenu01

Oh, me. Pretty much every time I visited my grandmother as a kid, she'd put me on a diet (still can't stand the sight of canned pears and cottage cheese- blech). Meanwhile, my sister, who ate pretty much everything I did, was almost effortlessly thin. When we got to high school, it got worse.

I never got up past a size 16 before I hit my mid-twenties (though I thought I was enormous, and pretty much the entire world backed me up on that, so...), and 2x I got down to about a size 12, without even trying. It was all smoking instead of eating+being too poor to afford regular meals+walking at least 7 miles a day between working and walking to work (I was a waitress/hostess).

But I never got below that 12, and probably never will. It's not even really a goal of mine.

Anyway, this is not a "success story" in that I've lost one million pounds and now run triathalons, but I've gone from 241 lbs (I'm 5'4") and a solid size 20 (inching up to 22, really) to 208 lbs and getting back into size 16 territory. For the first time I'm logging calories and exercising regularly with a purpose, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since 2008. I also finally got my thyroid in order in 2010 and now I'm taking regular thyroid meds. I may be my "huge" high school weight, but I feel amazing.

psych101

Yep - that was me.

My mother took me to the doctor at 11 to see what was wrong with me. Then to Weight watchers at 13 - I was the youngest person there, some of my teachers were there, some of my friends parents were there. I was humiliated and it took me a long long time to realise that my mum was doing it out of concern for me. She didn't know what else to do.
My grandmother offered to pay for me to join Jenny Craig.
At High School I was the biggest kid in the School. I wore a sweater all year around so people wouldn't see me (haha). My mum had to have my school uniform made specially and she made my prom outfit herself using the biggest pattern she could find and altering it to make it bigger. Towards the end of high school I weighed 130kgs - which is about 286lbs I believe.
Fast forward some years and I begin walking and watching what I ate, I lost 120lbs. Got married, had a baby and I'm back here losing the last 15lbs of baby weight to get back to my goal which is around 160lbs.
I had to work through a LOT of issues when I was losing weight. I'd never been small so I didn't know how to be a smaller person - when I got hit on when out with friends it took me a long time to realise that people weren't just hitting on me as a joke, or to be mean. When I'd meet up with people from high school they didn't know who I was. I would go into shops and not know where to start with sizes, I'd constantly pick a size waaaay too big (and I still do).
I used food as comfort,to commiserate or to celebrate - it helped me deal with the world and so I had to find a different way to deal with things. I hid behind my weight for so long - it was my shield, the reason I didn't get picked for that team, or that guy didn't like me, or those girls didn't want to be friends with me - my shield and my excuse. For far too long.

Anyways, rambling thoughts lol