Did you always have a weight problem or no?

MissKim

nope, I was skinny, graduated high school at 135 lbs, played basketball and volleyball and ate whatever i wanted. started sitting on my butt all day in an office still eating the same way i always have (probably worse since then i had a paycheck to spend on eating out!) and ballooned up to 200 lbs. been going up and down ever since.

Newmammaluv

I was always TEASED about being chubby but the fact of the matter is that I was in the 20th percentile for growth until I was 8 or 9 and then was healthy weight until I hit puberty. Once I started my period and puberty started I gained 100lbs in 1 year... I've hovered right around the weight ever since. It's not been until now that I am figuring out that my weight issues are hormone related. So no I wasn't always fat and now I'm starting to understand that it really wasn't anything I was doing "wrong" just didn't have all the facts.

jencoz04

Yes!! It started the day I was born. I weighed in at 10#10oz and 24" long. I have always been on the heavy side but I was within the "normal" range of BMI through college but I was at the heavy side. I did not cross over into the overweight and the obese range until my early 20's.

velix

I was always thin - around 135 @ 5"7 until my late 20's (I am 37 now). Gained and lost my baby weight no trouble (2x) but a few years ago, I got hit by a car while riding my bike (the only time I ever used a bike lane in my life, and some idiot decides to run a red light). I was on crutches for 3 months, and had a lot of trouble rehabilitating the ankle - and from there, just ballooned since I was used to not really watching what I ate / drank ... being relatively immobile killed my metabolism =(

Then one day, I woke up and got on the scale and realized I was 252lbs - I have been working to lose it since Jan 2010. I vow to get back to my old self someday (or at least considering age and activity level, a healthy bmi range!)

ladybg81

I have never had a weight problem until I got pregnant. I am 5'10 and always been thin but also have always been consious so it never got out of control. I was 125 in college and was WAY too thin. I weighed 140-145 when I got pregnant. I gained 60 lbs and lost all but 20 after about 8 months. I really have not tried very hard to lose the last 20 until I started here. But now, I've lost the last 20 and weigh less than I did before I got pregnant, now 135!

jend114

I was skinny till I got married. Now that I'm getting divorced I'm losing weight again.

Hellsbells42

I never had a weight problem until I entered menopause. Plus, I lost my job, sat at the PC all day and ate chocolate.
I'm still not what you'd call overweight, but my body fat percentage is too high, and my clothes don't fit any more.
So now I set about to get my normal weight back.

HealthiHannah

everytime i went to the doctors i was told to lose weight -even when i was in the normal weight BMI category. I used to think i was fat, now i want to be that size! lol!

Same with me, even as a child when I was borderline BMI, I was always very small... looking back its weird to me that even when it comes to a child, they don't ever consider body composition and just label you as "overweight"

bhb301

No. I don't think I ever had a weight problem. My highest weight was 175, I'm 5'7 1/2 so still then I was fine, a few pounds heavy. I'm 143 now, just trying to tone now

bcattoes

No, I didn't. I'm grew up in the 60's and 70's when most kids and teenagers were thin. I could name the overweight kids in my school because they were so few that everyone knew them. I gained weight slowly over the years as an adult. I'd yo-yo between overweight and a good size, but it seemed with each yo-yo the upper end got a little bit more "upper". So, I'm not dieting anymore. I'm eating healthy and exercising because I don't want to be one of those old people that has to pop a handful of pills just to keep my BP, glucose and lipids in line. I don't worry about calories nearly as much has I do saturated fat, cholesterol and nutrients. And it seems to be working just fine so far.

SoFancySoBlessed

No problems here! I was a cheerleader in high school always very active, even after my first son was born, i dropped that "baby weight" like nothing....it wasnt until i had my second son that i noticed i was not fitting into my clothes anymore...i even breast fed cause they said it would help me make the weight come off faster (wrong) ....that i think made me depressed and i ate more, plus life stresses...work school, etc. I figure whatever the reason, thank God i found MFP! Yall are awesome! :bigsmile:

johnwhitent

I never had a weight problem in my life until I hit my mid fifties. I could always eat anything and everything and all I wanted and gain nothing. I could eat a whole large pizza by myself and just could not understand people eating only two or three pieces and worrying about it. Then around 53 years of age I started to gain, and wound up gaining 50+ pounds over just a year or two. I have lost most of the excess weight since then but it has taken enormous effort. In stark contrast with most of my life I now gain weight very easily. I have to count calories and exercise like crazy or weight just piles on. It seems so unfair, but I know many people face this decades before I did. I still don’t understand what happened, but I now see almost overnight impact if I make poor food choices. Crazy!

KateCon912

I was skinny my whole life but I always thought I was fat. I went through puberty before anyone else so I was taller and more filled out than all of my friends, so in my eyes that made me fat. Once my friends caught up though, I was the shortest one but I still thought I was fat. I was about 120 when I graduated (which is my goal now) and I swore back then I was a cow! I guess I never really noticed that I put on weight after moving in with my boyfriend because I had always thought I was big.

I swear though, my weight will never be a problem again!! I realize now how tiny I was back then and I will appreciate it when I do reach my goal. Only 10 more lbs!

fteale

I've never had a weight problem as an adult. I was quite a podgy child, until I was about 16, then I was borderline anorexic for several years. I was a normal weight until I had children, then put on about a stone (sometimes ballooning to 2 stone), which I have only just shifted this past 6 months since joining MFP.

nkenga

I never had a problem with my weight until I moved back to my hometown and began a MUCH more sedentary lifestyle - I gained 30 pounds in the first 3 months, just because I wasn't walking as much. I was able to lose most of it once I started exercising again. However, a few years later, pregnancy and severe depression caused me to go from ~145 to 170 (after childbirth). I lost 20 pounds of it, but as soon as I got depressed again and stopped exercising and started overeating, I gained it back.

FearAnLoathing

I never had a weight problem,but I spent many years on meth.So after spending so many years barely eating my body wasnt used to getting food everyday so when I quit drugs in 2006 I put on weight really fast add into that 2 months after I quit I got pregnant and then put on bed rest for the last 3 months i gained 100 pounds in less than a year.

MissKim

I wasn't ever really fat but even when I played soccer and ran track and whatever age I was. . I always hated my belly. I wasn't fat but never really had a waist. All my fat went to my belly or core area and I didn't like my shape. I didn't know how to lose weight except for running, but that never changed me enough.

Doing low carb/low sugar PLUS learning how to work out with weights, cables, machines, etc. . THAT changed things for the better. I wish someone taught me that stuff in high school. I learned around age 28.

me too!! i remember being 135 in high school and i never had a flat stomach, i just assumed it was hereditary. I was small, but i've always had fat on my belly i can't wait til i can have a flat stomach, and it's going to happen!

eeeekie

I started gaining weight about the age of....8yo. I will always consider myself someone who's "always been fat" because I can't honestly remember a time in my life when I wasn't.

LeonaB17

I was skinny until age 9 - then I had some pudginess - then around 13 I grew taller and slimmed up some but kids were so cruel I was called fat - when all I really had was some belly pudge. I was about 135 pounds and wore a size 7/8 -on a 5foot 5 frame at the time. Kids were just mean! Into my teens i was around a size 12 and 155 to 165 pounds on average, sometimes dipping down to 150 or up to 170 - and then around age 17 i plumped up to over 200 pounds, at age 18 i got back to the 170s - and then shot back up and up and up and up after that!!!!! All the way up to 327 at age 26 - but now coming back down from that! Currently at 236 -Never wanna go back!! My life has been a big yo yo I swear!!

StaceyL76

I was always told I was a chub.. as with you looking back I wasn't..

Now, I believe I had more of a lifestyle problem.. that produced a weight problem. The weight on my body is a symptom of an unhealthy lifestye.

Saying that, as a youth I was in dance/gymnastics for 10+ years, I grew up on a go-kart track pushing and pulling on things constantly, had older uncles and a brother that I was always rough housing with or playing sports.... I think that kept me slim.. even though we ate poorly.

I was not taught how to eat healthy as my parents today still eat very unhealthy.. so I guess I always had problems it wasn't until after my kids and life got out of control that I got so heavy.

So not sure if I have always had a weight problem.. I definately have always had things that contributed to an unhealthy lifestyle.

1sisrat

I was a buck 5 till I turned 19 and switched from depo to the pill. I also quit aderall for ADHD and started hollistic remedies (such as running and swimming). I was always athletic, swim team, soccer, feild hockey, track, cross country. When I stopped sports and went to art school I kept eating like I was on sports teams. that cought up to me I've had to admit that now with a sedintary job (social worker at shelter) and will be 26 in june I need to watch the portions.

outersoul

I was always in great shape up until I had my baby....wait...let me try that again. I was always in great shape until after college and when I got married. I got comfortable in life and at my desk job. It wasn't until I was into my 30s did I start to look like an amoeba.

janemartin02

I was thin as a child.With 10 siblings,the food was scarce.I gained my wt after 7 pregnacies.Still trying to get the baby fat off,my daughter is 14.

vs_shine

I never had a problem with my weight til about two years ago I gained 30 pounds rapidly and i've been trying to get rid of it ever since. It was my Junior year in College and I just got comfy in my dorm i guess lol

noltes2

THIS IS ME. Didn't realize I was gaining, cuz I was used to being the pretty one. Finally woke up and realized I was the chubby one. Not a good realization, but better than denial.

I have not always had a weight problem. I used to weight about 133 without ever really trying...that was through about 2006/2007. I gained weight...lost it in 2008 then stopped working out and I've gained it back plus some...now here I am. It's hard knowing that I used to be one way and now I'm not. I actually hardly ever socialize anymore because I don't feel adequate. I used to be the "skinny" friend and the girl all the guys wanted to talk to (not that it matters anymore with my boyfriend but it's a nice ego boost! When I met him I was skinny and and he would brag about was how hot I was...he doesn't do that anymore) It's definitely led me to where I am because I didn't realize really that I was gaining weight while I was because I had this image of me and who I was and had been my whole life. And I think it makes it harder now because It's hard to accept that I really do have to change the way I do things and eat and everything when I didn't have to before. Granted I've struggled for about 5 years now...but that's 5 out of 27.

But nope, you're not the only one

Autumn1206

I didn't really have a problem with weight - until a traumatic experience in 2006, and I started taking a medication to help me with PTSD. I gained about 15 pounds, but didn't really worry. Then I started birth control, and I gained another 10. My husband was pleased, so I didn't worry. Then a few years after that, I got pregnant and gained 80 which sucked, and turned 30 which didn't suck, but it's like weight just doesn't come off like it used to when I was in my 20's. I don't really miss my twenties, but I'd like my body back, please!

mericksmom

I was a stick until age 8, where then a mass of hormones helped me increase my mass by the age of 9 I was about 120 and high school I graduated I was about 150-165, I then went to 145-150 right before I had my son which I stayed at 155 the whole pregnancy. as soon as I was put on depo I gained up to 220 lbs which I reduced to 175 and then when I started to get right this year starting at 210 and at this moment I am 195.