Did anyone NOT have a weight problem as a child?

Gilbrod

No. Cuz I didn't have videogames and internet. So I felt compelled to play outside and run and frolic.

MrsR0SE

I was perfectly fine until I started having children. Then, instead of losing the pregnancy weight, I put more on! About 8 years ago I lost a lot of it but didn't keep it off, so here I am, on mfp

pyororon

I've always been very skinny. It took a huge amount of effort to put on all the weight I have done (being on complete bed-rest for 6 weeks and eating nothing but cakes, fries, milkshakes, ice cream etc every day). It's quite a fight losing it now though. Hope I haven't wrecked myself too much :x

albinogorilla

i couldn't gain a lb in HS, skinny as a rail.............fortunately college and budlight fixed that problem real quick!

sevsmom

I THOUGHT I had a weight problem as a teen. I was significantly insecure (did I say was. . . ) and every single one of my high school friends were about 2 inches or more shorter than me (I'm only 5'5") and they were like size 1 or 3. . . I was an 8/10. Always curvier and always "bigger".

Turns out, stress eating as an adult and pregnancy were my real weight demons. Now that I'm back in control, I am trying to root out the stress eating, and there will be no more pregnancies!! I'm below my high school weight, but I'm stronger than I ever was back then AND I have my kiddos!!

Win- WIN!!!

MariaAlbina

Nope, I was very skinny as a kid and then high school came and I gained a few unnecessary pounds. Just trying to lose them and tone up a bit.

tootsanderson

i was very thin. i was a size two at 20 years old. you can pop over to my profile and look at my pics if you want to see the crazy difference. mine was also medical. but PCOS not thyroid.

kalynn06

No childhood weight problem. Played outside way too much for that. Inherited a high metabolism. But I was never FIT, NEVER. And that's what I want more than anything. I don't care about the number anymore. I just want to be fit.

This is pretty much me. I never had a weight problem. I got a little chubby at 12 right before I hit a growth spurt, but I was always small but never athletic or remotely fit. Despite this I had a 23 inch waist in college. After college, I gained a little weight, and I was still soft and definitely skinny fat. I got in pretty good shape a few years ago and then went back to school where I packed on about 20 lbs (with small dips due to yo yo dieting in the meantime). Now I just want to be fit and comfortable in my body.

Abells

I was tiny until college --- laziness and alcohol

XFitMojoMom

Yes! Skinny until I hit my 30's, then packed on 50-60 pounds!

delilah47

Nope. When I got to my 30s, I had to start exercising and eating healthier, but didn't get overweight until a back injury (about 10 years ago) put a halt to almost all physical activity. The back is still extremely painful, but I am eating healthy and trying to bite the bullet and find certain exercises I can do.

dansls1

Was short skinny kid growing up - grew 6" after high school and then started filling out. Basically just an upward trend until this year when I decided to pay attention to being healthy and lose weight.

DieVixen

I never had a weight problem till around 30

hillbillyannie

I was skinny in the first grade-taller than all the other kids. Didn't start gaining weight till I was about 8 or 9 after being very sick with something they first diagnosed as leukemia and then decided was a strep infection in my blood from unpasterized milk. Daddy thought I started gaining because of the experimental drugs they gave me. By age 12 I was 5'4" and 140 which is not too heavy but I still got called fat at school which didn't help. I am 5'7" not would love to weigh 140. I like to think I don't have the baby fat cells they keep telling us about.

1shauna1

I didn't. I was always a tall child, but thin. Don't remember any issues with food until I went away to university. That's when I started gaining weight.

Aviendha_RJ

My weight was never an issue till my Mom died when I was in my early twenties. Now? Oh yeah.

trud72

i was ok untill about 12/13 yrs old and then it happened pretty quick lol :blushing:

muwchck

I never had a weight problem growing up. Mom did tell me the other day that I was heavier than I remember being in high school, but I was very well proportioned, and you couldn't tell I was nearly as heavy as I actually was. I was about 145 at graduation, and wearing a size 6. I didn't start gaining weight until right about the time I got pregnant with my oldest child, and it was downhill from that. I was in a bad relationship and very depressed, and my way of dealing with it all was to eat. I tried several times to lose weight while in that relationship, but I was so unhappy that I wasn't really motivated or successful. After I left my ex and moved back home, I started eating healthier, working out regularly, and feeling better about myself. The weight started to fall off, and I lost about 40 pounds in a few short months without really trying. Then I got married and pregnant and put it all back on and then some. I had a very difficult second pregnancy and spent almost the entire time on light duty with high blood pressure and gestational diabetes. But here I am, about 107 days in, and about 20 pounds lighter. I'm happier and more active than I have been in a while.

Chrissy9632

I was never overweight as a child or teenager but I was always very active. After I graduated and started being more social with drinking and eating late at night I started gaining a lot of weight. And its definitely harder to get it off than it was to put it on.

adrian_indy

I was chubby from 3rd grade until I was 16. But strangely, now that I look back on pictures of me in that period of my life, while I was a husky kid, I do not look as fat as I remember. I think I was extremely self conscious as a kid about beng fat, and I can actually remember my abs and back hurting from sucking my gut in all the time.

Also, what's really funny is that if you took my child hood pics and compared them to today's children, I actually look thin. ha.

MrsSorenson

I was thin until I got pregnant at 20 years old. Then two kids later and a few years of marriage.. I packed on 80-100 lbs I have had no motivation to get rid of. That is until now! No time like the present right?! You are not alone in this struggle.

teamvillpino1

Nope, I was very thin until I quit smoking in my 30's. I replaced cigarettes for candy and munched on potato chips in the evening--30 lbs and 10 years later, I'm determined to lose at least 20 of those lbs.

chelchelt

I was a very active child so I was pretty thing and healthy. When i hit 15 my weight went way up I gained about 40 pounds between my freshmen and sophmore years. I thin lost it and was 110lbs for a couple years. Then when I got pregnant with my children, starting at 21, it started going up and I've been fighting it since then,

AmyEm3

I was never overweight until after I started having kids. I ate whatever I wanted when I was younger but I was fairly active. I went out a lot in college and drank/ate too much but I also ran just about every day.

After college I had an active job and then started having kids. I lost all of the pregnancy weight right away but then I gained a bunch after each kid was born. I only worked part time when my oldest was born and then stayed home full time since my 2nd was born.

I don't really remember anyone treating me differently when I was heavier.

clioratha

I was a stick growing up - was 5'9 and 115# when I got married, and stayed relatively thin despite eating what I wanted until I had my kid (about 8 years after marriage) - I put on a lot of weight while pg - 45#, and that's with a 6-week preemie. (I weighed 200 when I delivered...) I managed to lose all of that weight and then some, getting down to 140#, but it's slowly crept back on over the past 13 years. Not sure if it's because now I'm over 40 and my metabolism has slowed down, or because having a kid messed things up... Or maybe just the reality that financial situations have changed, and going out to eat for the sole reason that we're too worn out to cook was a viable option, and therefore we did so more often than we should.

My turning point was about 6 months ago when I realized I weigh more now than when I did when I had my daughter. A lot more. I've lost almost 10 pounds since Christmas, but I'm still over that number

(Edit: please no hatemail about the maths not working - I did put on *some* weight between marriage and pg...)

johnwhitent

I had no weight problem as a youth or for many, many years. As an adult I ate horribly, avoided exercise, and drank excessively for decades but stayed in a healthy weight range. I didn't gain weight until I was in my fifties, long after giving up alcohol and the lifestyle that should have packed the weight on. I can't explain it, but weight only became an issue for me in my early to mid fifties and I have knocked it back now with the help of improved nutrition and finding exercise that I enjoy - cycling and trail running.

Denise6914

I was always very thin as a child. I ate very healthy and was on a competitive dance team. People used to ask if I was anorexic. I didn't start gaining weight until my husband walked out and we went through a divorce. I just stopped caring for a long time.

LauraSmyth28

I never had a problem with weight and never gave it a second thought until I had kids. I remember going shopping with friends as a teenager and not being able to find much that fit me as I was too thin.

I had my first son at 19, piled on the lbs but lost them very easily afterwards...which I put down to my age and the fact I couldn't drive back then so I walked a lot. My body wasn't the same though, my belly was still a problem area (and I expect it always will be).

I had my second son at 24 (2.5 years ago) and I'm STILL trying to lose that weight. Another 7lbs to hit pre-pregnancy weight.
I find it easy to maintain any weight too, I always have. I just find it hard to lose excess 'baby-weight'.

candidglances

Growing up i was a skinny little bean pole that people thought i didn't EAT anything! The truth is I ate what I wanted and didn't gain a pound! I was a size 0 up until my 3rd child. I had her in 2009 and haven't been able to get back down since. I was 26 then. It's been 2 years since then and i'm STILL having a hard time getting the weight down as it's slowly progressed upward. so i've had to do something about it before it gets out of hand.

rml_16

I never had a weight problem until I was nearly 30.