Was anyone overweight during their childhood or teen years?
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I was always chubby for as long as I can remember, I was bullied at school because of it and I always struggled when we did running, or anything physical really, I was last everytime we did cross country
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I struggle from depression, and in high school it was pretty bad. I kind of always went back and forth with my weight due to not eating properly when depression got bad. I'm working on it now though, which is all that really matters.
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I started gaining a lot of weight when I was 6 or 7, right around the time I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. For the past 14 years of my life, I have been overweight and struggled trying to lose it. I'm finally losing the weight now, and I feel great! I'm getting my diabetes under control, and my self esteem that I lost over the years is coming back. I'm hoping to get down to my ideal weight by this time next year.0
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I was chubby, and because kids can be very cruel, I was teased all thru school till I went thru puburty, and I did loose weight. I have always struggled with weight issues, in one way or another.0
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I was it was the most frustrating thing i broke out of obesity and just over weight for my 10th grade year but by the end i was back to being obese saddly!
im trying so hard now! i always think back to the days where i was obese as a child and being like 8 or 9 and already having boobs which was just fat! i graduated high school at 230 240 pounds it takes a mission to make the cap and gounds look fat but i did!
so now i want to lose weight because im graduating college june of 2014 so i want to make it look amazing!0 -
Good lord, the doctors had a field day with me. 11 1/2 lbs at birth (in my family, 10 lbs is considered normal), in the 95th percentile for weight for the majority of my childhood, and went from 180 to 270 lbs in my 4 years of high school.0
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I've been fat since I was around 10. Before then I was overweight but not massively so. I was given steroids as a kid to help with a medical condition, and together with low self esteem, comfort eating and general laziness I just grew. Sure I was bullied and stuff at secondary school, but that's what kids do - pick on those different from themselves to support pack mentality so I don't blame them now. As a result I ended up bullying others to try to gain acceptance - something I regret massively since.
Some things I have been trying to do to fix where I am:
* Be more active
* Be better at portion control
* Make healthier choices more often
* Not be too hard on myself if I have a bad day and let it get me down. This previously would be the largest cause of me giving in
Being fat throughout your life, or having it sneak up on you later in life still leaves you in the same place. For me, coming to this site has been the first thing that has given me decent hope of being able to succeed though. Meeting lots of random strangers who give you support just seems to be good. You can post when you are having a bad day and you'll get support. We all want the same thing.
So good on all of you - you're in the right place, and you're doing the right thing. As I just read "I don't know how to lose 50lbs, but I do know to lose 1lb 50 times". It's a great quote and I plan to exercise it
So feel free to add me if you want another friend - you'll get where you're going.0 -
I was a fat baby, a fat toddler, a fat kid, a fat pre-teen, a fat teen and now I'm a fat adult.
Fat has become part of my identity.
I don't know what it's like to be thin or fit, I don't know what it will be like for me when I reach my goal. I don't know if I will be happy. I have hopes, but it's all conjecture, really. And all this not-knowing is rather frightening.
Will my hard work will pay off?
Will I be bitter that I had to do so much to get to what most consider "the starting point"?
Will I always feel so separate from people?
Everyday I have to fight these fears and have hope and optimism for my future self. My better self.0 -
I was not overweight - but I thought I was. My grad dress was a size 5 and yet I felt huge. I, too, grew up in a poor family. I sometimes went to bed hungry. My mom could bake for cheap and she was a great baker. I developed a huge sweet tooth. And, for completely different reasons, an equally huge lack of self-esteem.
It's odd how much what we think about ourselves affects the way we see ourselves. It also has a lot to do with media, unfortunately. I grew up in a time when Cindy Crawford was touted as having curves. Seeing J. Lo. and Byonce and the like has been great for my self-esteem. I'm happy my young neices see curvy healthy images all over the place. I never did.
Anyhow, by the time I was 22 I was as big as I felt.
It's more complicated than that, I know. And, yet it's not.
Thanks for the post. It's an interesting topic and I love hearing about all of our unique journeys.0 -
I have NEVER been skinny.
I've been obese my entire life.
Almost 300 lbs in grade 10.
Growing up I was always the biggest at my school and even though I had a lot of friends - it was tough.0 -
I was chubby, and because kids can be very cruel, I was teased all thru school till I went thru puburty, and I did loose weight. I have always struggled with weight issues, in one way or another.
omg right!!! i was bullied so much through my life!!! it was at its worse senior year in high school! and you know what bothered me my two worst enimes were obese!!! i had a guy he weighed at least 300! and he told me i need to go kill my self im so ugly! it really hurt my self esteem i would sit there and eat my lunch alone since my one true realest friend had the other lunch period!
another time that really bugged me was i got to class a little early to my math class and sat in the front because i have bad vision and these girls sat around me and through the first couple of weeks they sat by me and told me to get lost that im to fat and no one wants to be around fat people!
this is just two of the many occasions that i had of being pushed around and made fun of! ugh people are just so mean!!0 -
I was a normal weight until I turned 10. Up to that point we lived near all of my cousins and family. We were a very outdoors type of family. We rode dirtbikes, went up in the woods hunting and fishing. All the good active types of things for a tom boy to enjoy.
When I turned 10, my mother, sister and I moved 180 miles away from the rest of the family. So no more hunting, fishing, dirtbike riding, all of the fun avtive things that let me be a normal sized kid. I didn't know anyone in the new place we moved, so I just stayed home watching cartoons and gaining weight.
I never went on a date or to a high school dance. Never got to enjoy any of the "fun" high school stuff. I hated high school and all of the mean hateful things that I was called. When people talk about the great high school memories, mine was the day I ran away and never went back.
I have been overweight ever since. Right now in my size 6/8 I am smaller than I have been since that age.
And I will say it feels amazing.0 -
I was always chunky. It sucked.... ppl were *kitten*.0
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Oh honey, I was a fat baby, a fat toddler, a fat child, a fat teenager and a fat adult. There's not a single time in my entire life that I have ever known what it was like to be thin! I understand the teasing all too well. I don't even know what my problem was except that there was always junk food in the house and I was allowed to have pretty much whatever I wanted. My Grandfather and Uncle were fat, my mom was fat and I was fat and that's just how it was. I was never taught to eat the healthy stuff. I was made to eat carrots ONCE that I can remember. I'm only just now realizing that "healthy" doesn't have to mean "flavorless"...0
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I was a fat baby, a fat toddler, a fat kid, a fat pre-teen, a fat teen and now I'm a fat adult.
Fat has become part of my identity.
I don't know what it's like to be thin or fit, I don't know what it will be like for me when I reach my goal. I don't know if I will be happy. I have hopes, but it's all conjecture, really. And all this not-knowing is rather frightening.
Will my hard work will pay off?
Will I be bitter that I had to do so much to get to what most consider "the starting point"?
Will I always feel so separate from people?
Everyday I have to fight these fears and have hope and optimism for my future self. My better self.
I could have written this myself! I have no idea what it feels like to be thin or if I ever will be thin or just a lot healthier! I got excited when I could sit cross-legged yesterday though without feeling like my circulation was being cut off, haha!0 -
I gained all my weight when i was between 11/13 due to depression and started loosing when i was 26.0
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I was overweight as a child, but thinned out in my teens and by 17 was underweight. Then gradually put it back on through my 20s. I have never been properly overweight as an adult, but was borderline for a few of years while pregnant and breastfeeding.0
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I was overweight from like 9-13 years old. Then underweight around 16-17 years old. Now overweight again, yippy... just 5 pounds away from normal BMI0
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I was never skinny like my sisters. I can remember being 150 pounds in 5th grade, but I was already 5' 5" tall. This put me right on the border between normal and overweight. The biggest problem I had was my mother telling me I was fat and various other things too. I never felt that I was pretty or attractive, then I joined the military. Imagine my shock and surprise when guys started talking to me and complimenting me. I'd look around to see who was behind me because of course they could not be talking to me right? Turns out, I was never fat to begin with, I just wasn't tall and skinny like my sisters.
Now, 20+ years later I am currently obese per my BMI. I am not at my heaviest, that was back in December, but I still have a long way to go. Looking back, I can see that I was healthy, not fat, not skinny, just right. Getting down into the 160s will put back into the normal BMI range.
I wish you success on your journey to a healthier you.0 -
I completely understand, I did not look good in my gown for graduation in June, now the cap, that was another story, I looked good in the cap.I was it was the most frustrating thing i broke out of obesity and just over weight for my 10th grade year but by the end i was back to being obese saddly!
im trying so hard now! i always think back to the days where i was obese as a child and being like 8 or 9 and already having boobs which was just fat! i graduated high school at 230 240 pounds it takes a mission to make the cap and gounds look fat but i did!
so now i want to lose weight because im graduating college june of 2014 so i want to make it look amazing!0 -
i've been heavy almost all my life with a drastic turn for the heavier when my aunt was murdered back in 1994. i have managed to wittle myself down to the same pant size that i graduated grade school in ( as sickening as that sounds at the moment) but still have a ways to go before i'm down to a manageable size.0
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I remember thinking I was really fat when I was little, but when I see pics I think "I look *normal*!" As a preteen/teenager I was definitely overweight, but the fact that I took dance lessons several times a week helped keep me in shape. Then when I stopped dancing, the weight reaaaaaaaaally started piling on.
But yes, for the most part, I've always been overweight/obese/fat/chunky/fluffy/big-boned/whatever.0 -
I've been fat my whole life primary school/high school/uni. Leaving high school I was a size 20 and 17.5 stone, I carried on gaining for the next 6 years and topped at 19 stone 3. School was horrible for me every single day was horrible and I was bullied terribly I was just counting days till I didn't have to go anymore. I was rubbish at PE therefore avoided every possible lesson I could by 'forgetting' my kit or being 'ill' which didn't help, I'm also a comfort eater when I feel bad I turned to food and it wasn't exactly a salad I was eating. I've now lost 45lbs and I'm lighter than I was in high school but I still have a way to go.0
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Normal sized baby... then from about toddler to Freshman year high school I was "chubby" (big boned as my mom always told me). Then I stretched out and lost the baby fat which was nice. Right now I weigh what I did in high school, but I still need to lose a few lbs before I'm in the healthy zone.0
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Wow thanks for all the great replies!
It's nice to know that I'm not alone in the whole, 'I don't what's it's like to be thin or fit'.
The bullying definitely sucked, and I wish I could just forget it. But I can't. Every time I see my reflection, I can hear the cruel comments and feels the stares. I'm slowly, slowly getting over it. I think about it a little less every month.
But I figure that I've been overweight since I was 7 or 8 years old. Only child, very shy, and lonely, and thus very under active. That combined with the food (Slurpees, huge servings of mashed potatoes, and larges glasses of milk probably happened to be my most likely culprits) probably made me overweight.
But I'm very excited for when I hit my ultimate goal weight. I think I'll go and buy my first real bikini ever and go for a nice swim.0 -
I was teeny tiny up until 3rd grade. Ironically, I remember a lot of people asking when I was going to grow. Lol. Well I sure surprised them! I developed early, and I remember hating to have to wear a bra in 3rd grade.
I've hovered between 155-175 since junior/senior highschool. Around 9th grade I had gotten up to 185lbs and was absolutely disgusted with myself, I remember crying on my moms lap. My mom in turn started going to the gym with me that summer and I was doing pretty well, eating protein bars and shakes, and got down to 145lbs. When I started back to school, I stopped going to the gym because I didn't have time (10th grade was stupidly busy with the AP classes I was taking and the state testings I had to do) and ended up just not eating for a month or two.I ended up gaining back 20lbs, slowly, but still gained it back :P
No one ever said anything about my weight though, I was my toughest critic. I guess it helps to go to a small school (graduated with 26 other people, most of which I was in kindergarten with).0 -
I've been overweight most of the time since I was 11. I was normal for a year or so when I was 16, and also dropped down to normal for a while when I was 22 from doing yoga/relaxation. Until I was in my 30s, I was around 30lbs over - from where I am now - that would be a good place to be.0
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I have yo-yo'd with my weight all my life. I was a chubby kid growing up- but certainly ran around quite a bit outdoors too (bike riding, tag, hide & seek, roller skating etc.). However, I love food and my mom loves to cook (we not only had home cooked dinners but often homemade desserts too!). I suppose I was one of the lucky ones- I always had a lot of friends.
However, when I was in 9th grade my best friend and I both chubby, decided to lose the weight together. We were both type a personalities and quite competitive. Well looking back now- I can't say I was anorexic, (because this was one short occurence in my life thus far) but what we did most certainly was NOT healthy. We exercised for hours a day, and basically lived off of tea, an apple and whatever's tiny bit of food I could get away with eating at dinner without parents noticing I wasn't eating very much. Of course I lost a ton of weight, and managed to keep it off until college (late night pizza and lots of drinking didn't help!) when I gained it all back plus about 20lbs more!
I am really hoping to lose the weight slow and steady this time. I am making a life change by just cutting back my portions and eating healthy (rather than trying to follow an one specific diet) and I have joined this community for support (which I so so thankful for!).0 -
I was the one fat kid in my class since I was about 8 years old till I graduated. I was a really active kid, I just ate like crap because my family had terrible eating habits and I followed in their footsteps because I didn't know better. My classmates actually never teased or bullied me - I'm guessing it had something to do with the fact that I lived in a small town and went to a very small school, so I had known my classmates pretty much all my life. I did sometimes get rude comments from strangers/new people.
Looking back, while I was definitely overweight, I was not nearly as fat as I perceived myself to be while I was growing up. I was incredibly insecure, and I really thought I was morbidly obese. This resulted in some pretty unhealthy "dieting phases" in my teen years, which most people would probably classify as disordered eating. It wasn't until I moved out on my own to go to university that I learned proper eating habits and lost a lot of weight.0 -
Hmm I think I was normal for the most part when I was very young. I remember though being size 14 in grade 12 and going steadily up from there.
I managed my skinniest in my early 20's (135) and then met my x husband, went to university and started packing it on. By the time I graduated university I had gained 90lbs and being in a bad marriage emotionally didn't do much for my health. I went up to 235 in 2004. By 2009 I had managed to get back down to 200 with a personal trainer and about 4K out of pocket. I had to give it up because I got laid off and couldn't afford it anymore.
I met my current boyfriend just after reaching 200lbs and put on about another 20 over the past 3 years and then I decided to make a change. I am hoping to get into ONEderland permanently in the next couple of weeks for the first time in close to 15 years 0
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