Was anyone overweight during their childhood or teen years?

I was overweight starting from middle school on up. I'm still overweight, but at least now I've started to get myself on track. But that's besides the point.

Yes, I was bullied through high school for being the "fat" girl, even by my own family. So I had nowhere to turn but food. I was incredibly unhappy, so food made me happy. That and both my parents were working parents, so quick and cheap was a way of life for my family.

I was a rather chunky monkey from about age 11 when I hit puberty. I was bullied and made to feel lesser for most of highschool. Definitely affects self esteem in all areas of your life. I never feel like i measure up. I did find myself playing the fat funny girl a lot, which is a sad sterotype because...not all fat people are funny and jolly. Grown out of it somewhat though still have a tendency to be a doormat.That will be changing.

I've always been overweight/obese. I sometimes joke that I was born fat because I weighed 10 pounds at birth =p
Throughout school I was always teased and bullied because of how fat I was. By the time I was in fourth grade, I weighed 190lbs. I remember stepping on the scale at my grandma's house once and the reaction she had when she saw the number pop up. "You'd just be perfect if you lost some weight!" Great advice for a nine year old! I was never really taught how to eat properly, as my mom could eat whatever she wanted and stay skinny, and I guess she thought the same would be true for me. Not so much! Fast forward to sixth grade when I gained an absurd amount of weight and ended up in a size 26 pant- whoa. By eighth grade I was back down to an 16, due to a growth spurt, diet and soccer. However, once I started high school, I gained a lot of weight due to depression and lack of exercise, and made my way back up to a 24/26. I'm back down to a 22 though! Yay!
Basically, my point is, I've been overweight/obese forever. I've never been the proper weight, and I don't really think I'll ever be, but hopefully I can get back to where I can wear a size 16! I didn't have any rolls then!

I was always on the heavier side but looking back, I know now that during my middle school years I was actually within weight for my height and frame. I was slightly overweight during early HS. I can remember weighing in at 180 (should be around 165-175 per my doc) and my band director just hammered me. I wish he would have just encouraged me to tone up because the weight would have went along with that.

I always look heavier than I was until college because of my chest size. I was a 36C in 5th grade, a 36DD in middle school and high school and now am a 34JJ. My husband wants me to have a reduction now that I am done having kids but to me, I need to get back down around 200 to be able to justify to the insurance company why it should be done (I hardly ever lose in my chest). But it was hard and I really think it was because I was comparing myself to what was not realistic for me.

Christina

I was always on the chubby side when I was a kid. Nobody ever really teased me or anything while growing up, and I realize not many overweight kids had it this way, which saddens me now when I think about it.
My weight never really bothered me up until the teenage years, when I realized that I had limited choices when it came to wearing cute clothes and all that. I've always been an emotional person and change has always been hard for me; I'd be always complaining and crying about it but I never did anything.
I weigh about 138lbs now, and even though that may not seem like a huge lot, it is for me, because I'm short so I look awkward. I have a friend who is like 5'6'' and she looked decent at 135lbs; not my case though.
I'm hoping to make a change. I still can. I'm young and I don't want to waste anymore time. I promised myself I'd be happy with my weight by my 18th birthday :]

I've always been the chubby girl. Not obese, but definately the biggest of my friends. I was teasted mercilessly as a child (I remember one particular time in the 3rd? grade where I actually BRIBED someone to get something for me across the classroom because I didn't want to hear the teasing). As I got into HS and got more active, I slimmed out A LITTLE, but not much. The skinniest I was was my junior year in HS...I'm 5'9" and I weighed 158 lbs. How did I get there? By going to school full time, having a part time job, playing in the Youth Symphony on Sundays, and being part of sports at school....all at the same time. I was constantly active and didn't have TIME to eat. And then I got Mono. BEST DIET EVER (Just kidding....). So moral of the story...yeah I was only able to look "normal" by not eating and staying constantly on the go.

I've never known what it was to be "Skinny" or "thin". I come from hearty stock and it definately shows! Only now (at age 35) do I realize that being thin isn't what I want. It's being HEALTHY.

I have always been the "big girl". My mother loves to comment on my linebacker football shoulders (I am 5'8", she is 5'0").

Throughtout my childhood I was always very active. I did gymnastics, swimming, skating, I was an active outdoorsman as well. I had terrible nicknames growing up. Fatty Four Eyes, Chubbi-Oki, World Famous Sumo Wrestler, Canadian Bacon.

I have read some of the other posts on here and it makes me just want to cry. It brings back all the terrible memories.

I was in high school. It wasn't a lot, but enough to hear *kitten* from my peers...whether I was intended to hear it or not. That's a bad complex to have.

I always say I got the fat gene in my family. Everyone else has always been slim except me. I've struggled my whole life. (I'm in my 40's now)

Looking back on my childhood pictures, I've always had chub. I've almost always had a double chin/full chubby face. Both of my parents have gained weight over the years, as has my sister. Even when I was young though, my sister (who is five years my senior) was always smaller than me. I've always been bigger, and I never noticed until third/fourth grade where I began to be bullied BECAUSE of my weight (and I know this as fact because of the names I was called) and that has continued only slowing down in the last year and a half or so. My family had tried WW back when I was in third and sixth grade but it always just ended for some reason. This time I'm doing this weight loss thing on my own and I haven't really told anyone I'm doing it, besides my one friend who said she had started MFP. I've never really consciously tried to do this, I lost a bit of weight about a year and a half ago because I just stopped eating at night and I was off pop for Lent...but this is the first time doing something like this. I'm not ready to share it because I never want to admit my weight to anyone. Being overweight as a child and now extremely overweight as an adult (I HATE the term morbidly obese, it makes me feel like I'm like... I just don't use that term) has definitely effected my entire life. Being bullied from such a young age has drastically lowered my self esteem and then just not being able to go shopping with friends or buying the same clothes as them or being around them when they're saying they are fat and need to lose weight when I'd kill to be their size.... a lot of my self esteem drop is self inflicted but it's incredibly difficult when I know (at that moment) I will NOT be able to do those things, go on rides at amusement parks, be able to participate in something where we all are wearing the same outfit (not that that happens often), not being able to fit into shirts at work etc. I can say that the self esteem thing was the biggest for me, not only because at the time it happened, but it continued and then I began to believe them and then I started realizing facts (about clothes, etc).... I think (and hope) that this journey will open up doors for me, allow me to gain confidence and self esteem back. I don't know if anything I just said makes sense or is relevant...oops.

In short, yes I have been overweight as long as I can remember and it sucks and I'm trying to fix it lol.

I was always the overweight girl in school. I remember in high school that if i could just make it through it day without anybody seeing me I would be fine. That if I crawled back into my shell nobody could see me. I grew up in a poor family and you ate everything that was put on your plate, so I never really learned about getting full. I still struggle sometimes when I am full and leave food on my plate. Nobody else in my family was overweight. When I was about 16 i started working at a fast food resturant, which didn't help my weight at all. I weighted about 190 when I graduated from high school at only 5' tall. I lost weight when I changed job, but gained it back years later when I got pregnant with my daughter. That was over 17 years ago and have been about 200 lbs since than. Last July I was diagnosed diabetic, I knew it was coming, and that was the final straw. I will never go back again, too many bad memories.

I've been overweight for as long as I can remember. I remember being call fat in kindergarten, and according to my parents, at the age of 5, I said I wanted to commit suicide because I was being bullied. Bullied all through grade school and junior high. Finally stopped around high school but I was still overweight. I've always been active- basketball, cheerleading and band in grade school, marching band and volleyball in junior high and marching band in high school. Always played outside and rode my bike. I hardly ever played video games. My mother would never put candy or chips in our lunches, always fruit and veggies. I guess I just have bad genes. I have a large frame just like my grandmother. I work out 5 days a week (cardio and weight training). Don't see the scale go down but measurements have gone down. Being bullied most of my life has damaged my self-esteem and I know it was really poor growing up. As long as I work out and eat right, I feel good about myself though.

Overweight in childhood.
Overweight in Freshmen and Sophomore years of high school.
Perhaps TOO skinny in Junior and Senior years.
WAY overweight in college and several years after.

Actually until I went to College I was under weight, a little stick. Then I found beer and wings and the rest will go down in infamy.