Were You A Fat Child?

Heck no!! I was extremely skinny and didn't gain weight til high school when I got put on birth control pills. Damn birth control pills, I curse you. Haha

I was skinny until my tonsils were removed at age 5. Since then it has been 53 years of fighting the battle of the bulge.

I was fat since I was about 5. Scarred for life.

Not so much, i was an active kid (if i was born 5 years later i would have been medicated).

I became chubby around the age of 9. ( Got into a car accident which limited the amount I could go out and play) Things happen though and it could have turned out worse! I am glad that I have this chance to change my life

Fat, Fat, Fat, hell I was born over 11 pounds...always fat, I lost some when i was 18 but gained it back quickly and just got fatter and fatter. After my divorce the fat was still piled on daily...this is the best shape I have been in my life and I fear everyday it will go back to being the larger person that I always have been, sometimes I feel like I am hanging on for dear life. To me it is a struggle everyday and inside I still have a fat persons thoughts and images, I don't know any other way cause that is just who I am and always have been.

No, quite the opposite. I was a bookworm extraordinaire - spent all the time I could quietly reading somewhere. I got in trouble for it in fact. Took apart my Battleship game to use the light in it to read under the covers after bedtime, used a hand mirror to direct a sliver of light from around my bedroom door onto the page so I could read after bedtime...reading was my life. Ridiculously sedentary, also underweight despite eating everything that wasn't nailed down.
After puberty hit my weight slowly rose to normal by age 15. After that became overweight and have lost 100 pounds or more several times.

I was the skinny rail, unhealthy and uncoordinated. My family tried to fatten me up by feeding me sugar. I was a very picky eater and when I look at my high school pictures I would have thought I was anorexic. But it was more that food didn't interest me. My diet was sugar laced cereal with milk in the morning (no wonder I was so tired at school and unable to concentrate), lunch was usually a peanut butter sandwich or "lunch meat" on white bread with a twinkie and dinner I would pick at but eat the dessert. When I could I bought lots of candy - didn't much like fats including chips and chocolate bars until much later in life. So from early on I was "bad carb" addicted. Then as I got older I discovered all the other bad processed foods. Plus I loved to bake - breads and sweets - so it didn't take long to develop a weight problem. And of course once you get on that rollercoaster with take out foods included you start to lose perspective about portion size.

I cannot remember anytime before now when I actually ate "clean" foods. And smaller portions are still new. But luckily the new way of eating my husband and I have adopted has me cooking from scratch healthy meals and we've lost the cravings for the "bad carb" processed foods.

So I don't think that just the "fat kids" have a challenge as they get older, some of us skinny runts turned obese blobs :blushing: can too. But reversing the problem is possible as many success stories on MFP demonstrate and we are on our way to be one of those.

Basically, yes. I've been overweight/obese almost my entire life. As a kid it didn't really impact me much because I'd get a belly over the winter and then be 'normal' by the end of the summer from all the running around, playing, and sports I did during the summer break.

By the time I was in 9th grade, I stopped losing the weight in the summer. I lost a solid 15 pounds in 12th grade after joining the swim team, but even that loss still had me rather large. I weight less today than I did at my lowest weight in high school - and I still have 30 pounds to go.

I wasn't fat as a child or a teenager or university student, and I lost the baby weight with my first two children. But than after the twins I just couldn't lose the weight and gained more.

No, I was a skinny kid. I was even a little underweight as a teenager. Unbelievably, I thought I was fat. It wasn't until I was around 30 years old that I started to gain weight. Then when I quit smoking I really packed on some pounds. Now I'm obese. People who knew me then probably wouldn't recognize me now.

I was slightly chunky when I was little, but I really started to gain weight when I was around 11 years old.
I remember being 12 years old and hardly being able to fit in a ladies size 12. By the time I was a sophomore in High School, I wore 18/20 and averaged 240 lbs. It was so upsetting and confusing. I was teased unmercifully and I really wanted to do something about it, but I didn't know how to change things.
I didn't eat the greatest (you know...being a teenager and all), but I ate better than many of the skinnier kids.

As an adult, the lowest I have weighed is 165. I weigh 166 today.
Maybe that doesn't seem like much to most people, but to me, it is an amazing achievement that I honestly never thought would be possible back when I was that sad broody little chubby girl in High School.
And whenever someone makes comments about my weight now, I tell them that they don't know my story and need to walk a mile in my well worn shoes before they even think about saying another word.

No I didnt gain weight till around 13-14.

I was the fat kid and short. They called me an Umpa Lumpa.

Yes. I had a weight problem as long as I could remember.