Poll: Have you always been overweight?
Julie_Donahue
Posts: 394 Member
When did you become overweight?
1. Always (from childhood)
2. Puberty/teens
3 20's
4. 30's
5. 40's or later
1. Always (from childhood)
2. Puberty/teens
3 20's
4. 30's
5. 40's or later
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For me, I would have to say puberty/teens leading to 20s.
I was always a little bigger than others my age, but not by much. I thought I was HUGE in high school, but I was under 150.
By the time I was in my early 20s, I had settled at about 250.0 -
I was heavy as a kid, but it wasn't until I hit puberty that the weight really started coming on.0
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I've been overweight since I was 9 years old. I started gaining weight as I started to spend more time inside the house instead of outside...the same can be said for today.0
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I yoyo'ed. I was skinny as a tot then gained as a preteen then skinny as a teen then gained into my 20s.0
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Pretty much since early gradeschool years0
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5'11' as a teen, I was between 125-145. Not until my first child at age 20 did I start gaining weight. Began when I was pregnant with her.0
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I have been bigger since grade school0
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I'd say since 3rd or 4th grade. It's not like I kept track of my weight in elementary school, but based on pics that is around the age when I started being overweight.0
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My mum has a portrait taken when I was 2. I have 3 chins. In 11th grade I had to have my uniform custom made. I would say that right now is the lightest I have been since probably my late teens.0
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3. In my 20's. I'd always been a bit curvy in my teens & early 20's, but then for some (unknown) reason I just piled on the weight in my mid-20's, and haven't been able to shift it since (until this year, I vow)0
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I was a little heavier as a teenager, but really stacked the weight on when I became pregnant with my first child in my 20s. I've never been able to lose that weight and since then it has just kept creeping higher and higher.0
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I was from about 3rd grade until 10th when I met a boy and didn't care about food anymore. Then I started gaining it all back after I got married. It really wasn't until we had our first child did it really start coming on. she had severe disabilities so i stopped working to care for her. add all that stress, alone at home all day and all the greasy hospital food and well you have lots of extra weight. Food quickly became my go to for comfort or boredom. I've been overweight all of my adult life.
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In high school I was around a size 16 to 18 and was happy with myself....It wasn't till I had my kids that my weight took off to the unknown.....and that was 20 yrs ago.....0
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I have always been a bigger girl. I was teased endlessly in elementary school for it, although looking back at pics, I wasn't as big as I felt. I was a size 22/24 when I graduated High School. The weight just kept creeping up and hit an all time high after my divorce and before surgery. I am still struggling though and very discouraged right now.0
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I was chunky as a young kid - lost weight when I reached High School. Graduated at 130. Gained weight when pregnant and I have yoyo'd every since then. But I truly feel in control now. I've got this! 60 down and 40 to go.0
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I was always 130/140 until after I had my son @ 17.. then I started gaining all the way up to 233 3 years later.0
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After having my first child at 25, I weighed 128 and was a size 8. (I thought I was so fat! crazy!)
At 26 child 2 put me at 168, At 27 child 3 put me at 170 and at 29 child 4 put me at 190. Then I've been up and down since then. Now my doc tells me I should forget about losing weight now as I'm perimenopausal. LOL Whatever! I'll show her!0 -
Puberty, but that coincided with some other things that were going on in my life; I subconsciously ate with the intention of gaining weight to make myself less attractive. At least that what years of counseling has established. The habits settled in and I became comfortable with my weight - more or less. I had a setback after losing a significant amount of weight (won't get into the details, it's all dealing with the crap from my past). I dealt with much of the past issues and did well in getting to a "normal" size, but then the menopause hit along with a handful of nifty ailments, some undiagnosed depression and wham, bam, thank you ma'am; the weight came along for the ride.0
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Prepuberty for me. i started gaining weight when i was 10. I played sport 3 days a week and ate healthy.. 6 years later they figured out was my htyroid but by then it was too late i was already obese.0
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i started to become overweight when i was going into 9th grade. i was a healthy my 2nd year of college. from 2002 through 2006. nearly 4 years i maintained a healthy weight around 165 pounds. 2007 through 2010 i gained all the weight i lost, plus some.0
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I was always on the heavy side. But after I got married had kids I've been way over weight0
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I always felt chubby as a child because my of comments from my well-intentioned aunt and grandmother. Looking back I was a size 10 at the time and should have felt good in my own skin. I got pretty thin in college and didn't start really gaining until I graduated and was on my own. I gained most of my weight (along with my hubby) when we were first married living on our own and making some really bad food choices. I gained weight with both of my pregnancies on top of that.0
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As a grade schooler I was always taller than the other kids and a little bigger, but not unhealthy heavy. I was in sports from 5th grade on. I played sports in high school and would have been considered fit at that point, but was never the fastest in sprints but I was there doing it. In college I put some on, but was about 165- 170 at 5'9". I maintained well into the first three years of my first marriage. Then everything went to crap in my marriage, and a good bit of my weight came in the next two years.
In 2001 I lost 95 pounds on my own, ok with the help of a very good friend, who was at the time my boyfriend. Then... that relationship didn't happen, we were together for many years, but it wasn't the relationship I wanted.... Add more weight. Then started dating someone else, for about 6 months, he was very overweight and I thought he accepted me as me and I packed weight on when we were dating, then we broke up in a very sucky way, and more weight came on. Then I met my current husband. I have been at basically the same weight give or take 35 pounds since we met. He loves me just the way I am. But he also knows I am not happy where I am. He supports me in everything I do.
The past year I have been trying to refocus my life on me. My mom passed away a year ago in January. The two years before moms passing I spent every weekend I could 2.5 hours away from my husband and home with my mom. Mom had alzheimers and dad cared for mom in the home till the very end.
Now it is about me, losing the weight. And hopefully starting a family!!0 -
I've always been chubby, looking at baby pics recently I really noticed it.0
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I can't remember a time I wasn't a little overweight, even as a child. I was really active in grade school and junior high; but I was still always the heaviest in my class. In HS, I played on the golf team so we walked a lot everyday, but I guess my eating habits messed up all of the activity; I used to snack all evening and our whole family drank a lot of pop too. Then of course, when I went away to college, I was free to eat anything I wanted any time day or night. I probably gained around 30-50 pounds during college. But I gained the last 100 pounds after I was married, it's happened gradually over the last 17 years. Laziness and fried food are what finally caught up with me!
Occasionally over the last 10 years, I lost around 30-40 pounds on my own, several times as a matter of fact. But I seem to hit that point and go right back to my old ways. Then I gain it all back, and usually with a few more! Except for this last time....I lost 41 pounds, slacked off, gained back 25, and then caught myself before I could undo all of the good I had done and now I'm starting over again. Hopefully this time I will get it all off and be able to keep it off!!0 -
I wasn't overweight until adulthood. When I'd grab fast food to & from work and never do anything active. Then, pregnancy, marriage and health issues have all contributed to what was already a problem and here I am today.
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I became overweight 2 years ago when we found out I had thyroid ca. After they killed the thyriod I started putting on the pounds & it has been a struggle to get the weight back off.0
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Heavy since age 4, judging by pictures. Lost some in high school, gained in college (frat parties, pizza, etc.). Lost weight in nursing school (not eating, hours on the elliptical studying). Lost again about 3 years ago (first time below 190 since middle school) doing South Beach, bulimia, and 3-a-day gym workouts.
This time, I have changed my entire way of thinking. Easy, everything in moderation. Not an all-or-nothing mentality. Fall off, get back up and keep going....0 -
I was normal weight until adulthood. By the time I was 23-24, I was 170 pounds. I gradually continued to put on pounds until now (46) I topped out at nearly 280 pounds. The last 25 pounds came in the last year and a half.0
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I was maybe a little over as a child and teen but not by much. I have gradually gained weight since getting married in 1994 and then this accelerated after breaking my ankle in 2008 i was around 220 at that time and started here 80lb up over the last 4 years. i realised that being so unfit was stopping me doing the things I want to in life and at 41 that is sad so I am turning my life around.0
