How many here have "never been thin"

heymirth
heymirth Posts: 448
in Health and Weight Loss
As far back as I can remember I have been the "big guy" or have never been thin. I just want to experience it. I don't want to buy into that anymore or what your family says, things like "" you just have "our build" or genetics""

It sux to alway believe that
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  • tracymat
    tracymat Posts: 296 Member
    Me. And I agree!!!!
  • RosscoBoscko
    RosscoBoscko Posts: 632 Member
    That'd be me.
  • jesslintch
    jesslintch Posts: 63 Member
    Me! And I can't wait to see what it is like.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    You are what you think of yourself
  • kathykatkitty
    kathykatkitty Posts: 61 Member
    I started gaing weight in the 6th grade. I am now 43 years old. I have been overweight for more than 3/4's of my life and I hate it. I hate the way I look, the way I feel and the pain and stress it puts on my body. I will do this. I will be thin and healthy no matter what.
  • allifantastical
    allifantastical Posts: 946 Member
    I've always been the biggest one in my group of friends. In high school I used to think I was huge but now looking back on pictures, I would kill to be that size again! (And I was like a size 14/16)
  • newcs
    newcs Posts: 717 Member
    I was never particularly fat or big (but I'm also 5'2" with a pretty tiny frame) but I was definitely overweight and I've never been thin before this other than due to illness and even then I was skinny-fat. Over about a year and a half, I lost 25 pounds and many many inches. Now I've been thin for a couple months and really wish I'd made this effort a few years ago. I also have muscle tone and decent strength for the first time EVER and (hopefully) will never have to ask someone to lift something like an air conditioner again.
  • PrinnyBomb
    PrinnyBomb Posts: 196 Member
    Never been thin :blushing: . I was a big baby (10lb plus), a chubby child, an overweight teenager and obese adult. I can't imagine how good it will feel when I'm finally slim :happy:
  • Jeray421
    Jeray421 Posts: 9 Member
    ive definately been in better shape but never been what would considered thin...i am quite larger now than i used to be....i gained alot of weight when i had my daughter. And i agree....for once i would love to know what its like to be the "thin friend" in the group.
  • skinnybitchbarbie27
    skinnybitchbarbie27 Posts: 306 Member
    I have never been "thin", however, the more I lose and lift the more I realize I never want to be thin. I want to be a healthy size and weight but also be able to beat *kitten* if I need to. Seeing my muscle tone is amazing.
  • kschr201
    kschr201 Posts: 208 Member
    yup. Weighed more when I was 12 than I do now.
  • sally414
    sally414 Posts: 51
    I've never been a "skinny" person. Even as a child, I was always a bit taller and heavier than the rest of the kids although not overweight - is big boned even a real thing lol? Because I would say I was that.

    I was pretty slim several years ago but still had curves and athletic legs. I'd love to get back to that shape!
  • OptimisticlyOptimistic
    OptimisticlyOptimistic Posts: 162 Member
    I've nver been thin either. It's so hard to undo a lifetime of bad habits, but hey, I'm here, and I WILL do it. So will you!!
  • fightininggirl
    fightininggirl Posts: 792 Member
    me! I was miss solid packed muscle athelete and broad shoulders since I was born
  • watcheronthewall
    watcheronthewall Posts: 104
    I've never really been thin for any great length of time. My weight has always been up and down so the longest I've spent slim is a few months.

    I completely understand.
  • Tanja_CHH
    Tanja_CHH Posts: 216 Member
    Ive never been thin. I remember going to the school nurse for check ups on height and weight in primary school and being overweight, by a lot. I remember the exact number was 56 kilos, at the age of around 10 - It was insane. I was sent to fat camp and lost some, but not much and only gained it all again. Now where Im the right age to take control of my own live and what I put in my body I will become thin and healthy and prove to people that I have the willpower, I was not meant to just be that fat, ugly child forever, I can become strong and beautiful.
  • JessRosko
    JessRosko Posts: 6 Member
    Totally me...but that is going to change. My current goal is to be in a bikini by summer for the first time in my life, and you know what, it is going to happen. Then after that I am working on 6-pk abs...or at least 4-pk :)
  • debs6
    debs6 Posts: 232 Member
    I had never been thin - and am not really thin now- but well within the acceptable zone for my height and build.Thankfully, thanks to MFP, I am now where I need to be and maintaining now since May of last year.
    You can do it! It is achievable- just stick with the plan and I'd you fall off the horse at all, just dust yourself off and get back on again.
  • denezy
    denezy Posts: 573 Member
    I never have, even in high school I was a size 10/12.

    My ex boyfriend just told me this past weekend that i''ll "never be skinny".

    Aiming for a size 8, just to see what it feels like. Like a weird science experiment for my body.
  • Rozieq84
    Rozieq84 Posts: 38
    YUP! I am currently thinner than I have ever been as an adult (including High School & College). I still have a little more to go, or at least body shaping to accomplish. If the scale never dips lower I'll live, but I know I can continue to tone up.
  • ericahassinistermotives
    ericahassinistermotives Posts: 92
    I've been a chubster for forever.
    There's a certain fear that goes with never having been thin before that you're bound to fail and plateau at something heavier than what you want to be.

    Kinda makes an adventure out of it, right?
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    Yep. Once I hit puberty (and my PCOS kicked in), I started gaining. I was never "thin" before that, but just a tiny bit overweight.
  • jonesin_am
    jonesin_am Posts: 404 Member
    Me...always been overweight and have never experienced how it feels to be a "normal" size. But with hard work and determination I truly believe that this will be my year to experience how it feels to walk into any store and pick out an outfit that I want to wear...not just an outfit that fits. I started my journey in April 2012 and already feel 100 times better! We will get there for the first time in our lives and it will feel AMAZING!
  • rubyautumn4
    rubyautumn4 Posts: 818 Member
    When I look back at pictures of my childhood I am thin until the age of about eight - until I was eight I lived with my grandparents who cooked fresh meals from whole foods and I ate a balanced diet of veggies, fruit, meat, and grains. Then I start to get chubby from the age of eight to eighteen when I lived with my mother who only purchased and "cooked" convenience foods such as frozen TV dinners and Chef Boyardee canned crap when she wasn’t picking up huge buckets of fried chicken from KFC or the drive through at McD’s. Once I went to university and had more control over what I was eating and had access to a gym I was definitely in better shape – ate more fruits, veggies and worked out…but also drank a lot of beer! I was down to a size eight though so I would say that was on the tinner side?
    The last few years with working crazy hours and having a lot of client meetings/dinners out I gained 20 pounds. So while I can’t say I’ve been thin in anything resembling recent memory I think I can work towards being healthier and hopefully a thinner, but more muscular, body will be the result of my efforts!
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    yup. Weighed more when I was 12 than I do now.

    Not sure if it was 12, but close. Right around then I had to start shopping in the same plus sized store as my mom. She always seemed really disappointed in me, but looking back I think it's more that she didn't want me to have to go through the same thing.
  • Erica_theRedhead
    Erica_theRedhead Posts: 724 Member
    Same here, and it sucked. Came out as a 12 pound baby, doomed from the start. I weigh less now than I did in middle school, and don't necessarily want to be thin, but my goal is to be fit. I've found out though that having the body won't make you happy, you have to be happy with yourself first, then work towards your goal. Stay positive and keep going :)
  • warriorprincessdi
    warriorprincessdi Posts: 617 Member
    Me! I have never been a fit person; and I am determined to change that!
  • BobbyDaniel
    BobbyDaniel Posts: 1,459 Member
    Right here! Even after losing all my weight I still have remnants of pudge around the midsection...which means there has been no sign of a 6-pack as of yet!
  • sophjakesmom
    sophjakesmom Posts: 904 Member
    I have never felt thin. But I look back on my weight from 20 years ago and I was definitely at a healthy number. High end of the healthy number, but still healthy. Amazing that we always feel big, regardless of what the number is.

    My goal is to hit the number I was at when I was 26, before I had my first child. :smile:
  • aadutton
    aadutton Posts: 87
    me. MAYBE in my kindergarten picture i was "normal" size, but all downhill (or uphill?) from there. i went bungee jumping as a junior high-schooler and they have to weigh you, i recall weighing in at like 178...and that's honestly the last time i remember the 100's. and of course, that was extremely overweight for a 7th or 8th grader. plan on changing that!

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