How many here have "never been thin"

Sure

Even when I reach my target weight BMI will be 25 as it was when I was 18.
Carried a lot of excess pounds well because of my height and then boom I was the size of a house and BMI of 45+

But before I started MFP I believed in concept of never.

"It is you who control calorie intake and calories burned and nobody else" (Albert Einstein)

"I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares to contradict him." (Studs Terkel)

Good luck

For the majority of my life I've been heavy. I started gaining weight when I was 12 and haven't been thin since that point. Before that I was a stick of a child but then I overate from depression and it all went to hell. My whole family on my mom's side is overweight for the most part and I'm tired of hearing that "it's just genetics", no I may never be a size 0, and I don't want to be, but there's no reason I can't be a healthy weight!

I was "thin" for about 10 min when I was 18 and starved myself for 3 weeks. Nothing but chicken bullion and cucumbers. The second i put regular food in my mouth, BAM back to a size 14US. I held on to that size 14 til I had a kid. I am a stone throw from that 14 again. Swimming swimming, just keep swimming.

Me. I was 9 lbs. at birth back in the day when women didn't have 9 lb. baby girls! Thanks, Mom. I have always been what they used to call plump or chubby. Never thin. Good, hearty German stock. When I was in grade school and really all through high school I was one of the very, very few chunky girls. It's really startling when you compare it to today where so many teens are overweight. And, of course, now I would kill to be as chunky as I was at 16. I was a size 7 or 9 for pete's sake! Nowadays that would be considered great. My how times have changed. We as a societey need to figure out what we're doing to our food system because I really believe it's a worldwide problem.

Me! I was overweight in grade school and high school... and obese through my twenties and thirties. But I gotta say, now that I've lost weight.... I'm lovin' my 40's! :laugh:

The only time I was "skinny" I still weighed 190lbs, and that was for about four months during the end of bootcamp and a little bit after.

*Raises hand*

I see some photos of myself in my early teens and I wonder how I could have hated myself so much. My peers would still call me fat even though I was of a normal weight, so I ate like I was fat. And here I am. Kinda wish I could go back and grow a backbone before a gigantic stomach.

Yep.

My whole family believes that feeding children is a sign of love. I was very loved, and am now paying for it.

i have never been thin so i am excited to see what i would look like if i were. that motivates me to FINALLY do it!

Always been the big guy 6'4 size 18 shoe since high school wearing size 15 in middle school...

Yep.

My whole family believes that feeding children is a sign of love. I was very loved, and am now paying for it.

Totally relate to this ^^^

I never have, I think I started packing it on in grade 6, so before that never even though of my weight, I WILL find out what its like to be thinner

Same here never been ideal weight. But in hindsight, back in the late 1960 and early 1970's when I was 8-12 yr old if you were tall, and your weight was not what was considered 'idea' for a female then you were overweight. In looking back at photos of myself at 12-16 I was a bit overweight but never really too bad. At 13 I recall being appro 5'8" and around 145-150 lbs, and this was considered back in the day to be quite overweight. So glad things have moved forward in that regard!! I recall at 16-17yrs being around 175 approx, but with very large bust at the time, and around 5'9" by then. I think I looked fine, but was considered quite large. Let's just say from then I must have been out to prove them right as my weight only went up from then on. At my top I was 380 but it took 47 yrs to get there, and I would say that I was over 300 for about 8 yrs prior to that I was under 300, altho I guess that is not saying much. Today I am 180 ish.. keep moving up and down a few lbs 180, 183 and back, and I am trying for 168-170 approx. Just being under 200 lbs awesome, and to buy a size 12!! in a regular store has been great. At this point however I think I look normal weight, I have a large frame, size 11.5 foot, etc.. but I know that once I am in maintenance I will likely gain some weight has my body begins to find a set point, so I wanted to try for 168 and then hopefully set around 172-175 on average. So time will tell. I am down 12% BF, but still right at 31% so I am still hoping to get that down closer to 25%.

Good luck to everyone on their journey.

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.

I really can relate to the school weight part & weighing in :sad: Our family Doctor had my whole family on amphetamines When I was in 2nd grade. :mad:

Nope, never been thin. I reached 5'7" and 168lbs by the time I was 11 years old, and was 6'1" and in the 180's when I was 15. That was probably my thinnest at my adult height and looking back I did look slim for my height but as all my female friends were under 5 foot 4 and about 100 pounds at that age I felt ENORMOUS next to them!!! Been called 'sturdy', 'big boned', 'large framed', 'cuddly', 'curvy', 'amazonian', or just plain big & fat.

I have yo-yoed up and down in weight during my teens and 20's but nowhere close to what is considered 'thin'- I did get within 10 pounds of a healthy BMI at the age of 26- briefly......