When were you in the best shape?

So far about 9 months after having my little girl (breast feeding is a wonderful thing!) Hope to beat that in the next year or so though :happy:

Now! I have 7 children; I need to be strong to keep up with them.:happy: I weigh now about what I did in 8th or 9th grade(I struggled with weight gain after that), but I have far more muscle than I did at any other time.

I'm definitely more fit now. I weighed 20-30 pounds less in high school but I sucked at anything athletic except riding a bike (had an awesome 12 speed) and swimming. I'm pretty sure I could kick my 16 year old self's *kitten* hands down.

Now. I've been a much lower weight before, but never been this fit or toned.

two months ago.

Appearance-wise, my freshman year of college. I was 17/18, I was in dance classes 5 days a week (ballet 2 days, tap 3 days), and I went to the gym 6, sometimes 7 days a week. I would go really late at night when nobody was there and do an hour of cardio and then like a thousand sit-ups because I read somewhere that Britney Spears did a thousand sit-ups a day (at the time, this was around the time "Slave 4 U" came out and she had the sickest abs ever). I had a flat stomach, wore like a size 0-2, weighed MAYBE 115lbs, and I feel like I looked awesome. I was totally over-doing it and definitely not eating properly to support that kind of exercise, which led me to have a totally wrecked metabolism now.

Health-wise, I'd have to say I'm in the best shape of my life right now. I still have some weight to lose and some body fat to drop, but I also ran a marathon last month and am in pretty much perfect physical health so I'll take where I'm at now over where I was when I was 18. At least this time I'm going to be able to maintain my weight loss without destroying my body in the process.

Ever since I was little I played sports, but eating processed foods like 5 servings of hamburger helper never helped me out. I think generally speaking I'm in the best shape of my life now.

2 years ago when I realized I had gained 30lbs.... and I lost it all on my own. Since then I gained a few lbs back, now I have lost them and I am lighter than ever before!

Right NOW. Even as a child, I was miserably out of shape. Asthmatic. No team sports. Bad knees. I may have weighed less at every other point in my life, but I was NO where near as fit as I am now. Most people have an image of themselves they'd like to get back to. I don't. That image of me is only yet to be seen and it's starting to reveal itself!

High school, I was a dancer so I weighted 120 pounds. But now in college, I gained a little over 10 pounds because of cheerleading, so I got bigger because I'm one of the girls lifting the flyers. Now the season is over, I'm planning to get down to 120-125 pounds for summer and hope to maintain that!

Tomorrow

Twice in my life I have been at my best. First when I was a teen playing lots of sport, mainly badminton, also swimming and learning to sail on holiday in Cyprus gave me an amazing stomach. Then went to Uni and let myself go a bit.

Second time was Summer of 2008, travelling round Europe with friends, I could carry a full 60L rucksack from one end of Paris to the other and still have energy left afterwards, walking on average 5 hours daily and eating lots of fresh food, (mainly due to being poor students!) I was a UK size 8 when I got home, but gradually piled on relationship weight over the next 3 years, my boyfriend was very overweight so being around his lifestyle didn't help. Being single again has probably done more for my heath than I could have imagined, got more motivation and aiming to get my 2008 body back!

I was never truly happy with my body to begin with but id have to say 21. I must have gone dancing about 4 times a week and would not leave the dance floor. Then I had three kids. It is a lot harder to stay fit now then it was at that age.

When I was about 16. I weighed around 125-130 and worked in the produce department of a grocery store. Spent all my time there lifting 40+ pound boxes of produce. And, let me tell you, I could hoist those things over my head to stack them like nothing. I also had a really chauvinistic gym teacher at the time that said "the weight room is for boys only, girls can run or do crunches". No lie. And I am not, and was not, a runner. So I would spend a solid hour three times a week doing crunches.

Oh yeah, I was pretty ripped for a girl. Had the muscle lines on my stomach and everything. *sigh*