Have you always been overweight?

Up and down for me! Just like life!

Pretty much a UK size 8-10 for much of my adult life, averaging between 115-125lbs; aside from when I contracted Malaria and dropped to less than 80lbs.

Piled on 50lbs when I feel in love with someone that makes me very happy and now am looking to lose it!

I have never been thin, I have been thinner but never fit. I have had moments where I could squeeze into a size 12 but that is the smallest I ever was (also with in my bmi). I have been active in my life, boxing, fencing, various sports but never super thin. I think it's harder for people who have never been active or had any kind of sports behind them. I think our bodies remember how to be strong from doing exercising and sports so it's easier to get back into it.

I have been since elementary school - I wouldn't say I was very overweight in elementary, but I was definitely the most overweight out of all my peers. Sports kept me relatively stable in terms of weight. I gained more weight in junior high and highschool, remained that way through college, and then gained more when I started working full time. That last weight gain was finally enough to affect my health.

i was a stick but i wasn't athlete. when i quiet drinking the first time replaced the motion of instead of booze with food. it at really badly for several years put on meds for anxiety and depreshion got type two diabeties and start this roller coaster journey 2011. i went from size 28 waist all the way to a 40 sad really

I'm still fairly young, but my weight's only stopped fluctuating like crazy within the past year or so. I've gone as high as 120 lb, and as low as 95 lb, so the fact that I've figured out how to exercise, eat, and like my body the past year has been a personal triumph for me. In terms of being overweight... depends on where? Not in the U.S., but in China, I've had relatives call me out for being fat (when I was 120).

That'd be me! I was always the fat kid in every social setting, and naturally I carried those bad habits into adulthood. A month before my 21st birthday in 2011 I decided I finally needed to take care of this problem. I hit my goal in December of 2012, losing 200lbs going from 370->170. I'm at 186 now since then after intentionally adding weight and now I'm cutting back down. That's my goal from here on, add muscle then cut fat.

It can be done, however it really does require a complete mindset and lifestyle change to accomplish.

yes, always overweight. it's very hard, but you can do it though. it's a mindset thing, always the biggest hurdle to get over

No matter why you are overweight, losing weight involves a change of lifestyle.

I've been in the overweight category (BMI25-29) since my late teens (nearly 20 years bouncing around in a 20-pound range), but very sporty until my mid-twenties. I recently started a lot of physical activity and MFP, and like magic the weight is dropping. I've lost a snacking habit and gained an exercising habit.

Sure, it was probably easier for me to start exercising than for someone who was never into sport, but I still had to find that hour a day, and find the mindset of figuring out which foods are good and bad, which treats are just not worth it and which ones I'll do an extra workout for. I love MFP because I have an analytical mind, and my compulsive logging and analysis of the logs and results has given me a very good idea of how my diet should be in the future.

Most important, though, is to stick to those good habits. I haven't started exercising to lose weight, I did it as the start of my new healthier lifestyle. THAT's what will keep the weight off. You can do it, too!

I had always been overweight, but ended up becoming obese. Not at my goal weight yet, though I am now at a healthy weight with a BMI of 22.1

Boy!!! do I relate to u I am the same and I have been over weight by the time I was five. But I am going to lose this weight.