Did you always have a weight problem or no?

Nope, always ate whatever I wanted and it just burned off. Then I hit about 36, got really sick and lost way too much weight (intestinal issue), and gained it back quickly, had another bout two yrs later and gained it back again too quickly and now at
40, have a belly and for the first time in my life am considered overweight according to BMI charts. Very hard to accept but am
figuring either my metabolism got ruined forever from the rapid loss/gain or old age is setting in :mad:

nope, i was always in pretty good shape until about 21, then i began having serious relationships and the time that i normally spent in the gym, was spent on dates and all that stuff. my eating habits have always been terrible so that combined with less and less activity caused my high metabolism to slow down and i gained about 10 lbs a year, over the years it caught up with me

I never had a weight problem until I got depressed and began trying to eat my problems away. That was only a couple years ago and I gained SO much

I wasn't ever really fat but even when I played soccer and ran track and whatever age I was. . I always hated my belly. I wasn't fat but never really had a waist. All my fat went to my belly or core area and I didn't like my shape. I didn't know how to lose weight except for running, but that never changed me enough.

Doing low carb/low sugar PLUS learning how to work out with weights, cables, machines, etc. . THAT changed things for the better. I wish someone taught me that stuff in high school. I learned around age 28.

Nope. I was always thin. When I got married the first time I was about 130 and Im 5 ft. 3.5in. About 2.5 years into my marriage I got pretty unhappy. I was 21 and going to the bars and drinking and eating everything. I got up to 181 by the end of our 5 year marriage. I lost 40 lbs in a month drinking diet pepsi, exercising 2 to 4 hours a day, and smoking. My husband had cheated on me and the marriage was over. I couldn't make myself eat and was really depressed. The working out thing was only an avoidance of our home. I met my current husband in that stage and after a few months of dating and finding I could be happy again, I went up to 150 until I had our son about 2 years after we met. That got me up to 200 lb. Then I lost 20 lbs the right way and was 160 lb, but a size 8 when he finally talked me into getting married. I stayed at 160 until I had my daughter and got back up to 201. She is almost 3 and I have bounced back and forth between 190 and 200. In January, a patient at my office asked me when I was due. I decided to make a change right then and there, lol. Since the end of January I went from just about 200 down to 182 currently. I'd take 160 again, but would love to see if i can get to 140 again just for fun. I don't want to be thin-thin. I love my shapely curves, but I do want to be tight and fit again. I will get there. It will just take a little while.

I was always TEASED about being chubby but the fact of the matter is that I was in the 20th percentile for growth until I was 8 or 9 and then was healthy weight until I hit puberty. Once I started my period and puberty started I gained 100lbs in 1 year... I've hovered right around the weight ever since. It's not been until now that I am figuring out that my weight issues are hormone related. So no I wasn't always fat and now I'm starting to understand that it really wasn't anything I was doing "wrong" just didn't have all the facts.

I was always thin - around 135 @ 5"7 until my late 20's (I am 37 now). Gained and lost my baby weight no trouble (2x) but a few years ago, I got hit by a car while riding my bike (the only time I ever used a bike lane in my life, and some idiot decides to run a red light). I was on crutches for 3 months, and had a lot of trouble rehabilitating the ankle - and from there, just ballooned since I was used to not really watching what I ate / drank ... being relatively immobile killed my metabolism =(

Then one day, I woke up and got on the scale and realized I was 252lbs - I have been working to lose it since Jan 2010. I vow to get back to my old self someday (or at least considering age and activity level, a healthy bmi range!)

I was skinny till I got married. Now that I'm getting divorced I'm losing weight again.

everytime i went to the doctors i was told to lose weight -even when i was in the normal weight BMI category. I used to think i was fat, now i want to be that size! lol!

Same with me, even as a child when I was borderline BMI, I was always very small... looking back its weird to me that even when it comes to a child, they don't ever consider body composition and just label you as "overweight"

No, I didn't. I'm grew up in the 60's and 70's when most kids and teenagers were thin. I could name the overweight kids in my school because they were so few that everyone knew them. I gained weight slowly over the years as an adult. I'd yo-yo between overweight and a good size, but it seemed with each yo-yo the upper end got a little bit more "upper". So, I'm not dieting anymore. I'm eating healthy and exercising because I don't want to be one of those old people that has to pop a handful of pills just to keep my BP, glucose and lipids in line. I don't worry about calories nearly as much has I do saturated fat, cholesterol and nutrients. And it seems to be working just fine so far.