Did you get fat as a kid?

Nope. Never overweight until my mid-20s.

I wasn't ever a skinny kid, but not really fat either. I was always tall for my age, and pretty athletic, but I didn't really start to put on enough weight to be fat until my late teens and early twenties.

It started after I had a seizure due to an ear infection in kindergarten. According to my siblings, my parents became very paranoid after that and didn't let me run around and play.

Even if that didn't happen, it would have happened later on. The family diet was never great, there used to be pictures of me with a bottle full of soda. Even now, me, my brother, and my dad are the only ones in the immediate family that aren't at least overweight. I never noticed any weight problems in my brother, I lost weight in my twenties, and the only reason my dad lost anything is because of an illness.

No. I was never skinny but I was fit. I used to maintain my weight easily with sporadic work outs and eating whatever I wanted. I developed thyroid issues and got pregnant with my son around the same time and ended up gaining almost 90lb in 7 months.

Did you get fat as a kid?

Nope. Not at all. Not even close. I was a skinny kid ... all legs.



I edged out of my normal BMI range, into the overweight range, for the first time when I was in my early 20s, for probably about 6 months ... major surgery, recovery, and then a move to another province ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Stepped on the scale, realised I was overweight, and promptly set about losing it.

I edged out my normal BMI range again in my early 40s, for somewhere around a year ... DVT that hospitalised me for 2 weeks, recovery, and a move to a different country ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Wanted to do a cycling climbing challenge (7 Peaks Challenge), knew I needed to lose some weight for that ... and did.

And most recently, in my late 40s, I stepped out of my normal BMI range and hit my highest weight ever in January 2015 ... two surgeries, recovery, travel, move to a different state ... not paying attention to what I was eating and not getting enough exercise. Stepped on the scale in January 2015, after the second surgery and couldn't believe my eyes. So I joined MFP in February 2015, and lost the weight. I'm back down to the bottom end of my normal BMI range again.


(EDIT: My mother was a nurse, so she had some education regarding nutrition and kept us on a fairly strict diet. Not restrictive -- we got enough to eat -- but set meal times, a protein (eggs, meat, cheese) and veggies at lunch and dinner, fruit for evening snack, 1 cookie and a glass of milk after school, deserts only on weekends, and things like that.)

Yep. Was overweight in kindergarten. I was a premie born 2 months early and have been on steroids since day 1. My parents worked 2 jobs each and we mainly ate convenience food. I'm loosing weight slowly now and learning what works for me

I was fed crap as soon as I popped out of the womb, so I've been overweight since childhood (imagine those tubby toddlers you see on Maury). Those habits are hard to kick when it's the only lifestyle you've ever known!

Yep, my family ate out everyday and I never learned good eating habits. I ate a lot because they let me and sometimes out of boredom although I didn't know it at the time. When I was a teenager, I got in better shape and somewhat different eating habits. By my mid-20s is when I started to slowly introduce more vegetables and more healthier food options in daily eating.