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.

Yup. I definitely was. I remember when I was 7/8 years old, asking my mom if I was fat (I was a healthy weight at that point). But my mom was very sick with cancer and eventually passed away right before I turned 9.

In retrospect, it was a combination of comfort eating and the fact that my dad was a hard working single father trying to make ends meet that didn't have much time to make us meals. So my sister and I ballooned up both comfort eating and eating out of convenience.

In 7th grade, I slimmed out. Held steady through high school and then developed an eating disorder my first year of college. Went to treatment for that and eventually stabilized until I turned 24. Ballooned up due to newly sedentary ways and keeping my old cruddy eating habits. Lost most of the weight before I turned 27. I'm 28 now and in the best shape of my life. I had a blip this past winter gaining a few pounds but it fell off quickly.

TLDR; yes. I feel I will always have a struggle with my weight due to that.

I was always at a normal weight as a kid and got in really good shape after I joined the military at 17. It was when I got out 8 years later that I started packing on pounds. I got pretty sedentary and put on a lot of weight over the years. It wasn't until I turned 50 that I decided to do something about it.

I was a little chubby as a kid, curvy as a pre-teen, then through my late teens and 20s I became morbidly obese. Because I was never active, always hated the sun and loved snacking all day every day.

I was always a large child . I remained large until I learned how to use portion control and moderation.
I was large because I consumed more calories then my body needed. Plain and simple. People gain weight because they ate at a caloric surplus.