Did you get fat as a kid?

Had a bad start--I was 10lbs14oz at birth AND my mom had untreated gestational diabetes. Still, I was upper end of normal or barely overweight until high school. Then I gained, stopped eating, lost to upper end of my healthy weight, then regained. I was still overweight (not quite obese) when I graduated, but I was also extremely active and had super muscular legs (martial arts & rugby) so my body fat was a bit lower than my weight would suggest.

Then I went to college and gained 40lbs my freshman year. And then gained a bit more, got married, and yo-yoed between 240-275 lbs depending on the season and how much money we had. I was 250 when I started losing the first time. Got pregnant at 204 and ate all the things. 271 when I delivered. Down to 234 when I got pregnant again. I think I was around 260 when I delivered. Baby is 15 months and I'm about 236. I'm not having more kids so I should manage to reach goal this time!

Nope. I was super skinny. I was one of those kids who never wanted to stop moving, always running, jumping, or climbing something. Hunger was an annoyance to be quickly fixed so I could move on. I'm still like that. I just took a week off from work and spent every day moving and eating very little. It is the sedentary lifestyle my job forces upon me that encourages weight gain. I was not made to sit at a desk all day.

Nope. Was actually under weight until I had my first child. And have been over weight since then.

I wasn't even 100lbs when I graduated High School. I was a stick until my mid 20's where I finally reached a healthy weight. But unfortunately since I was use to eating anything I wanted and never gaining a lb it hurt a lot in my late 20's. Just like my mom said, it all caught up to me by 30. Heh.

Yes, my weight issues started when I was about 9. I was very thin, even underweight as a young child. After my family moved to the south, I started gaining weight. I've thought a lot about why that might have been. It's difficult to pinpoint. It was the first time we hadn't lived in housing on a military base, so I went to a school not on a military base, and we shopped at non-military grocery stores, but I don't know if that directly contributed. I was incredibly active as a kid - always riding my bike all over the neighborhood, but we didn't eat well - ice cream for dessert almost every night, big portions, not a lot of fresh fruit/veggies, lots of pre-packaged foods (Little Debbie snacks were always in the pantry). I don't ever remember being taught about nutrition growing up - not in school, not at home. I leaned out a bit in my teens after a growth spurt but packed on even more weight after moving to the northeast and becoming incredibly sedentary as a teen.

In my entire adult life, I've never been at a "normal" weight for my height. It's something I'm very much looking forward to reaching. Should I ever have children, nutritional education will definitely be a part of their upbringing - not in a shove it down their throats, my children will never be fat kind of way, but in an everyday, food is fuel kind of way.

Kids teased me in elementary school and called me fat, but when I look at my old pictures if those kids weighed 80lbs I weighed 95. Not hugely overweight, but just enough to make life hard. Junior high school I started joining organized sports, by 9th grade I was in pretty good condition, but never skinny- stayed about 130lbs. I became obsessed and developed an eating disorder. My mom was so happy to show me off because I had lost weight but it was really non- sustainable, especially when playing sports.

I did pretty good keeping my weight in check, well on the high side of the 'normal' bmi scale (135lbs). Then college hit--freshman 15, well more like 20... Actually the worst part was I used to work at K-Mart and there was a Lil Caesars (pizza place) in there. I was a broke college student and the manager had a bit of a crush on me. So even tho they are supposed to stop making pizza 30 minutes before the store closes, he'd make one every night for me about 10 minutes before cause he knew he wouldn't be able to sell it and give it to me to go home with...Needless to say, living on pizza pies for almost 3 years....

I yo-yo'd throughout my 20s, through marriage and pregnancies and moving. A lot of excuses led to me topping out around 220lbs. I tried in my 30s to get control of it. I finally have got a grasp. I'm around my college weight now (155) and plan to get back to 135lbs before I hit 40 (7months to go!)

Not fat as a kid. Had to lose 10 pounds to join the military. (Soon after they changed the standards and I would have been fine under the new ones.) Got two stupid fad crash diets from my recruiter - 1. banana diet and 2. cabbage soup diet. Lost 25-35 pounds before and during boot camp, which started 30 years of yoyoing. Wish I'd known then what I know now.

Nope. I was never skinny, but always a healthy weight. I swam, trampolined, danced, went horse riding, and was never overweight. Then I left school and started working in a call centre with odd shifts, and my oh my the weight piled on!

I think j would have been an overweight kid if I hadn't have been so active. I've always loved food and has an overeating issue since I was probably about 14 I would say, but didn't recognise it as that then.

nope I was all boney it looked gross up and into my 20's then I started gaining weight. then I was put on meds for anxiety and depression which in turn me into a bottom less pit. I was always hungry. then from bad habits I got type two diabetes. I beat it once and got off the meds. fast forward 4 years no going to gym and barley working out. I didn't follow up with the doctor. now i'm on insulin plus the meds. so not worth it. but I will fight this. i'm not giving up

Yes. No idea why but I obviously ate too much and played too little.

I don't ever remember being anything but fat. I was about 170 in grade 6, first year I wrestled in school. I got the flu in grade 9 and lost maybe 20 lbs to wrestle at 204, was 240 in Grade 13, last year I wrestled was about 20 years old at University at 282. I have stayed around 280 for the past 25 years although I am definitely higher % fat. But Like I said, I don't remember ever being anywhere close to what would be considered "normal". It has definitely colored my personality and how I interact with people. Not in a good way.