Did you get fat as a kid?

I have been fat my whole life. My mum likes reminding me that the Dr put me on a diet at 2 months of age (after mistakenly thinking I was nearly 6 months rather than 2). I've been fat ever since.

There was a period in my early 30s where I got down to being merely over weight, but I was constantly hungry and running every day - it waant really sustainable. Now I'm just trying to avoid being too overweight.

I feel like I should add that I've always been active, played football, martial arts, cross country running and hiking into my late teens, continuing with running, football and, at varying intervals, the gym as an adult. My issue has always been food (and possibly metabolism), not exercise.

Yes. At even three if I was hungry after eating an adult sized portion my mom would give me another adult sized portion to eat. If I whined or cried or did anything I was given cookies, never had to go outside, my mom was very thin and didn't have to do anything to be that way, my sister was the same. Often my mom would be asked if she starved my sister and over fed me.

I got chubby around 1st grade, I remember being teased. I just gained and gained from there. I'd say I was legitimately fat in middle school but not obese until High school. I probably graduated at about 250lbs, then gained another 50ish after that with my "freedom". Was at my heaviest at about age 22, started changes at 23.5 and had lost 100lbs by my 25th birthday. By 26 I'd regained half of that and now here we are 6 months or so into fixing that.

I was always in pretty good shape as a kid. Was a regular gym-goer from about 15 till 19 when I traded the gym for the pub...found the workouts were getting in the way of my drinking commitments

Late nights in the pub inevitably led to late night takeaways and the rest is history!

I was actually a fairly healthy/skinny kid until age 11. I took a sharp nosedive into the awkward puberty stage and rounded out. In high school I was probably just on the edge of healthy weight after growing a few inches taller but still had a chubbiness to me, and of course I hated gym class, I hated sports, and exercising. I gained a little more weight eating a lot of fast food my senior year of High School. Then the "freshman 15" in College and then even more after getting married. I never, ever, understood "Calories In VS Calories Out." until I joined MFP.
In my parent's house my Dad (a medical professional!!) has always done all the grocery shopping, and for some reason he can't get it through his head not to buy absolute crap food all the time. He'd come home with 10 boxes of snack cakes and say "They were on sale!". And if I or my Mom mentioned anything about being overweight then he'd say things like "You just need to exercise more." as if the junk food we were constantly eating had nothing to do with the fact that everyone was getting fat. When we'd point out to him that all he buys is junk food the excuse was "Well, I bought it for me. YOU don't have to eat it!" I do love the man, but honestly I'm so sick of his grocery shopping habits. I feel bad for my Mom who's been trying to lose weight for YEARS, but hates grocery shopping more than anything, so she's stuck eating the food he brings home. I hope that if I can be really successful on my journey eating healthier I can help get my parents out of their snack-cake-pop-tart-chip-soda-calorie-bomb prison!

TL;DR- I was a skinny kid but started gaining weight in puberty and slowly kept gaining until now because I didn't understand the influence of food, and my medically inclined parents still don't understand it, sadly and bafflingly.