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What age did you start struggling with weight?

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  • hmltwin
    hmltwin Posts: 116 Member
    I never had any problems with my weight until I was about twenty-five years old and got a desk job. Before that, I'd always been active enough to keep up with all I was eating. After that, I started gaining weight.
  • HardyGirl4Ever
    HardyGirl4Ever Posts: 1,017 Member
    I was 10 when my best friend called my fat and I've been dieting ever since.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Pretty simple for me. Close to 30 for me. I think like most, after getting married and having kids pounds slowly creep'd on while I was doing the Dad and husband thing. No real time for the sports and exercise I enjoyed, and just eating along without much thought. Fast forward 10 years and 30+ pounds stacked on.

  • benjaminhk
    benjaminhk Posts: 353 Member
    22. That's when I stopped being able to eat whatever I wanted without gaining a pound. By then, I was so used to trying to gain weight and failing that I couldn't slow down my eating. It was all habitual. I turned into a whale and it wasn't awesome.
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    Early 30s. I had always been slim and able to eat whatever I wanted without gaining weight. Then, all of a sudden, I couldn't...
  • coachsaralee
    coachsaralee Posts: 29 Member
    I was overweight in junior high but was ok by high school. Then yoyo'd up and down over the years but not too bad until menopause. By 59 I was 48.9% body fat and had resigned myself to being there.... thought it was just getting old. I am now in the BEST shape of my life at 64. It's never too late to figure it out and turn things around.
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    I would say once I hit puberty and got my cycle, so middle school.
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited August 2016
    Just realized I didn't clearly state ages. I was 24 when I started gaining weight from a skinny for my 5'7" 123 lbs (or less, one year) I had been from 12-13 on. I was 27 the first time in my life I ever felt "fat" at 150 lbs but was still within normal BMI range. I reached the clinically overweight cusp of 160 lbs at 28 and again at 32. I reached clinically obese cusp of 200 lbs at 39.
  • JenSD6
    JenSD6 Posts: 454 Member
    I started gaining weight in my early 20's when I left home the first time. I grew up out in the country with little money, a big garden, and lots of outdoor activity. When I moved to the city and had my own money, I went overboard on fast food, junk food, and sitting on my butt watching cable TV.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    Should have answered the rest. I "knew" I was fat, but was at a healthy weight and eating right, so I didn't really struggle - I just felt bad. I gained weight to put me into "overweight" after I got a job that kept me in an office and a car that meant I didn't bike or walk everyplace I needed to go, and there was a break room down the hall that had cookies every day. I could eat cookies every day and not gain weight when I was walking everywhere like a student, but not when I was sedentary.
  • ald783
    ald783 Posts: 688 Member
    I think I realized I was chubby around 3rd grade, probably age 8 or 9. I've always been tall so sometimes my weight was high because of my height and then it was just high in general. I gained a bunch of weight in 8th grade and then in 10th grade and that was when my weight started to become a major issue. I think I remember dieting for the first time in 7th grade.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Age 13, and now I'm 47. Hooray.
  • briannesabarese
    briannesabarese Posts: 2 Member
    I'm about to turn 18 and I think my struggles started around 13 when my family stopped going down the shore so I stopped walking/running around as much and swimming. I ended up 190 at 5'3" so last November I finally cracked under pressure from family/bullying from peers and so far I've lost 37-ish pounds really fluctuating between 10-20lbs but recently I've gotten very serious, I run about 3 miles a day and eat very clean.
  • girl_inflames
    girl_inflames Posts: 374 Member
    I've always been somewhat chubby...5 ft 6 and between 160-175 for most of my teen and early 20s. This past couple years while struggling with a lot of life changes and losing a job after getting injured I got into the 180s --- and then the 190s...that was when I decided to put my foot down. I've always been self conscious and felt chubby but...at that weight I was really suffering. Right now I'm down to 148 and trying to get down to 140. :smiley:
  • elkhunter7x6
    elkhunter7x6 Posts: 88 Member
    In my early 30's.
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