Always overweight

Rangerfied
Rangerfied Posts: 93 Member
edited November 14 in Motivation and Support
No offense to those who have been thin, gained weight and loss again. Kudos for getting the weight off. I admire anyone who is able to lose the weight.
Myself I've always been larger in size. I was born at 10lbs and always remember my childhood as being chunky. There has been times where I've loss around 50lbs, but was still over weight. I've never really known what it's like to be thin. My heaviest I was up to 318lbs and have managed to get down to 269lbs at the lightest, in the last few years. Now I tend to hover around 275lbs. Personally would like to get down to around 210lbs and stay there. Charts say I should be around 165-180lbs for my height and frame. I believe that would be too thin.
Just curious what members have had a similar experience? Of those members, who have finally managed to get the weight off and keep it off?

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  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I spent most of my adult life overweight. Not terribly...but I was 155lbs at 5'4" starting from 7th grade probably. I was always between that and 180. The weight has stayed off for the most part, I've gained some back but I do a lot of lifting and messing with my weight on purpose, then gained some by accident. But yeah, I never knew what it was like to be slim until I was 29 or so.
  • Rangerfied
    Rangerfied Posts: 93 Member
    Yeah I feel like I'm always fighting the weight. Manage to get into an exercise routine and then get off track again. I know a big part of my problem too is emotional eating. Plus when I was young my Father made sure we always had lots too eat. There wasn't as much talk like today about food and nutrition. I'm use to eating large and it's not easy trying to train your brain that you don't need that extra food.
    Glad to hear you finally managed to experience yourself thin.
  • everher
    everher Posts: 909 Member
    I was always on the higher end of the healthy weight range as a kid. By middle school when I really was making more of my own food choices I was overweight and then obese.

    I lost the weight, got down to the high end of the healthy weight range in high school, and slowly have gained it all back.

    There have been a few dieting attempts on my part over the last oh eight years I'd say. But that's exactly what it was. Me dieting. Me restricting myself until eventually I would cave and go back to old eating habits.

    So now I'm changing my life and yeah, it's hard. Breaking life long bad habits, restructuring how I look at food, and rebuilding my relationship with food is hard.

    My thing is I love food. It's not so much I'm an emotional eater or I binge it. I just love food. I have a tendency to overeat because I want to because it tastes good.

    I also am a single person and it's just easier for me to buy fast food or go out to eat than cook all the time. But the thing with that is a lot of times those foods are calorie bombs and I was going out to eat sometimes for lunch and dinner in the same day multiple days a week.

    I realize this is going to be a lifelong journey for me. I'm not someone who will ever be able to just eat without thinking or being mindful of how much I'm eating, whether I'm really hungry, and what else I have eaten that day.

    I'm finally okay with all this though. The weight isn't going to come off overnight, this is a lifestyle change not a diet, and I'm always going to have to keep an eye on myself and my intake. I'd rather that than be obese or morbidly obese which is where I was heading.
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