Anyone out there with a goal of maintaining their high school weight?

bross57
bross57 Posts: 15 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
I’ve seldom varied more than ten pounds from my 1975 weight, even when I was trying to gain weight.
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  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    staticsplit wrote: »
    No, because I graduated high school very anorexic with a BMI of 14.9.

    I'm still at my college weight though, which is healthy for me. Graduated 10 years ago (whaaat).

    I was at the opposite end with a BMI of 31/32. Those days are thankfully over.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    nope i was obese in high school.
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    I don't even know what my high school weight was. But I certainly haven't maintained it. I think I was around 175ish. Got up to 235. Now on my back down at 208. Maybe I will get there once again some day.
  • mom23mangos
    mom23mangos Posts: 3,069 Member
    Stayed HS weight until about 40, then gained about 10-12lbs. I've put on enough muscle mass that I don't think I'll ever get back down to HS weight unless I'm bedridden for a while or ever decide to compete in a bodybuilding competition.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,225 Member
    I was somewhat overweight in high school, and lamentably underactive, so no.

    I lost weight in college, mostly without trying, via higher activity. Once out of school and working full-time, I gained to obese, despite being very athletically active for the last dozen years of obesity.

    I'm thinner and fitter now, at 63, than I was in high school. And I'd prefer to stay here.

  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    edited April 2019
    good god no. I was one of those... really skinny even though I ate ice cream and chicken nuggets and whatever other crap I wanted all the time people. (and I was also not athletic and didn't play any sports so I'm not sure how I was burning all those calories) I don't need to be that thin again. Not that I was sickly looking or anything but it's just not necessary. I think I look nice at a higher weight.
  • leejoyce31
    leejoyce31 Posts: 794 Member
    I'm smaller now than I was in high school. I was averaging about 140-150 pounds in high school. Much smaller now.
  • SeattleBebop1
    SeattleBebop1 Posts: 26 Member
    edited April 2019
    I'm not sure of my high school weight. It just never occurred to me that I should be weighing myself; I was young and active. I am pretty sure I typically wore dress size 8 then, and I wear that or a 6 now -- but with vanity sizing always changing, who the hell knows?

    I believe my weight is pretty similar to my college days, but I didn't exercise or play sports then, and ate junk food (along with fruit) whenever I wanted. I definitely feel I am healthier now because I prepare my own foods and exercise regularly.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    I was pretty fat in high school. I think I weigh the same now, but wear it completely differently.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    I’m about the same as high school, but lost and gained hundreds (maybe thousands) of pounds in the span of 30 years between then and now. Yours sounds like a much, much better plan.
  • pierinifitness
    pierinifitness Posts: 2,226 Member
    My goal was to get at a weight no more than 10 percent higher than what I weighed as a senior in high school. I weighed 161 lbs. so 10 percent more is 177 lbs. i met this goal recently. Feels about right for me but everyone is different and, therefore, may have a different sweet spot benchmark.

    I weighed 169 at my Army exit physical when 3 months shy of age 21. As of today, I’m 3 lbs. heavier than this. My goal is to stay where I’m at, easier to run being lighter.
  • ExistingFish
    ExistingFish Posts: 1,259 Member
    I currently weigh a couple of pounds less than when I finished high school. 115lbs, I'm at about 113-114lbs now, so yeah. 115lbs is the middle of my maintenance range.

    I started high school at 92lbs, with measurements of 32-22-32. I was still a child! I can't remember what I finished high school at except 115lbs and I was wearing the wrong bra size (the band always rode up in the back).
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    At 42, I'm my seventh grade size again finally. haha. I was a real big kid then at 5'8" and 165-170 lb but very happy to be back there again after many, many years of being well over 200 (including all through high school).
  • lalalacroix
    lalalacroix Posts: 834 Member
    Geez no way! I weighed about 117 in high school. My goal weight now is mid 150s.
  • must_deflate
    must_deflate Posts: 183 Member
    High school weight: No. (no muscle). Grad school weight: Yes.
  • TanyaHooton
    TanyaHooton Posts: 249 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I was somewhat overweight in high school, and lamentably underactive, so no.

    This was also me. I don't know my high school weight. I believe I was in the borderlands between normal and overweight BMI, perhaps up to mid-overweight on the BMI scale.

    I weigh less now than I ever did then. But I am also more active. I have no baseline to go back to; I've swept past it and this is uncharted territory.
  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 134 Member
    When I was losing, my orginal goal was to get me back to my university weight; then I realized that wasn't enough, about 20lbs under that now for the last 2+ yrs
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Hell no, I was like a buck 35 soaking wet and skinny AF in high school. No fat mass and no muscle mass either. Hell to the no. It took me forever and a day to put on some weight and fill out.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    I probably weigh the same as I did in the upper years of primary school. Yep, I was overweight then and at a normal weight now.
  • laurenhugs23
    laurenhugs23 Posts: 153 Member
    OP you might find your community of people in the weight lifting forum. We are all former chronic chunkers or yo-yo dieters. I myself have been a yo-yo-er since high school (technically the summer before freshman year) always cycling between 165 (borberline overweight) and 120 (borderline underweight. So yes my goal is to weigh my high school weight (135) but it's one of many of my high school weights 😂😂😂
    Point being I think most chronically thin individuals have not explored the maintenance side of MFP
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
    I think I weighed about 120 in high school. Current goal is 125. So I’m aiming for close to my HS weight.
  • twatson4936
    twatson4936 Posts: 121 Member
    Nope, I weighed 95 pounds in high school. I'd die if I went that low again. I grew almost 5 inches since high school
  • brenn24179
    brenn24179 Posts: 2,144 Member
    don't remember, I do remember I was size 10 at 19 years old, I am that now.
  • thezenarya
    thezenarya Posts: 38 Member
    HS weight was 175-ish, so it's a goal to reach on my way down, but I plan on weighing less than that when all is said and done.

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