Has anyone else been thin before?

I guess I'm the first no then? I have never been skinny or really ever been ok with my weight. When I was 9 my mum took me to the doctor and told him she wanted him to put me on a diet because I was fat. Looking at the photo's I was a very healthy weight but my sister was very underweight. It was around this time that my unhealthy relationship with food (eating in private, binging etc) started and I've been battling it ever since.

Me too! I was fat as a kid, got down to 130lbs by eating pretty much nothing last year of high school, went to college, put weight back on and have been up and down several times lowest 170 highest 256 since then

I was never skinny, but there was a time I looked good and had my curves. My lowest weight was 135 and I LOVED that weight and I looked good. Hoping to get back there someday. I am only 5'4, but that weight suited my body.

Yes I considered myself thin in high school (105-110) but very athletic and college (115-120) just busy and didn't eat out as much w/ limited funds. I have always been bigger at the bottom so butt, thighs, calves were the big assets that kept me curvy. Now after getting married and having 2 kids I gained. I'm back down to 131 (on a good day) and I consider myself fit and healthy with some much needed toning after having kids. I don't want to be as thin as high school and college, but I want to get to a comfortable weight I can maintain w/ fluctuations 120-124 is the range.

yeah all my life! now im a hungry hippo and guess what i dont want to embrace my curves i want to fit in my size 4 jeans again

nope :-P

Yep, I was thin and super healthy until I was around 17-18. I was a competitive dancer and horseback rider, and although I always had curves I was pretty thin (around 125-130 with tonned muscle- I'm 5'7).

Problem was, when I quit all of that (crazy teenaged reasons) and started working full time in a mall saving up for university (mall food...ugg!), I found out the hard way that I had only been able to eat the massive quantities of food I consumed all the time because I was so active! I had always been so active that I had never learned to eat like a 'normal' person.

I still have troubles with portion control, but I've gone back to dance and soon to riding as well. My career is full of healthy types (environmental field) so I don't have as much trouble eating well at work. Although I got up to over 190 lbs (gasp!), I've been able to get that down to 163, and am aiming to get back down somewhere around 130 by April/May. Dance is so much easier when you're thin!

I think if you know you've been there, it's easier to know that you can get back to it. We actually have the easier road than those of us who were never thin or have never really exercised. We know what our bodies can do, we just have to make them do it again!

Good luck everyone

I graduated from HS at 5'7" and 96 lbs. I rarely exercised (except to walk everywhere) and ate whatever I wanted, which is why I am now fighting my way back down from the 160s. The first 20-30 lbs I put on looked great, which is why I didn't get it under control sooner.

Yeah, I was about 115 pounds in high school -- almost 20 years ago before it was really popular to be super skinny and back when a size 8 was super tiny. I look back on my prom picture and see my collar bone and shoulder blades sticking out -- I think I was too thin for my particular frame, but being fat or thin never ever crossed my mind. We just didn't have junk food in the house and I walked to and from school everyday with 40 lbs of books. I gained weight after I got married and had money for junk food. Even though I'm 5'3", and most 5'3" women want to be less than 120 pounds, I'm aiming for 140. I'm noticing that the older you get and the thinner you are, the older you look -- definitely don't want that! Plus I have pictures of myself at that weight, and I looked AWESOME -- even though I thought I was fat. /sigh

I struggled with my weight in elementary school, but once i hit middle school, i shot up to 5'5" and was down to around 125-130 pounds. Stayed around there, even dropping down to 110-115 in my late teens early twenties...Then I got pregnant and gained 90lbs!!! Lost most of it, down to 150 and maintained...Until I got pregnant again.

Before I had my baby I was the weight I am now which is 116lbs so ive always been slim when I was at school I was 110lbs and looked awfully thin. I've always had curves though even at my Lowest weight xx

Nerp I've always been tubby

I was thin/fit my entire life until about 3 years ago, when I screwed up my knee and received bad news around the same time. Nothing will make you gain weight quite like being sedentary and depressed, its a really bad combo!

I've NEVER been thin...I think. I've always had a chubby face and I don't remember EVER being thin. That's why my goal isn't to get thin...just to get to a happy and healthy median

I weighed 125 during my first marriage..then gained tons of weight due to PCOS kicking in and depression from being in a awful marriage.
I managed to lose weignt and get to 150..but did it without changing my diet..just worked out.

Now..I am 135..I eat Primal..and work out 6 days a week...I think I am way healthier now than when I was 125..I had no muscle mass. I am trying to get more lean..so will see.

I dont think I ever want to be 125 again...I had no curves

I was Tiny in growing up.. when I met my husband i was all of about 85lbs. Until I got pregnant with my oldest and I put on about 90 lbs or so then we got married and I got pregnant with my son put on another 40 i couldn't lose and 7 mo later got pregnant again.. now weighing in over 200lbs can't get it off at all.. its been 9 years since i had my last child. I have tried lots of diets and things but can't get anywhere.. I am hoping MFP helps me..