Did anyone NOT have a weight problem as a child?

I was more or less like you. I was active as a child and teen. I had my first child while I was still in HS and gained 65 pounds with her which put me at 205 DOD. I lost most of it! When I met my now husband 9 months after that I was a size 7 (11 yrs ago). I slowly started putting on weight, eating out, drinking, socializing, stress, another baby.... you get the point Now in those 11yrs I have gained 85lbs putting me at 225 (im 5'5'') and a size 16/18. Compared to my size 7 its a bit depressing and to know I was a size 5 b4 ever having kids.
My family (mom & siblings) are brutal with remarks about my size. People (outsiders) take notice and think they are mean. I just tend to ignore it cuz they are all big too. My brother's excuse is he's a guy. My sister had a gastric bypass 7ys ago. and my mom although old still is 5' even and is 165. .....But Im the bad one!

I was always thin as a child. then I got pregnant with my son and it went down hill from there. I had always been able to eat what I wanted and when. Ive always been fairly active. But after my son anything I put in my mouth seemed to add on 10lbs.

I was skinny kid...even after 3 kids..I put on weight when I stopped being active and took care of my husband with cancer..I gained a ton of weight in a very short period of time (85 lbs in 10 months) and it scared the crap out of me...the doctor told me stress hormones caused me to gain..I eventually got it back off...whew:noway:

When I was a child I was always very thin. Even when I was born I was very small. I never had issues with food or weight as a child/teenager. When I met my husband in college in 1996 I was a size 3!! Over the years I slowly gained weight as I was no longer active in sports and concentrated on my studies. To make a long story short after marriage, different jobs, and three kids I gained more weight (a lot of stress eating!). I am 5'1" and my heighest weight was 178.8 in 2008. I am currently 146.2. I hear a lot of people talk about their struggle with weight most of their lives. I was wondering if anyone else is in a situation like mine where the weight came later in life? And if so...did people close to you treat you different when you gained the weight?

It kinda depends on what you mean by "problem." I believed I did. My mom told me I did. But I see pictures of me in childhood now and it's clear I didn't have a weight problem, except in that I was always trying to lose weight because I THOUGHT I had a weight problem. I looked in the mirror and saw a kid who was easily three times the size of the one in the pictures I have now. In my childhood, the kid I saw in the mirror was seriously obese. The kid in the pictures is of perfectly average size. I suspect my relationship with food now is complicated by my mistaken beliefs in childhood. I suppose that means I had a "problem," but I was not overweight.

No weight issues as a kid, I was a petite size 3/5 when I met my hubby, then I became happily married, started a family and then my weight started creeping up. :ohwell: :drinker:

I yo-yo'd in my 20's; I was in fairly good shape most of my 30's. But then, at age 40 (coupled with a neck injury) BAM major weight piled on and it's harder than ever to get the damn fat off!! :mad:

I was a slightly chunky kid even though I played every sport known to man, and although I was always in a healthly weight range growing up, I never had a flat, perfect stomach which is a life long struggle. Its the first place I gain and the last to lose. I never understood how those girls in middle school and high school stayed so slim and ate so much crap, whereas my mom would feed us very healthy and I still had the belly. I was able to lose it in my twenties through diet, trail running, dirt biking and skiing, but that ended once I found a desk job. I guess I understand the work it takes for my body to be toned and that is what makes letting myself go the last few years frustrating to me. I know I will have to do double the work and eat super healthy to achieve the body I had in my early twenties. Is it fair, no, but thats life. Everybody is different and skinny doesn't always equal healthy. I am aiming for a place where I am content, in my healthly BMI and feel comfortable in a bathing suit again, since I never have been model perfect I think its easier for me to find peace with myself and be satisfied with an awesome running time instead of fitting into a size 2.

I was a little chunkier as a kid but nothing too bad and nothing to make the other kids notice or tease me or anything. I remember being self conscious my pre-teen years but all that baby fat went away when I hit my teen years. I was 5'7" and I only weighed 115lbs when I was around 14 and 15. I ate a ton but I hardly went out to eat mainly because my mom or brother never took me anywhere. Once I turned 16 and go my license I constantly ate out, I didn't play sports in school so I wasn't active at all anymore. Then college and beer came into my life and more dining out. The sad thing is when I was 115lbs I still was self conscious about my body, I sure don't want to be that skinny again but boy what I would give to have my slim body back!

I too was a string bean when I was a child and was thrilled when I finally hit 100 lbs as a senior in high school. When I married I was 111 and thought I was blessed with the same genes as my father and one of my aunts. When I started working full time I was about 120 and the pounds have been adding up ever since and I hate the way I feel in my clothes and up-sizing now. Now in size 16 clothes and can't bear the thought of going up another size. My one sister has told me that I need to loose weight and my children have hinted at my needing to get fit. Otherwise people don't usually treat me differently. But congrats to you for the weight you have lost! Hang in there and good luck with your goal.

I was tall and skinny my entire childhood. Was teased and harrassed about being a "bean pole", "turkey legs", so skinny if I turned sideways and stuck our my tongue I would look like a zipper, and several other remarks. When I was a teen, still skinny, I was also anorexic, bulemic as a young 20 year old. I did not gain weight until I hit my 30's when I stopped running, started eating and not purging. I gained very slowly for many years and then wham I piled it on. Heaviest in my life at 53 years old 266 lbs.. Trying to eat right and not trigger the anorexia/bulemia now as I change my eating habits.

i would say that i didn't have a weight problem until i was an adult. however, i've had food issues almost my entire life. i remember closet eating as a kid - hiding behind the couch and gorging on brownies at age 8. my mother was so concerned about us having weight issues that i think unknowingly, she created them by forcing us into the shadows and making eating shameful. she meant well. she wanted us to be healthy and not face the same challenges many in our family did. however, i don't think she had the tools to do it in a way that fostered healthy habits.