Did anyone NOT have a weight problem as a child?

I didnt have a problem as a child, could eat what I wanted, but after I turned 17 over the course of 5/6 years I put on what I estimate at 90 lbs :embarassed: sounds like a lot but if you divide it down its less than 2 lbs a month.

Used to say it was because of me going on the contraceptive pill but in hindsight it was probably all the pizzas and alcopops!

I think because it happened so gradually I didnt get too many comments as people didnt treat me differently. I did get a few nasty comments from an ex partner who I hadnt seen in a while but if it hadn't been my weight I'm sure it would have been something else nasty!

no weight problem - I thought I was fat when I was a teenager, but I wasn't. I didn't get fat till I graduated from college and entered the "real" world where I had to make my own food and had no reason to walk anywhere.

I never had any weight issues until I was 22 and pregnant with my first child. I gained over 75lbs, I went from 121lbs to 196lbs on delivery day. I struggled for 3 years to shed some of that weight, got down to 150lbs and was pregnant with my second child. The second pregnany I was more careful of what I ate ( didn't binge on the ice cream and laid off of the chocolate milk) I only gained around 25lbs. After a few stressful months I gained another 20lbs, I am ready to shed this weight and get down to a healthy BMI and size.

I didn't have a weight problem until I hit my early 20's. As a child I was usually skinny and then after my mom re-married and we moved in with my step dad and his family I gained 20lbs over about a 5 year period. When I hit high school, I maintained between 200 and 210lbs through me playing football and power lifting. Once I hit about 21 I just stopped caring and went from 210 to 240 within a month and since I have slowly put on weight until I got to about 320lbs. It wasn't until we had our first child that I really wanted to start getting into shape. I am down to 305 now, and hopefully the downward trend will continue.

Yep was small my whole life, could eat what I wanted etc....till I had kids, then I kind of got lazy and eating what I wanted no longer worked so well... : D

Nope, no, issues with weight 'till I was 28, when I got married.

Nope I've been thin my whole life.

Just in the last 2-3 years I've start gaining a little wight, but I was still pretty thin. 160 pounds at 5'10". I still looked good with clothes on and all but I was just a little jiggy/poochy. (my stomach and legs mostly. My upper body has always been tiny)

I didn't have a weight problem until I was about to turn 30. Normal childhood, though I was never a tiny kid I was not overweight, either. I think that the seeds of poor eating habits were planted young, though. Sweets as reward, as comfort, etc. Big portions, the whole nine yards. It just took 30 years to catch up to me!

I never had a weight problem till in just the last 6 years. When I got out of the military I was 105. Before I had my son I was 108.5lbs. After he was born I had an altercation with the hospital nurses because they couldn't believe that I was my child's mother. I came in wearing size 3 jeans, and my tits to my chin. It was AWESOME!
My 4th and final child put me in bed rest for 6 months which screwed me up something awful. After he was born (and adopted out like the other 2 before my son), I was 125. This was in 2004.
I am now at 164.6lbs. This has only gotten out of control in the past 6 years due to stress, moving, sickness, laziness, and exhaustion. Also I am sure that my quitting smoking may have had something to do with it even though I now use an E-Cig.
It has only been recently that I have decided to put my foot down and say no to all of this. I was 175lbs in February, so it is coming off slowly, but at least it is coming off.

I was average. I only got weight issues twice. Back then It was from a medecine. Made me gaine 60 pounds in 2 months. And now I'm struggling to lose the baby weight. He's 13 months old and I have only lost 4 pounds. I'm so jalous of all my friends that did nothing and lost are their pregnancy weight.

I was very thin as a child and all the way up until my 4th child, than bam weight starting to come on. The only problem is I don't look like I weight 177. So it never really hit me that I had to lose weight until my doctor told me ... that I must lose the weight.

I was just recalling how effortlessly active I was as a child and teenager. I loved to run everywhere. There were no computers. I had summer jobs starting at the age of 14 but they weren't completely sedentary.

Your story could be mine! All thru hight school & college I was 90 pounds soaking wet.
Got married at 27 years of age-perfect size 5 (and though ti was heavy then as I had recently gained about 5 pounds from 100/103 pounds up to 105/108. After marriage and 3 kids it has been nothing but an uphill battle. I weight more now than when I delivered my 3rd child. Had her at full term -was 152. Now can't seem to move past 155-156.. So I feel your pain!!! Good luck on your journey!:You're not alone. smile:

Never had a weight problem until I hit 20 yo.

In fact, as a child I was made fun of for being too thin.

Now, for some reason, I have a tendancy to pack on pounds when I'm not careful. Recently this last fight with my weight was because I was restricted on activity during my last pregnancy, but the pregnancy before that, I gained hardly anything, and lost it all within a few months.

There's some science that suggets that once you have had a weight issue, your prone to have another one if you're not diligent about diet and exercise. I'm not sure that isn't true.

Really?!? So few Chubby kids out there!!! I was husky as a child then ballooned up to nearly 300lbs in Jr High. Boy did we have a good football team! Then I got tired of being the fat funny kid and dropped down to 175lbs my freshman year. I’ve been playing this weight loss game a long time. :sad: