Highest weight how you felt

In high school, when I was athletic and fit, I was about 125lbs at 5'3" (I've stayed the same height). It looked like this:



I gained some weight after a car accident, and then lost it by the time I got married at 19, at 150lbs.



I was 194 at my heaviest with my first child:



It all came off rather quickly, though:



I always said 200 lbs was my "suicide weight" and yet in January I was 209. In 6 months, I've managed to get down under 180, but it was a rough fight. For all the months over 180, I cried at least once every day. It was terrible.

200

from most of my life being no higher than 120.
Due to my height nobody thought it was a big deal, but for me it was scary. I'd always wanted to be in front of the camera before all that weight. And when I got to that weight I NEVER wanted my pictures taken.

I actually felt pretty awesome 90% of the time when I weighed 233lbs. Other than being unhealthy, and sick a lot of the time, I felt confident and happy.
I actually feel much less confident, and more self-conscious now at my current weight, 52lbs lighter, than I ever did then from what I can remember.

Depressed, insecure, miserable. I still feel like that now.

My starting weight was 170, currently 138, and my goal is 105.

I'm 5'4.

@170 I felt LUMPY. I also felt like a failure. My mom has been 130 lbs my whole life and I wondered how, at 55 years old, she could be slim and I was fat in my 20s.

Now @ 140 and < 20% I feel strong, athletic and way more confident.

I am 5 feet 5 inches tall, female, 50 years old.
At my heaviest, I weighed 180 pounds. I ached all over when I woke up every morning, it made me feel like I would think a much older person might feel. When I went for walks my elbows would hurt for no reason. My doctor had no offering of why I had that problem. My clothes were tight, and I felt like if I got stuck with a pin, I would pop, unfortunately that isn't how it works is it? Bending over to tie my shoes took my breath away, taking the stairs to my third floor cubicle literally left me speechless until I could breathe again. I thought I resembled Venus of willendorf, (if you are not familiar with that, please google it, she's normally spotted in Art History text books).

I've lost 20 pounds give or take over 10 months. I am down from a tight and very uncomfortable 16 to a 12. I have much more stamina, tying shoes is no problem, I can take those stairs with ease, my elbows have stopped aching when I walk, when i get up in the morning, the only time i'm sore is if i pushed hard during my workout the day before. I've had to buy new clothes and I look much less like Venus of willendorf and more like a plump Venus de milo!

I'm looking forward to the exciting changes I will see as I lose that next 10 to 20 pounds! Thank you MFP!

Highest official weight 274. It shocked and scared me. My weight had been sky-rocketing and I knew it because clothes that had been baggy stopped fitting all-together. I felt the the same, same energy levels, able to still do all the same activities, but the numbers and clothes don't lie.

Catalyst for change was my doctor telling me that I probably wouldn't be able to get pregnant or start my family until I started loosing some weight. I have PCOS and hypothyroidism already. I want kids someday or atleast be able to be healthy enough that I could.

It's been rough but so far I'm 40 days solid into MFP and I'm determined to stick with it.

When I reached my highest weight (250), I said "really?" I was surprised. I went to the doctor complaining about my heavy periods, and wanting to go on the pill (and complaining about my hypothyroid symptoms.

She said, you can go on the pill, not sure if your menstruation issues are because of your thyroid or weight gain. (I had gained around 15 pounds over 6 months or so during a period where I wasn't sleeping much.).

I decided I might as well make one good attempt at losing weight.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't feel "unhappy" or "unconfident." I felt mostly the same as ever, but more sleep deprived (because of my hypo symptoms). Even though I had gained a bit, my clothing fit fine because of the way I carry things, I tend to have spare room in the waist when it fits in the hips/butt/thigh. Other than being extra tired, it was business as usual.

My first few months of this year were rough, my energy level was really low, and I had every hypothyroid symptom, even though I was losing. My energy was about 60% of the level I had in my 20s. But to most people I seemed as energetic as ever.

Right now, I am basically the size I was in my early 20s, and a little bigger than I was in college (around 10ish pounds). My goal is a size I have never been as an adult. And I skipped past it pretty fast as a teen. I have spent from ages 12 to now hovering around size 14-16. So this is my normal, at the limbo land between "plus" and "normal" sizes.

Since I've started, I feel stronger because I am exercising more and my sleep has improved. I have no idea how I'll feel at the end, because for me weight hasn't been an issue for my self-image and self-esteem. I will be excited to have more clothing options.

My highest weight was 202. I felt worthless. I would pass on doing things because I did not want to be seen by anybody. I felt embarassed for my fiance to have to be seen with me and I just felt like crying all the time. Now im down 20lbs to 182 and what scares me even more is I still feel exactly the same