The first time I knew how much I weighed was in elementary school and it was at 150lbs. I remember the day clearly, because my sister had just bought a scale that day and she made me get on it infront of my father after she got on it of course. She's about 4-5 years older than I am, so I guess there was a show off thing happening there. Anyway, me and her both weighed exactly the same amount, 150, and she blamed it on the fact that she just ate. Heaven forbid we weigh the same amount! Of course, now I know it's because she's about two to three inches taller, she looked a lot more leaner. I pretty much loathed scales from then. My memory record of my weight pretty much went like this... 150 - 219 - 250 - 343. 250 was my high school weight, but I still didn't think I looked that big.. I carried it well. I gained almost 100 pounds in the year after I graduated high school in 2002. Scary stuff.
When I was 17 I weighed 129. I guess that is the lowest I can remember since semi adulthood. My lowest weight since 2000 was 220. Lowest recent weight is 241. Back about the time I was first getting married to my husband (around 1990 or 91, I weighed about 178 or so. That was after months at the gym.
I guess I've been steadily gaining most of my life except the times I've spent really working on it.
I wasn't big as a teenager or young adult (120lbs. when I got married) but I was always dieting to stay that way. As a teenager I was a cheerleader and wouldn't think twice about starving myself for a few days to lose weight or even forcing myself to vomit. When I was in college I would regularly fast every other day to stay thin.
After my daughter was born I began to eat properly but I had pretty much messed up my metabolism. Since I knew "fat" ran in the family, I strived to exercise and limit my food intake and then around the time of my divorce I became quite thin due to stress. As I started to become more comfortable with my freedom and independance I found myself gaining 5-10 pounds a year.
By the time I reached my mid-40s I decided it was time to quit my 30 year smoking habit ~ which contributed to a rather rapid weight gain. By 2000 I had reached 265lbs. and I stayed there until 2002 when I joined Weight Watchers. The lowest weight I've been since starting the program was 158lbs. and I felt positively svelte (the teenage me would have thought that was huge!)
I've gained and lost the same 20-25lbs. a few times during the last couple of years and continue to strive for goal and maintenance. While I haven't been overweight during most of my lifetime, I obviously had issues, if not an outright eating disorder. Its always been a battle.
The earliest weight I remember was 232 at the age of 16. My lowest adult weight was 260. I remember how much I loathed 260... oh, how I long to be back there lol!
I was between 120-130 in high school. My lowest was 105 at 16yr, but I was extremely sick with food allergies (allergic to 31 foods and took shots 2x's a week). In college I gained 20 pounds and when I married at 21, I was 150 pounds (my current goal weight). I'm 43 now and my top weight was in 1999 at 307. Funny though, even when according to the numbers I was normal weight, I NEVER FELT IT!!! I have felt fat as long as I can remember, even when I was a child. That scares me, will I feel normal even when I get to a normal weight?
Right now, I weigh the same as I did when I was in 5th or 6th grade (and was three inches shorter!), so this is far and away my lowest weight as an adult. Prior to trying to lose weight, my lowest weight as an adult was probably around 230 or 240 when I started college (I wore a size 18 when I started college).
I was born early as a twin and weighed in at 4lbs 9 1/2 oz. Twentysix years ago I wighed in at 130 and was wearing a size 10. Today I weigh in at 224 and wear a size XL or 18/20, but I am working my way back to 150 pounds.
I was 170 or so right at the beginning of my senior year.. i felt and looked hot.. it was a little much to weigh but i was very muscular and carried it real well.. i got all sorts of attention.. and was very very confident.. it was the combination of a really bad relationship and getting pg my senior year in highschool that caused me to begin to loose muscle/gain fat.. to get me to where i am today.. *sigh*
I got married for the first time in 1960 and weighed 121. I felt fat! I gained lots and lost little over the next few years and was 174 when I got married again in 1983. Then it was onwards and upwards to an all time high of 232. It's sure easier (and more fun) to gain than to lose!
I weighed 170 for about one day back on Thanksgiving Day 1990 when I was 24 years old. My dh (who was just my boyfriend back then) still goes on and on about how great I looked in "those jeans I wore on Thanksgiving" at my BIL's house. I thought I was huge back then and felt so self conscious. Oh to be that small again...
When I get down to 170 again I'm going to put those acid washed, straight legged, high waisted jeans on again just to give my husband a big thrill, lol. I won't be going out in public in them though!
When I graduated 8th grade, I weighed 172, started high school at about 150...lowest I got was about 128, but I felt and looked horrible, and I didn't get there by any healthy means...that was the lowestk post puberty weight..
