Never Been 'Thin'?
 

I was wondering how many people here in the 20-something's category have always been overweight? I was 114 lbs. in 2nd grade, 180 lbs. in 4th grade, and am somewhere in the 280's now (I don't get to weigh in again for a couple days now). I have had issues in the past with fearing weight loss and suddenly being seen, and now I think I am ready- but I have no idea what it will be like knowing that I am not obese? There are so many things I have put off that I am excited to get into without inhibition, and so many clothes I would love to wear and feel comfortable, etc. but I really wonder what it will be like. I know emotionally I'll still be the same, but the physical change will be a first for a lot of things. Anyone here who has also always been obese wonder how they'll handle the change?

I’m 27 and have been varying degrees of fat to obese for as long as I can remember. I reached my full height at age 12 (5’4’’) and was about 150 at the time, all downhill from there. Looking back at pictures I was not as hugely fat as my skinny siblings and peers had me believe, but I was always at least a “chubby” kid.

I am looking forward to being in a body closer to the one I always dreamed of. The clothes, the confidence, improved health and fitness, all of it. I can’t wait, I keep having to remind myself that the journey is as important as the destination, but I kind of feel like I’ve waited my whole life already. I’d like to buy single digit clothing sizes NOW please. ;)

I was never OBESE. Even now, my starting weight put me at 29.9 for BMI. Which is thisclose to being obese, but not QUITE over the edge. I was a thin child. I was a thin teenager. I THOUGHT I was fat the WHOLE time.

When I was 16, I weighed 117 pounds. When I graduated, I was 130 pounds. I wasn't fat. I thought I was HUGE. There were maybe 1 or 2 obese girls in my high school, and a LOT of VERY thin girls. In my senior year of high school, I can remember FIVE girls being hospitalized for anorexia. :( So that may have played into my thinking.

Now, I'm overweight. I know I'll never be skinny, but I have a lot more confidence than I did at 117, or even 130, pounds, and I'm looking forward to hitting goal!

in the 4th grade i jumped to 150, and settled at 180 in high school. i've never been lower than that in my adult life, and my kids helped pack on 40 more.

i know exactly how you feel. i think that i'll cry the day i hit 179, my lowest weight in 15 years.

I have -always- been heavy, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I am currently lighter than I was in the 7th grade.

Ive never really been thin myself. Before I got pregnant I was around 150-160. So I am really looking foward to loosing all this weight. Im going to go to 150 first, then I will decide where I want to go from there. Im actually excited to see what its going to be like, being healthier, and have a better self-esteem.

Ive always been bigger.. I haven't weighed as little as I do now since I was in elementary school.

And yes, I know what you mean. Sometimes I try to imagine myself having lost all my weight, and I just can't imagine it. So I suppose I shall have to wait and see!

I was always big -- I was probably a chunky zygote. I weighed more than all the babies that were with me in the maternity ward. I can't remember most of the specifics, but I think I weighed over 100 in 3rd grade, and I know I was in 4th. I gained another 100 when I went through puberty, and then crash dieted at 16, lost 60 pounds (lowest weight 160), and then gained 140 pounds between the ages of 17-18. I stayed over 300 until I finally said enough is enough and began my journey at 22. A side note -- I never delved into disordered eating until the crash diet -- after I starved myself, I became a compulsive binge eater. I had never binged eaten before. But that belongs in my forum :D

Wow - I feel like I could have written this ^^

I have never been obese, but have always felt huge. I too started HS at 118 pounds and graduated at 130. That was a good 20 pounds more than any of my friends.

Ever since then I have bounced between 130 and 150 until this past year when I hit 160. I have never been skinny and I know I never will be. I just want to be able to get back to 130 and then keep it there!

I have no idea what I weighed when, but I do know that I was ALWAYS 'chubby'/'fat'... ALWAYS!

I HONESTLY dont remember being under 200! I dont know if I just didnt weight myself-- but I know I wore a size 14 in 5th grade.

I was a pretty thin until junior high, but even then it was just a few extra pounds, nothing major, I gradually got bigger every year into high school and I don't remember what I weighed but I wore a size 16 my last 2 years, I'm a size 16 right now so I guess I weighed around 200 then too. Then into college is when I got much bigger and moved up to size 18 and eventually size 20.

Gee it sounds kind of weird to give a brief synopsis of my life that way, lol

I am so tempted to make that into a livejournal screen name, 'chunkyzygote' :D cute!!

I have to say I am totally inspired by you. It's wonderful seeing people on the forums that you can relate too, and you've made amazing progress. I wish I had really gone through with weight loss when I was 22. I am 25, and I think the baggage has kept me from being sucessful until now. A couple weeks ago I was like "I am done with this. It's been an interesting sociological experiment, but I'm done." Thanks for your reply!

It's funny, I remember being 114 in 2nd grade, 180 in 4th grade, but then I am not sure how things went between there and high school (around 255?) I'm not sure that I saw myself gaining weight between 180 and 255 or if it just seemed like a continuation. I realized I had really changed when I was 275, years ago. Then I did atkins down to 235... back to 255... then a couple weeks ago 294... and I'll find out on Friday where I'm at now.

Wow, I will be ecstatic like a crazy person when I reach the 140's. I will be 40 pounds less than I was in 4th grade. It will be very crazy, and if anyone says I am not skinny, I'll kick them in the shins! ;) Good luck with your goal!