That is exactly what I was trying to say!

Well I was always the fat girl, always. I hated the way I looked, the way clothes fit, just everything about myself in general. As a junior, I weighed 220. Magically, (and I mean magically) over the summer before my senior year I dropped 40 lbs. I still though I looked horrible. I hid in huge sweatshirts and only wore jeans.

I recently just saw a picture from Thanksgiving of that year. WOW! All I can say is wow. I was so beautiful and healthy looking. I wasn't bone skinny at 180 but geeze, I was hot! I so wish I could've seen then what I see now. Maybe then I wouldn't have kept eating like I was 220 and wouldn't be in the position I am in today!

Apparently hind sight is 20 /20. And the hind I saw in those pictures was pretty cute too! :)

I'm not sure what my weight was, but in 7th grade I was a size 4 and I remember feeling *so* fat. My best friend had a really think body type, where my body type has always been more muscular. Looking back, my weight crept up and up over the years (going by sizes anyway). I don't know if I'll get into a size 4 again, but a size 6 would be AMAZING!

I recently found a photo of me sitting on the steps of my middle school with some pals. At the time, I thought I was much heavier than any of my friends and I remember always feeling fat. But now when I look back, I realize I was a healthy size for my age and height.
But, back then, I used to skip breakfast and lunch on a regular basis, refuse to drink soda (tho that was probably a good thing!:)), and hardly eat anything for dinner in order to lose what I now realize was imaginary weight. It was such an absurd belief on my part, but I fully thought I was fat. So silly!:o

These pictures are from senior year in high school and I thought I was an absolute COW! I even joined WW to lose weight. I must have been crazy! I would love to be this size again. I even still have the yellow shirt. It was one of my favorites. Lets see if I can fit back into it one day.

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/p...ttingpatty.jpg

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/p...ellowshirt.jpg

You looked just fabulous, as you now know.

Wow, what I wouldn't give to be 18 again. Emphasis on the "would not." ;)

Yep, in high school I bobbed between 140 and 145 lbs. I used to starve myself because I thought I was fat. Now I'm 231. I have no idea how I let myself get here. I have like vague memories of sitting in front of the TV with bags of chips. ......food amnesia........
I think I ate my way through life for happiness only to find misery in my new size.

I always always a little larger, but I was never the biggest girl in the room. I weight the same now as I did in HS. IN college I was down to 135, but I didn't notice the weight loss because I was really sick (I had a stomach infection) and I still had a gut.

I am however, the smallest person in my family, my dad being the next smallest @ 225lbs and 5"11. My sister and mother both weight well over 300lbs, so I always felt small around them.

I think if we could just cut off this gut, I might not feel fat anymore.