High school was a double whammy for me. Started at 125ish... stayed there until I got preggers summer before senior year and gave birth to my son 3 days before graduation. Went to the hospital at a whopping 155. I have tried desperately to continue to blame him for additional the 45 to 50 lbs I've gained over the 19 years since his birth. He's my only child, so its gotta be his fault, right? :)

About 145-155 I think. I didn't obsess about it. I suppose that's because I was a good size. But, later, in college, I got down to 124 which for my height is getting close to underweight. When I got back up to 135 I thought I was fat! *sigh*

I was about 250 at about the same height by the end of my freshman year and about 300 when I graduated from high school.

So I officially weigh less now then I did when I was 13-14 years old...

How sad is it that I don't even know? I was definitely the thinnest I've ever been, but always felt fat because I was still bigger than most of the other girls (of course, I now know that's because I was taller, have curves, and just generally started developing very early), and just avoided the scale.

Looking back, it's a shame, because while I wouldn't have wanted to become obsessive about weighing myself, it would likely have helped to keep me on track when my weight started to really climb (the vicious cycle of thinking I was so fat, so I'd eat to feel better, gain weight....repeat and repeat and repeat!). Instead I was able to sort of block it out until it reached a point that there was no denying it.

If I had to guess, I'd say somewhere around 180, given the size I was wearing and comparing pictures from then to now (when I know what I weigh).

OMG!!!! Me too! Wasn't that just the most awful thing? I simply dreaded it. So very, very embarassing and oh, especially at the tender age of puberty. What were they thinking?

Specfically remember that 6th grade weigh in/measure thing being 11 yrs old and weighing 126 lbs. When I look at pictures I can tell you exactly how much I weighed at any given time in my life. That's how I felt and that's how I remember events - - - by how much I weighed at the time. Boy, I am so over that.

I hovered between 120-130 in high school. Junior year I had some personal issues and got down to about 110 and even then I always always always felt fat. I had hips, a butt and boobs thanks to my genes, and hated the way I looked, I was definitely the most curvaceous (fattest) cheerleader. I look back now at photos, and I was hot, not fat! I was curvy in all the right places but didn't realize it then. I had the body of a 25 year old but was too young for it, so I hid behind clothes that were too big for me because I wanted to hide what I thought was my fat self. I was always self conscious of my body (what teenage girl isn't right?)

I got pregnant at 128 lbs when I was 18, and gained exactly 100 lbs through that 9 months partially due to preclampsia/edema and my constant cravings for peanut butter and chocolate! The day I gave birth I was 228. I walked out of the hospital a week later at 180-the 9lb baby and all the edema went away during that week in the hospital and I'd lost 48 pounds. It took me a year and a half to get down to around 140-145 and I stayed there until about 8 years ago when I was diagnosed w/RA and a mild form of Lupus, and couldn't walk for a year..which brought on another 100 pound weight gain thanks to a lovely little diet I like to call prednisone and pain. I guess when I gain weight it's no sissy little amount for me! If I'm going to gain I'm going to gain big!

What I wouldn't give to be 128 again....But-that was 16 years ago and my body has changed and I don't expect to look the same or for my body to even be able to get there. Childbirth and age changes the structure of our bodies. I would be happy to get to 135-140 and be healthy.

WOW! how perceptions do change! i think I was 120 in 4th grade and that was scary but i was already about 5'2 then so that was only a little overweight. But now as a senior in high school i wish that i could be down to my elementry school weight...jk. I was heaviest freshman-sophomore year, 245. When i started to have to wear plus size clothing in the womens department i wanted to get fit. I remember a day when i went shopping with my three best friends (all of whom are naturally thin) and i had just lost 20 pounds and i still couldnt fit into the junior size clothes...depression hit and i gained another 15 pounds. Now i am trying to correct my mistake, what i wouldnt give to be able to wear junior sizes, how great will it feel to be a size without an x in it! So my average high school weigh is 210! Yikes, I hope I can maintain a healthy weight for the rest of my life and never have to say "I weigh what i did in high school!"

I, unlike many of you, don't have the issue of looking back and saying "Oh, maybe I was a little pudgy... I wish that was the case now!"... I was much heavier in high school. I'm not sure exactly my highest weight in high school, but it was probably around 350-360 lbs. I think I gained a little bit the fall after I graduated before I started losing that winter. The lowest I was even in ninth grade was about 275, so I can officially say I am smaller now than I was in high school, which is a great feeling! Slightly strange, though, considering this is the least I've weighed since I was probably 13 or 14...

I started high school at about 200 pounds and weighed almost 250 when I graduated. I recently excavated some old clothes from the depths of my storage closet to find that my outfits circa junior year fit me quite nicely (though late-90's clothes aren't exactly the most stylish nowadays... bummer!)

BTW Lindsey, 130 pounds lost... you are such an inspiration!!!

Well I started HS at 13 and I was a late bloomer so at the start of HS I was 145 and by senior yr I would say 175 to 180, but trust me there were a lot of ups and downs through out those years, I also grew about 4 to 5" through that time. Size wise I went from a 12 to up to a 16 and I've never really been below that so when I hit a size 10 I'll be on to of the world!

i weighted 150 all thru high school...my goal is to get to the healthy weight of 145 or less.

I was definitely my heaviest around grade 9, at about 160-165. That's the most I've ever been, and once I took a nutrition and health class, I was embarassed when we had to write down what we ate. I had greasy hash browns for lunch, pizza for dinner, was drinking sodas non stop..nothing healthy in my diet. That's also my pre Vegetarianism. After that I decided to lose weight so I cut out all soda and fast food. Did very little exercise (walking to school here and there), and had gym class. Took me a while, but by grade 12, I was in the 130s/140s, and while I might have gained back 10lbs or so since then, I'm now looking to drop off my final 25-30lbs for GOOD!

I do not have an issue with maintaining my weight, it's the loosing part that bites.

I know what you mean! I remember being 120lbs, and I was crying because I thought I was so overweight. Ah, to be 120 again.....

Adding in my story!

Actually, my weight issues started in middle school. In 6th grade i weighed 125 - but then one year later - by 7th grade, I was up to 220 (yes, i gained 100 pounds in 1 year - needless to say, middle school was EVIL).

So from the ages of 13 - 16 I weighed 220 (hey, at least I managed to maintain that and not get too much fatter!) - and then between my junior year and senior year I lost 70 pounds and got down to 150. i LOVED it - but it was due to mandatory gym class (running a mile day during the summer in class) plus marching band...unfortunately though i knew NOTHING about eating right...and so in college I gained back all 70 pounds. I maintained 150 from the age of 17 til I was 21 but then i gained it all back.

When I was 23 i graduated college - and after my 24th birthday i joined WW and went back down to 160 :D

and in the last few years i've developed insulin resistance and re-gained 37 pounds - but now that i finally KNOW all these things and what IS "wrong" with me - i'm going back down and now i know how to live the rest of my life healthily and i will get back down and my lifestyle is for "good"!

It's funny to read different peoples perceptions of themselves from high-school to now. I was 130ish in high school(and still felt fat) but that was just because I didn't know what fat really felt like! =) I only ever saw that weight briefly again before my last baby was born(8 years ago). I don't know if I'm foolish enough to think I'll see that weight again! I just would like to see a size 10/12 again at this point.

I was between 145-155 in highschool. I'm 5'8". And I'm just not using it as an excuse but I am big-boned. I fit in a 10-12. This was very thin and cute for me.

I have no idea ---high school is a long time! At my biggest I was 167ish I think...I lost weight in my last year cas of stress and being busy as anything...must have been about 152sh...tho I never weighed myself then. This is all guessing! I was always well covered but never ovely fat. When I was about 15 and 167 I never thought i was THAT fat....but when I look at photos I was pretty chubby!

I left school, went on to study and got back up to 165! And thats the last time I will ever weigh over 150 again. Ever.

I was 5'7" and weighed 155 in high school. I always thought I could have been skinnier but, in all actuality, it was very close to what I should have been anyway! Now I'd do almost anything to be there again. LOL!

Like most of everyone here....when I was in HS I weighed 132 lbs and yes, I also thought I was huge....never in my wildest dreams would I think I'd be as heavy as I am now...never.....

I grew like a weed in HS. I started freshmen year at 5'0" - 100lbs and by graduation, I was 5'9" - 125. I was built like a pencil. I have some curves now and would happy to settle in at 135-140.

I was about 140 in HS and a size 10/12. I thought I was huge, but looking back, maybe not so much. The "bad" thing is that I was "skinny-fat" as one of my friends calls it - I was active but ate SO poorly what should have been muscle was all pudge.
I am currently 170ish - and still the same height - but measurement wise I am smaller than I was back then.

god! i look back at pictures and realize what the **** was i thinking? i wasnt fat at all, but back then i thought i was so fat. at 5'10 i was 165. its so depressing how much weight i gained since then! stupid boyfriends and long term relationships and getting comfortable and eating out all the time! lol <~~ thats my story and im sticking to it, its always the boys fault! :)

I was in the 130s, but I definitely felt fat, with a capital FA-can't-fit-into-the-right-size-Guess-jeans-T. I remember one day I caught my two best friends sort of analyzing my thighs. They never said anything, but I felt them analyzing. I knew they thought I was definitely pushing "maximum density" -- it was all very 80s John Hughes movie-ish.

I was 6 feet tall and a slender 150 pounds in 9th grade. Sigh.


In high school, I shot up to my current height of 6'2" and I really don't know how much I weighed. I think I was somewhere around 170-180, and back then I thought I was a huge beast!

I used to be able to wear those short volleyball shorts (they looked more like spandex hot pants!) without a problem. I think even if I could somehow get back down to my high school weight, I will never look decent in those volleyball hotpants again. :cry:

im not sure in ibs but i was 7 and half stone and a size 10, then i left school and had my daughter and went up to 11 stone after that and a size 16, after having my son 17 mths after i decided to lose the weight and went to 9 stone and a size 10 but wasnt happy, still felt fat, im now remarried and the weight has come back im now 12 sone around, and a size 16 again, hubby loves me as i am but i need to love myself so im back on the ball to get back to at least 10 stone, but when you get older its harder so im taking it slow, have a great day all keep up the good work tricia

I have always been the fat chunky one. Most of high school I weight probably between 145 and up to 165. My senior year, I got into drugs and lost all the way down close to 100 pounds. I looked sick. I was healthier and better looking around 145. I would be nice to even be down at 165 right now.

This is an interesting flashback for me. I've recently been looking at older pictures. I think I was about 150 as a freshman. But by graduation I was about 180 or so. By the time I finished college I was about 230-240. I gradually gained after getting married. I knew I was overweight in HS, and I tried to do the right things. But that was when "they" said we should eat a potato, pasta, fat free-sugar laden foods. And with PCOS beginning as a teen, that was a bad combo. I wish that I knew then what I knew now. I also wish I had known more about PCOS or was at least diagnosed as a teen. Thankfully now doctors are more aware.

In high school I weighed 135 and I felt like the fattest person on earth. SIGH! Now my goal is 130, how ironic. My senior year I actually got down to 120 and I looked great but it didn't last because I did it the wrong way. My doc set my goal of 130 but I may go down to 120 depending on how I feel when I get there.

In high school I weighed between 140-150 and I felt so fat. I dealt with some disordered eating in early high school and weighed about 120 pounds. After I was able to overcome that, I hurt my metabolism by eating too little and gained up to 150. My "set point" was always about 140.

Now I wish I weighed 140 again!

175 until my senior year. I lost 50 lbs in my junior year and graduated weighing 125. Maintained 125-135 through college and until my first pregnancy (gained 65 lbs.) Lost down to 118 in between children and gained 75 lbs with DS2. Stayed about 160-180 until I turned 30, then went up to about 205 over the next 8 years. Dieted (yes dieted) down to 135 when I turned 39. Maintained for 3 years, changed jobs and slowly put on 10 lbs. per year for 8 years taking me up to 215. Menopause had a lot to do with it too, I think. And teenage kids - no time for me (or exercise) and lots of meals on the run.

When i was in high school i was between 140-145 and thought i was fat, my family always considered me the "chunky one". After meeting my husband i gained 10lbs and then once i had kids i gained another 40. Now i am struggling to lose.

in highschool i weighed between 130-140 lb and i felt so big and fat....
i lost 25 lb when i was in college....and then gain over 100 lb after i got married and had a baby......

michellenew

I was always heavy in high school. I had a revalation my senior year (when a guy I liked turned me down for a way skinner girl than me) and I hit the gym hard. I creeped up to 215lbs then dropped down to 175 at the end of high school. Went off to college and got down to 165 (all that walking!). Then I met my husband and slowly gained all the way back to 195. Now, after one year of marriage I have decided that I have had enough with being overweight so I am on my way back down, now I am at 176 and dropping...

117,,,oh the good ol' days. Actually, I did get made fun of a lot for being too skinny. Having a baby changed all that. :)

WOW, at 13/freshman year I was over 185, and by graduation I was well over 210, probably closer to 230! Then I lost all that 5years later went to 135 and felt good, then my thyroid when out on me and I gained back to 210 (when I married) now I am at 169 and heading back to 155. I know at 135 I look terrible. I did then and I dont think it would be better now..lol

Senior year of high school I weighed 98 pounds (at 5'4) and thought I was sooo heavy. Then I was introduced to alcohol and delivery in college and well I'm sure you can guess what happened... I know that there is no way I will ever get back to my high school weight, nor should I ever. It's just amazing to look back at pictures and literally I can almost remember taking them and thinking ugh I wish I could lose 5 pounds.

In high school, I was already my full height (5'7"). I weighed generally 120-122 if I recall, and I didn't exercise. I never felt fat or dieted that I recall, wasn't super skinny either. I wore mostly a size 8, sometimes 6, *occasionally* 4 in some brands/styles. Size 8 always felt normal. It was a non-issue.

The lowest I weighed was I think about 114 the summer after high school, because I was sick with no appetite for about a month. Made no effort to stay there. My weight went up and down a bit in college, but not like it is now.

I picked 130 as my goal weight because in my mid to late twenties, I was exercising, including weights, and I was about 128-130 and in a size 8, sometimes 6. So I think I was about the same body size at age 18 and 120ish pounds as I was at about age 27 and 130 pounds. I don't think I would get down to 120 again without losing muscle, but I guess we'll see how it goes :)

Honestly, before I came here, I was thinking I'd aim for about 140 pounds and a size 10 and be really happy with that. I'm not into "skinny." But I read all the goal stories and photos and got inspired ;) I guess I won't really know until I get there. It just has to look good (and "skinny" isn't my ideal of looking good) and be healthy and maintainable with good eatin'.

I think I was about 125-130# in high school. I wore a 9/10 and was plumper than many of my friends. I had no idea how to lose weight other than starving myself or eating cottage cheese all the time. I was quite active, swam, ran and walked a lot. We wore a lot of hip hugger jeans in the 70's and I remember having a muffin top with them. I definitely thought my slimmer girlfriends had more male attentions than I did.

In college, we had a pop machine on the dorm floor and I was in heaven. That and beer, tenderloins, chicago-style pizza and all the food you could eat in the cafeteria, combined with no exercise contributed to a 25# weight gain that I have yo-yo'd with the last 30 years. I actually weigh less now than when I was in high school but only by a little. I am not in near the good athletic shape that I was in then.

I've lost weight on prescription amphetamines in the 70's, Nutrisystem in the 80's, Weight Watchers in the 90's, and Southbeach in the 2000's. I can wear a size 4-6 now (That tells you how much sizes have changed). I think I have finally found out how to eat to maintain this size (South Beach). I'm working on maintenance now. If only I could be as active as I was back then.

hmmm...that was a while ago!

freshman - 150
sophmore - 127
junior - 122
senior 125

I remember walking down the street with my mom and seeing a woman that weighed over 200 pounds and asking my mom if I was as heavy as she. Talk about body image being distorted.

During high school (the sixties) I developed different eating disorders and my family doctor gave me diet pills. It was a nutty time for me and food.

I remember when I was about 12 and pretty active with baseball and cheerleading and being @145 lbs. Maybe on the high side but I was active and pretty solid. 150-155 seemed to be my normal range for awhile. I'm looking forward to being 135ish and solid:-). I've peaked with my weight 3 times, twice in the 180-190 ranges and once at 200. 4th times the charm.