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 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.
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Now, I weigh 168/170 (depending on the day) and I desperately want to get back to 135.
How things have changed.
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.....
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
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.
