Something I overheard some thin girls talking about. They seemed to think that fat people were and will always be fat and thin people will always be thin because we are designed that way and even if someone programmed to be fat even though they may lose the weight it will always go back on, now I'm sure loads of us know this is not true. But I started thinking about me. I was a slim child, then an overweight pre-teen, then a thin teen and now I'm overweight again but intending to be thin, so in the unlikely event they're theory was true where would that put me as it appears I am neither programmed to be fat nor thin? Also I like to read trashy real life magazines and the people in there with stories about being fat almost always say they were always big. Do you think it is easier to lose weight if you were thin in the past?
I've heard some statistics that say its much more difficult to become thin if you were large as a child. But with that, there is still the percentage that managed to lose weight and keep it off.
I can't say for sure if bodies are built a certain way but I do know that the eating habits we get when we're raised are very hard to get rid of. Perhaps some are raised with better habits or just slightly better genes. In the end, we all get big as we age, unless we work to stay thin.
I was raised from age 6 to around 14 to have a candy bar each day. Now at 23 I am finally achieving success by cutting down to one every other day. I've seen others raised with soda and they can't seem to give it up for anything.
I'm very similar to you roobear! Slim until I was about 9, then overweight, slim again between 13 and 16ish, now obese. I think it's a matter of determination: sure, someone who has always been overweight may struggle to maintain their new healthy weight, but if you're determined enough I'm sure you can do it
I was small as a kid, but then started to get bigger as a teen. I thought I was fat, but I wasn't. Not really. I gained a lot of weight in the last month of my pregnancy and then had a very difficult recovery compounded by the fact my husband turned into an abusive (emotionally) arse-hole which led me to wrongly choose to do lots of comfort eating.
I AM large boned. I do put on muscle mass easily. I wouldn't have it any other way. I do have to lose weight though. I need to be healthier and fitter. I don't aspire to be thin. I aspire to be svelte and fit.
I was a skinny child till I was 13, then I gained weight and thought I was fat, buts wasn't. Then since 18 gained and lost weight ( i am now 30), I am now the biggest I have been, had my baby 7 weeks ago and want to loose the baby weight and more!
Moonsai - Don't believe you can't lose weight if you have always been big. I thought I couldn't but now know I can! I did it. I was always big or huge and I am at a normal weight. It took some time but it wasn't hardship! I only takes commitment and perseverance. It is not like people who were skinny before know more about losing weight that we do.
I read something like "You are not special, everybody is the same" a few days ago. While it sounds harsh at first, it is true I think. We all have the same opportunities but also problems in terms of getting fit. Different ways maybe but it is a challenge and you have to take it head on because YOU CAN DO IT!
I was 'average' sizes til around 4 or so and then after a short spell in hospital and some medication to boost my appetite following an illness there was no stopping me! I don't know if I believe it's easier to lose weight if you were thin before, but I guess you know what you're missing (as in you've been thin and enjoyed everything that comes with that) so maybe your resolve is stronger. Personally at times being a healthy weight can feel unattainable and maybe if I knew for sure I was able to do it because I'd been there before (not that I'm NOT able to lose weight but you know what I mean right?) I wouldn't sabotage myself quite so much.
I was always thias a child, not too thin but never overweight and I was the same throughout my teens. When I was about 18-19 I remember feeling bigger than I was a size 12 but with having broad shoulders and all my friends being petite I felt I was always bigger.
I gained my weight when I was pregnant lost it pretty much straight afterwards but then as I became a stay at home mum and spent a lot of time at my mum-in-laws who is an amazing cook, I gained weight and the more i noticed this the more I comfort ate... I still do this now although I am cutting down considerably and loosing weight is keeping me motivated
I was skinny as a young child and then as a pre-teen to 16ish was kinda normal, but bigger than many of my friends, however looking back at photos I wasn't fat then, but my frame was just larger than theirs so I always thought I was fat.
I started to put on weight when I was 17 and going through an emotionally traumatic time and food was the only thing that seemed to help. At this point I also stopped horse riding and athletics, and by the time I was 20 I was probably at my biggest, although I never weighed myself bettern being 17 and 25, so I'm going off photos which I recently started to look at.
I then moved abroad for a year and finally got my head into gear somewhat, and with it stopped drinking far too much and started to eat much better without really noticing, and lost a lot of weight. I wouldn't be surprised if I went from higher than my SW to less than I weigh now that year.
Came back to the UK, brought back the demons and the bad habits and got fat again. Left again, lost some but not all of the weight, then stayed pretty constant for a couple of years until a couple of years ago when I accidentally, but this time not for emotional reasons particularly, jut started to eat ridiculous amounts of food, and it wasn't until I got really big again that I even noticed, and finally got my head in the right place to do something about it, and have been plugging away at finding the inner healthy and fit me ever since.
I firmly believe that with the lifestyle changes I've made I'll get to the healthy weight I want to be and stay there. My past weight has bugger all to do with it. I do also hope that the healthy me is also a stronger me that can finally confront and lay those past emotional demons, and with those gone, I WILL continue to improve my relationship with food for now and forever.
Huh, I was a chubby kid brought up on chips with everything and always at the chippy for supper i'm a really picky eater and it was the only thing that mum could get me to eat but I was never obese and after having kids I was always around 9 stone and could eat anything I wanted then I decided I wanted to lose a bit so cut down on the chips and got down to 8st 4lbs. I've always eaten chocolate though and drunk lager. It was only when I hit 40 that the weight started creeping up that and discovering when you ask for a lager over here you get a PINT needless to say chugging them over the years and eating big meals has got me where I am now I don't want to be a stick insect but i'll be a lot happier around 140lbs saying that though I thought that was huge when I was 112lbs i'm an emotional eater too hunger as buggerall to do with it i'll eat just for something to do that's my biggest obstacle. I can be on plan no problem when i'm at work but on my three days off at home its the s t's! Like now i've just had wheaties for breakfast and i'm struggling like mad to stop opening that drawer and eating an easter egg! They have got to go Anyway, getting back to the question. I think to some degree genes play a part but lifestyle plays a bigger part. I had a fat friend when I was a teen she did it and kept it off so can we!
i was failure to thrive multiple times as a baby - i often wonder if that wasn't a root cause. but i didn't actually get fat until i was 13 (was always drastically underweight and it has affected my adult height, as my arms and legs are shorter in proportion than they ought to be) and was trying to deter predation from someone who really should have known better.
i've been both majorly obese and underweight - from a social functioning pov, i prefer obese. nobody has expectations and they actually listen to you.
but from a i-don't-wanna-die pov, i guess slim is in.
Last edited by threenorns; 04-07-2012 at 02:46 PM.
I look at photos of me as a child, and I was perfect, not too thin, not too fat... I was always picked on at school since I was about 5 for being fat... but I now know I wasn't.
I didn't really notice my weight gain until i hit my late teens... like 18 or 19... and even then I wasn't bothered by it... I'd been bullied all my life for it and i figured it was a part of who I was supposed to be.
It's taken me all this time to realise I CAN change, and as I write this sentence, I'm welling up... purely because I feel stupid... for leaving it this long.
Hi
I was ok until I got into my 30s. I moved in with my fiance and started comfort eating. I've never been happy with my body when I was a size 10 and slim I thought I was still fat. Silly how we are never satisfied. Since then I've lost the weight I gained twice on WW but it's crept back on over a couple of years. I'm calorie counting this time and want to keep it off for good. I'm never gonna be as slim as I was in my 20s, but I want to feel healthier and change my eating habits for good. It's funny though someone at work was shocked when they saw a school pic of me. Think he was looking for the chubby kid
Good luck everyone
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Last edited by chocmonster2012; 04-21-2012 at 12:57 PM.
Were you always big?
i'm a really picky eater and it was the only thing that mum could get me to eat but I was never obese and after having kids I was always around 9 stone and could eat anything I wanted then I decided I wanted to lose a bit so cut down on the chips and got down to 8st 4lbs. I've always eaten chocolate though 
and drunk lager. It was only when I hit 40 that the weight started creeping up 
that and discovering when you ask for a lager over here you get a PINT 
needless to say chugging them over the years and eating big meals has got me where I am now 
I don't want to be a stick insect but i'll be a lot happier around 140lbs 
saying that though I thought that was huge when I was 112lbs 
i'm an emotional eater too 
i'll eat just for something to do 
that's my biggest obstacle. I can be on plan no problem when i'm at work but on my three days off at home its the s 
