Can you get back to your high school weight?
 

So, when I graduated high school, I was between 115-120 lb. I stayed at 120 lb until I reached the age of 25 (at which point medication interfered with the natural process of my weight so I just don't know what would have happened otherwise).

My doctor said that it is physically possible to get back to the weight you were when you graduated high school. I'm 38 years old now.

What do you guys think of this? When I think of getting to 120 lb now, I just feel like that's completely physically impossible. And it's not even my goal because I feel like it's so impossible. But I guess technically, my bones haven't grown, I'm still the same frame underneath all this blubber lol.

However, I'm wondering, IS it possible? Has anyone ever experienced getting below your your original goal and close to your high school weight?

I was 118 when I graduated, wearing what would now be considered a size 2/4.

I weigh 125 now and wear a size 2/4. I have bigger boobs, booty and a little bit of tummy from kids. But mostly I have actual muscle. I didn't work out the last two years of high school.

At my lowest weight, I was 145 pounds - I was 15 at that time, and I lost more than 100 pounds to get to that weight. I've based my goal weight on how I looked/felt at 145 as well as the weights/heights of other women in my family - I still had a tummy at 145 and was a little flabby, so I'm aiming for 135. I'm of course open to a different goal weight (higher or even slightly lower) when I get closer and see how I look/feel/how much muscle I have, but for now I'd like to weigh LESS than I did at my lowest high-school weight, and I definitely believe that it's possible.

I could get back to my high school weight -if i want to gain about 80 pounds ;)

We have put human beings up on the moon. Tonight go look at the moon and think about that for a second.

We've built tunnels under the sea.

Without machinery people built the pyramids.

Is is POSSIBLE? Of course it is possible.

Is it probable? Maybe but it depends on a large number of factors.

I think worrying about a specific number on the scale is going about things in an unconstructive manner.

Being healthy, having a positive self image, and other similar goals are in my opinion much better than worrying about what the scale says when you stand on it.

Anything's possible.

I was about size 14 or 16 in high school (not sure of the exact poundage). I got down to 155 pounds (size 10) just a few years ago - and I'm also 38.

Exactly. LOL!

:lol: Oh JohnP, you crack me up.

Yeah, I know. I'm not obsessed with a specific "number" anymore. I'm old enough to know better and, honestly, if I was 135 and looked and felt awesome, that would mean more to me that seeing a scale that said 120, or any number for that matter.

This was more of a curious question. I thought it was an interesting topic for discussion.

Well I suppose my high school weight wasn't that ambitious - I was a size 12/14 and about 160-165 pounds. I've always been curvy and muscular, and definitely didn't look fat.

And yes, I was able to get back to it, even after morbid obesity and a few babies. I began this pregnancy at 163 (and am STILL under 200, even miserable here at the end and waiting to give birth) and was a size 10/12 and medium in many tops. My hips are a bit wider, my bust is larger, and overall I am actually much more shapely at this same weight than I was as a 14 year old. Basically, I look hotter now than I ever did then :D

If I could do it, ANYONE can! I'm a sloooow loser and have taken several breaks by circumstance and choice, both. But I hit my high school weight and am not done losing yet. It can definitely be done, even if your body has never been this small as an adult many of us can still manage this feat ;)

Ha! Exactly, Jen!

Hells to the yeah! I'm back to elementary school weight. And, fair enough, because I'm pretty much the same height!

While in most cases it's possible, as we get older and our bodies change, women have babies, things shift, were you actually maybe a bit under normal at that time?

Who knows?

I was around 155 and 5'4" when I graduated, back when the dinosaurs stomped the earth. I'm now 5'5" and have had twin babies and I'm 53, and I weigh 138, but, oh my, stuff has shifted! Gravity is not my friend! LOL.

Given a couple of flabby spots, I could really lose 5 more pounds, and part of me wants to, but right now, I'm content maintaining where I am. I never thought I could get to 138 and stay!:carrot: Let alone lose 5 more pounds.:dizzy:

In my case, my body composition is somewhat different now than it was 36 years ago. My shoulders are a lot broader, hips a bit wider, given childbirth, the girls have gone south, and given the last 18 months of strength training, I have thighs! Muscular thighs! I also have an a belly pooch, partly inherited and partly due to the size of the twins, over 6#'s each! And stretch marks, oh my!

It's all good. I like my body! I'm strong and I think I look hot all things considered!

I can, but I was chubby in high school! My initial goal weight of 135 is what I weighed in high school. I'm actually hoping to get a little lower, but I'm just going to get work towards that and reevaluate. :)

It would seem like it being 5'6 and 120 lb, but actually no, I wasn't "skinny", I just looked normal-slim. I was very healthy, worked out 6 days a week, very Britney Spears in her Slave to You phase type shape (not saying in any way I look like her, that's just very close to my body shape). I have had no babies either.

That's I guess why I can't imagine being my high school weight again - just all the hormones and womanly things in general...

Hey there,

Your goals are really similar to mine. I wasn't starting to gain tummy weight until my 2nd year of college, and I would like to get back to the weight I was in H.S.: around 125/130. I'd have to lose around 40 lbs.

Reading the replies above give me hope. I hope they did the same for you :D

I think I'm probably about what I weighed in high school, and wearing about the same sizes. I'm wearing 5s/7s which is what I wore then, but I know my waist is bigger now than it was then. I have no idea what inspired me to do it, but I do remember measuring my waist in HS and it being 24", whereas now it's 25.5" (could do with a bit more sculpting work though!)

That being said, I've not had any kids so my overall body shape didn't change as I got bigger, it just looked a lot more padded. :)

If you asked me before I had a child, I would have said yes. Now I say maybe.

I weighed 112 at 5ft tall when I graduated high school. The closest I've come to that was weighing 118 in grad school when I was 22-24.

I don't know what I weighed in high school, I think I was wearing size 8s/10s maybe. I grew some more after I left school as well. But I wasn't very fit. I thought I was really fat. Ha! I dressed poorly for my shape. But this was partly because my mother always bought my clothes for me. She's not really into me looking good...she still buys me unflattering clothes and I'm 42!!

I've had a kid, I've gained a lot of muscle. It would be cool to be back in 8/10s, but that may or may not happen. I'm not interested in being tiny. If I got down to 8/10 now I'd be very different in composition.

I'm 5'9" and stayed at around 127lbs until my mid 20's.... And actually when I first came to 3fc I set that as my "Goal"... But I've realized that's probably pretty unrealistic now... And I've abandoned it... I really feel that all the gaining, losing, and regaining cycles that I've put my body through, even though not all that terribly "extreme" (20 to 40lbs or so...) has been enough to make losing that much weight exceedingly difficult... Unfortunately, I did some actual metabolic damage... But fortunately, I've still been able to lose a lot of weight and maintain that with exercise for now... But I know with my weight history just "maintaining" is probably going to be the bigger struggle...

I thought I was so large in high school, probably weighed about 145lbs (I never remember weighing myself in high school, so weird). I played sports year round and walked to and from school every day, plus walked all around town with my friends after school.

When I look back at high school pictures, I wish I appreciated myself more and gave myself credit for being pretty and thin. So many regrets...

When I started dating my DH soon after high school, I wanted to be comfortable eating in front of him (something I never did with a boyfriend before) and quickly gained to 159, I remember seeing that on the scale at my gyno's office. 159 was HUGE!!

I would give anything to get back to 159, I'd be half the person I was when I started this weightloss mission this time around. I do know, once I get to onederland, I will never ever go back to the 200s or 300s. I can't take it mentally.

I weighed 178 pounds when I graduated from HS and I was not fit. Last spring I got to 165 and I felt I wasn't thin enough. Now I want to kick myself as I sit at/around 185 (not weighing myself for a few months, so I have no idea of precise weight, but it's close to there as I just started skipping the scale).

So, for me, 178 is for sure attainable, but that's because I wasn't thin in HS. BUT, I also wasn't enormously huge, like I thought I was. I truly wish I knew way back then that 125-130 for my frame was impossible and would have been happy at the 155ish I probably should have been.

As JohnP Said. Is it attainable for most of us? Probably, but why do we need to be that number? Isn't healthy and active and fit the real important thing?

Sophmore year I was about 125p and by Senior I was about 135-140p. Senior year's weight is more realistic and ideal for me and I'm only a pound away. ;) I start to feel sick and light-headed under 135p.

I was over 200 lbs for most of high school, so gaining back 75 lbs. might be a challenge, but not one I'd like to try for. Right now I'm around the same weight I was in 6th grade, BUT I'm also 6 inches taller! I was fatter than I am now for just about my entire childhood/teenage/young adult years, until I was 29 years old! So I'm not one who looks back on the good old days of high school as when I was thin. I put on my prom dress from high school and it's huge on me!

I'm not sure of my exact weight when I left school, but I am now 3 dress sizes smaller than I was then! :carrot:

I was anorexic in high school and have no desire to be at the weight I used to be then. I am content with my new healthy goal. Everyone is different.

Yes, if we go by dress sizes instead of pounds/fat percentage, most of us are smaller than we were in HS, unless we were in HS very recently.

At 178 finishing HS, I was wearing a 16. (1988)

At 185 now I'm wearing a 10. Unless, you count that size 16 skirt that fits the same as as the current size 10s I can wear.

Oh, and in dressmaker's sizes, I think I wear an 18. At my thinnest (165) I wore a 16! When in street clothes I was wearing an 8 (except some dresses where 10-12 is smallest I can go because of boob size, but then it's too baggy/loose in the hips).

I am back to around the same weight I was when I graduated high school so I say it is possible but I am/was not healthy and plan to go lower. My sz 16 jeans from HS do not fit the same due to some loose skin or I wore it with a muffin top back then. I can't remember, it was 10 years ago. The old jeans are very loose in the butt and leg area but muffin-toppy in the waist. I am a 17 since 18 is too way too big for me. Hopefully another 5lbs, I will be able to fully fit in a good solid 16.

i remember sizes from high school but sizes are so different these days...i remember the horror of trying on a size 16 prom dress in high school :( but i look at my photos from back then and i dont think i LOOK like a size 16...i have no idea what i weighed in high school

body changes too...about 7 years ago i wore a size 12 jeans at 210 pounds before i got pregnant...i loved those jeans!...after pregnancy they just dont fit right anymore :( the hips, the waist, it just doesn't feel right anymore and although i keep them, and i weigh 180 now, they still dont fit right to wear again

at 180 now, this is the lowest weight i've ever seen on myself

I was 6'7" and weighed in at 175 lbs. Here is a picture of what I looked like.

I thought "The Machinist" was actually a pretty good movie... Although I wouldn't recommend the diet that he supposedly followed... Which I heard was something like a can of tuna fish and apple a day... ;)

Not sure what he did to lose the weight for "The Fighter" though... Maybe that "diet" was a little bit more well-balanced... :)

When i graduated i was 140 pounds, when i was 31 i was 110 pounds and at 33 i was 100 pounds (NOT advised as healthy!).....your doctor needs to review things.....

I was 140 in high school. I thought I was HUGE. I look back at pictures now and realize I was in incredible shape! That is my goal weight now and I WILL get back there :)

Goodness, I hope not! ;) I'd have to gain back over 30 pounds.

I was less than 120 when I graduated. I can't imagine that now, but once I get to my goal of 145, I'm planning to reevaluate.

I was 150 in high school, and thought I was so big. Compared to all the skinny girls, I suppose I was, but looking back, I looked pretty darn good.

I don't think that number is realistic for me - I've gotten huge boobs and an underactive thyroid in the 20 years since then - so I'm shooting for 160. Although I think the BMI chart is crap, I really want to fall in the "normal" section. Although, after 6 months of hovering around 185, 160 is starting to seem like a pipe dream, too. :(

I was between 118 and 120 in high school, so other than my bloat from this week I am a pound away. I was in weight training class most of highschool and had bigger boobs then. I honestly like my shape more now, with the exception of my baby pouch and boobs that have gone from melons to lemons. Lol. I think it is posible but for op u r kinda tall, well compared to me so your actual goal sounds much better. I currently fit a shirt I wore on my 18th birthday. Yay. But it's not very stylish.

Ha ha--John--I didn't see The Machinist, and I was trying to think of something nice to say. Like, Wow, you were really, Really lean--were you a runner?! ;-)

"I truly wish I knew way back then that 125-130 for my frame was impossible and would have been happy at the 155ish I probably should have been."

- Melissa.

Heck yeah! I remember seeing these girls with tiny frames and thinking because I didn't look like that I was fat. Like I said, I was outta shape... I wanted to be one of those tiny girls. Guess what! I ain't. This is why I DO like some of those real women campaigns and why I'd like to see sportswomen (and not just the tiny ones!!) promoted more. We need to learn to love what our bodies can DO and not just what they look like.

I was 100 pounds in high school. Before when I gained all my weight, I wanted SO bad to be 100 pounds again. But when I look back it, I looked very sick. I had muscle but I was just naturally skinny so there was nothing to me. I would be very happy with 115-120 right now. I feel like that would be a good size for me and I would be happy. No way would I want to be high school weight, but a healthy weight that is semi close to it would make me happy.

hahaha i've been big all my life. I remember that one time I weighed in gym class and was 170 something and I never weighed again until the day I started my journey at 293 pounds!!!! So I want to get below my HS weight for sure lol.

I was around 170 when i graduated and i hope i never ever get back to that weight. I bought into the low-fat craze and had no idea that sleep was good for you; consequently i gained 10 pounds every year in high school. But...my body was tight! Stomach was completely flat, although i've always had thunder thighs and always will. Unfortunately the body just changes with age.