Have you always been overweight?

Another point of interest might to many ... how long have each of us been overweight. I have been overweight my whole life. I have no concept of what it feels like to be a normal weight except when I was born (5 lbs). I'm 51 years young and have gained and lost, gained and lost over my lifetime. Care to share a little bit about yourself?

I have been overweight all my life, I'm 41. My most successful weight loss was through Phen-Fen, 100 lbs., but stopped taking the pills and wound up at my all time high of 320. Have been the consummate yo-yo dieter and went so far as to try hypnosis! =} It still feels like I'm going to wake up from a dream...to actually be successful long-term...AMAZING!

I always thought I had a weight problem, for as far back as I can remember. My mom (god bless her heart) was always thin, and was always on me about my weight. Looking back, I wasn't really overweight... Maybe twenty pounds, but that's it. I'm very tall (6'1") and I know it sounds like a cliche, but I *do* carry it very well. (As well as you can carry 312 pounds anyway. Thank GOD for my height.) Looking back at my highschool pictures, I looked pretty good. Wish I would have appreciated it back then instead of constantly torturing myself over it. My weight skyrocketed once I entered college. Once I dropped out of school it went up even higher. Then PhenFen came along. I lost sixty pounds and looked phenomenal, even at 200 lbs. Of course I freaked out over my minor heart issues for about three years after I stopped. I got pregnant and that was all she wrote. I now weigh 20 lbs more than I weighed the day I had my son.

I have always been overweight. I wasn't the "fattest" kid, but always chunky. I weighed 66 lbs in first grade and by 6th grade I was 132 lbs. By the time I was a senior in HS, I weighted 215 lbs. It's been pretty much up hill since then. I have no concept of thin. Yes, getting thinner, but never thin. I went shopping with my husband the other day. I went into the "normal" size clothes section. I picked up a pair of size 14. (Normal 14). Anyway, I couldn't even imagine. I think I could fit a thigh in a pair of those now. I figure I will be able to fit more clothes in the washing machine the thinner I get! LMAO!!!

Yea, pretty much my entire life. I wasn't always one of the fattest kid, but I had many things going aginst me as a kid, so Teasing would never go away. Always the tallest girl, tons of freckles, glasses, overweight & a fairly poor tomboy on top of it all. I was doomed. :oP Anyway, I have no idea what it feels like to be a "normal" size person. I look back at pics of me at 180-200lbs and can't BELIEVE I hated myself then. Hitting 320 really put things into perspective. I'm a little over a week away, I can't wait to get started on the "losing" side.

Yep. I was cubby at 2 years old, fat by 11 and obease by 20. Sigh.