Lightweights? Heave Since Childhood or Heavy Over Time in Adulthood?

I was 100 all through high school but remember starving myself and exercising like crazy to stay there. I started gaining in my 20's. I dieted off and on for the last 23 years but I could never get below 152, until NOW!! Yeah!

I was always up and down when I was really little, started my period at age 9, quit growing taller at age 10, and struggled with weight since 13.  I went through a horrible time with first marriage (abusive) and started popping pain pills, got really thin, then got clean and gained a ton of weight that I could never take off.

...until now.  

Starting gaining after I got my period at 11. Very, very chesty.  Funny thing is (well not so funny) is that when I look back at the pictures of me through my early teens I really wasn't heavy so much as chesty!  Too bad my famly didn't see it that way.

Which makes me wonder--how many of us were only overweight people in our families and how many came from heavy families?

I was the only heavy one.

I am *not* the only addictive person in my family though = but the only one that had food as their drug of choice. 

same here.  my dad and brother had their own addictions

I was a scrawny kid! I probably became officially overweight at around 24 years old. I really, really place blame on fast food. I grew up really disliking most foods. I would beg to eat ice for dinner! I found I really liked crap....and so the story goes.

My dad called me pleasingly plump!!!  Well I was nl weight, but always wanted to weigh less, started fasting on and off in the 7th grade, for crimminy sakes...with my parents blessings!!!!  Weight didn't really get to be a real issue until I hit menapause around age 40.  (though I was always going on some diet or another before then).  The last 20 yrs have been sad, Weigh****chers, FenFen, WW another 6 or 7 times, always loose 30-40 lbs, then gain it back plus some.  I just had had enough of being morbidly obese and just couldn't make myself on back to WW.... I knew I'd fail...my self esteem was beginning to suffer.  Then I heard about WLS for LWs!!!  I though it over and over and decided to take the plunge, glad I did!!!

I thought I was fat as a kid until I look at pictures now and realize that I wasn't even close to fat.  I got married at 22 and weighed 153 (I'm almost 5'8" and weigh 148 now).  At 26 I had my first child and kept on about 20 lbs and weighed about 185 until I was about 40-45.  I then quit smoking at 45 and gained 40 lbs, broke my right wrist at 45 and gained 10 lbs, broke my left wrist at 45 and gained another 10 bringing me up to my high of 255 when I had surgery a year ago.  At 185 at my height, I wasn't terribly overweight but the 60 lbs in the last 3 years really put me over the top.

I have been heavy since birth (10 pounds baby) after that up and down on my weight.