Any former fat kids?

[gyopsy]

I'm interested in how many DUers were fat as kids and then lost the weight to become thin adults.

When you did lose the weight did it:
A) Come off by itself
or
B) You had some kind of revelation, changed your ways, and finally lost the weight through much hard work

Just for shits and giggles.

[pagerbear]

1. I myself am interested...

...in why the issue of weight keeps coming up.

[gyopsy]

5. It's a massive issue

I don't think I've ever brought it up before on DU, but all over America people seem obsessed with it.

You've got the Adkins diet, the South Beach Diet, Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Loss Solution.

Ironically, the more people seem to "get into" diets, the fatter this country becomes.

[nickgutierrez]

6. The more "fad" diets there are...

...the easier it is for people to not worry about their weight: "Oh, I can lose 95 pounds in a weekend with that new 48 hour grapefruit juice and grain-of-salt diet! I can eat what I want."

[HydroAddict]

2. B.

Problem is, I was a fat adult too. Finally got in shape last summer, lost 60 lbs. 33 now, 34 real soon.

[HydroAddict]

8. Oh yeah, forgot to mention...

My cholesterol fell from 257 to 199. Damn I'm good. :)

[gyopsy]

9. Awsome

Getting that cholesterol to go down is the hardest imho. My dad is as skinny and healthy as they come and his is always up around 300!

[rockymountaindem]

3. I'm 17 and

I lost 30 pounds in a year since last Jan. I'm not skinny, but more "stout" now than fat like I was before. I went to the doctor one day last year to find out if I was going to grow any more. That loser told me he couldn't promise me that I'd ever get to 5'6'' and he told me that I was 30 pounds overweight. Well, I figured that I might not be able to do anything about my height, but I could at least lose the flab and put on some muscle. That's exactly what I've done. I've doubled my biceps and more than doubled my pecs. In addition, I'm almost 5'7'' now. Woo hoo!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Good job, RMD.

At your age, all this works a lot better too, especially putting on muscle, your biological potential to build yourself up is much better at this age.

[gyopsy]

7. That's great

Don't stress about your height though. I'm 5'6 and belive me I'm done growing. I couldn't be happier about my height.

I do think though, that short people have a disadvantage when it comes to trying to be thin.

[camero]

10. Believe it or not

I was a really fat baby. My mom said I was so fat that she had to prop me up on the sofa so I wouldn't fall over.

Skinny for life after the baby fat wore off when I started walking.

I'll post the pic as soon as I learn to scan.

[gyopsy]

15. I was also

But the fat stayed on me until I was about 18. :)

[VOX]

11. Related, opposite problem: Was skin and bones, I mean POW-thin...

I looked/felt seriously defective and took lots of rockets for it from other kids. There are some photos I have of me as a 12-year-old, standing on a diving board -- my ribs stick out like a xylophone.

I also had a bad case of mono at that age, and dropped even more weight. I was forced to eat, eat, eat, all to little effect. In college, I was 6' 5" and weighed 165 pounds soaking wet. That is pipe-cleaner, pass-through-the-keyhole thin. I've had body-image issues that I still lug around.

The irony is that, for all the years of scrawniness, my triglycerides have always been through the roof, and now I'm on statins to keep them down. And the irony is doubled in that I am now 25 lbs. overweight, and am under doctor's orders to get that off.

Seems like *everyone* has to work at this stuff!

Best to all -- :toast:


On edit: typos!

[Nikia]

12. My weight has flucuated, never extremely fat though

I was a bit heavy looking around 10 but it started to go to the right places and I became a top heavy 11-12 year old who got made fun being called Dolly (as in Dolly Parton because I became B cup very quickly then.).
By 14, I was a bit overweight, almost 150 at 5'5''(which looked heavier than when I was 150 pounds as an adult). I was gaining lots of weight every year, but had stopped growing, and decided to stop this trend. I stopped eating deserts, second helpings, and avoided greasy food as much as possible. When I watched television in my room, I did aerobic type dance and exercise during commercials. The next spring, I was close to 120 pounds and joined track. By the end of track season I was 110 pounds. I stayed that light until college.
I am now 130 pounds, hoping not to gain any more weight back from my latest regain. I am thinking about getting into some outdoor exercise soon since that seems to help better maintain my weight. My weight according to the food I eat, aside from near starvation, seems to have little rhyme or reason.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. meeeee

i used to be fat! like 40 pounds more than i am now.

I lost it through WW but mostly it came off because I was doing more sports and growing taller.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

14. B for me. (not positive though)

Revelation: An eating disorder. Took the weight off within a half a year... I went from being a size 12 to a size 2.

Definitely not a good way to do the weight loss thing!

[Bertha Venation]

16. How about a skinny kid who became a fat chick?

:hi:

(BTW if you're a fat kid, don't beat on yourself for it. Honestly.)

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. I was a chunky kid until I went to college.

How did I lose it? Simple, I got into black beauties for a while and I went from 170 lbs. down to 125lbs.
On the other side I was madly in love and I thought the girl I was with did too many so I quit to set an example. It worked and I never went back on them. Since then I have maintained a good weight for my height.