I was an underweight kid until puberty. Then chubby, then slender. After kids...same story. It was like one day I took a drink of water and blew up like a dry sponge!

I was always told I was heavy as a child, there are 7 kids in my family and I am the only heavy one. My mom is bulemic though and so she always told me I was heavy. As I look back at pictures I was not heavy, I was taller then my sisters so I weighed more. But my mom started me on diets at 10 and was so strict watching everything that went in my mouth that I started food sneaking. So after loosing and gaining over 400 pounds I am having WLS on 7/31 to finally rid myself of this demon that has controlled my entire life!

I was slightly chubby as a child but got heavier around 10 years old. I remember being obsessed with food. At 14 the weight dropped off as I started playing tennis and getting interested in boys! LOL! At 16 I was about 130 lbs which was very slim for me at 5' 6".
Then at 18 I left home to go to college and, coming from a very strict home diet-wise, went mad eating just what I wanted when I wanted. I was 170 lbs by the time I left college at 22!
I continued the trend of gaining 10 lbs per year reaching 210 by age 26. OMG - that's 80 lbs over 8 years!
Then I began WeightWatchers and Slimming World and over a three years lost 50 lbs which I kept off for a couple of years for my wedding.
However, within 18 months of married life I had regained every one of those 50 lbs! 10 were back on by the end of the honeymoon!!!
At age 33 I had my twin boys and gave up work to care for them as one has severe special needs. Hence I reached 260 by 2008 when I had my surgery, almost aged 42!
OMG! This is like therapy - I've never seen it all written down like this. I had actually DOUBLED my weight from when I was 16!!!!
Thanks for the question. Hope I've not bored you all rigid;)
Jackie

I have been big my whole life. the 1st time I remember thinking something was wrong with me was when I was 7. My class was weighing each student and I weighed in at 125lbs. I didn't understand why my # was so much higher than everyone else's.

Everyone in my family was overweight. My mom,my aunts,my grandma, were always trying new diets. I ordered my 1st diet pills out of the back of a magazine when I was 11. I look back at pictures and I don't really look like the huge kids from maury(tv shows) but even as an adult I weighed more than I look, but when you are a kid, you don't understand that . I was 186 in 8th grade and was 264 when I got married at 19. I am smaller now than I was in high school at 192. To think that in another month or so I will weigh less than I did in 8th grade is crazy to me.

I refuse to let my kids grow up on a diet like I did. While I want them to be smart about their choices. I want them to love themselves and be confident, in a way that I still am struggling with myself. I have a goal size more that I have a goal weight, because I finally understand that some people just weigh more.

I was a very skinny child matter of fact they told my mom I looked malnourished. In the 11th grade before I became pregnant with my first son I weighed 95. With my first son I gained 90 pounds. I lost back to 110. and then the next gained more so on and so forth for upto 4 pregnancies I weigh now 109 which I have not weighed for over 20 years. It is great.

I was chubby, but not fat, I was about 125 in highshcool. After Graduation I gained 15 but really packed it on when I became engaged 150lbs. After my 1st I was up to 180 droped to 160 and the climb started after that, slow but sure. My second daughter got me up to 180 again and I didn't loose after her. I lost after my divorce back to 150 gained again to 180 when I became engaged. A slow gain from there on out.

I guess you can say I'm a happy eater, and I'm happy a lot. Damn, I've never looked at it that way before. HUMMMMMMM