When Did You Start Putting On The Weight

[vanilla-cupcake]

Childhood, Teenage years, adulthood???

I started putting mine on in my 20's (im 30 now)

I was 10st when I got pregnant with my 1st son (age 23), I put on about 3st in my pregnancy, I was with a rat at the time and just couldn't loose the weight, had my son in 2002 and after a yr decided I'd had enough of living with a piece of sh*t and left him.........the weight fell off......best thing I ever did!!

In 2004 met my delicious husband and within 6 months had 2 stone on me then found out I was pregnant with my daughter and of course more weight :sigh:

Had my daughter in 2005 and weighed about 15st

Got married in 2007 weighing 14st 3lb and 2 months later found out I was pregnant again Only put on 1st 3lb thank God!!

Had my 2nd son 10 months ago and just couldn't stick to any diet properly, joined weight watchers when he was 6 wks old and lost 1st and then put it back on again after I got fed up with it :sigh:

So here I am now , had my band 3 weeks ago, have lost 1st 1lb and hopefully the rest will soon come off

I CANNOT wait to be in my size 12 clothes again!!

 

[AA1234]

I started being overweight in my teens. When I got to adulthood I was always between 12 1/2 and 13 1/2 stone. After I got married and fell pregnant I put on 5 stone with my son. I found it hard to shift the weight (in fact nothing moved for 12 months) then finally after 2 years I was back down to 12 1/2 stone. Although my weight has always swayed.

Then I fell pregnant with my daughter and put on 6 stone!! 18 months later and I had actually put on 1/2 stone and hit 17 stone!! It was finally time to do something.

Had my band 11 weeks ago and have lost 3 stone 12lbs. I have no intention of ever put that weight back on. I also aim to be the lightest I have ever been as an adult and get to a healthy BMI.

 

[pinkladyMK]

i was young ive always been big so this is a big thing for me as im very scared as i dont know how im gonna feel once i lose all the weight as i have never been nothing other than BIG.
but we will hopefully see in the near future.
xxxxx

 

[marky v]

i've always been a 'chunky' fellow, i went to a boarding school from 11-16yrs, and one of my lasting memories is the medical staff being worried about my weight even back then, i was put on a 'diet' at the age of 12, luckily i was quite active at school, swimming, rugby, football etc, so my weight never ballooned, as i said, left school at 16 and have been up and down weight wise like a fiddler's elbow since then, now culminating in me being my heaviest ever :sigh:

 

[Mazza]

Hi

I started to put the weight on two years after my daughter was born, so five years ago.

I was a skinny, skinny child - used to get teased because of it. When I left school I was 5ft 5 and 5 stone!

Over the years I gradually worked my way upto 12 to 12 1/2 stone in my 30's (was 9stone and a size 8 when I got married aged 24!).

I was pregnant with my daughter and gave birth just after my 33rd birthday. I put on 1 1/2 stone during the pregnancy but soon lost that on the Rosemary Conley diet.

Two years down the line I was admitted to hospital with severe abdominal pain - to cut a very long story short I was diagnosed (eventually) with adhesions from surgery whilst pregnant and endometriosis. The treatment I have rec'd ranging from hormone injections to HRT have had a major effect on my weight gain as has being in too much pain to even get out of bed.

Thankfully the pain killers I am taking allow me to manage the pain and if I get my weight down by September I can have the surgery I need to fix my stcuk together bits lol.

Hopefully my band will help me to achieve this.

Maz x

 

[Silversurfer]

I started putting weight on 20 minutes out of the womb ! - was always a chubby kid and since then i've only known a couple of times in my life when i've been considered of a normalish weight, sadly those times never lasted and the weight went back on with avengance.

Guess its one of the reasons our minds take so long to catch up with the new slef body image !

 

[fuze]

I have always been overweight since I can remember. When I was born I was only 2 pounds as I was born prematurely and I was poorly, I think I must have started compensating since then trying to put on the weight I needed. I have photos of when I am 2 to 3 years and I am the chubby child. I have always been the chubby/ fat child. I had an awful time at school with bullying and to be honest I have never had a good time of things since I was in infant school and I still get it now. Lately the stares and talking behind hands of ignorant people has got me down. I dont normally let it get to me as I am comfortable with the person I am (if i could be healthy and happy and stay this way then I would but that is not possible) but I think that now I am so close to the possibility of a new life that its getting to me, I am now more worried that something may happen so its not going to go ahead and im always going to be the fat friend.

Sorry for my little rant/ carry one, it just came flowing out as I was writing. I think its because like everyone else you have to deal with certain things and realise certain things before surgery.

 

[thinkbethin]

I can't ever remember being "normal". I've always been the "biggest" in the family of 5 siblings. I had my first son in 1988 and gained 3 stone which took me up to 15st. I then fell pregnant with my daughter and had her in 1990 and gained 2 stone and then fell pregnant again with my 2nd son and had him in 1991 and my weight went up to 19stone. I have fluctuated between 15 and 19 stone since and have never been able to keep it off. When I went in for surgery I was just under 20 stone which was my all time heaviest. To be in the "normal" bracket (whatever that is) will be so alien to me its scary.

 

[teen]

for me was 17 years ago when I got pregnant and put 6 stone on drinking 4 pints of full fat milk a day lol. One had daughter I lost some then gained more

 

[phatmomma]

As a child i had an uncle who actually used to greet me with the phrase 'whorro fatty'. I guess that meant hello fatty. At this point i was about 9 1/2 stone and 5ft 6 ish i guess. Not particularly fat i thought but hey, anyway because of this i would occasionally be taunted by my brothers with the title 'fatty' when they wanted to upset me.

Anyway i met my ex and just before i hit my 20th birthday i had my first baby (a whopping 10lb + boy). I juggled been a first time mom and working with takeaways and easy options, before i knew it i was in a size 24 and growing, i think at my largest i was in a 28/30. Anyway in 1996 when my son was almost 10 i remember walking somewhere and some boys behind me tittering (as they do), for some reason this gave me the jolt to try and lose weight with a slimming support club. And i did it, i got down to a size 20 (which to me was small) and lost 83lb in the space of about 8 months. Then at the same time my dad died and i got pregnant with my first daughter. With death n pregnancy came the excuse to eat what i want and when i want, it was after all for the baby not me. Yup, you got it, all of my weight went back on and i finally gave birth at about 22st to a 9lb 9oz baby girl. A couple of months after her birth i decided i owed it to my dad and the rest of my family to go back to my slimming club so i did and lost a couple of stone.... and promptly found out i was pregnant again. Yup, you got it, another excuse not to diet, i couldn't deprive the baby of what she wanted! Had baby number 3, weighing in at 11lb 6oz and promptly booked in for sterilisation lol.

Since then i've weighed in always at around 22st, and tried all the slimming clubs, milkshakes, tablets that reduce appetite, restrict fat absorption and i'm still no closer. Well okay am about half a stone lighter than when i had child number one.

I'm happy enough, until you go somewhere and you think people are watching you. You walk around the supermarket and see people checking out your trolley to see what rubbish you got in it. It's amazing how i can put thoughts into people's heads.

I look in the mirror and wonder who that fat person is looking back. I refuse to let go of the slimmer person that is lurking inside beneath the layers of flab. I want to bounce on the trampoline with my girls, i want to go on the fun fair rides with them too. Everything 'normal' people do.

On the downside i have a wide network of bbw (big beautiful women) and FA friends who socialise in a nightclub specifically for us larger women. I love the atmosphere and am gonna miss the odd occasions i go, but i am not going to miss all the down sides of been larger. I'll just have to ask my larger friends to come visit with me where they will be accepted for the people they are and not the size they are.

 

[Sambucca]

Great thread.

I was very skinny as a young child. My mum would watch me eat as she thought I was anorexic. As puberty arrived and I developed I became a more normal weight and was about a size 10 - 12 when I left school. Once I passed my driving test and stopped walking everywhere I put on a little weight but I was only about 11stone 7 which at 5ft 7 is a healthy weight.

When I fell pregnant with my eldest the weight piled on. Especially towards the end of my pregnancy when I suspected my fiance was having an affair. He was. I was 16st 11 when my DD1 was born, and I found the courage to chuck the useless tosser out when she was about 2 months old.

Then as a single mum, my weight went up and down but I hovered around 13 - 14 stone which I though was horrendous at the time - but looking back, it was size 16 - 18 for me which I should have been happy with.

I met my husband about 10 years ago, and gradually with contentment the weight has crept up. When I had my youngest dd 5 years ago I was touching 17 stone again. At this time I was running my own pub and eating and drinking crap so its no wonder my weight wouldnt go down. Ive tried everything over the years. All the "normal" diets as well as the pills.

When I left the pub in 2007 I discovered Cambridge diet and managed to lose 4 stones getting down to 13st 13. I felt fantastic - but the weight has soon gone back on with interest.

I am now my heaviest ever. Around 20st7lb This WLS cannot come soon enough for me. My health is a big concern to me right now. Only 5 weeks to go and I will start getting my life back.

 

[mells]

I was really podgy baby, that became a chubby toddler. And on and on...

My mum still says she doesnt understand why I was fat as a child by brother s and sisters were slim to average.

Then as I got older it was all about eating the wrong things. But not huge quantities, you know like they often portray on the television.

 

[vanilla-cupcake]

Great answers everyone, gives you an insight into how others think and why they are going for surgery

 

[Bonita]

I was always very skinny and energetic, even used to teach/judge/compete in dance for years, then I got Ovarian Cancer at 34 and had to have a total hysterectomy. Thats when the weight started to pile on.

Over the years I developed Arthritis in my knees, hips and lower back which made exercise almost impossible and even more weight came on. Hopefully this surgery will break the cycle for me..