Was anyone woman here "the fat kid" in school?

I can remember going on a diet in 4th grade.  I was short then and weighed 115 pounds.  I was skinny when i was little on up until about 2nd grade and then i started gaining steadily.  I can remember being in high school and weighing 180 pounds and dieting then too.  I know i have severely ruined my metabolism from yo-yo dieting all those years.  I was like the only 16 year old enrolled in Weight Watchers my mom went with me too.  Just wondering if there are any other women here who were fat kids all throughout school.  I think i would have done so much better in school if i had been thin. 

 

Clarice

Clarice- I know where you're coming from! I was definitely the fat kid! My mom tried to put me on a diet repeatedly starting when I was 11 years old. I love her to death, but that was not helpful! I started out a skinny kid, but then slowly started gaining weight when I was eight and then I just ballooned from there. I know I hit the 200lb mark when I was still in high school. I was definitely anti-social and not very outgoing. I often wonder as well, if I had been a healthy teen, if I would have done better.

There's no sense dwelling on it though! I'm doing really well now (academically anyway!), and for all the things from our childhoods that could have messed us up, it's up to us now to do things for ourselves :-)

Good luck!

I don't know if I was really the fat kid, or if I just thought I was. I was never obese, but I was always much chunkier than my friends. While they wiggled into size 8 jeans, I was sucking in to zip up my size 14s. 6 years, 1 baby and 1 divorce later, I look back at those pictures and think that I looked pretty damn good.

Hopefully, I'll get back to looking that good.

Clarice-

Since grade 3.  I can remember being on a diet since I was in the 5th grade.  My mother bought me the diet aide called "Aydes".  Every lunch hour I'd chew this tiny piece of chocolate that was suppose to curb my appetite.  Did it work? hmmm NOPE I weighed 180 pounds in grade 6. By Junior and High School I was every diet or program you could name to get the weight off.  It worked. . . for a while.  My weight would go down by 20 - 30 pounds then I'd go off the "diet" and quicky regain the weight. It was not long I was weighing in at 200 plus.  Like you I'm sure I've damanged my metabolism with all the yo-yo dieting throughout the years.  And Also like you I would dwell on how much better my life would / could have been if only. . but that gets you no where.

Now I'm 46 years of age. I am watching what I eat, exercising (Walk Away The Pounds DVD's) and chatting with other people here on CC.  Since September 17, 2007 I've managed to lose 23 pounds and 3 sizes in clothes.

As I'm sure you've heard before-it's not a diet-it's a lifestyle.

Thanks for the thread-it's always nice to know other people in this world had lives so similiar to mine.

No one ever called me fat to my face but there was this popular girl who would make faces and things behind my back. I was unfortunate enough to have to have a locker beside her for 3 years in middle school. In 6th grade I heard a boy say I was fat to another boy. Ugh! It still bothers me today, I mean I have the mindset that people think I am fat when I know I have weight to lose but I don't look that bad. Lol, not too long ago I had a dream I beat that girl up, I woke up with a smile on my face hahaha

Original Post by kittietrippin:

I don't know if I was really the fat kid, or if I just thought I was. I was never obese, but I was always much chunkier than my friends. While they wiggled into size 8 jeans, I was sucking in to zip up my size 14s. 6 years, 1 baby and 1 divorce later, I look back at those pictures and think that I looked pretty damn good.

Hopefully, I'll get back to looking that good.

 Me too!! I was a chubby baby, a chubby kid, and as a teen my weight re-distributed and i was curvy but still in a normal weight range...and somehow I thought I was humongous. All those years of being teased and tormented really take a toll. I was going to some crazy cult diet centre at age 15-16, ditto on the messed up metabolism from yo-o dieting...I look at pics of myself back then with amazement. I was gorgeous and had no idea. All I knew was mean kids called me thunder thighs. Now I am fighting for my life, to get back to looking like I did in high school! How ironic.

I was always the little fat kid who people picked on and I have always had a low self-esteem because of it and I dont think that will ever change... I was picked on when I went to school for being fat and picked on when I went out to play with my mates by the older girls who lived near by.. They always called me names and once or twice even pushed me around until i stood up to one of them and punched them in the face (i was only about 14 at the time and she was around 18) after that they kinda left me alone..

Plus I remember one time when I was about 15 I went out to help my sister deliver her papers on her paper round (shes younger than me about 13 at the time) and some boys from school said to my sister: "Is she your older sister?! OMG you are so much better looking than her!! Least your not fat!!" It was more or less after that I took some stupid actions... I started self-harming and restricting my calories and at one point was only living on one slice of bread a day... Luckily I didnt get too bad as my librarian who I was really closed to helped me and basically looked after me, forced me to eat/drink, getting me to my GCSE exams and getting me to believe i'm not horrible...

But now i've realised i'm not as fat as everyone used to say i am, plus ive recently seen some of the girls that used to pick on me for being fat and they are now overweight themselves... So i walked past one, smiled and strutted my stuff.. What goes around comes around!!

Gosh i had forgotten about Aydes, i remember not too long after they came out "aids" came along to and they had to rename them!! They never curbed my appetite either!!

 

Clarice

 

 

I wasn't obese in school, but I was always chubby.  In high school, I was in the size 14 - 16 range at 5 feet - 5'3" tall.  Elementary school...if anyone's seen that movie "Little Miss Sunshine," I was pretty much a spitting image of that little girl, maybe a little heavier, and without glasses.  :)

I gained most of my weight and became obese in my late teens and beyond.

I had been fat all my life, even as a toddler.  I used to think that I had escaped the low self-esteem that comes with being heavy, but I have since realized I was wrong.  I spent most of high school and all of college and beyond more or less in hiding.  I never dated, hardly ever went out, and those are the years when I should have been doing all of that stuff.  Now I'm in my mid-30's and having to re-learn how to be social and have fun.  But hey, better late than never! :)

I was a little miss sunshine look-alike too :)

I am not sure when it happened, but at some point people stopped being mean to me, at least to my face. I still get the sideways glances to see what I am eating in restaurant, or people avoiding sitting my me on the bus etc, but I am talking about the direct, to your face, outright meanness, like being called thunder thighs in front of everyone or young guys hanging out their car window to yell "hey fatty lose some weight" (soooo fun). Why did this stop? Am I so big that I have become invisible? Or is it that people are more openly mean to young fat people and just feel sorry for older fat people? It's something I have been wondering about. I don't get those comments but I still live in fear of them. Good times. I will be so happy when I can put that worry away.

i was tall for my age (but stopped growing and am now average) and a little heavy- boys used to tease me endlessly (buffalo butt was my  (and my best friend's nickname in the neighborhood.... I would come home crying and my dad made me make a list of all the boys who teased me and they were the boys to never date :) Never did date any of them- haha.... it was daddy's way to make his little girl feel better-

I still hate those boys lol

i wasn't the fat kid until 8th grade. it was insanely traumatizing to go from normal weight to very obviously fat in a little over a year. it was a lot to take, for me and my classmates. more than anybody, my bitch friends teased me. for four years. needless to say, i'm not friends with any of them anymore.

but it was really hard, guy-wise, b/c 8th grade is when you really start to develop more serious feelings for boys (4th grade for me, but i was fast). so it was terrible being one of three fat girls in class, in a school with less than 10 fat girls in total, drooling over guys who have no interest in you b/c there are literally hundreds of thin, stupider, more willing girls to choose from.

high school sucked.

Ugh, the doctor told my mom to stop feeding me...I was 5.  I was the 2nd chubbiest kid in kindergarten and the 3rd chubbiest in the ENTIRE elementary school by the time I got to 5th grade...including kids older then me.  If anyone called me fat I'd beat them up...unless they were younger than me.  I was a tom-boy. 

What I weigh today is pretty much what I weighed as a 7th grader...only then I was at least 6 inches shorter.  And to agree..HS did suck.  Especially since my sister barely reached 100 freaking pounds throughout HS and attracted boys like there was no tomorrow.

BUT!!!!  BUT!!!!!  Pretty soon I plan on hitting my 6th grade weight!!!  YEAH!!!

Original Post by thinthought:

i was tall for my age (but stopped growing and am now average) and a little heavy- boys used to tease me endlessly (buffalo butt was my  (and my best friend's nickname in the neighborhood.... I would come home crying and my dad made me make a list of all the boys who teased me and they were the boys to never date :) Never did date any of them- haha.... it was daddy's way to make his little girl feel better-

I still hate those boys lol

 *wipes a tear*  AWWW!!!  I don't know your dad but I LOVE THAT MAN!!!

I've literally been the fat girl my ENTIRE life. Literally. One of my earliest memories is being on my preschool bus and a little boy asked me if I was pregnant. I was never a normal weight. Hell, I was born almost 10 pounds. LOL. Sigh.

Yup, I was a fat kid. In fact, my mom made a comment the other day to my older sister (she was the 'skinny' one.) My older sister has gained some weight and my mom said, "Isn't it weird that Jessie's smaller then you? She's never been the smallest." I felt bad because trust me, I know how it feels to be overweight. 

In 3rd grade, I was pulled aside by my teacher and told I needed to start wearing a bra, and my boobs are probably the thing that has shrunk the most so obviously I've been overweight for several years.

In 7th grade, I would get mistaken as a teacher.

And by the time I was a freshman in high school, I was well over 200lbs. 

I was looking at my stats on CC today and realized that I am now classified as a 'healthy/normal' weight. I had to pause a second and let it sink in. Who'd a thunk?

 

um I think your 3rd grade teacher meant under your clothes ;)

I too have memories from when I was very young about being made aware I was "different"...I remember being 7 or 8 and my mom asking "do you really want that?" and shaking her head at a bbq when I went for a second hamburger...I remember being the 2nd biggest girl in elementary school and people always assumed we were best friends, which I HATED, I didn't want to be one of the fat twins....I remember lots and have suppressed even more...makes me wonder what's deep in there.

*raises hand*

Yep. Fat kid. I was tortured in school.

I'm still the fat 'kid' among my siblings too. That'll change in a few years hopefully.

Me too!! I don't remember when I actually started "dieting" but I remember from about 3rd -4th grade on  I was always one of the "heavy girls". My best freind in elementary school was very skinny which of course made me feel even heavier.  By the time I was in Jr high and high school I was wearing 18 - 20s and weighed 200 lbs or so.  I'd go on a diet which would last about a week before I end up telling myself I wasn't worth the effort because I'd never be skinny.  Then several months later I'd be on some new "diet".

My nickname was "Kristi The Mountain" or "Mountains" combination of being fat and having a really unfortunate last name.

I know exactly where your coming from!! similar sort of events and im still young so its still very clear to me but i suppose you never really get over or forget about things like that! I got bullied badly at my first mixed school and my best friend (who still is my best friend of 17 years) is gorgeous and always has been. The boys used to try and talk to her and then would do things like lock me in the hockey shed so i got in trouble for missing lessons or because they knew i hated the dark. Kids are cruel. That was in year 4 im not sure what the equivalent is in America or elsewhere but i was about 7 i suppose maybe a bit older.

Then i left and refused to go to mix school but it actually was worse with girls! They'd pick on me for being bigger and i wasn't even hugely bigger just puppy fat! Eventually i sort of turned into a bully for it, which i regret now but i felt at the time it was the only way i could defend myself. And i turned into a proper tom boy to hide my lumps and bumps with their baggy clothes! Finally sixth form i went to mixed again and the same thing happened but in a different way, i was generally just ignored even though in sixth form which i left a year early last year i was and still am a size 10/12!!! and considering im 5ft9...i really dont think that is fat!

I agree with you though, i think if i werent bullied i wouldnt have kept changing schools i went to 6 schools in about 3 years coz i kept running away or gettin suspended for being a 'rebel'. If i was slimmer then maybe things would have been different but then i wouldn't be who i am now! And nor would you. You should be happy in yourself :-) take it all as a big test and when you see the people if you ever do that used to bully you you can show them how much they didnt effect you! Chances are you're happier then they are because bullies are only bullies coz they have their own insecurities they can't handle.