When started counting calories

I was wondering how old you were when you first became conscious of your weight and the age at which you first started dieting/changing your eating habbits?  I was always known as a thin/skinny kid and (sadly) I already wanted to be even skinnier when I was in 6th grade to maintain that image of the cute skinny child. I also had this complex that my stomach was really big and I felt self conscious about it. From highschool and on I was careful about the number of calories I took in and I am now 21 and still doing it. i used to be embarrased that I did this and would not tell anyone which is why I like this site so much because it helps me to realize how not alone I am in this.

From the age of 13 my mum would 'pinch an inch' on me and tell me that I had to be careful of what I ait, at 14 I was put on my first diet and now I'm in a bit of a mess.  I look at pictures of myself when I was 14 and wish I was still that skinny. 

It was only a year ago when I saw a picture of myself with my boyfriend and hated what I saw.  It was a shock and I started looking for a website to help me lose.  I found this, read about peoples success with it and started.  So that is the point I became concious about cals.  Before the only diet I'm been on was a crappy weight watchers diet which didn't do anything for me.  I learn nothing about what and how to eat untill I started with this sight.

I was 17 my first husband,who was my boy friend at the time, constantly compared me to other women and found me wanting. I've had a weight problem ever since, fortunately now,finally, I am in control and losing weight to reach an acheivable sensible weight.

I've seen photographs of me at a family party where my ex refused to go with me because I was so fat and ugly, I was a UK size ten. I remember when I went back to work after having my second child and whilst clothes shopping for 'work suits' my ex burst into to tears, I asked him why? His response 'You know I never thought I would be married to someone that needed to buy clothes in a size 16!'

How long has it taken me to sort myselff out? You decide, I'm 51 years old.And thank goodness these days if a partner ever spoke to me the way my ex did I would tell them to get a life!

Interesting footnote, he left me for a much younger, much slimmer woman, they have since had a child and he has the waistline of full term pregnant woman of at least quads,she's not wearing too well either!

Haha! Rosl, you make me smile.

Third grade is when I noticed that I was a chubby kid. I didn't try to do anything about it, though, because my mom told me it meant I was about to grow taller. (LIES!) In sixth grade, my doctor asked me why I had gained so much weight. I was like twelve, what did I know about nutrition? In High School I wasn't the thinnest girl, but boys still liked me so I didn't care. The day of my first wedding dress fitting, the dress didn't fit. That was the beginning of me seriously hating the way I looked. So, I was about 8 when I noticed and 18 before I decided to do something about it.