At what time did you start to notice your weight?

I was 12 and my family are all skinny, and my auntie said "wow you've put on some weight, you've a lot of puppy fat to lose" since then I was careful about what I ate.  It doesnt take much really.

I've always known I was bigger than the other girls. I can't really say there was ever a point when I "noticed" it.

In first grade I got teased constantly for being fat. My entire family was overweight and encouraged bad eating habits, and my dad didn't do much to ensure I got any exercise. When I was 9 I went to south carolina to visit my cousins for awhile. We spent a lot of time running around and just being active playing together. When I came back, my grandma told me how much thinner I looked and praised me for it. I never forgot that. A couple years later some of the girls at school would talk about how fat they were because of what they weighed. I was 30-40 lbs. heavier than them. I alternatively ate as little as I possibly could without my dad noticing, and binged when I couldn't keep it up anymore.

I've been noticing my weight all my life. And young children should not have to worry about their weight. Their parents should put more emphasis on becoming healthier rather than losing weight.

I was actually fairly comfortable with my slightly overweight self until the summer after my senior year of high school when I accidentally lost weight due to a job that allowed me to be more active. Of course I played the "I'm so fat" game in high school. After I lost about 10 lbs I became more health conscious, but I have had self-image issues and weight yo-yoing issues ever since. But now I believe I have a better outlook on health and nutrition and would actually love to study nutrition in graduate school once I get there!

Too long, I remember being six and despising the fact that I was so big, and obviously the biggest in the room. So much so, I withdrew. My perspective was definitely askew, because if you look at pictures of me, I was a healthy weight up until I was fourteen years old. It's sad that you can be so young, and beat yourself up over something that doesn't exist.

I'd say 7th or 8th grade.

I've been aware of my weight since the end of elementary school. When I was in elementary school and junior high, I was what everyone called "tiny" and people commented on and complimented me about it all the time. When I started gaining weight (or stopped looking like a complete stick... however you want to look at it) I noticed, and worried about it a lot. Luckily, I never did anything drastic about it.

I noticed it as soon as all the kids in the neighborhood learned to say "Fatty". Probably 6 or 7.

I only started working on it when I was 14, though. 7 years later and I'm still struggling to get it under control.

i have been pretty skinny all my life, and my friends knew me as the girl who'd eat everything and anything and not get fat....

i noticed my weight in a bad way when i was 15, and my athletics coach singled me out one day and told me that i should do something about my 'jiggle'. lose some weight or something. i was 5'5" and 100~105lbs then, and it killed my self-esteem. (incidentally, the BMI of most asian girls that age is around 17... unhealthy, much?)

i went into a whole cycle of disordered eating after that, and started gaining a whole lot of weight, especially after i stopped training and my lifestyle became pretty much sedentary. when i hit 125lbs, my parents started commenting that i was becoming really 'pui' (a chinese dialect word for fat). and it's not exactly off the mark, considering that my entire family weighed under 130lbs. my dad would go on about how athletics made me bulky (i was a sprinter), and how my legs have gotten really thick... weight has become a recurrent issue since i was 16, and i resent it...

I was always teased about my weight back when I was a kid, even when I was playing baseball I was a bit overweight and the coaches would even comment that I could lose a few pounds.  My weight really began to bother me when I was 13 and just started high school; a few of the older kids would say some awful things to me on a daily basis, and it only got worse as I grew bigger.  By the time I was 16, I was 5'7" and weighed around 265 pounds, a weight I would remain at until I graduated and started starving myself.  I have since been down to 185 and was as high as 255, and I still heard the comments about how fat I was from all my friends (who all happen to be content, skinny college students). I've been losing weight again (in a more healthy manner this time), but I have a feeling people will be making me aware of just how much I weigh until I can see my ribs.  So much for tolerance =(.

mean people suck.

whatever happened to the old adage if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all..

more humans should generally adopt this philosophy.

incidentally..yes yes i have been conscious of weight and all that jazz since entering the public school system. hmm..

grade 10 i became very health concious, I was about 115-117lbs and always considered myself to have a nice body.. I was always told that I had a nice bum haha

BUT when i went back to winnipeg for a weekend and met up with an old friend who had lost a lot of weight since becoming a vegetarian (she didn't research it enought or eat properly and was constantly called anorexic in high school).. me and her were hanging out at her house and this boy came over. For some reason, I don't remember why, but we both stepped on her scale. When she stepped on it read about 100lbs (she's like 5'8!) and went I stepped on it read about 120lbs (I am 5'2).. I looked over at the guy and saw his eyes open and him mouth the words "whoa"

since then I started trying to lose weight and be healthier.. it was okay at first by spiralled into an ED 1-2 years later.

as for my friend, she had to stop being a 'vegetarian' and has gained weight since those many years ago

6th grade.

I can't even begin to wonder why I thought I was fat back then. I was always kind of chubby as a little kid, and my family called me "Gorda" [spanish for "chubby", lol], and it stuck, which I kind of took offense to when I got older. I was NOT fat at all in junior high.. in fact, I was quite slender. I started skipping breakfast in 7th grade and couldn't understand why I was gaining weight if I was eating less [not taking into account the fact that I had grown like 4 inches over the summer!]. In 8th grade and my freshman year of high school I actually GOT fat, and I've since blamed that on my trying to lose weight when I was already teeny. arrrrgh.

Ugh..... thanks for dredging up bad memories, hahaha! 

I was in middle school, 7th grade I think, and was getting changed for gym and some kid started making fun of me and calling me fat.  I had never before that saw myself as or thought of myself as fat, but from that day on I always did. 

Once I initially lost the weight in HS I still never saw myself as being in shape or skinny, even when I was a sickly (for a guy with a large frame) 127 lbs at 5'10" during wrestling season on year.  My weight has been a constant struggle for me since that day in 7th grade and I often wonder if I would care half as much about my size if it hadn't been for one mean kid, who I barely even knew, calling me fat.....

I noticed last year when I was looking at pics of me when I was 6 and now I noticed That I was huge so I tried my hardest to loose weight and now I know its working because now I have curves again even my family has noticed

Original Post by doedoebird:

i have been pretty skinny all my life, and my friends knew me as the girl who'd eat everything and anything and not get fat....

i noticed my weight in a bad way when i was 15, and my athletics coach singled me out one day and told me that i should do something about my 'jiggle'. lose some weight or something. i was 5'5" and 100~105lbs then, and it killed my self-esteem. (incidentally, the BMI of most asian girls that age is around 17... unhealthy, much?)

i went into a whole cycle of disordered eating after that, and started gaining a whole lot of weight, especially after i stopped training and my lifestyle became pretty much sedentary. when i hit 125lbs, my parents started commenting that i was becoming really 'pui' (a chinese dialect word for fat). and it's not exactly off the mark, considering that my entire family weighed under 130lbs. my dad would go on about how athletics made me bulky (i was a sprinter), and how my legs have gotten really thick... weight has become a recurrent issue since i was 16, and i resent it...

I can definitely relate.

I'm Asian and I've almost always been over-weight.  I'd constantly get comments from various relatives and family friends along with my own parents as well who are pretty over-weight themselves.  I remember the comments starting when I was as young as five and getting teased for being chubby.  There was always a pressure on me to lose weight which was pretty impossible considering the food choices my parents make.

The summer of seventh grade was when I really decided to do something about my weight which quickly turned into hardly eating.  That brought on a huge slew of disordered eating including purging and taking laxatives.

It wasn't until I got to my highest weight ever, that I decided that I needed to focus more on health rather than searching for a quick fix, and here I am now over a year later.

At age 13. I weighed 210 pounds and I  pretty much hated my body. I started to lose weight during the summer of 7th grade and I never looked back. That was 3 years ago. I weigh 142 now and I am close to my goal weight of 135. I am very happy I started losing weight then instead of waiting because I could of gotten very obese.  I am a happier girl now.

I was probably 11. I wasn't even fat but a boy in my class called me that one day. The way I thought about my body has never been the same.

I was 14, one of the teachers at school said to my Dad that I need to watch what I eat because I was starting to get big.  This was particularly embarrassing because he made the comment across the room, in the middle of a staff meeting (my Dad was the Principle).  At that stage I weighed 120lb, which is underweight for my height 5'6, and I was also swimming competively, and training for over 10 hours a week.  It did give me bulky shoulders etc, but by no means was I fat, or even slightly overweight.  Not long after that I stopped swimming, and I lost all the muscle, and dropped to 100lb, then all the teachers started going on about me being anorexic. BH I you can't get anything right.

I noticed it when my family (who are Arab and puts lots of emphasis on weight) started telling me that I needed to lose weight in order to be pretty and be attractive to a man (They told me this at age 11).

They (my aunt and my grandfather whom I live with) put me on a really strict diet and I dropped 30 pounds, but grew to resent them and started binge eating on sweets to piss them off (like I would eat 10 Little Debbie's at once or a half gallon of ice cream).

Now I'm 180 and can't control my bingeing. It's funny because when I was little, my mom and dad was poor so I went hungry alot (like days without food, and I used to eat the most). My family used to say I was beautiful back then. They started calling me fat when I was 8 (when I got put in foster care and started getting regular meals), and I've never felt beautiful since. My family ties my beauty to my weight so I've never heard them call me pretty or anything else but fat. They also make fun of me behind my back, talking about my weight to their friends and other relatives. And they wonder why I despise them. 

(Isn't it just fantastic that I actually had to starve to fit my family's definition of beautiful . I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way)