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 was 5. I'd et asked stupid questions like "Are you anorexic" -I hated that, it's so rude and nasty, it's not like the people who asked me that even cared if I had such an awful illness, they just wanted to find a negative reason as to why I was so skinny and why they were so... well, not.

Adults would tell my mother and some times myself that I was to thin and needed to put on weight.

It was stupid really, at 5 years old I had so much more growing to do, it was like people were saying wrong or something?

I'm still underweight and I'm always the smallest in the room, but I'm older now -I've developed an acid tongue for any one that dares to ask if I have a life threatening mental illness, and I've learnt to dress to suit my shape and all that, plus I'm just more mature.

It still bothers me a little though, and do want to gain weight (for myself) so I can be healthy.

I was always a skinny kid, we were fed healthy meals and didn't have many sweets or takeaways.  But when I got older and started earning my own money I would buy all the food I wanted and obviously put on weight.  I never thought twice about my weight and calories etc when I was younger and thin, then as soon as I started to, my weight yo yoed. So I would have been in my early 20's.

when I was about 17, a jerky ex-friend of mine referred to me as "sausage legs" in front of a bunch of mutual friends, including a guy that I liked.  I was mortified and from that point on I became very conscious of my eating choices and exercise habits. 

I was always normal until 4 months before I got pregnant because at that time I lost some weight (I didn't do it on purpose, I was just going out with friends more and not eating my mother's cooking all the time) and I was really skinny and I LOVED it.  I went down to 145-148 and was soo estatic (ironically, I have no pictures from that time, lol).  Then I got pregnant.  I went up to 192.5lbs and after the baby, I weighed 178.  I felt so fat about 3 months after that because at that time, I only got down to 165-ish and stayed there until recently.  I was sooo embarassed with myself and refused to even wear anything cute.  Now I've gone shopping and I'm starting to look great again.  8 more pounds until I am where I was right before pregnancy!

I was about 11...my mom made a comment about me having a big bum and it kinda went from there.  It sounds so silly now that I think about it, lol.

I was always thin. Like at 12 I weighed about 60 pounds and I thought to myself "Will I ever reach 100 pounds?" lol

I started a modeling school when I was 15 and all the emphasis on weight and pretty and tall and stuff just triggered me to start caring about my weight.

I was always a big eater. I ate anything I wanted and in really big portions. Like im talking huge. And I never gained a pound. When I actually started caring about my weight, its like I gained 20 pounds instantly. I hate it.

 

humm I would have to say grade 11, I was never a 'fat' kid.. I was never overweight, I was always active, ate fairly decent. In grade 11 my friend and I decided to become a veg and therefore cut out meat, she stopped but I kept going with it and it eventually lead to an obession. Once people starting noticing the amount of weight I lost they became concerned and I didnt want to go back to the weight I was before (5'6 130lbs). I was finally the skinny, tiny girl.. why would I want to change that. There was also a few other things that triggered this urge to be thin, I was told I had "cankles" once (you know no ankles). And I also wanted to impress a guy, and my motivation was "be skinnier than his girlfriend and he will like you more" I got so skinny, and he was mine eventually.. but soon left me for his girlfriend. Again lead to another weight loss problem. Not cool.. I hate calories, we should be concerned with eating healthy and working out on a daily basis.  

about two months ago. im 13, aka going into 8th grade.

i went to a pool party and i was by far the biggest there

i freaked. before that i was normal, maybe a little bigger than my tiny friends.

theyd always poke me on my thighs and arms and call me thunderthighs because im a runner and play like every sport possible.

its ridiculous how many people jsut look at weight. i hate being so selfconscience at such a young age but i cant help it. i want to be small.

In grade 8. I didn't even know what skinny or fat was. I was like all innocent or something, I didn't even know what drugs or popularity was. Then I made friends with a bulimic/ ex-anorexic. She weighed less then me and was always complaining on how fat she was. The strange thing is, she made puking sound all glamorous. All the girls thought she was so pretty, and so I asked her to be my jogging buddy so I could loose weight. And so it began.

Well I first noticed when I was eight and my teacher asked everyone how much they weighed and wrote it on the chalk board so she could show us how heavy we'd be in space. My weight was the second highest in the class next to some boy who was way taller than me.

Ugh i can relate meliss, I remember always being heavier than everyone else and everyone always blamed it on my height but i was always chunkier. Then i went to fourth grade adn all the little bippity boppity bitches in my class made fun of me and i reached my highest weight ever.  I was so sad, but when i graduated that grade the habits still stuck and i was fat from then on even though i wasnt sad anymore.

I still have the chub to prove it.

I was about 10 when the teasing began.  took 36 years before I reached a normal weight. 

About 6th grade, age 12....my sisters wud always tease me n call me fat....i wasnt tht fat tho but they just liked to tease me about it. so since then ive always been self conscious & sometimes  obsessed w my weight and sometimes more of my family would tell me im putting on weight or need to watch it....it hurts like hell when they're mean about it n im still tryin to go down to 100 lbs but its def not easy, ughh!!

I was about 13, and I overheard my aunt tell my mother she's noticed I had put on a lot of weight. I had just stopped growing, and gained about 20 pounds without even noticing. My mother who has weight issues herself yelled at my aunt for even mentioning it, which made me feel even more ashamed. From then I've always been very concious of my weight and what I eat.

I've always been quite big. I never 'noticed' it until last year sometime. I was looking through some really old photos of myself and I thought 'good god, am I really that big?' reassuringly my boyfriend told me I had lost some weight since these photos, but at the time of the photos being taken - I didn't think I was big; a size 12 sometimes 14. After that I stopped eating for around 6 weeks, I survived from drinking coffee, and I didn't stop doing 'home exercises' I went down to a size 8-10. Mum took me to the doctors and I got told that if I kept this up I could end up in hospital. I didn't want to go into hospital but I hated being the person I was and I couldn't eat. I felt physically sick, I wasn't diagnosed to be mentally ill however mum kept saying I was. After a few more months I met a guy, he liked me but he said I could do with putting a bit of weight on - that meant eating; I couldn't do that! Each time I saw him I pretended I'd eatn. a month down the line I was content with him and starting to eat around him ( about the only times of day I would eat) after 6 months of being with him I went back to a size 12 and sarted to fill out a B-Cup bra. Now I'm still a size 12-14, not as big as what caused me to go on the starvation method but I do need to shed a few pounds! :)

I was 6. I was visiting my grandparents with my younger sister for the summer, and my mom told me to be careful what I eat at their house. She said she didnt want me to gain weight, because my grandma is a pastry chef and is always making some delicious dessert. At the point I was a healthy normal size for a 6 year old, however I started to obsess about anything I put in my mouth.

This lasted throughout high school, where I was an incredibly tiny girl. 5'4" and about 108-110. People would comment on how small I was and it made me feel really good. Then when I got to college I started being depressed. That, combined with buying my own food, I gained about 20 pounds.

Right now I am at 123 lbs. I know this is a healthy weight. But I still don't feel good about myself because when I look in the mirror, I don't see a tiny girl anymore. And it makes me kinda sad.

There is a big, long history to my weight obssession and it started in 5th grade. I was slightly overweight and my peers either treated me like crap, ignored me or made fun of me. Ever since then I've had this consuming fear of becoming overweight, to the point where I've done drastic things in order to prevent it from happening. This has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I starved myself before I knew what anorexia was; for the longest time I thought I was a freak because everyone else seemed to eat much more than me. I'm better now and at a healthy weight, but it has gotten pretty bad in the past (I once lost 60 in a little over 3 months and became 20 pounds underweight for my height). I've also had a problem with compulsive exercise, which is something that seems to be getting worse. I'm working on developing a healthier mindset and being less obssessive about food, weight, and control. 

How old was I when I noticed?: like, 8
How old was I when I actually started to care?: 14

I'm a dancer and I never really thought about my weight until I started getting more serious about dance, which was after a competition when I was 14 and I got some special awards and an invitation to the national dance team. I didn't go because we were going on a family vacation the week of nationals, though.

I was in the fifth grade, and I started noticing how some of my friends' hip bones would stick out and blah blah. I became very conscious of my stomach, which was not even big at the time. At that age, I was 5'2 and weighed about 95 pounds. I didn't stop eating or anything, I ate normally, but I did a **** of exercise as soon as I finished my homework until I went to sleep. Mostly crunches, but a whole lot of other things too.

Then I started forgetting about my weight, since I was extremely active, having sports nearly every night of the week, and I actually started eating like a pig, and never gained a pound.

Now, three years later, I had an operation, where I was completely sedentary for two months and gained about five pounds. I want to lose that, and a bit more as well. I am stressing more than ever.

I noticed I had gained a lot of weight when I saw my college grad pictures, I was huge for me. After those pics, I decided to start watching my weight and to get down to my old size.