your weight in HIGHSCHOOL

okay so basically, it was suggested that i start a topic to see how some of you felt about yourself and your body image when you were in highschool. appearantly, most people are unhappy with their body-image, especially in highschool. so im curious. how tall were you and how much did you weigh in highschool? and what did you think about it?

I was 5'4" and weighed 115. I never thought about dieting and I ate what I wanted. I was happy with my body but hated my hair and teeth and was so shy that I dressed very conservatively. I wish I would have dressed more sexy to show off what I had back then! ha

Girls just didn't obsess about weight or diets at all when I was in high school.. that's why it's so weird for me to see young teens on here obsessing about calories.

I was 5'6" and for every year of HS I put on 10 pds, weighing 120ish by grade 12. I was very unaware of my body, just figured I was average.

I had a very similar experience as jenniferthepennifer as far as girls obsessing over thinness or lack thereof.

Oh Man!

I was a child of the 80's where you could never be too blonde to skinny or wear too much blue eye shadow!

I was 5'7 105 and I didn't even try to be that small I just was probably because i didn't know what a calorie was and I was too busy galavanting all over the place playing social butterfly! I thought I looked great then I put on 20 pounds in the 90's and realized I didn't look great anymore.....instead...I was Smokin Hot!

Funny how you change the way you think.

Not everyone wants to be a waif.

In H.S. I weighed 92 pounds at 5'2" - except for when I went down to 76 pounds Junior year.  Yes it was really bad and unhealthy.  Yes I was anorexic.  It took years to get to a normal healthy weight. 

In HS I was 5 5" and 120. Now (grad school) im 5 5" and 140. Never appreciated how skinny I was in H.S. Although, its nice that the girls got bigger...just wish the thighs didnt too..:) Overall im pretty happy with 140, and the BF loves the curves.

Interesting topic.

I'm 5'4 and in highschool weighed about 120 throughout. I ate chocolate bars daily, an entire can of pringles as after school snacks. I ate everything and anything I wanted and didn't gain a thing.

I didn't have any body image issues - which seems to be out of the norm from the posts I had the time to read.

However I did know that I was a weakling. I may have still had a good body image generally - but I had zero muscle and zero athletic ability. I was for sure the dreaded "skinny fat". Even my friends called my body type "gushy" - which didn't bother me because I was honestly gushy!  I didn't exercise because I hated sports (still do to this day - and as a teen I didn't know much about strength training until I got a part time job at a gym - ironic I know...)

Now even though I'm 130lbs I feel like I'm in better shape than I was when I was 10lbs lighter in highschool. I can certainly DO more. Lift more, run farther etc. I'm less "gushy" too! Always a bonus.

And as far as 5lbs lighter or 5 years younger? I like my age and living in the now. Being younger doesn't sound so appealing to me. I like the wisdom that comes with age! And even though the scale isn't exactly on track yet to my goal number - it is close - and I wouldn't want to cheat the process. I'm pretty darn happy where I am and numbers on scales don't mean all that much. Just one frame of reference!

I was probably 130-145 for most of high school (5' 3.5").  I know I passed 119 in 7th grade (8.5 stone, which is what my mum weighed at the time; we were the same height and I always ressembled her, so I was *not* happy about getting heavier than her) and I passed 9 stone (126 pounds) sometime in either 7th or 8th grade.  Once I hit 10 stone (140 pounds), I gave up and stopped weighing myself.

The irony is that now, my goal is 130-140 and now that I'm nearly there, I'm pretty happy with my body.  But in high school, I hated that same body.  Go figure!  (I guess the boobs could be a factor, but still...)

I was 140 ish when I started high school and at that point had 5-10 bottles of mountain dew a day.  I cut down to 1 a day or so the last two years and got to 130.  Of course when I started college I gained 50 pounds without drinking any soda, just by eating too much of various things which would normally be healthy.

Well, I'm still in high school, in senior year (Thank God!) and at the beginning of the year, I was hovering around 140. I got up to 143 a couple times.

As of late, I'm 128 (my middle school ending weight, I think), hoping to get down to 115 by June 19th. It's a stretch, but I can do it. x3

Back in middle school, I thought I was the chubbiest kid. I was in the middle. Not exactly fat, not exactly skinny. I was the fattest kid in my family.

I'm still jealous of my sister. She goes to gymnastics once a week and is taller than me. She eats whatever the hell she wants after school and doesn't gain a thing. Me, if I eat after school, I gain like, a pound. I hated her. HATED.

She even makes me cry how perfect she is. 5'6", 130 lbs. Body of a gymnast. Eats whatever she feels like. Brown hair, sharp blue eyes. God's make-up.

Eh. Beautiful. Contrasting against my 5'1", 128 lbs. Body of a couch potato. Watching what I eat like a hawk. Dirty blonde hair, aqua blue eyes. Overload on the blush. You couldn't even pick out my eyebrows in a picture. ><

I always thought she was the prettier one of us. Still do.

But I'm hoping to change that a little.

I was 5'3'' and weighed 97 pounds. Now I'm 5'3'' and weigh 130, so I feel super fat! I still have a BMI within normal range, but my stomach is way bigger than I think it should be. I never had a problem with weight, but in 2007 I started on some meds which have increased my appetite and I also went from a very active lifestyle to a very sedentary one.

WOW.... High School... I don't think I can remember that far... The 80's are just a blur to me know...

From what I remember... I was 5' 8" and weighed 150... I played a ton of sports (Hockey, Baseball, Sailing/Racing Team(s), golf) so I very fit and lean... then the injuries started to occur, particularily in hockey, and weight came on...

My goal right now is to lose 25 pounds with excise and eating right. So far, I have lost 5 pounds.

I don't think I will ever see the 150 mark again... But I know I will feel better with 25 pounds off..

 

I was 5'0" and never weighed more than 105.  And I thought I was fat!  Ugh.

In grade nine I was around 145, and by grade 12 I was 155; I'm 5'8", so I've never been overweight per se, but I didn't feel great about myself at 155 because I was kind of soft at that weight.  I'm 143 now, and these days I try not to put any emphasis on the number (though sometimes I still do) and just concentrate on how I feel and how my clothes fit.

In high school (my senior year, which was 8 years ago) , I was 5-7 and weight 135ish...i played field hockey 9 months out of the year, and could eat anything i wanted (and did...some days I had 3 school lunches!), and never gain a pound. I had a 6 pack...then I traded the 6 pack for a keg in college LOL.  I got up to 185, but am now back down to 161.5, with a little more than 20 to go!!