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 5'3" and 115 which was at LEAST 10 lbs too small for my frame....I look back and pictures and cringe- bones sticking out all over the place.  However since I had a 24" waist and solid c-cup breasts I was pretty pleased with myself. ;)  Possibly the only person on the face of the earth who didn't hate high school....the dubious distinction of being the hot chick among the geek clique was good enough for me.  Maybe my standards are just low!

i was 6'3" and 245-250 starting at age 15.  i was the largest kid in my class all the way through school. 

heres an interesting question...would you rather be 5lbs lighter, or 5 years younger?

I am 5'8" and in high school I was around 120-125...I was in ballet so of course, I thought (and was told) that I was far to big and needed to lose weight. I was really hard on myself and would often diet to the point of not eating and then of course gaining it all back afterwards...

Grew up and had a child and ballooned to 164. Now, I am losing weight the healthy way and am down to 137. My goal is 130 so I'm almost there :)

juicebox04 - DEFINITELY 5 years younger!! lol!

4'11
at the end of junior year i grew to around 120. now im 114 and trying to get down to 105-110
bunches of girls all around me stick thin, healthy thin, naturally thin...its all my friends talk about and although i dont like us sharing insecurities...i think ive got the lowest self esteem sometimes

dolceamara on page two had an excellent story about confidence though - gotta hold my head up high until i believe it for myself

I always felt fat ever since junior high when I hit puberty and went from a size 1 to a size 11-12 in a year. I'm 5'4", and have been since I was 14. I didn't really come into my own until the year after graduation. At graduation I weighed 158 or 168, I don't remember which, but 168 is what I weigh now. It must have been 158 because I lost 30 lbs after graduation and was about 130 and felt GREAT about my body. I felt to awkward in highschool but people I know from highschool now tell me they think I was hot even at my heaviest. It's just hard to believe when you feel like the fattest girl in the room most of the time.

I went to a very small school my senior year (25 kids in my graduating class) and I was probably the 2nd largest girl in my class. I think it goes to show that being stick-thin doesn't equal sexiness and beauty in everyone's eyes. I felt so fat. I still look fat in my graduation pictures to me. I think a big part of what attracted people to me was that I was a very happy and bubbly person. But that's neither here nor there.

I guess the answer to the question is that I fluctuated between 140 and 160 and ALWAYS felt like the fat girl. Always. I look back at my pictures when I was about 140 and I looked pretty darn good. I'd love to get my 140 teenage body back. My goal is to be 131 though :)

Neither. If I were five pounds Lighter or Heavier I'd see myself as unhealthy.

If I were five years younger, I'd be missing out on where I am in life currently.

If I were on my death bed and an angel came down from the heavens and asked me " If you could change or do one thing before you die, what would it be " Giving me the option. I'd do it all over again, and never change a thing.

im still in high school but so far its been

2003- 132 pounds + 5'4

2004-  94.7 pounds+5'6

2005- 123pounds+ 5'6

2006- 147 pounds+ 5'7

2007- 112 pounds + 5'7 

I'm 5'8" and weighed 120-130 in HS. During swimming season, I think my lowest was 120 or 125, and something like 15-18% BF. I was fine with my body for the most part, but there were a couple of stray comments (made by other girls, of course) that made me more self-conscious than I needed to be. It's stupid how the negative comments are the ones that seem to stick...typical of those years, I suppose.

in response to the 5 lbs or 5 yrs...
i'm definately going to have to say the 5lbs lighter based entirely on the fact that I would never want to have to be 15 again. Too many insecurities and personal issues back then.

I weighed about 145 for my 5' 7 1/2" frame.  I thought I had a little chub, but I was curvy in the right places and really liked the way I looked.  I was a ballerina and a track runner.  I wanted thinner thighs, but I don't know many women who don't say that.  When my first son was born, he had MONGO thighs.  And that's when I finally realized it:  if they are cute on him, they must be cute on me.  :)

95lbs,5'6" That was 1976.AND I thought I was fat.I never ate anything if I could help it.

 so what all that got me  was fat ,fat,and fatter.

203  lbs. in 2007 but down to  194,trying to get healthy

I was 5' 8" and when I turned 16, I weighed 175.  If I lose 5 more lbs, I'll weigh that again! :D

In high school, senior year, I was 109, just under 5'3". Now I'm 115. I did keep an eye on the scale, was not athletic and could not eat whatever I wanted. I didn't think I had a hot body, but I knew it wasn't that bad.

Great query juicebox. It would be great to be 5 years younger. I take it then I would have to be 5 lbs heavier. That would be ok. But there is a trade off. Would probably not go for the 5 years younger for 15 lbs heavier. I hate carrying that extra weight!

haha, well its easy for me... if i were 5 years younger id only be 9 years old! but 5lbs lighter and id be really, really close to what i would want to lose. then again...if i were 9 again, i could start dieting then and stop myself from being fat in the first place...hmm. i think id take that then because theres a lot i would want to take back. haha. but that would change other things..man, idk.

everyone is so tall. i wish i were taller. :/

wow jaybird, your weight really changed throughout the years. what grade are you in?

I was 5' 7" and was 140 at freshman and 160 at senior.  I didn't really think about my weight much and i geuss i just rationalized but looking back i was quite a it overweight.  Now that i realize how unhealthy i am and i know how to fix it I'm trying to get to 130.

I was 5'7" and 128 pounds. I felt fabulous, I looked fabulous, never worried about my weight, ran after boys half the time, studied hard the rest of the time. I had immense drive, immense pride and immense joy in life.

Wow, I've calmed down, along with putting on a stone :-(
I'm working on getting down to 139 now. Then we'll see.

I am 5'5 n 1/2", I think.  I usually say I'm 5'6". I don't know, I have scoliosis, I think that makes a difference with my frame.  If my spine were straight, I'd probably be 5'7", at least.  Anyways, I was 180-210 in high school.  I was one of the fat girls and it was awful.  Was I self-conscious, hell yes.  I tried dieting so many times, but because I knew nothing about nutrition, I thought the way to lose weight was to starve myself.  So, I'd do that for awhile, then lose weight.  Once I started eating again, I'd gain even more weight.  I had a lot of issues with my school, though, and eventually quit to homeschool.  Once I was out of that place I started dieting seriously.  I have maintained a healthy weight for 7 years.  Wow, that shocks me to write that...I am 24.  I can understand the push to be thinner though.  I stil have that to this day.  I have days where I still see myself as that fat girl.  But you aren't fat.  You're still growing and I wish you could realize that what others say/think about you doesn't matter.  I remember friends or aquaintances of mine who were super skinny or of a healthy weight telling me they were "so fat."  I remember thinking, why are you telling me this...or on bad days, if you are fat, then what am I.

I was 5'2" (still am) and 108 up to 10th grade; 115 in 11-12th.  And I think every single one of my friends and I felt fat.  None of us were, in retrospect.  Now I'm 122; I'm not sure I can go back down to 115 without looking too emaciated since my body has changed even more since then.

I think the main problem is puberty.  I hit puberty late.  Had no hips/bust to speak of until after I was 16.  But then ... almost overnight ... they grew!  I (obviously) felt that I had more fat on my body than I had before which made me extremely uncomfortable.  Not unhealthy fat - boob, butt and hip fat (and hip bones) which created some rather pleasing womanly curves.  But I didn't think so then - I didn't want womanly curves!  I wanted to go back to being the way I used to be BEFORE!

So I think it's completely ridiculous to compare your pre-puberty body to growing-woman body, as a lot of teens tend to do.  That's like comparing your 15-year-old body to your 8-year-old body.  It's just NOT apples to apples.  And it's not just about the height!  I didn't grow at all after 9th grade.

When I actually got hips - and a bust - I could fit into none of my clothes any more, which made me feel like a huge person.  Going from Girls to Juniors to Misses fashions (which are cut to fit the right kind of body) was still a tough thing for me. 

I wish there was some way to make puberty easier emotionally for all the suffering teens - it's hard enough to go through all the physical changes!