How did you get fat?

[dfav3412 116]

I love food, still do, I was a volume eater. Food was important in my family, big dinners, Celebrate holidays, birthdays, promotions etc with it. Here is what I don't get now, I was called fat in high school but now I am the same weight and it's you are thin, you don't need to lose anymore weight. Now why is that?

[Jachut 487]

In my mind I have been fat from childhood. My mother put me on weight watchers before I was 10 yrs old. I was put on Nutri-System and all other manner of things and always thought of myself as fat.

BUT, when I look at pictures of myself up until graduating from high school I was no more than chubby and often not even that. Frankly it makes me angry as I see it as kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. People tell you that you are too fat as a kid, they put you on diets, you start to believe you are fat, you go on and off diets and the yoyo system starts and presto chango, suddenly you are in your 40s and are 120some lbs overweight and you actually are fat now!

Windus

Doesnt it just make you so angry? Its a strong theme runnign through these posts, how many of us thought we were fat and have suffered the pain and torment of being fat, when really, we werent! Or at least we were no more than a bit chubby. My mother always had me on diets too.

It IS of concern because chubby children do tend to get fat once puberty hits and then go on to become fat adults. But how much worse have we made it, dieting and eating dysfunctionally, instead of learning maintainable healthy habits that would prevent major obesity? I'm sure all of our mothers thought they were doing only the best.

How much WORSE must it be for young girls now? When I was a child it was bad enough, I felt different simply for not being a standard height and size, nowadays the ideals are virtually impossible!