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[quote=Anonymous]I played travel soccer my entire youth on a very competitive team that trained hard year-round and back when there was serious physical conditioning on top of the regular practices (timed runs, hill sprints, bleacher sprints, plyometrics etc...literally run to you puke).

When I stopped playing club and with hormones--weight started creeping up on me.  I wasn't eating horribly, horribly but I no longer was growing or burning insane amounts of calories.  My metabolism really went haywire.  And then with weight gain comes some self-loathing.  My family was not kind (it was the late 80s/early 90s when there was zero body positivity and lots of fat shaming), particularly my older brother.

I saw many girls gain weight from late teens-early 20s and I see it with the now college age girls in our neighborhood. It's a really weird time.

Ironically, right after college the weight began melting off. I had better eating habits and since I knew how to train, I really became a gym rat and decided to train for my first marathon.  I never had a weight problem again (even after two pregnancies).  I am in my 50s and still a size 4 and very toned, still athletic.

But, I see the girls with the fuller face and 'puffy' bodies and it was me and a lot of my college friends at the time.  There is a really whacky sleep schedule during those late teen/early years and I see how when my sleep is really messed up, it messes with my weight.  Stress eating with the stress of academics is also common, and in college the calories that come with alcohol and poor eating.

You can be supportive but it is going to be out of your control for awhile. I still harbor some of those comments people made to me back then.  The funny thing is I am the fittest in the family now because I had to struggle with my weight while my naturally thin and tall older siblings never did so in adulthood they had the weight creep and roles are reversed. I've been sure to give me brother a jab or two at holidays for pay back:).[/quote]

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