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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always been thin - my fathers side of the family is tallish and thin. I'm in my late 40's and have gained some weight because I eat more junk and (honestly my adolecent son drives me to eat ice cream). If I stuck to my regular eating habits I'd bounce right back to thin. I have also never been a big eater.

Example: I went to happy hour yesterday and one of my coworkers had a huge appetizer, supper fatty she just chomped on it  and 2 sugary drinks she's a big girl I was like ... what????  I was very happy with my tequila, I went home and had a small bowl of soup for dinner.

[b]Sometimes I wonder if you were always skinny as a child does that carry over into adulthood??? [/quote][/b]

No. I am normal now (140lbs 5'7") but was always very thin as a girl and teenager; kids used to tease me for being too thin. I ate a lot of really unhealthy foods as a girl too. I filled out more with puberty so I was no longer a stick but was still thin (125lbs 5'7"). I started drinking in college and eating more and put on weight. I moved cities and started cycling daily as my main mode of transport and became super thin (115 lbs) and all muscle, even though I ate all the time and drank a lot of weekends. When I moved back to DC and got a desk job, I was eating and drinking less but sedentary and I put on 20 lbs over the course of a year. Even though I now eat much better than I ever did as a kid and watch what I eat, get regular exercise outside of my job, I have struggled to shed more than 5-10 lbs the past few years.

The men in my family are thin, the women on one side were very thin when younger and then put on weight with age, especially in their upper bodies (they were large bosomed, had larger arms). I was always petite up top and pear shaped, but after I had a child, my body changed and I put on weight in places I never had, like my arms, even though I am doing more lifting now with my kid than I ever did before when I had thin arms. I lost a lot of muscle tone after having a kid. My mom's side has always struggled with their weight and they all have thyroid problems. I just found out I have Hashimoto's, which developed over the past few months. [/quote]

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