What's the heaviest/lightest you have been as an adult, what are you now...

[AudTheDeepMinded]

and at what point would you say that generally you were happiest with life in general?
I'll go first. I was lightest in my late twenties at 9st 4lb, I'd split up with a boyfriend and had then been ill with a vomiting bug, I was miserable. I was heaviest after the birth of my third child, 13 st 6lb. Funnily enough I can't remember feeling bothered by that (too busy keeping other humans alive!). It's taken over 4 years but I am now at 11 st. I suppose what I'm realising is is that although I think I'd like to be 9st something again, it doesn't really equate to personal happiness does it? and cakes can bring great joy...

5 foot 7 and 3/4 😀

8 stone and 13 stone and 6 pounds

Currently 13 stone and 3 pounds

I’d be ecstatic at 11 stone and 7 pounds

7.7 lightest. Just under 12 heaviest. Currently 11 and not trying to lose any, I enjoy food too much. I look best at 9.7, but I'm too old to care about that anymore.

I'm 5'7. Lightest 8 stone, was very very skinny. Heaviest 12 stone. Currently 11, but think 10 would be best. I did get down to 10 last year, but then winter came and I ate all the things.

47 and just under 9 stone. Was between 10 and 12 stone in my late teens and twenties. I am 5.3 tall and I feel about right.

Lightest 8 stone 12... heaviest 12 stone 7... currently around 11.7... ideal around 9.10...

heaviest around 10 stone when pregnant and in mid 20's (was eating too much) lightest late 20's 8stone 2ish (was going to the gym too much and looked ill). Now 9stone - which is ideal.

Age 50 now, 5ft 3" and about 8st 3lb.

Lightest 7 and a half stone up until mid 30s. Heaviest about 8st 7lb around mid 40s.

8st 3lb seems to be my 'anchor weight' or thereabouts.

To be honest, I go more on stomach size than weight and since I've been peri-menopausal (last 4 years) my stomach switches constantly from flat to 'pot bellied' and back again.

I’m 4’11 but large framed, built like a pit pony. Lightest was probably around 8.5 stone at 18, heaviest close to 15 about 5 years back. Didn’t realise how heavy I was. Have been doing LCHF and a lot of weight training, now about 11.5 stone, still a bit to go.

Lightest 8.5 stone
Heaviest 12 stone (end of all 3 pregnancies)
Now 9.5 stone so 1 more to lose before I'm happy
I'm 5foot 6

I'm 5 ft 8. Lightest was 7.5 stone as an 18 tear old. Was basically starving myself, my periods stopped for many months. Heaviest was 11.5 stone after my second. Looked overweight in photos. I'm now just over 10 stone. When people do comment on my weight they always say I'm slim. I would like to lose a few more pounds but can see I look OK. BMI is in the middle of healthy range.

5ft. 7". I've ranged between 10st 7lb to 19st 2lb. My weight is always all over the shop. Would say I'm happiest around 13st-ish.

5”2. Lightest 6 stone which sadly is what my body always seems to go to.
Heaviest 8 stone heavily pregnant.
Now just over 7 and feel good about it. This is due to medication but I hope it stays.

Wow I'm so far removed from the majority of the weights on here lol. I started as a young adult at around 13 stone but I was a size 12. I've ballooned after having children (underactive thyroid) and i think I was as high as around 18 stone at one point. I've been fluctuating between 14-16 stone for the past ten years. Hopefully one year I will get down to 13 stone again though technically that's still not a healthy bmi. I have been a size 14-16 tho so not horrendously massive thankfully. I know I've got a LOT of muscle in my body. More than 50% in fact which makes me much heavier

5ft 9. Thinnest as an adult in early 20s 10st 3... For me this looks too thin (big bones so knees wide on skinny legs, no bust, HR asked friend about my eating habits type of thin... etc). Looked best at 12 St in late 20s/early 30s which is top of my bmi healthy range (but often described as slim & people surprised at weight) now just under 14 but have been up to just over 17 as enormous bump (and only bump) when pregnant... Am aiming for 12 St 7 in mid 40s.

5ft 2in. At my lightest back in my late 20’s I was about 6 stone 10. At my heaviest 11 stone 4 when I had my son. Currently about 9 stone 6 and not happy. I’d like to be around 8 stone but that ain’t happening. I try to console myself that as I age there’s no wrinkles on a balloon.

6 stone 12lbs when I left school at 18.
7 and 1/2 stone when I graduated medical school at 24.
8 stone 5lbs before my first pregnancy. The same, five days after delivery (quite proud of that one!)
Comfort ate when widowed at 35.
Reached an all time high of 10 stone 3lbs. Currently stable around 9 stone 12lbs to 10 stone, but would like to be a stone lighter.

It’s interesting how we all know this and how important our weight has been throughout our lives.

The first time I thought I should go on a diet I was nine years old. I felt powerless. I felt that I was fat but didn’t know how to change it.

I was a teenager in the 90s; superwaif heroin chic was in and I didn’t think there was another way to be attractive. I developed an unfashionable hourglass body. Low rise jeans gave me a belly overspill so I hid in big hoodies and despised myself.

In my twenties, I learned how to dress my shape but my weight carried on bouncing up and down as I got sucked into an endless cycle of dieting, regaining weight and dieting again.

The lowest I ever got as a 5’6” adult was 10st 7. It put me into a healthy BMI category but looking back at photos it didn’t suit me at all. I hated that my body suddenly felt like public property and people commented relentlessly on my weight loss - how did you lose it, how will you keep it off etc and all the while the unspoken comparisons with my previous body that made me feel so bad as I knew that inside I was still a fat girl who didn’t belong.

Breastfeeding torpedoed any attempt I made at maintaining a healthy-ish weight. I piled on stones during maternity leave. I felt so wrong again; the midwives has told me that the pounds would melt away.

Second child didn’t sleep through until age 4. I was so exhausted I lived off sugar and caffeine. My job grew increasingly stressful. I was too tired to exercise. I grew steadily and steadily through the 15, 16 and 17 stone brackets.

I discovered body positivity online. I started to follow bloggers like Georgina Horne. I gradually developed a peace with my body and even at 17 stone and a size 18-20 I dared to shed the cardigans I had sweated through every summer since my teens in and I bared my arms to the sun. I went on beach holidays for the first time in twenty years. I went swimming. I even wore bikinis. I felt so free and so comfortable.

Now my children sleep and I’ve left that draining job and I want to take care of my body. I saw 18 stone on the scales at the start of January this year and I don’t want diabetes, I don’t want to be unfit.

I’m 15st 13 today and aiming for somewhere in the 12s. I felt I looked best around that weight which gave me a BMI of about 27. I can live with that. My body shape and frame doesn’t look great below it and any lighter is really unsustainable for me.

I wish I hadn’t wasted so much time and energy on thinking about all of this for so long.

I'm 5'5. The lightest I have been as an adult was 8 stone 8 pounds. The heaviest other than when I was pregnant was 10 stone 11 pounds. I'm just over ten stone now due to perimenopause and just cannot shift it. I'm happiest at 8 stone 8 but can't ever see it happening again.

I am 5'5" I was 7.5 stone when I got pregnant, 10 stone at full term. Lost the weight very quickly, but piled it back on when I stopped bf when dd was 2. Active job now has meant I'm back to 8 stone 9.

I'm relatively happy at this weight, my body is strong and toned, but my boobs have deflated a lot as I've lost a fair amount of body fat recently so I may eat more cake to plump up again

As an adult? As in, 18?
I was 8stone

But as a proper adult (mid 20's-mid 30's)
Lowest 8stone12
Highest 11stone1

Currently 10.3 and aiming for 9.10

Fab thread OP. :)
I'm 5'2-3. I've been just under 11 stone while weight lifting but also overweight fat-wise. I've also been under 6stone as a young adult when I wasn't eating properly. I'm 9st 4 now. I did 5'2 which worked wonders and now I do it 'sort of'. I have some days where I'm careful (salads, stir fries) and some like yesterday where I eat junk all day and don't feel bad about it.

Having been overweight for most of my childhood, I managed 9st2 for a couple of hours once, in my late 20s.

Fighting weight these day is 9st12ish, though pregnancy has sent me higher than I'd like.

Currently 10st3, after a few years of gluttony. Highest ever was 12st1.

Though when I think about the things my body has done, I am quite proud of it and can't really worry. And I do like cheese!

5ft 6ins and I was heaviest as a teen at about 10 stone 7lbs.
Fluctuated up and down a bit but in my 30s really wanted to get fitter and ended up at 8 and a half stone but I’m happiest and feel strongest at about 8 stone 10, I’ve been that now for about 5 years (bar being pregnant when I put a stone on and lost it when he arrived)
I put it down to spending a year throwing myself into HIIT work outs which I felt gave my metabolism a boost and strengthened me up.
My food mantra is everything in moderation.
I generally just do lots of walking at the moment.

I have actually realised I was 14 stone before I moved away from London, these facts are not related but that was 15 years ago, before any menopause or injury related excuses reasons.

Lightest was at 21 at 8st 7lb.

Heaviest at 27 when I was 13st but quickly went back to 11st at 28.

Now 39 and two babies later and 9st 12lb which is around normal for me.

I'd like to be 9st 4-7lb ideally. I'm 5'5".