Were you a skinny , healthy or an overweight child?

[JoeyBartonHanson]

I would say I was skinny , regularly had people tell me that too

I was a skinny child and have stayed slim all my life.

Given our propensity to over eat, 'skinny' would be a healthy weight, 'skinny' is not underweight or malnourished.

I was willowy and slender.

I was a scrawny little thing, then volumptupusly thin in my teens - in that “bound to just get bigger and bigger as she gets older” way.

Skinny
Then I got fat around 18 and went up to 15 stone.
Lost weight and kept it off (mostly)

Skinny - to the point I was put on a food supplement and had to maintain a food diary. Doctor couldn’t believe how much I was actually eating. DM has many food issues and always made sure my siblings and I had a healthy diet and relationship with food.

I’m still ‘skinny’ as an adult but filled out with boobs and hips around 25.

I was skinnier than average even in the 1960s. I was a picky (ie discerning ) eater.

Very slim and fit.

I was an overweight child- looking back definitely comfort ate due to the loss of my mum when i was 8. Dieted in my teens and got down to a slim/fit size. I dont think I'll ever have a completely healthy relationship with food- large size 12 now post DD

I was skinny AND healthy.

Healthy weight up until 13. Then a combination of puberty, injury and illness meant I became a lot less active and started comfort eating. Then overweight until 30 and now back to healthy weight

I was very skinny as a child. The shortest and lightest in my class. During puberty I shot up to 5ft 8 and was a little plump. I now have to really watch what I eat.

I always thought I was a healthy weight as a child, but looking at old photos and comparing myself to my own dcs and even comparing myself as a child to my adult self, I think I was overweight. There is a picture of me on my first day of school, (age 4, the same age my dc1 is now), and I look very chubby in comparison.

I have always had to work to keep my weight under control, which it normally is. I’ve had a few blips. I was a very fat teenager. I think I was borderline obese. I then went on a diet and lost loads of weight, which barring pregnancies and a bit after pregnancies when food became a bit of a crutch, it has more or less stayed off.

My parents were both overweight at points, although neither were as children afaik. My dad was definitely a skinny child, (in 1950s - 1960s Ireland). He looked malnourished actually, which he may well have been.

I was slim but not what I’d call skinny. I had chunky thighs and compared myself unfavourably to other girls constantly. I put on a bit of weight in my early 20’s which I lost after a year or so and then stayed very slim until I had my dd. Now I’m just over 9 stone but I’m not curvy so it doesn’t sit particularly well on me. However if I lose weight my face may collapse.

Fat baby. Fat child. Fat adult. My family loves telling every one how I've never been slim.

Skinny and healthy - I ate what I wanted though my mum was very healthy-eating focused so not a lot of access to sugary foods

I can get away with eating quite large quantities so I think my natural tendency is towards slimness, but I did have eating disorders as a teenager so have been a variety of sizes from very large to very small. Currently slightly overweight

Scrawny as a kid, shapely as a teen, chubby now.

I was healthy as a young child then skinny in an awkward way as a teenager with a pretty much flat chest. All through my twenties I continued to be pretty slim no matter how much I ate. Once I hit thirty I really got my curves and have had to watch what I ate ever since and am overweight more often than in the healthy range.

My mum had exactly the same pattern with her weight.

I was a healthy weight. Never skinny (like my sister) never big kid either.

I have recently had a health check at my daughters school provided by the local council and I am the better side of overweight (5ft6.5ins & 12st1)

Skinny with no effort, didn't really do any sport. Still slim with little effort, although I do regularly exercise now. Wasn't particularly healthy, but that was because I moved countries when I was 10, so spent my teens catching every cold and virus in secondary school going round, having built up immunity to a different set of germs in my earlier years.

My mother has also always been slim, my dad maintains his weight, but has to be a bit more careful. My brother used to be very slim, but is now very overweight at 52.

I had very long arms and legs (still do!) and was frequently called skinny when I was a kid.

Now I've filled out a bit but definitely still considered slim.

I was skinny as a young child got a bit podgy 13-14, even though I was very sporty and ate well (hormones maybe?), then had a growth spurt and was slender again until I went to uni and drank too much beer/cider and ate too many refined carbs. Lost it as an adult by realising I'm insulin resistant (pcos) and need to eat low carb/wholegrain, high protein and diets that work for other people, WW etc, don't work for me

Healthy child and healthy adult. Same for my sibling.

Healthy weight, and besides a massive weight gain and subsequent weight loss at university, I'm healthy weight again even after DC. Always been around a size 10 in adulthood.

I varied through my childhood.

Normal toddler- active, liked food etc
Slightly chubby 4/5 year old- lots of stresses on the family and a sick baby brother meant I over-ate if given the opportunity.
Skinny from 7 until 11- I was active, uninterested in food, my lunch at school was literally just a sandwich with no snacks and a glass of water!
Chubby from 13ish until 16

I have varied in adulthood between a BMI of 22/23 and an obese BMI.

Skinny, we all were in the 70s.
There was one fat child in my primary school. Food was dull but more human friendly.