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I am very UNDERweight. What baffles me is that I eat a LOT, but can't seem to gain half a pound!

I am underweight and have been for years. My appetite is poor, I am extremely picky, and I often forget to eat.

Today I avoided: a cream slice because there are always unidentifiable black dots on the icing; most of my porridge because I can only tolerate a few mouthfuls of such a texture; most of my salad because it is not uniform enough and contains unidentifiable parts; the salad dressing because it tasted too much of egg, contained unidentified black bits, and made me paranoid about food poisoning; the chicken in my dinner because it kept reminding me of death; the bean shoot ends in my dinner because they looked weird and slimy; anything in my dinner that was not chopped up enough.

This month it's worse than ever because I am very tense.

I'm 5'3" and 87 lbs. (although it varies slightly) so I'd say I'm pretty thin. I'll eat a ton if given the chance. I've even out-eaten my bf many times. But usually, I just live off of fast food and TV dinners since no one around here cooks or anything.

Everyone in my area is quite overweight so I do draw attention. I'm actually a bit shocked everytime I see someone else that's thin! (Yes, the overweight population really is that high!) Some people have been downright nasty to me just because I'm thinner. I'd love to be able to gain a bit more weight (at least make it to 95), but no matter what I do, I can't gain weight. I have an extremely high metabolism and it doesn't matter how much I eat or what I eat; it's all going to end up the same way for my body.

I eat well but I have a fast metabolism so I've always been underweight.

I'm obese. I've been hovering around 200 for the past few years and will probably stay there for a good while.

The odd thing is that I'm living on less than what many skinny people eat. I think I'm just very efficient at using the food I eat... I think at the moment I'm eating about 1500-1800 calories per day, and most people my size would need a little over 2000. By all accounts, I should be losing weight. Not so much. I've been losing over the past year, but I think I lost only about five pounds total. I can't remember the scale ever saying anything more than about 208, which was sometime last year.

It can come in handy, though, because like many Aspies, I can get involved in things and forget to eat until I'm starting to get faint and realize I haven't eaten all day; or I can go on a walk and keep going until my feet hurt too much, because I've got a lot of endurance and the motion is soothing. I think if I were a little skinny person, either of those things wouldn't happen. I'd need to stop and eat much earlier. Could be that my body's storing up energy just because it knows I do stuff like that to it.

That style of eating--1500 calories all at once, then almost nothing the rest of the day, which is how it is when it's at its most disordered--is probably not very good for you. That's a problem of organization, though, not some kind of a food issue. If I could have three meals that were properly balanced and had enough nutrients in them, I'd go for it in a second. But I'm having enough trouble keeping any kind of a consistent schedule that my brain regularly thinks it's 3 a.m. when it's actually noon, and vice versa; when I drink coffee to wake up, at 3 in the afternoon; when I realize it's time to go to school about halfway through my first class... I have no organizational abilities, apparently. And that extends to food. Most likely, that's part of why I'm fat--the body wants to gain some sort of balance, and carrying extra energy around its hips is part of how mine has apparently adjusted.

I'm overweight but gonna sort it out by going to the gym

When I was really little, i was a tiny, scrawny little thing...small for my age...then at some point after I started elementary school, possibly around the age of 7, I started gaining weight...I ate to sorta dampen the pain of my troubles, and became a bit food-obsessed.....The more stressful and difficult school became, the more weight I gained...so that by the time I hit 4th or 5th grade, I was obese. I started having weight-related physical problems with my knees.... In the 5th grade I got up to 150lbs(not good for a 5th grader)...and I am short.

One of the bad things about being that overweight while you are growing is that it sorta affects the way your body develops...

When i hit puberty, I started losing the weight...and kinda emerged from the dark tunnel I was in...I was still teased for being fat, but by 7th grade, I was just overweight...and not obese..and after I became a vegetarian at the age of 14, I was able to get down to an average bodyweight by the time i entered high school..

ummm...For most of my life, I have been somewhat overweight. My average for the last 5 years has hovered around 5'2", 150lbs...i struggle to keep it there..The highest I have gone was close to 170....I very rarely go under 150, and if I do, it's not for long. this does not mean I would not like to magically lose 30-40lbs some day...I have a hard time regimenting a diet/exercise program that I can keep up with.

My very ASish friend is severely underweight. I worry about him constantly...He guessed his weight at around 130. I would not be surprised if he weighed less. He is very anal about his food and about being vegan most of the time...and will often just drink beer instead of eat..or umm....eat these tiny meals...and later get very dizzy and faint or come close to fainting...He will also allow himself to become very dehydrated...and I have to basically trick him into drinking water sometimes..
We have a ritual where every day I ask him what he ate...He likes telling me......but I worry that he sorta has an eating disorder...or at least slips in and out of one. I do the best I can to feed him whenever I can...but I am not always able to be around.
I joined a forum for Vegans and asked advice about how to get him to be a healthier Vegan...most of their advice was not very Aspie-friendly...in terms of what he would be willing to do for himself.
He needs fat and calories...and lately he has been eating some dairy...which at least provides some of that..
He called me "mamma-bird" once..cause I am always bringing him food...

I am skinny, going on underweight.

Underweight here...

Skinny, bordering underweight.

I'm pretty chunky. I'm about 5'4" and weigh 185 lbs.

I've pretty much been like this all of my life though, except for when I was living with my friend's family (they were pretty poor) and we lived off of english muffins and cream cheese... that time I got down to 125 lbs and I was 18. But the rest of the time I've always been chunky, even when very small.

My eating habits are pretty bad. I don't eat much at all throughout the day-maybe one small snack like a handful of chips or something from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Then I eat a fairly small meal. After the kids go to sleep though, then I get hungry and munch on everything all night long. I'm fairly positive that is having quite an effect on it.

I'm also not sure how much my pregnancies contributed. When I was pregnant with my son I gained 40 lbs, but he only weighed 4. After he was born I had a lot of health issues, as my uterus is heart shaped, so my son had no room to move and he just kicked the crap out of my right side kidney all day long and I have poly cystic ovarian disease, so it lead to chronic poly nephritis (kidney and bladder infections at the same time) so I was in bed a LOT.

With my daughter I gained 30 lbs. Since the health issues still exist, I am not as active as I would like to be.

LOL, we recently got the Richard Simmons Sweatin to the Oldies DVD set and started working out as a family. We're hoping it will help with my weight, help my son's poor muscle tone in his arms and such as well as coordination, and my daughter just thinks it's really fun. Wish us luck with that, lol.

I'm slightly overweight. I must admit I eat a lot and I need to have some more exercise.