[SHINeeLovee]

Okay, the reaction/thought you are going to get after I write my question, remember it. This is what I want to here from you.

How would you react if, after 5-6 months, you see a once very skinny classmate fat? By fat I mean not obese, still under 200 pounds. Overweight.

Now here is the story:
I was never obese but I had been a bit overweight. I decided to lose weight. I lost weight ... a little too much weight and I didn't lose it the correct way. It started out correct but I stopped. I went from 139 (63.2kg at 5'2) pounds in Grade 10 to 96 pounds (43.6 kg and 5'4) by the end of my 12th year. I went abroad with my family and thus dropped half of my 12th year. I completed a course at summer school when I got back.

My parent's were always on my case to eat more ( I ate 1300 cals ) so I can gain weight, stop looking dead and mainly to get my periods back (gone for 2 years). I never gave in until I read stuff online about how not having periods is bad for you. So I let loose and completely crashed. I ate like crazy and my weight spiraled.

This started in September 2011. I was going to High School at that time to make up for the 2nd half of my 12th year. Halfway through the first semester I had gotten up to 125lbs (56.8kg , 5'4) and I thought that I looked fat. Chubby. That everyone was staring at me and talking about me behind my back or shocked to see how much weight I gained. I mean I went from a 43.6kg to 56.8 kg in half a semester (yes I know it's unbelievable and severely dangerous but I had lost control). I dropped high school.

I kept on gaining weight after that until now. My weight now is 162lbs (73.4kg, height: 5'4). I wanted to stop, I tried to stop many times, tried to lose weight many times but always failed. I ended up not going to University this year because I failed to complete my courses and lose weight.

I'm scared at how people who know will look at me and what they will think of me. I stopped hanging out with friends because of this. I know this is not life.
I need to complete my 2 of my courses: 1 is Pre-Calculus and the other is Biology. I am going to take them at this adult learning center where almost all students from my high school go to upgrade, if they need to, after grade 12, and I'm terrified of confronting them.

Well i'm not going to rot away this year, I am going to go to the adult learning center. It's only a 2 days per week for 4 hours / course. I'm just looking to get some reactions on here so I can be somewhat mentally prepared of what sort of things will be going on in their minds if I meet some of my old classmates.

[IAmTheKing]

I witnessed this, a bloke I knew at collage was stick thin. I saw him roughly a year later and he was huge! It was a bit if a shock at first, seeing the extreme opposite of what I remember. But I'm not particularly judgemental so I didn't mention it to him. But yeah my initial thoughts were 'bloody hell, you've let yourself go lately!'.

So there you go.

EDIT: maybe I should have just lied and not given my first response like OP asked for, as this got a thumbs down? (I can't say 'negged', I just can't. It sounds stupid.)

[loopy786]

My initial reaction would be confusion, then I would hope that their health is okay and probably wonder if it's a side effect of something or another, and then if they were okay and I couldn't help them with anything in any way or if they didn't need me, I would just continue life and keep treating them the same as before.

[zaid16]

http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/temp...Pageid=1193252

[hippieglitter]

Well personally I wouldn't mention it to you as to not hurt your feelings and i don't tend to talk about people behind their backs because from past experiences it always gets back to them. I was a healthy weight all the way through school and at uni I gained a lot of weight, then when I finished uni all sorts of people, people I didn't even know were telling my mum that they were shocked that I'd let myself go to rack and ruin and how pleased she must be that I'm coming home so she could sort me out. I was furious and horrified that complete strangers (to me but people who knew my mum) would say such things and that my mum thought by telling me this it would make me want to sort myself out, big mistake, I'm a comfort eater and as a result ate more.

In your case I wouldn't expect anybody to severely react to your weight if anybody is going to comment they'll say it to somebody else but if you by chance overhear it just ignore them. They are not worth it, enjoy your course, work hard and get the results you deserve.

[Cherriesxo]

Nobody will bother, really. It's the truth.

[SHINeeLovee]

(Original post by zaid16)
http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/temp...Pageid=1193252

I don't need weightwatchers as I am already losing weight. I've been working hard to change my diet to a healthy one and once that becomes a habit I'm adding in 1 hour exercise.
By the time Uni rolls around I'll at least be 120 lbs.

Thanks to everyone for the comments. It makes me feel okay to know that people will care for a small amount of time then brush it off.