AS/autism and body weight

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Never had problems with my weight although I feel like its starting to get easier for me to take on weight. I usually eat pretty boring and healty. Try to get out and walk for 1 hour 3 times a week. Really don't ever wanna be fat that is something I can atleast have control over. Atm I'm around 1.98m and 87 kg

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Underweight.

I weigh average for my height. I am a slim person but I never associated that with having AS, I associated it with coming from a skinny family, which I do.

I'm a stocky person.

I am working on losing weight. About a year ago, I was 92 kg at 1.83 m. Now I am 80 kg. People tell that they can tell from my appearance that I was losing weight.

I decided to lose weight, because on the internet I saw videos about people who are extremely fat, and - because of that - have serious medical problems, like hypertension, diabetes, heart and blood vessel diseases. They have lots of lots of meds related to those problems.

I have no weight related meds, and I want to keep it that way.

I'm underweight and trying to gain more weight... Only to fail again. I'm not exactly concerned, I just want a more convenient body.

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After the scale not moving for 5 years, I don't really care anymore as long as I load up on the produce at breakfast and maybe at lunch if I have something special to go to that evening. I'm no Mick Avory and that doesn't bother me. Strength is more important than looks, anyways.

This soldier also eats granola. Its not just for hippies like it was 50 years ago, anymore.

I've been the same weight pretty much since high school. I'm 33 now. I will say that the proportion of fat to muscle does fluctuate quite a bit. My BMI normally is in the 19-20 range though (low/normal BMI).

I was really skinny when I was a kid though. My mom used to get calls from the school because they were worried I wasn't getting enough food at home. That wasn't the problem though. I was obsessed with food. I ate everything. I used to even sneak loaves of bread into my bedroom at night to snack on. It was never enough though.

As an adult both my hunger and my size normalized nicely.

From the time I was a child up until about 3 years ago (when I was 24), I was slightly on the heavy side and maybe could have stood to lose 10 or 15 pounds. But my weight has been more of a struggle for the past 3 years. I can't seem to just eat what I want without worrying about gaining weight anymore. I've packed on about 25 pounds which sucks. I guess it's just my metabolism slowing down as I get older. And I guess it's possible that I started eating more than I used to without realizing it. I do tend to eat more when I'm stressed, and I definitely was very stressed and unhappy with where my life was going, up until I finally just admitted that teaching (which I got a degree in) wasn't for me and decided that it was okay to just walk away from it and pursue other options. So I am a little more motivated now to eat better and exercise more. But one issue I still have is that food is often like my special interests. I'll often get fixated on certain foods and want to eat them practically every day. Unfortunately, they aren't always the healthiest foods! Well, right now I'm pretty obsessed with scallions/green onions, which go great on quesadillas and pizza, but they're also great to garnish on salads and soups (which can be healthy and low-calorie if you put the right ingredients in them), so I'm trying to lean more towards eating those two!