so we're all underweight.

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^I got diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis last year.

I'm overweight. Not by very much, but am definitely no sylph. It took having Crohn's to make me underweight, after a lifetime of being normal to overweight (most of my overweight period was during my teens). After nearly 2 years of being on steroids, I piled all the weight back on, especially after surgery. I ain't losing it now, as my body is determined to cling onto every ounce.

I actually eat quite a bit/lot, especially junk food and snacks.

I'm a really scrawny and skinny guy though, I just have a good metabolism and get enough exercise.

I am definitely not underweight at all. Not in the least. I am about 60 pounds overweight right now actually. I don't really have an emotional attachment to food but I do have a hormonal thing where I tend to eat a lot more junk when I am ovulating. I crave certain things like Reese's peanut butter cups and fruit custard tarts. And by the looks of me you might think that I was ovulating all the time.

When LJ was 15 he was only five feet tall and in the bottom 1% for weight [ seventy something] He is now 5'10 or 11" and has a bit of a paunch. He might still be growing.

I was so tiny as a child. And until I became hypothroid I was skinny. The chemo has made me even heavier.

As far as my relationship with food, I am unnussual in that I LOVE it. If i ate as much as I wanted I am sure I would weigh 3 or 400 pounds.

...Hardly ! !!

My weight fluctuates, though not so much these days (alas!)

When I turned 14, I was 4 foot 11 and weighted 135 lbs. When I turned 15, I was 5 foot 2 and weighted 110lbs.

I went from the 180's to 140's when I was 20. I grew to 5 foot 4 3/4, which is my present height.

I went from the 180's to 140's in 1994, at age 33.

I gained lots of weight around 2000, up to the 170's, where I stayed for a long time.

Last year, I weighed 190 for a brief time, then went down to about 180.

I gained again this year. Now, I'm approaching 190 again.

Myself - I need to lose about 15 lbs give or take...

There was a thread here saying we're more overweight.

Let me just say this for the record. Autism does not affect your weight. If you eat a lot but don't put on weight, or you don't eat much but can't lose the weight, it's not because you're autistic, it's to do with genes, age and/or lifestyle, or having some sort of illness or physical condition. Same applies to NTs.

I am definitely underweight. Not ALOT underweight but still, underweight.

I attribute this to my lack of attachment to food and eating, as well as my very selective pallet. Texture is huge for me, and there is a much bigger list of things I can't eat than things I can eat, mostly solely down to the texture and smell of the food.

I can go an entire day and a half without a morsel, mostly just because I dont have much drive to prepare and eat food. If someone unexpectedly presents me with food that I haven't asked for, it annoys me a lot because I can't just eat on command and it makes me feel bad if I waste food people have prepared for me.

I eat dry and bland foods only, with a very select few things that aren't considered "dry and bland". For example, I can sometimes eat pasta with a tomato based sauce as long as there are no chunks in the sauce and that I can overload the pasta with dry Parmesan cheese.

I dont really know what its like to enjoy food properly, so I can't say I wish I was any different as I don't know what I'm missing out on.

I've actually been overweight for a big part of my life, something I am only now really being able to control. It's mainly because I'm not on meds anymore. I go through periods where I barely eat so for example at the moment I get a coffee in the morning and don't eat until dinner. This happens because of a combo of forgetting to eat and feeling sick at the idea because my digestive system and me are not exactly best buds.