AS/autism and body weight

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Now that I cook my own food I can pick a healthy weight and maintain it pretty easily.

I'm 5'11" 137 lbs. Barely normal BMI, most of my life I was underweight. My arms are really skinny. It doesn't matter how much I workout or how many calories I consume, I don't really gain any weight.

I was very skinny as a teen & kid due to being a very picky eater who couldn't get the food he wanted. People were worried I would die because of how much I refused to eat due to not liking it. My mom HATED having to cook special meals for me & I cant really cook due to disabilities so I would usually eat one meal a day & pig out on it if there was enough to. I started eating 3 meals a day after I moved in with my girlfriend cuz she cooks & cuz of meds & suppldments I'm on. I also started binging on snacks so I gained alot of weight over the last few years. Me exercising less is some of it too thou. Now my docs are on my back about how I need to lose weight.

If the stereotype is that Aspies are either very thin or very heavy, I must be NT-shaped. I’m what many people would call “not skinny,” not quite chubby but almost. I eat a lot, but I’m very active—food is a thing for me, and I know that when I learn not to eat so much I might have to sit around a little more so I don’t lose 40 pounds and end up too skinny.

growing up, i was chronically underweight, 6'3" @ 130#. i stayed that way until i got out of the army, and having put on some muscle, went up to about 170# where i remained until i turned into my 40s, since then my weight has fluctuated between 180# and 240#. presently @ 200#. would like to get back to 180# but the odds of that shrink [ironically] by the day, it seems.

Ziprasidone, the mood stabilizer I'm on, has caused me to gain something like 15-25 pounds, I'm not exactly sure how much. I think it's interacted w/my now middle-aged body. I still have perhaps vain hopes of staying on this medication b/c it helps me, but losing all that weight. My not exercising obviously has contributed too.

there is truth to the statement, "you are what you eat." if i ate what i wanted i'd outweigh orson welles. so i must stick with a restrictive diet in order to avoid obesity.

My weight has always been a constant battle.

I was a chubby kid, and I’m a chubby adult.

I eat chocolate to maintain my hourglass figure. In moderation, though, I'm just finishing up the really good stuff I bought last Christmas. 108lbs on the scale tonight.

I'm really surprised there is barely any research on autism and metabolism because I am 100 percent certain autism affects metabolism.

were that the case, what causes it to go to the extremes of skinny and obese, rather than one or the other?

I was a string bean as a kid. But that was pretty typical for the kids on my dad's side of the family, I was just more exaggerated because I was tall. I filled out in puberty and have been over my healthy BMI before but it wasn't drastic.

I've largely been average, hitting somewhere in my BMI range. I've put on a little weight, mostly in my rear(why?!?!) because I'm not as active as I was a year to a year and a half ago, but I'm still in my range. I will fluctuate like 10 pounds throughout a day.