Underweight aspies?

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I was very, very underweight while at High School and through the start of University. I'm 5'8", and I weighed less than 110lbs. Most of that, I attribute to anxiety. From age 13, I was unable to keep food down in the mornings at all, and had to have a very light lunch or I'd throw up. It wasn't intentional, it was just nerves (how much food I could keep down varied depending on how much stress I was under at the time).
For the first couple of years of university, while I put a little on (I was a lot less anxious, University was good to me), it wasn't much, then into my 3rd/4th year of Uni, I started drinking a lot more (lots of fat) and eating more fatty food, and I put on a lot more weight, peaking at around 185lbs. I lost that after graduating, but not a lot of it, and now I'm eating more healthily and exercising more, I'm around 135lbs. I'm still a little chubby - my body naturally doesn't carry a lot of muscle, but it's around about what seems like an ideal weight for me.

I expect a lot of the odd weights we're seeing here are due to anxiety in some form or another.

6'3" 298lbs on a very large frame. How large you ask, well the last time I was at 200lbs, I still had a 50" chest and I looked horrible.

I first put on the weight after my parents divorced when I was 7 and I developed bad eating habits to cope with the depression and stress. I still tend to have the bad eating habits, but even when eating healthy, I cannot lose weight easily.

This is not the heaviest I have ever been, I have went as high as 350, but I prefer between 225 and 245 which usually leaves me with a BMI of around 25. Going below that, I tend to look sallow, gaunt and just generally unhealthy.

I have no interest in my own weight or mass or whatever it is but all i know is Ive lost a lot of weight over the last year. Ive never been overweight but i am now finding it hard to keep the right size clothes long enough.

OK so i dont eat greens and stuff but i am the sort that if i am busy with my interests before say going to work i will just not bother with food as it just gets in the way of what i am focused on. Its a bit like having to sleep or getting dressed, those real mundane things that people take for granted or some even enjoy that just distract from my route of interest.

AlexUK

5'5" & and a half.... 120 lbs... with a lot of muscle 11.5" biceps

edit: i identify with abuend's forgetting to eat... or going through periods (usually depression) where i just have no desire to eat... though i always force myself to... have always been about this weight so whatever my food-mood swings, they're not too impactual. think i eat ok, though could always eat more healthy stuff.

I'm pretty underweight myself. I'm 5'3" and 92 lbs. But it's an improvement over how I used to be. When I was ten, I was 4'0" and only 39 lbs.

I'm not so bad now, because I've been lazy and haven't been doing enough exercise, but I still get called skinny. When I was in high school though I used to get teased for how skinny I was and always got underweight on all of the average body weight tests... My little sister was always like that too... She just used to forget to eat though.

My ASD kid is underweight.