I was always a fat child, weighing around 100 pounds when I was 9. I think I was always a fat baby. So at 13 I went on a diet and downed 36 pounds from the previous… 160?

Anyways, what I wanted to know is that, why was I fat in childhood when after stopping the diet, I just get thinner every year? (regardless of weight, god forbid I drop below 124 at 5’9)

I’m 17 now, and even though some weeks I would order pizza almost everyday and technically eating fast food junk all day (no one can cook) – as opposed to eating mom’s healthy cooking in childhood – I still lose easier than I gain now.

(Yes, I know I’ll probably have cardiac arrest at 30 – working on eating healthier.)

I also spend all day indoors, whereas as a kid I spent almost everyday playing soccer. My family are all thin. I really don’t understand how my body works. Is it possible for metabolism to go raving up when you get older?