Underweight aspies?

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yeah, sorta, I have my dog I walk him daily, as he's a little over weight. I walk everywhere I go, and take the bus, during summer I bike places to spare bus money, I never learned to drive, and well most women aren't so thrilled with that. My metabolism might be a developement of my diabetes, as I'm now 30 years young. nah, you still seem like a bright young spit-fire, gwenie, you could proaby give me a run for my money or value of worth or something...

I'm 1,73 cm tall and my weight is 51 kg. It's a very good weight. I've some kind of eating disorder - I'm EXTREMELY picky and I eat very little.

im not underweight im 6'1 and 160 pounds, im still trying to get at 140. hardest thing ive ever done in my life girl

I used to be underweight up until about 8th grade. In elementary school I was the short skinny kid, and now here I am at 6'3" and around 270 pounds.... I could stand to lose 50 pounds right now and I'd be happy, but I'm too picky of an eater to go on a diet of any kind since all the food I like is high in fat or calories, and I don't get enough exercise because, well, its boring.

Yup.. 5'11 and a half and 135. Rail thin. I believe absolutely thar there is correlation between metabolism and autism.

OMG is that you in the Avatar. Your gorgeous.

I'm 5 feet 10 in (178 cm or so) and weigh 153 lbs (69 kg or so), so my BMI is 21.8, or the 71st percentile. That's a pretty good weight. Maybe a tiny bit over what it should be, but pretty good.

Last edited by tmad40blue on 04 Jan 2008, 3:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.

autism ----> anxiety and stims ----> moving around a lot before you even come to think of "exercise" -----> higher metabolism?

autism -----> stress -----> weight loss???

You know, I felt really silly after I posted that last night because I realized my activity level actually has been different over the past couple years. My exercise routine has stayed fairly constant, which is what confused me... but my job has changed. (Also my home is smaller, I don't use the bus anymore... etc.) I guess it's not that bad.... it's just a matter of being more active all throughout the day or settling for having to eat like a normal human being instead of surprising everybody with my impressive caloric requirements.

Sky high metabolism here as well. 6'0, 155 lbs, male in early 20s. I think the average for my age group is more like 165-175 lbs. but I wouldn't be surprised if the American average has been "upgraded" again thanks to Burger King.

When I was a kid and a teen I was underweight. 6 feet and 125 lbs. I gained some after kid #1 (140) and now I'm trying to lose weight. So as of now I am NOT underweight, but I once was. But it wasn't b'cause I didn't eat, because I ate like a piggy.

5'6" (167cm) and 57kg (125lbs)

My weight's average for my height. (But yeah, I'm a m***et for a guy )

I'm small, but not underweight. I only eat organic, natural foods, and I only eat when I'm hungry, and I walk everywhere on top of that, so I find it fairly easy to maintain my weight. If I lose weight rapidly it'll probably be my thyroid playing up (I have thyroid problems everywhere in my family) so at least I'll have some clue as to what's wrong and get it sorted due to my weight normally staying about the same.

I do lose a little in summer and gain a little in winter though... let's call it 'insulating'.

I was underweight for a lot of my life, most of it really. Some of it seemed to be just how I was (and I was born a little small), and I also never liked eating very much until I was... I don't know how long, but I know in elementary school I did not like to eat (in retrospect, I think it was physically painful and I was also heavily constipated). And when I did not get enough to eat in early adulthood I was very underweight. For me. I think I was still supposedly weight-wise within the bottom end of the "healthy" range, but I could feel my bones everywhere including just trying to sit down. I seem to have heavy bones or something, so those calculations by number don't work on me. I know I was underweight, and according to others I "looked anorexic", but I didn't weigh as underweight just by calculation.

Then after I finally got, not even enough to eat, but a little bit more to eat, suddenly I shot from underweight to fat, and I've been fat ever since (which, believe me, I prefer to being underweight). My staff all knew that I had been near starvation before I got services, so they always made sure to tell me how much better I was looking because it was a sign I was eating, even if I still wasn't eating enough, they were great about not being anti-fat.

Interestingly, at this point, like some other posters a lot smaller than me have said, my weight does not fluctuate by how much I eat. Sometimes I forget to eat for a long time. And when I was on Prednisone I gorged myself for months. And I have stayed exactly at 195 pounds the entire time. (I'm 5'2".) I'm currently in one of my periods where I forget to eat and dislike eating. (I'm not anorexic, I just find eating painful due to a bad jaw and severe reflux that makes it go into my lungs, as well as the ever-present constipation, and I'm no longer on Prednisone to give me an appetite; the moment I got off Prednisone I started completely forgetting to eat again.)

I'll now bow out of this discussion unless I find something else to say about my previous underweight, because I'm no longer underweight.

My BMI is 18.5, just about hanging on the 'normal' range which is 18.5 - 24.9.
I've been said to have a bug in the stomach and hollow legs, though I can still sometimes lose appetite; I had none up until age 10 or 11 and was very thin. I'm not anorexic.

My routine is to eat three meals a day and sweets at ten and three, but no sweets for ten if I'm too full from breakfast as I don't want to miss my meals. Almost every meal of mine consists of some protein, some vege, and some starch, because the ideal eating chart at school said so; except for breakfast where I eat pork, egg, toast, coffee and a piece of fruit (or juice in summer). I love breakfast.

I can go on but I'll stop for the fear of killing ppl with boredom.

6 foot, 150 lbs, which is at the light end of the normal range. I have to do some pretty dramatic things to get my weight to change, and even then the change is minor and rapidly goes back to where it was before.

I eat lots of food all day long but I also run a lot, so it tends to balance out. Both sides of my family have been on the lean side for generations.