Thanks for posting that. Welll, I guess I never went quite off the charts, but I can tell you the impact was most definitely visible. I think it depends on each person's frame too as you said.

When I was gaining weight, I was gaining by the year. It started at age 19 and admittedly my eating habits were not great, but I was actually getting bigger by the year. Again healthier diet helped this but the chubbiness did not go. I have heard before about mercury's effect on weight (either over or under).

If you have a larger frame, I would be careful to go too much by weight charts because I know a guy who is 5 foot 9 and a half and is way off the weight scale on these charts, yet if he loses the weight to fit in with the chart (e.g. getting down below 170 pounds or so)...he starts looking sick and underweight. So judge yourself more by the mirror!

Apparently when a person tries to starve their weight down, the body goes into storage mode because it thinks it's going to need to store everything it actually does get. It gets more efficient at storing fat if people continue going on crash diets. I do believe though that through the right nutrition, that things would balance back out again.

I have treated my body pretty badly plenty of times in my eating habits. I've gone from bingeing to almost starvation plenty of times!!! very very bad.