Introduction: Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. 1Overweight and obesity among the adolescents is in the rising trend that often begins in childhood. Materials and Methods: cross-sectional study carried out over a period of six months, from November 2013 march 2014. 240 adolescents, 16 to 18 years of age, of raichur city, Karnataka, India were included as subject in the study. Results: A total of 240 adolescents in the age group of 12 to 18 years were analyzed. Out of these 132 (55%) subjects were males. The mean BMI of the sample was 21.04 ± 2.07 kg/m2 among boys and 23.25 ± 1.91 kg/m2 among girls. The prevalence of overweight among adolescents was 13.18% (5.31% among boys and 15.74% among girls) and obesity was overall 1%. Conclusion: With this study we would like to place a take home message that the over weight and obesity is highly prevalent among adolescents. The onset of the same is noted as early as in childhood. The late adolescent is the best time for the primary prevention.