Non Scale Victories
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bmeadows380 wrote: »bmeadows380 wrote: »conniewilkins56 wrote: »Let me tell you about knowing you have ribs!...maybe if I had kept more padding on them,they would not hurt so bad!
Though really, I'm happy with the bust where it is now......
If only we could tell the body which parts we want to be smaller! The only somewhat nice thing about gaining weight was that I actually had cleavage for once in my life! I know that when I get to my goal weight I'll have given up my overflowing C cup and be back to barely filling out a B cup 😒
I was at a DD cup and have deflated down to a C cup (and deflated truly is the most apropos word for it lol) I'm very happy to have lost some there; the relief to my back has been wonderful, but I'm quite happy where I'm at right now - the bust and the high waist, at least, are proportional!
Oof deflation is right. I started off as a 38DDD and am down to a 34 DD (which is really the equivalent of losing 3 cup sizes, given how bra sizing works). I used to love my bust. Now...well..."deflated" and "pancakes" come to mind. At least shirts fit better, and I think I could actually by bras at a normal store now??3 -
I hate you all! LOL. My bust hasn't shrunk at all. I am still in the same size bra cupsize. Maybe it's all the extra skin but I do wish I could be a bit smaller in that area.2
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I sympathize. I just went down in band size, and with that change it actually increased the cup size (D to DD). I do still feel pretty proportionate for now, though. Now, if I could just get my hips to decrease as much as bmeadows!!!I hate you all! LOL. My bust hasn't shrunk at all. I am still in the same size bra cupsize. Maybe it's all the extra skin but I do wish I could be a bit smaller in that area.1 -
My butt is gone and I have never had huge boobs....it’s my darn arms and legs!0
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bobsburgersfan wrote: »
I sympathize. I just went down in band size, and with that change it actually increased the cup size (D to DD). I do still feel pretty proportionate for now, though. Now, if I could just get my hips to decrease as much as bmeadows!!!I hate you all! LOL. My bust hasn't shrunk at all. I am still in the same size bra cupsize. Maybe it's all the extra skin but I do wish I could be a bit smaller in that area.
@bobsburgersfan
The sad thing is that even with some good losses in the hips area the last few months, I'm still huge there - thankfully I've got wide shoulders too to at least make me proportional, but there's only so much weight loss is going to do there - I've got my grandmother's hips; its the curse of the family lol2 -
I started this out at a 40F/G. I am now in a 38DDD and very happy with the loss, although I could lose another two sizes in cup and be very happy. I'd rather not get them worked on, but that was what my mother had to do for her back; she went from an F cup down to a C. So I'm not going to fuss about them until I've been doing maintenance for six months and then I'll look at my body and decide what I need to do to make it work for me long term.
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My favorite Madewell jeans are way too big for me now. I had to face the facts and get a new pair. Since they were running a big sale recently, I ordered a size down in a different style that was final sale and non-returnable. They came yesterday and when I took them out of the bag they looked wayyyyy too small. I was dreading trying them on because I figured it'd take the wind right out of my sails. (Plus, TOM, bloating, etc. was making me feel pretty crap about everything.)
Turns out they fit perfectly! The button fly didn't even gap or pull and I still had some extra waist room. Catch up, brain, things change!10 -
@emmyjaykay oh, I know that feeling! Shirts, too - most of my t-shirts are 2 or 3 sizes too big now but I wear them anyway and my brain thinks that is the right size. I have a few that are the new correct size, but every time I pull them out of the drawer, my brain thinks they are way too small
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I slid on some jeans I haven’t worn in a while and they are actually comfortable now!(I absolutely was dead set against buying bigger clothes to fit me at my current size). Been at this again for three ish weeks and even with little exercise it’s making a difference! Stick with it everyone!4
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I took my dog on a 5 mile walk this morning. I was expecting some knee or foot soreness (knees and feet starting to bother me was one of my motivators to start my weight loss) but had none! The last time I traveled 5 miles under my own power would've been about 2 and a half years ago. Happy to get back to it!7
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Today I continued the closet clean-out. I realized I need to have some real people clothes for when I go home in a few weeks (instead of just wearing pajamas or workout clothes 24/7). In my closet, I found a beautiful dress that I thought about wearing to the funeral (navy with pink floral print sheath dress). I've worn it to a few weddings, and I love it. Such a flattering fit and color. I tried it on just to see... it hung off me like a tent. Too much for even some good tailoring to fix. I'll miss that dress! Found another cute sun dress that is also now too big. My closet is getting more and more sparse.
Then, digging through a box of stuff from my parents, I found an old t-shirt. It was a Guinness shirt that I got after my sophomore year of college (er...about 15 years ago), when my friend and I traveled Europe for the summer. I bought it at the storeroom in dublin, but really wore it. I didn't try it on and was slightly tipsy when I bought it, so it ended up being too small. I put it on today and it fit. Tight enough to be a little fitted, but not sausage-like. I was so excited, until I saw the big moth hole in the stomach. Booooo. I might try to mend it, just to wear it a few times lol.5 -
Last week it got cold turn on furnace 45 degrees put in long pants. I grabbed a pair that fit in April huge, tried the pair that didn’t fit well in April too big. The pair that was way to small in April fit.6
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Ordered a new-to-me pair of jeans on Poshmark in a size 14W and they arrived last night. Unlike my 16Ws in the same brand/different style, these have almost no stretch. And yet, they fit perfectly. Yay!4
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I had a doctors appointment this morning to see if I need surgery on my foot....I don’t need to so that was good to hear with all of the stuff my husband has going on with his health...but I wanted to wear long pants today and I tried on 4 pair...finally found one pair that wasn’t hanging on me...I am down to two pair of pants!...one pair of jeans and one pair of dress pants...there are so many empty hangers in my closet right now!6
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@conniewilkins56 thats a great thing and a terrible thing all rolled into one! Woohoo for loosing enough that nothing fits. Boo for having to go clothes shopping when there are no dressing rooms to try your new sizes on! Great job!3
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Can't wait to go shopping! Good for you Connie!1
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I was in sams club today and they had super fuzzy sweat pants (I am cold constantly and live in sweat pants year round when I home as my family are all hot natured and keep the house close to a freezer). I picked up the 2X pants and held them up. They were obviously too big. So I dig through and pulled out the 1X pants. They also looked too big. I ended up buying the Large. They fit perfectly. I haven’t bought anything in a Large as long as I could remember. Craziness!!7
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@gewel321 - same here! I went to buy sweats this weekend and bought XL. The tops all fit, but the bottoms - the elastic held them up, but I knew as soon as I put something in the pocket, they were going to not stay up, so I exchanged them for Larges which fit beautifully. I cannot at all remember what age I was the last time I fit into large and XL clothing - middle school, maybe?5
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I was just realizing that I have to buy new long underwear cause the old stuff absolutely does not fit any more. And it was COLD last night and I wanted to sleep in it and had none.1
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Ok you all...quit teasing me how cool it is where you are at!...sweats!...won’t be any sweats here until December most likely....1
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Ok you all...quit teasing me how cool it is where you are at!...sweats!...won’t be any sweats here until December most likely....
I had my sweat on in August when we were in Florida. It’s who I am. Lol
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Today I realized that I'm down another size in my favorite jeans brand. Last summer, I wore a 20W. I dropped down to an 18W, than a 16W earlier this year. I recently bought a size 14W that fit great, but gap a bit at the waist. Today, I got my first non-plus size pair - a regular 16 - and they fit absolutely perfectly (except for being 3 inches too long lol). I haven't worn non-plus size pants in years!5
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Today I realized that I'm down another size in my favorite jeans brand. Last summer, I wore a 20W. I dropped down to an 18W, than a 16W earlier this year. I recently bought a size 14W that fit great, but gap a bit at the waist. Today, I got my first non-plus size pair - a regular 16 - and they fit absolutely perfectly (except for being 3 inches too long lol). I haven't worn non-plus size pants in years!
I didn't realize there was a difference between 16W and 16 until I was in Cato's clothing store this summer and caught some jeans on sale. While I'm in an 18 everywhere else, Cato's apparently cuts their clothing generously because I was into their 16W's. Later, I went back for another pair of jeans and bought a pair of 16 regulars and they fit much better than the other pair!
In Walmart, though, I'm still an 18 except for in their Rider's brand jeans, which some 20's still feel too tight, but I've about come to the conclusion that its the way those jeans are made that I don't like. I hate low waisted pants, and riders jeans here are all low rise jeans.
On the plus size, a pair of off-size skinny jeans I bought in Gabe's the year before last fit like classic jeans on me now They are size 20 on the label, but since they came from an outlet, I'm not sure if the sizing is true.
Unfortunately, a pair of hunter green jeans I bought in February in JC Penny don't fit at all now - they are way too big. And I didn't get to wear them once!
I had them in my closet and then COVID hit and I wasn't wearing my dressier clothing because of work from home and summer temps hit, but it has gotten cold this week, so when I went to the doctor's office yesterday, I thought I'd wear those jeans - only when I put them on, the waist gaped horribly big time. Oh well; I'll take them to mom and see if she can get into them. If not, they'll go in the pile with all the other clothing that is now too big - I've got a tub completely full and ready to start another.
I also am having to give up my knee-length black pencil skirt that I loved; its so big now that the elastic just can't hold it up anymore. I have another skirt left over from high school that is loose but darn it all - I've wanted back into that skirt for 20 years and I'm not giving it up! I'll take it up in the waist if I have to! lol The black pencil skirt, however, can't really be taken up and made to look right. I don't think-maybe I"ll show it to mom and see if she can do something about it; she's a much better seamstress than I am!3 -
As someone who sews, I bet it could be redone. If it's got a solid waistband and lining it will be a pain in the patoot to remake, but it CAN be done.1
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I think I've talked about my jean experience before but the whole situation boggles my mind! The dressing rooms in my part of the country are still closed so you have to guess what size you are. I was in the store Torrid. It was my first time in this store but they were having a sale. I bought three pairs of pants. 1 pair of size 18 jeans one pair of 16 jeans and a size 16 dress pants. I got home and tried them on. The size 18 jean were way too small. The size 16 jean fit perfectly. And the 16 dress pants were a bit too big. Like come on!!! Same store. SMH2
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bmeadows380 wrote: »Today I realized that I'm down another size in my favorite jeans brand. Last summer, I wore a 20W. I dropped down to an 18W, than a 16W earlier this year. I recently bought a size 14W that fit great, but gap a bit at the waist. Today, I got my first non-plus size pair - a regular 16 - and they fit absolutely perfectly (except for being 3 inches too long lol). I haven't worn non-plus size pants in years!
I didn't realize there was a difference between 16W and 16 until I was in Cato's clothing store this summer and caught some jeans on sale. While I'm in an 18 everywhere else, Cato's apparently cuts their clothing generously because I was into their 16W's. Later, I went back for another pair of jeans and bought a pair of 16 regulars and they fit much better than the other pair!
In Walmart, though, I'm still an 18 except for in their Rider's brand jeans, which some 20's still feel too tight, but I've about come to the conclusion that its the way those jeans are made that I don't like. I hate low waisted pants, and riders jeans here are all low rise jeans.
On the plus size, a pair of off-size skinny jeans I bought in Gabe's the year before last fit like classic jeans on me now They are size 20 on the label, but since they came from an outlet, I'm not sure if the sizing is true.
Unfortunately, a pair of hunter green jeans I bought in February in JC Penny don't fit at all now - they are way too big. And I didn't get to wear them once! I had them in my closet and then COVID hit and I wasn't wearing my dressier clothing because of work from home and summer temps hit, but it has gotten cold this week, so when I went to the doctor's office yesterday, I thought I'd wear those jeans - only when I put them on, the waist gaped horribly big time. Oh well; I'll take them to mom and see if she can get into them. If not, they'll go in the pile with all the other clothing that is now too big - I've got a tub completely full and ready to start another.
I also am having to give up my knee-length black pencil skirt that I loved; its so big now that the elastic just can't hold it up anymore. I have another skirt left over from high school that is loose but darn it all - I've wanted back into that skirt for 20 years and I'm not giving it up! I'll take it up in the waist if I have to! lol The black pencil skirt, however, can't really be taken up and made to look right. I don't think-maybe I"ll show it to mom and see if she can do something about it; she's a much better seamstress than I am!
This reminds me of my leather jacket experience. I do not buy expensive clothes. It is not who I am and not what I do. 25 years ago I pulled a Seinfeld and bought myself a really expensive leather jacket. I loved that jacket and I wore it even when it was a little too cool to be in it. Of course I outgrew that jacket. I faced the music with all my cheaper clothes and year by year as I got larger they went away but I refused to part with my leather jacket even when I was more than 150 pounds too large to wear it. Spring of 2019 I was more than 150 pounds lighter and when I went to the hall closet for some reason there was my jacket. I tried it on and it FIT!! The problem is it was already too warm to wear it AND I was still losing. I realized that by the time it was cool weather again the jacket would be far too big on me. I had kept it all those years with the slender hope I would eventually be small enough to wear it and I didn't to try it on when I still had the chance.
I donated it. I could not keep it with the hope I would either fail to lose more weight or regain enough weight to wear it again.
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I actually have a leather jacket in my parents closet from when I was in high school...I'm looking forward to trying it on when I'm home in a few weeks, and maybe bringing it back with me. I'm sure it won't fit yet, but I'm closer now than I have been before. I don't want to miss my opportunity to wear it! Fingers crossed it will fit by spring.4
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Another surprise NSV! While organizing the basement last night, I stumbled upon a pair of old REI snowpants. I'm sure I bought them for my wilderness EMT class about 14 years ago. They are a petite large, and just for fun, I tried them on over my jeans. They fit! Not at all tight, and will soon be too big. Too bad we don't get any sort of real snow out here in DC/MD...2
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I can see a difference in photos for the first time! I was looking for an old picture I took of my dog and I saw a mirror selfie from January of this year. I took one yesterday and compared it, then compared it to one from two weeks ago where I was in a less flattering outfit/pose and I can still see a difference. It felt really great to see myself in a picture and like the way I look again.
I also saw an uncle for the first time since Christmas and the first thing he did was comment loudly on my loss. I'm not sure if that's really an NSV for me—to be honest, I'd rather no one ever said anything to me about my body—but I guess it was validating to know that what I'm doing is working.4
