Are our casual clothes making us fat??

Lazy_Bones_85

I can't completely disagree with the OP. For example, I wear a uniform to work. In 2018, my company changed uniforms. Before that, for 10 years, I wore a very form fitting, non-stretchy dress. If I put on 5lbs, I could feel it getting tight- 10lbs and it was difficult to zip. It kept me in check (we were only allowed to reorder new uniforms once a year so sizing up as a result of a lazy winter was not an option). My new uniform has a whole bunch of stretchiness to it so it doesn't matter that I'm heavier now because the uniform still zips without an issue. I'd never be able to wear my old dress at the weight I'm at now (about 12lbs heavier). While I don't blame the new dress for causing me to gain weight- that's me eating too much, I don't discount the fact my new uniforms make me a little less accountable because they fit and I don't have to worry about my weight as much.

rainbow198

I completely get where you are coming from OP. I work from home. It's very easy for me to wear stretchy clothes all during the week and I do.

Since I'm aware of my calorie intake everyday I don't gain weight. However, if I didn't keep track of my calories or ate the way I use to eat I could see how I could head down a slippery slope of unintentional weight gain.

For me, my non-stretchy clothes tells me what is going on with my body. Last summer my clothes were getting a little loose (I didn't want that) and over the holidays things sometimes can start to get a little tight.

So I buy clothes without stretch at times and wear them or at least try something on in my closet once in a while. For example, slipping on a very fitted evening dress that zips up in the back and sitting down tells me exactly what I need to know.

It's just another way I monitor my body composition along with taking measurements, photos and looking in the mirror.

ilfaith wrote: »

MikePTY wrote: »

kimny72 wrote: »

ilfaith wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3495366/Ban-elasticated-waistband-Comfortable-clothing-makes-obesity-acceptable-simply-encourages-FATTER.html

Are you posting this to make fun of it, or to support the original post? The daily mail is like a cheesy tabloid, so it's hard to tell with no comment added.

The obesity problem will continue to be a problem as long as we continue to look for reasons outside of our own responsibility. People are overweight because it is newly possible to live an entirely sedentary lifestyle while surrounded by cheap and plentiful calorie dense food. It doesn't matter if your pants have an elastic waistband or Nike has plus size mannequins or GMOs are labeled clearly or food has preservatives or how many carbs are in your burrito or which kinds of fats you eat.

I personally have never been obese, but I feel confident obese people deal with uncomfortable and even painful situations and events far worse than "my pants aren't stretchy enough".

Commenter is the OP so I am guessing it was posted in support.

I admit I was being somewhat facetious in my original post.

And I do know that the Daily Mail is not exactly the the world's most trusted news source.

But I have known friends to complain that they gained weight when they started wearing scrubs to work...or began working from home and didn't have to put on a suit each day. But their gains could perhaps more easily be explained by the abundant supply of snacks at the nurses' station, or the fact that they were working mere steps from their own kitchen.