At Goal & Successfully Maintaining. So Why Am I Doing This All Over Again?

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  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    God yes clothes. Every season all new things. It is so bad and so many are still hanging around because work to donate. Even thrift stuff got expensive.
  • RetiredAndLovingIt
    RetiredAndLovingIt Posts: 1,394 Member
    Thanks, Springlering62. Your post to tall trees was so inspiring….it was just what I needed to hear, too, as I am working to lose the last 20#.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    BL explained to me at length this morning why he’ll only need two pair of smaller pants til he “loses all his weight. “

    Not a bad plan, says the lady who blew through four wardrobes.

    Ugh, says the lady who’ll have to keep those two pair washed regularly.

    Seriously, when losing large amounts of weight, the first few sizes take forever to drop. But then they start coming off boom! Boom! Boom!

    Invest as little as possible in those interim sizes. They are going to be baggy and ill fitting much faster than your larger sizes were.

    So many people reach their first goal and reset goal. I reset my own several times.

    When I reached my original goal, I went a little crazy. There was no way I could even visualize myself getting any smaller.

    But as I continued my weighing, logging, and exercise, the weight continued to fall off. To my joy/horror, I was out of those clothes within two or three months. I made the mistake of getting new clothes again, a little more cautiously, but I still couldn’t visualize myself any smaller. I eventually went from a 22/24W to a 2/4. I went from XL to S so fast, it was literally only a few months. I’ve salvaged some of those interim clothes to use as loose jammies.

    The smaller you get, the faster those sizes are going to peel off.

    Many MFP’ers report that once they do reach final goal, even though no further weight comes off, clothes continue to get looser as their body rearranges the furniture.

    This is particularly true if you’re doing recomp.

    BL ultimately decided to order four pair of pants. He guessed at his size, going down 4 inches in waist. I can already tell the new ones will be too big. That can be a happy discovery for him, although it’ll mean baggy drawers for another few weeks as he goes through the exchange process. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    BTW, also noticed this morning that his shirts are hanging better, too. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 That’s a win!!!

    I kept a lot of too small clothes in the attic and as part of prepping to move have been going through them. I got rid of ones that had elastic ruined by the heat of the attic, ones that were just clearly too young (I'm 54), and crop tops. No matter how much weight I lose, I have no expectations that my very large fibroids will shrink enough to make crop tops a good choice.

    I'd had them kind of sorted in "one size too small," "two sizes too small," and "this is a long shot but I can't bear to get rid of it." I've lost 30 pounds this year and blew by some of the "one size too small" already. But a lot of pants that used to fit me when I was last at this weight no longer do due to these fibroids. I'm still spending a lot of time in stretchy pants that I also wore at 20 pounds heavier.

    I've also kept office clothes, which may be pointless, as at this point I would prefer to work remotely, as I did for 9 years before the pandemic, or work at a job that does not require nice clothes. I also fantasize about, if I do end up with another office job, dressing in monochrome like Rachel Maddow and just not worrying about wardrobe all that much. I do have a lot of scarves I could use for some variety.

    While writing this it occurred to me to try on my gardening jeans, which I have probably not worn since April. They are nice and baggy, except for the waist. Thanks, fibroids. I may need to look into some maternity pants. My fibroids should shrink when my estrogen levels plummet after menopause, but I'm not there yet, despite my mother, aunt, and sister having gone through it when younger than I am.
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,720 Member
    speaking about clothes...I still haven't lost the 17lbs I gained over the last year so I'm going to buy 2 new pants & will save the smaller sizes I have in hopes of them fitting again but I'm not going to stress over it. This may be the size I'll stay though I've been working on it for a while now
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,386 Member
    Whoops. That was intended for another thread. Don’t know how it got here. 😑
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Re the "quality Kitty time" from Oct 2 - KITTY PICTURES!
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,371 Member

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    “Walk me, hooman.”

    Awww, congrats on the new addition to your family!

    One of my former rescue dogs had quite an issue with aggression toward other dogs. Turns out he was not aggressive when handled by the incredibly expensive doggie behavioural psychologist I hired. In other words, his aggression was overprotectiveness of me.

    Yours may not have developed enough of a bond yet to think of you as something it needs to protect. Perhaps something to watch for.
  • ridiculous59
    ridiculous59 Posts: 2,906 Member
    A huge part of my weightloss journey has always been spending time outdoors, usually with my dogs. I need that touchstone for my mental health and if for some reason I'm unable to get outside (we had a few days of -44C last winter and even I'm not diehard enough to go out in that!) I find myself feeling agitated. So yes, weight-loss is not ALL about counting calories.

    Dissed the cats???? I'm a dog person through and through but I'd never do that 😉
  • uyister
    uyister Posts: 154 Member
    @springlering62 Love your thread!! I keep coming back for your wonderful insights, advice, and hubby's progress!!