4 lbs = 1 inch off your waist? 8 to 10 lbs = 1 dress size?

BartBVanBockstaele

Indiri13 wrote: »

Think of your body as a roll of paper towels and the individual pieces as pounds. At the outside of the roll it takes multiple pieces to cover the outside so to lose a layer takes a larger amount of pounds. As you get closer to the inside of the roll it takes less pieces to go around it so losing a layer takes a smaller amount of pounds. When I'm at my largest I needed to lose 20-25 pounds to go down a size from 18 to 16 (this amount needed will vary depending on your height, etc). At my smallest I only have to lose 5 pounds to go from a size 8 to a 6 because there are less "paper towels" around the outside.

That is a great analogy.

marinabumber

Interesting topic. I have found in my 4 months since tracking, having lost 11 kg that I also lost 11 cm in my hips. Not sure on my waist, I have been measuring it the wrong way when I first started.
Someone casually told me: sure, you didn't know that? 1 kg = 1 cm
I found it interesting, but I can see by reading this topic that experience varies vastly!

XxAngry_Pixi

This has not been the case for me at all. I lost over 50 lbs and barely changed my dress size or waist measurement. Then my weight loss plateaued for about 5 months but I went down 2 dress sizes 🤷‍♀️

westrich20940

Surely as you said it varies person to person...but I did my own math and based on it, I lost a size (dress/pant size) for every 6.8 --- so let's call it 7lbs I lost.

So....sure, pretty accurate I'd say. Individual height will have an effect on this -- I'm 5'3".

kaydensmom2009

I’m 5’2”. It took 40lbs when I first started to drop one pants size, from an 18 to a 16. My last drop in size only took 5lbs to go from a 2 to a 0, from 120lbs to 115lbs. Overall I dropped 9 pants sizes and lost 85lbs, but you drop clothing sizes differently throughout the process. As you get smaller it takes less pound loss to drop a pants size.