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saying good-bye to unrealistic "goal clothes"

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  • withchaco
    withchaco Posts: 1,026 Member
    I'm the opposite. I never bought goal clothes (never really tried to lose weight until now) or had any in the first place (always been overweight). And when I first started this, I thought size small would be a good goal for me, but now I realize I'll be more like XS without the excess weight.

    That's just the shirt size though... Pants are a different story! My thighs and calves are huge. I always thought I was an apple, because of my fat belly and slim hips... but I'm definitely closer to a pear. Just because my hips are slim, doesn't mean my thighs are!
  • batelohim83
    batelohim83 Posts: 7
    When I first started losing weight I put a bunch of clothes aside as goal clothes...when I pulled them out and tried them on they were too big. Oops. Of course that was 2 years and a pregnancy ago. Even though I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight I'm not shaped the same at all. I have very few goal clothes right now. Couple pairs of pants and that is it.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I've done both. I have some jeans from high school that I'm bouncing off the walls happy that I can get on again. Notice, I didn't say "they fit." They're actually very unflattering and quite painful. But I can get them up and zip them and that makes me happy.

    On the other hand, I've ditched clothes that didn't fit, and I thought would never fit again. I know there was one shirt that my arms wouldn't fit in. It made me feel like poop... like I had some kind of freakish she-hulk arms. No article of clothing should ever make you feel guilty.

    I didn't keep my high school clothes because I wanted to wear them again. I kept them because I'm a sentimental fool with a touch of hoarding tendencies and they were bizarrely unique clothes. I'm also the unofficial "Keeper of the Costumes" among my family, and anytime anyone has a theme party, I'm the one they hit up for strange clothes. Sixties party? Seventies party? Eighties party? Halloween? I got yer outfit!

    So... that's my advice. If you're keeping it because it's unique and/or has sentimental value, keep it. If you feel like it's taunting you... ditch it.
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