Get over the size thing!

megleo818
megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Honestly, women, clothing sizes are for the birds. There's no rhyme or reason in pants sizes for females. Worrying about whether you're a size 16 or a size 2 is the most useless way for you to spend your energy in the history of energy expenditure. GET OVER IT!

I am just shy of 5'4" and have lost 30 pounds over the past nine months. I was never very big before, and now I am officially slim. But if I let my pants sizes tell me whether I've been successful, the answer would be mixed at best. I've recently amassed an impressive pants wardrobe, and the sizes I'm wearing are:

Banana Republic (2 pairs): size 4
Gap (one pair): size 6
Old Navy (one pair each): size 6 and size 2
J. Crew (one pair): size 2
Lucky Brand (one pair each): size 27 and size 28 -- the 28's are tighter
Random off brands: (one pair each): size 4, 8, and 10

Now I ask you: Do I believe that I'm a size 10? Or a size 2? Or do I believe that I am my OWN size, and that I have to try a bunch of random garments to find the ones that fit ME?

Please. Love your body and blame the clothes. It's not the size, it's the fit. Size is irrelevant and stupid.

I feel better now. :drinker:

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  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    I wore everything from a size 10 to a size 16W pre-baby (size 10 was definitely vanity sized, and I mostly wore a 12). Women's dress sizes are insane.

    I wish they would just base them off a standard set of measurements instead of varying so much.

    Agree with your message too. Women need to stop focusing on things like size. The focus should be on good health and fitness.
  • musenchild
    musenchild Posts: 182 Member
    But...but...I really want to wear a size 8! (One is enough, like your size 2)
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    I agree. A few years ago I had a friend who refused to buy her wedding dress in a 10 so she squeezed into an 8 but it woulda looked much better if she had just gotten the size she needed. I tried to tell her that formal dresses usually run small but she was adament about getting the smaller size.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    But...but...I really want to wear a size 8! (One is enough, like your size 2)

    Yes, but you'll KNOW when you're an 8! Regardless of what the tag says. I totally know what you're saying, though. Wearing a 14 was painful. I had to cut those tags out because every time I peed (sorry, tmi), I saw that number and it bummed me out.

    I'm just saying that if you go to the store and you're still not in whatever random size you've decided is your "thin" place, don't over-stress. Every manufacturer's sizes vary wildly from one another and even from garment to garment within their own collections. All size 8's are NOT created equal. Don't be defined by a number.

    Especially you, Musenchild!
  • kingscrown
    kingscrown Posts: 615 Member
    Yes, now that I'm buying clothes cause I don't have any that fit I find I fit into all sorts of different sizes. Right now I'm so happy not to be a 2X any more.
  • lisab0864
    lisab0864 Posts: 154
    Totally agreeing.............. I wear a size 4 to a size 8 - w/most being a size 6 but do have a size 10 that fits... Gotta tell you -- my butt doesn't look any bigger (or smaller) in the 10s than it does in the 4s...
    Wouldn't it be great to be able to shop like a man -- just go into the store and pick up WxL and not have to try them on and know they will fit when you get home?
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    I have size 6 and 8 jeans now. Size 6 skirts and size 8 jackets, tops and coats. Dresses are 6,8 and 10.

    Crazy stuff, clothes. I gave up and became a member of Project 333. I highly advise it for at least your "work wardrobe" .... It's like creating your own "Garanimals" for adults.

    I use to love to shop for clothes. Over the years I just got sick of the dissapointment of not finding clothes that fit, whether I was at my goal weight or over. I rebuilt my wardrobe after I lost the excess weight this year and only buy things that fit, make me feel great, and will survive the fashion police as far as "new classics"...
  • lauren3101
    lauren3101 Posts: 1,853 Member
    I think aiming to be a certain clothes size is healthier than being obsessed with the scales.

    Tbh I'm over the moon that I'm now a size 18-20 because so many more clothes shops have become available to me.
  • XXXMinnieXXX
    XXXMinnieXXX Posts: 3,459 Member
    So true! X
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    i totally agree!!!

    i wear a load of different sizes depending where i shop - but whats worse is a freaked out and ate loads this weekend because i had do buy a smaller than normal size, even though my goal is to lose bodyfat and therefor end up smaller than i am.... how does that work?!
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    I do worry about it though.. Why?

    Because I know that when my smaller clothes become to tight(and not just from water retention or w/e) that I need to look at losing again and re-evaluate what I'm doing.

    I like being able to say that I'm a size 4. I worked hard to get into those smaller sizes, so why should I not be proud of that?
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Never in my life have I been a size 2. When I was a healthy weight, I was wearing a size 16. Size 16 is actually my goal for sizes. That's still small enough to be able to wear "normal" sizes instead of "plus" sizes. My goal is to get out of the "plus" section of the store.

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