Weight Loss and Size...

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  • blanhe2
    blanhe2 Posts: 88
    The first lot took ages and many pounds, but since then, about 20-25 lbs is a dress size for me. I started at 380 and lost 100 lbs prior to MFP.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I'm 5'11 and hourglass, "big boned" if you will. It takes literally a 30 pounds loss/gain to notice a difference, even in the way my clothes fit. At 250 lbs I'm wearing a somewhat loose size 18, and at 180 lbs I wore a comfy 14.


    Nobody is big boned. But congrats on the loss anyway. Just please don't ever say 'big boned' again.... nobody is.

    When people say "big-boned," it is in reference to their frame. Especially for women, yes, our body frame can be much larger than other women at the same height and weight. It is also referred to as waist-to-hip ratio, but that's not the common way to say it. When I was a BMI of 22, back in high school, I was wearing a size 16 when other friends of the same height and weight were wearing a size 6 or 8. (same brand jeans; these are friends I went to the mall with regularly)

    Now some people will try to claim that they are overweight because of big bones. These are the ones fooling themselves. Everyone's bones will weigh roughly the same, but the structure our bones varies. And those with wider-set hips will always wear a larger size than those with narrower hips, thus we have a larger frame, which makes the term big-boned to be accurate.
  • bohdanko
    bohdanko Posts: 16 Member
    I started off at size 20/22 and it took about 2 weeks before I got to a size 18, then about a month to size 16, another 3 months to size 14 & now 10 months later I'm a size 12 going onto a size 10. 10 months in total. Just depends on how hard you work at it I think. I push hard, my friends on here know that. They know I have no limits & don't know how to quit.

    I don't think you can blame how hard you work at it when the weight HAS come off. How hard you worked to lose it is irrelevant in how many sizes you drop. Our bodies are just all different in how they adjust to pounds lost. It's a little condescending to say she didn't work as hard as you.

    OP - I had the same issue (and yes, that's probably why I'm a little sensitive to the above reply). I started at 264 and lost close to 50 before really needing to go down a size. Of course, I was really stuffing myself into my clothes when I started, and they were pretty loose before I went looking for more clothes. Over the next 30-40 pounds, though, I've dropped a couple of sizes. Now after losing about 80 pounds (82 to be precise), I'm in a comfortable size 16, having started at a super-tight 22 or 24 (I can't remember anymore!). Between 210 and 200, for me, suddenly my body shed A LOT of the inches. I'm not sure where it went before that!

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