PROM DRESS, HOW CAN IT LOOK WORSE AFTER I LOST 7LBS!!!!!

cm1458
cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I bought a dress for my winter formal about three months ago. I've lost 7LBS since i bought it. I tried it on today to see my progress (winter formal is this saturday)...and i was shocked to see that it looks far worse now than it did before i lost the 7lbs. I look like ive gained 15lbs in it, not lost 7! It doesnt make ANY SENSE!!! I look so fat in it now! I dont understand...

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  • Retiredmom72
    Retiredmom72 Posts: 538 Member
    Relax. Do you have someone who can alter the dress for you? If you loss 7 pounds in 3 months, there is a chance your body repositioned it. If ithe weight is in the waist/hip area, go to any store--Walmart, Kmart, etc. and buy a pair of support panty hose. They should firm up your middle and hips. Drink plenty of water. Enjoy the dance.
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    Relax. Do you have someone who can alter the dress for you? If you loss 7 pounds in 3 months, there is a chance your body repositioned it. If ithe weight is in the waist/hip area, go to any store--Walmart, Kmart, etc. and buy a pair of support panty hose. They should firm up your middle and hips. Drink plenty of water. Enjoy the dance.
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    I drink 12-16glasses a fay. I cant wear spanx or pantyhose or whatever caus the back is cut out really low :(
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    Relax. Do you have someone who can alter the dress for you? If you loss 7 pounds in 3 months, there is a chance your body repositioned it. If ithe weight is in the waist/hip area, go to any store--Walmart, Kmart, etc. and buy a pair of support panty hose. They should firm up your middle and hips. Drink plenty of water. Enjoy the dance.




    I drink 12-16glasses a fay. I cant wear spanx or pantyhose or whatever caus the back is cut out really low :(
  • EmmarrD
    EmmarrD Posts: 69
    You may need to get the dress taken in? since you lost weight, the dress needs to be altered to conform around your new size :)
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    i think itd make it worse :( Its really clinging to my extra skin on my loser stomach :(
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I feel your pain-- that happened to me with my wedding dress. I lost about 20 lbs after my fitting, and I should have had it altered but didn't. It looks really saggy in all the photos. I recommend going to a seamstress to at least see if there are alterations that might help.
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    I feel your pain-- that happened to me with my wedding dress. I lost about 20 lbs after my fitting, and I should have had it altered but didn't. It looks really saggy in all the photos. I recommend going to a seamstress to at least see if there are alterations that might help.

    Mine clings to my stomach and I look pregnant (Im not, for what its worth) :( It looks like ive gained weight since i bought it... but I really lost :explode:
  • Ballmom22
    Ballmom22 Posts: 27
    It's life's sick joke on us women. I had a ton of loose skin after having my children (and before) had the whole hangy stomach, ended up getting a tummy tuck. The truth is most of it is probably in your head. I am sure you don't look nearly as bad as you think. Remember confidence on ANYONE is sexy so rock it out and keep doing what you are doing to lose. Work out and try hitting your target areas as much as possilbe but for the dance....just dance sweetie, have fun, these days fly by!!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    Don't let this make you quit losing. Could be your subconscious mind trying to find and an excuse to give up. AS we lose..our bodies can get weird...it takes losing a lot to get looking good. I vote that you look for another dress that might be more flattering. Anyone of us could go try on five dresses..and only maybe one look really good.
  • lovechicagobears
    lovechicagobears Posts: 289 Member
    Is it the blue dress in your pics? I think it looks amazing on you.

    Also, they make backless body shapers. :)

    http://www.amazon.com/Backless-Shaper-Padded-Convertible-Straps/dp/B002AM3H1A
  • xMissy6x
    xMissy6x Posts: 347 Member
    Is it the blue dress in your pics? I think it looks amazing on you.

    i agree!
  • jcmrqz
    jcmrqz Posts: 2 Member
    It would be difficult to know exactly what is happening without knowing your body measures, and the kind of work out and diet you have been doing. As someone already mentioned, there is a chance your body repositioned your weight.

    It is important to not just focus on loosing weight but also on what kind of weight we are reducing. One can be lighter and fatter at the same time. Let me explain: Our body had different kinds of tissues, for simplicity let us consider them as fat and lean mass. If you want to look better, you need to reduce the proportion of fat in your body and/or increase the proportion of lean mass. But if you do not follow an adequate program, you may loose more lean mass than fat and thus actually look fatter.

    If you only loose weight through dieting and not exercising. Or if your exercise consists of only light cardio, there is a chance you are loosing lean mass (which makes you look good) and not fat (which is not very aesthetically pleasing in excess). And if specially if you use extreme diets you may even put on fat at the same time you loose weight (because you are loosing lean mass quickly.) This is a very dangerous process because someone undergoing this process will not become much healthier and will not build a body that performs better. People going through this kind of process is actually shrinking themselves instead of building themselves.

    There is also a catch. Fatty tissues have a much lower density than lean mass. This means if your body shrinks your lean mass (like muscles and bones) and puts on the same weight in fat, you will look much fatter. And there is another catch even worst for your long terms fitness goals: Lean mass burns more calories just by existing. The more you lower your lean mass, the more difficult it will be to loose weight and keep a healthy weight in the future.

    So, its important to not obsess ourselves with just loosing weight. It is important to focus instead on developing a healthy lifestyle that includes a balanced diet, a good mix of resistance and cardio exercises according to our goals and loosing extra weight, and looking good will be a byproduct of this healthy lifestyle.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    If you lose weight and the weight you lose is muscle mass instead of fat, then you're left with the squishy. Sounds to me you are not eating enough/not exercising. For the future, lift weights to maintain muscle mass on a calorie deficit, and don't make the calorie deficit to big.

    I recommend reading the thread below. Notice the size difference between the first 2 pics of this girl at the same weight:
    five-years-later.jpg
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/494091-i-just-don-t-care-anymore
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    Is it the blue dress in your pics? I think it looks amazing on you.

    Also, they make backless body shapers. :)

    http://www.amazon.com/Backless-Shaper-Padded-Convertible-Straps/dp/B002AM3H1A

    Thanks for the link. but It looks awful now. that was after i lost 2lbs... i lost 5more and now it looks horrid :/ but thats for saying it looks amazing.
  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    I don't mean to sound mean but I bet it's all in your head.

    Find out how to improve your confidence and you will look great in it. Regardless of a size, someone having confidence makes anything look better.

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