"Fat pants" keep or ditch?

Keep them somewhere so that if you ever fall off track with your eating then you can look at the pants and think about how you never want to wear them again. Great motivation!

I would keep one for before and after shots definitely

Someone posted on here a year or two ago that they did a ceremonial burning of their fat pants when they got to goal. I think that's an awesome idea and plan to do the same! I'll take that cliche pic then invite some friends over for drinks around the firepit and burn those babies!

I kept one suit and one pair of jeans and donated the rest. Shirts are another story. I now seem to have ones from 4XL to XL. I work out and do work around the house in the really big ones as I a too cheap to replace them all. Over time, they will wear out and get thrown away.

I've lost 160 pounds and have kept it off. I went through the clothes. My thought was to get rid of it as soon as it outgrew me. I wish I had kept one pair of pants and one shirt to show how much I have lost. I went from a 52 inch pants to an 32 now, from a 4X shirt to a medium now.
I wold say keep one set to remind you of what you have accomplished.
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I am getting rid of everything! I have no desire to put any of my fat clothes on again even just to remind myself of where I started from!

I'm getting rid of clothes on a monthly basis and not buying new stuff till I am muuuuuch closer to my goal. Realizing just how many things were sitting in my closet taking up space - didn't fit, fit now, out of style, etc...

I kept my favorite pair of 'fat jeans'. Yes. I am going to take the cheesey "I can fit in a pants leg of my old jeans" photo.

LOL! I really liked the jeans. :ohwell:

I have kept one outfit, but it was not only for the photos. I donated the rest, but, the day that I hit my goal weight, I am having a party, at this party, there will be food, drinks, games, and in the evening, a ceremonial burning of the fat pants.

I have one pair saved. The rest of the clothes are donated or tossed

My jeans have gone from 42 to 36 waist. Suit trousers from 42 to 38.
Thinking I may just keep the one pair of jeans and donate the rest.

Benefit is that my other half is also losing (36 to 32) so I am inheriting his cast-offs.

I tossed mine (gave them to a friend) but mine wouldn't have made a super striking before/after photo (went from a tight size 6 to a loose size 2).

I'm having the same benefit but kind of opposite...my other half is gaining (on purpose) and I'm starting to eye her clothes and ask "do those still fit you? can I try them on?" lol. When we met, I had to borrow a pair of her pants for work and it nearly squeezed the life outta me so this is pretty amazing.

Someone posted on here a year or two ago that they did a ceremonial burning of their fat pants when they got to goal. I think that's an awesome idea and plan to do the same! I'll take that cliche pic then invite some friends over for drinks around the firepit and burn those babies!

I LOVE this idea... make it a celebration after the goal is reached... take the pic then say goodbye!

I dumped big clothes as I went along. Once I was steadily wearing the next size down for a couple weeks, out the old size went. The downside, I hv no back-sliding clothes. The upside, NO BACK-SLIDING. I took two months off from going to the gym, started eating what I want in mass quantities, and now my clothes are uncomfortable. It was the wake-up call I needed to get back in the game. If I had nice clothes to wear to work in the bigger size, I wldve let it get beyond the 5-8 lbs I had let it go to. So for me that's such an incentive to not yoyo, I hv to dump clothes as I go. Although, I saved one thing that is from bigger days--way bigger. It helps me also to look at the reality of where I was. Men's missions always need decent work clothes for men who are turning their life around. As my husband was losing weight we gave away some of his church clothes, and they really were put to good use by our local St. Vincent de Paul for people who were getting new jobs. Win-win!

Love the burning idea! I may just have to do that when I hit goal. LOL I would keep a pair & donate the rest. Just keep it as a reminder of how far you've come & how you never want to go back there.

I have one pair of 44 inch waist pants. I'm currently wearing 34 and the few pairs of 36 inch pants that I haven't set aside are now too big to reasonably wear with a belt so I should probably be wearing 32 inch waists.

That one pair of 44 inch waist pants are for that picture you have to take at the end of your weight-loss.

The 44s, 42s,40s, and 38s were all donated. All my 3XL, 2XL and XL shirts along with all of my 3XL, 2XL and about half of my XL Tshirts were donated too. I've kept some XL tshirts to have as a layer over running gear but they are getting too big now too.

Really, we should all have such problems.

But donate them, just keep on of the biggest of the big for that picture everyone is supposed to take.

and hey, if you donate enough clothes you have a nice writeoff.

Some of the fancier stuff could be tailored, it will probably look better than they ever did...
I have 2 suits I need to figure out what to do with. The bigger one will probably get donated somewhere and I need to get the smaller one tailored. Since I only wear suits to weddings, funerals and job interviews and I'm happy with my job, getting a suit tailored just seems like tempting fate so I haven't had it tailored. The next wedding is in September so by July I'll have to find a decent tailor.

I'm going to contact a consignment shop for my suits, and really nice summer clothes, maybe make a dollar or two and the rest I want to give to charity! I have enough pictures of me to remind me of where I've been to remind me that I don't want to go back there so no need to keep the clothes!