When did you get rid of clothes that dont "fit" anymore?

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  • Zangpakto
    Zangpakto Posts: 336 Member
    I still have size 32 and 34 jeans... they look ridiculous as I'm 29, but still.. Gangsta style anyone?

    Oh also still have 36/38 board shorts which I never wear except to sleep in as for obvious reasons... As like.. they fall down super easy :P
  • mrs_joshica
    mrs_joshica Posts: 275 Member
    The reality is, almost all of us *will* regain the weight we lose within a year.

    Sorry but no, been over a year and not only have I kept it off, but am losing more. This is if you yo-yo diet, or do not do it in a manner that you can live with for the rest of your life. Fad diets aren't permanent, making healthy eating choices and exercise a constant in your life, NOW THAT is how its done. So anyone who read this and was discouraged, please don't be! It can be done if you do it right! Sorry to offend, but that just got me a little.
  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    The reality is, almost all of us *will* regain the weight we lose within a year.

    Sorry but no, been over a year and not only have I kept it off, but am losing more. This is if you yo-yo diet, or do not do it in a manner that you can't live with for the rest of your life. Fad diets aren't permanent, making healthy eating choices and exercise a constant in your life, NOW THAT is how its done. So anyone who read this and was discouraged, please don't be! It can be done if you do it right! Sorry to offend, but that just got me a little.

    Yeah, I kept losing weight for over a year, too, in 2011. I lost 25% of my body weight in a slow and steady manner. I followed a carefully balanced diet and did a lot of healthy exercise all year (one to two hours of exercise every day). I regained almost all of it in 2012.

    I'm not alone, and this isn't just true for fad dieters. Studies of medically supervised dieters find that it is true for most, most of the time.

    This shouldn't stop any of us from working to improve our lifestyles, lose weight and become more fit. It just means that it is something that we need to keep working at all our lives, and will probably need to keep coming back to.
  • mrs_joshica
    mrs_joshica Posts: 275 Member
    The reality is, almost all of us *will* regain the weight we lose within a year.

    Sorry but no, been over a year and not only have I kept it off, but am losing more. This is if you yo-yo diet, or do not do it in a manner that you can't live with for the rest of your life. Fad diets aren't permanent, making healthy eating choices and exercise a constant in your life, NOW THAT is how its done. So anyone who read this and was discouraged, please don't be! It can be done if you do it right! Sorry to offend, but that just got me a little.

    Yeah, I kept losing weight for over a year, too, in 2011. I lost 25% of my body weight in a slow and steady manner. I followed a carefully balanced diet and did a lot of healthy exercise all year (one to two hours of exercise every day). I regained almost all of it in 2012.

    I'm not alone, and this isn't just true for fad dieters. Studies of medically supervised dieters find that it is true for most, most of the time.

    This shouldn't stop any of us from working to improve our lifestyles, lose weight and become more fit. It just means that it is something that we need to keep working at all our lives, and will probably need to keep coming back to.

    Well, speaking from over a year experience, and watching both my mother AND grandmother AND grandfather having lost and kept the weight of the rest of their lives, IT CAN BE DONE!

    And yes, it will be a lifetime commitment, but it is a commitment that we intend to make when we purposely intend to be healthier.
  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    Well, speaking from over a year experience, and watching both my mother AND grandmother AND grandfather having lost and kept the weight of the rest of their lives, IT CAN BE DONE!

    And yes, it will be a lifetime commitment, but it is a commitment that we intend to make when we purposely intend to be healthier.

    No argument from me there.
  • karenhray7
    karenhray7 Posts: 219 Member
    I was kind of sad when I had to finally get rid of my favorite sweater. It had become my slutty sweater. And it is just not okay to volunteer in a 2nd grade classroom in a slutty sweater.
  • tachyon_master
    tachyon_master Posts: 226 Member
    The reality is, almost all of us *will* regain the weight we lose within a year.

    Sorry but no, been over a year and not only have I kept it off, but am losing more. This is if you yo-yo diet, or do not do it in a manner that you can't live with for the rest of your life. Fad diets aren't permanent, making healthy eating choices and exercise a constant in your life, NOW THAT is how its done. So anyone who read this and was discouraged, please don't be! It can be done if you do it right! Sorry to offend, but that just got me a little.

    Yeah, I kept losing weight for over a year, too, in 2011. I lost 25% of my body weight in a slow and steady manner. I followed a carefully balanced diet and did a lot of healthy exercise all year (one to two hours of exercise every day). I regained almost all of it in 2012.

    I'm not alone, and this isn't just true for fad dieters. Studies of medically supervised dieters find that it is true for most, most of the time.

    This shouldn't stop any of us from working to improve our lifestyles, lose weight and become more fit. It just means that it is something that we need to keep working at all our lives, and will probably need to keep coming back to.

    Well, speaking from over a year experience, and watching both my mother AND grandmother AND grandfather having lost and kept the weight of the rest of their lives, IT CAN BE DONE!

    And yes, it will be a lifetime commitment, but it is a commitment that we intend to make when we purposely intend to be healthier.

    I believe statistically speaking, your family are in the minority. There are numerous published scientific studies that back up this statement that the majority of people gain the weight back (and then some). I can go find the studies on it if you're really that interested.

    As for the OP's question...I didn't get rid of them. I took them to the tailor and had them altered to fit. Admittedly my pants only went from a size 4 to a size 0 and my shirts from a size 6 to a 2, so my loss wasn't extreme. And this was much, much cheaper than having to go and replace everything brand new, since most of what I wear isn't exactly cheap to start with.
  • princessrisariri
    princessrisariri Posts: 162 Member
    How about the clothes that you can't fit in anymore, but are just a size or two too small so you hope to slim into?

    I can't decide if I wil be happy to get into an old pair of jeans, or if I lose a dress size will want to run out and buy myself all new things not wear my old ones?

    Keeping them around my room just annoys me as I keep trying them on and they still don't yet fit.

    Putting them in the basement means they might get dusty or smelly so I wouldn't want them back, adn some stuff is nice so I want to keep it nice.

    I keep all my too big things for those bloated, feel like crap days where I want clothes so loose they are a big comforting tent to just sink into my desk in.
  • raychulj
    raychulj Posts: 458 Member
    My jeans are tight right out of the dryer and hanging off me after Ive broken them in.
  • jennb44
    jennb44 Posts: 81 Member
    I would get them out of your closet ASAP and give them away. My feeling is if I can't fit into what is in my closet and my clothes feel tight...it will motivate me even more to stay on track. There isn't the bigger sizes to fall back on.
  • vicky1804
    vicky1804 Posts: 320 Member
    I do a monthly clean out and when I have a full sack off they go
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I never had the frame of mind that I might need those clothes again someday, so for things that had been part of my daily wardrobe, I gave them away as soon as they started to look unflattering on me. For things I hadn't worn in a long time that had already been shoved to the back of the closet, I didn't actually sort through those until I moved about a year ago, and then it was out of necessity that I get rid of stuff.

    I've been pretty much the same size for the past year, so everything in my closet fits me now, and I haven't given away anything in a while. And not having larger sizes in my closet keeps me in check with my diet and workouts. I would be so disappointed if I had to go out and buy larger pants or skirts or whatever, so I do my best to avoid that.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I buy way too many clothes. I wear something and then wash it and hang it on the left side of my closet. Every couple months, I take everything from the right side of my closet (stuff I haven't been wearing) and take it into work. Give it to the guys. Some of it has been worn only once. I don't hang onto stuff I don't wear or doesn't fit right.

    Note: There is one guy here at work that is usually wearing something that was mine at least 2 to 3 times a week.
  • HappyNinjaStar
    HappyNinjaStar Posts: 353 Member
    Every time I come across clothes that no longer fit, I take it out to a box in the storage building (which is now overflowing). I was hanging on to things because we were thinking about having another kid soon. But I think I will probably give most of it to good will when we move in a month or so. Because frankly even if I do get pregnant, I won't get as big as I was before.
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    I am too lazy to do it. I have more clothes that don't fit than clothes that do.

    Not to lazy to go to the gym 6 days a week, though. What are you gonna do :)
  • hpynh2o
    hpynh2o Posts: 194 Member
    As soon as they were too big, I got rid of them!
    No going back!
  • agggie550
    agggie550 Posts: 281 Member
    Every chace i got, but i did keep my favorite shirta nd pants from when i was super heavy, and from to time dig them out and try them on just for giggles
  • traccie2
    traccie2 Posts: 28 Member
    If pants or skirt, when the size is about 3 inches off your waist. For tops used for office work, if shoulder droops 1.5 inches from the bone joining your shoulders and arm.

    I started my weight loss in january. I gave away all size 18 and I am now size 14. I still keep the size 16 until I drop to a size 12.


    This is about how I handle it too. I am in a 12-14 but still keep some 16s for those bloated days. The rest leaves the house.
  • love2cycle
    love2cycle Posts: 448 Member
    I put on something the other day that I used to wear 15 pounds ago, and I felt like I had gained everything back! I felt awful in an outfit I had previously loved. I don't think it was THAT big on me, but it made me feel yuck, so I chucked it. I decided to go through a lot of things, and now they are in a bag in the trunk of my car, waiting their final destination....Goodwill!!
  • drchimpanzee
    drchimpanzee Posts: 892 Member
    Right away for me! Even ditched some XXLs that were borderline the minute I looked good in XL. No going back!!!
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    get rid of them ASAP! :bigsmile:
    to make room for new trendy clothes :):wink:
  • jennfranklin
    jennfranklin Posts: 434 Member
    I have to honestly say, that anything that I was wearing when I was a size 20, I probably would never wear again anyway! My wardrobe consisited of what I call "I don't care how I look clothes". Now that I am a size 8, I wear more girly, pretty clothes that I actually feel comfortable being seen in! So yes, when they get big, I find someone who could use them, or I give them to the goodwill!
  • traccie2
    traccie2 Posts: 28 Member
    My jeans are tight right out of the dryer and hanging off me after Ive broken them in.


    Gawd, don't you just HATE that????!!!!
  • Morgalla
    Morgalla Posts: 25 Member
    I have made the weight loss journey before (from a 24 to a 4) and back up again. I had gotten rid of all my fat things above a size 12. I regretted this ultimately when I had to break down and buy plus sized stuff other than yoga pants and t-shirts.

    So now I keep the most expensive/nicest (most costly to replace if I need to) items from my wardrobe, and get rid of the others as soon as they are a couple sizes too big (they bag on me). Also give away anything that might look dated the second time you may need to wear it. I tend to buy expensive things when I am thin, so I have a lot of "skinny" clothes I packed away hoping to lose enough to wear again. It really is painful to have to buy "fat" clothes more than once. If you are not done childbearing, be mindful of this and keep some back, but put out of circulation so you aren't able to "grow" back into them.

    I would say keep anything that made you feel pretty when you wore it, but for me that was only stuff in the "skinny" boxes.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I have to honestly say, that anything that I was wearing when I was a size 20, I probably would never wear again anyway! My wardrobe consisited of what I call "I don't care how I look clothes". Now that I am a size 8, I wear more girly, pretty clothes that I actually feel comfortable being seen in! So yes, when they get big, I find someone who could use them, or I give them to the goodwill!

    This was me, too. And the funny thing is that back then (I was once an 18/20), I thought I looked stylish! And sometimes I did. I did have some nice, expensive "special occasion" clothes. But my regular work clothes ... I wouldn't be caught dead dressed like that now, even if I did gain weight. Losing weight pretty much forced me to learn more about clothes and proper fit. I could always fall back to Lane Bryant when I was fat, but when I lost weight, I had to find new stores and new styles. I had to start wearing belts (which I never had to do before because I would never have tucked my top in before), and that led to learning how to use accessories. I had to buy all new shoes because I lost a size and a half! I consider myself a very well-dressed person now.
  • traccie2
    traccie2 Posts: 28 Member
    The reality is, almost all of us *will* regain the weight we lose within a year.


    I have to say I disagree with this as well. Most people who regain their weight back do so because they either have a medical problem or they fell off of the wagon. We can't help what happens to us medically but we are not **obligated** to quit and gain back our weight, we CHOOSE to quit and the results are.... TA DAAAA.... We gain back the weight.

    In 2002 I weighed over 350 lbs. At that time I stopped getting on the scale. I have no idea what I topped off at before I finally started to work on it. By 2005 I had lost 190 lbs by changing the way I ate and by exersizing. I have gained a few times since then but I never gotten over 200 lbs and everytime I have gained weight it was due to either an injury that left me unable to get around or my own laziness/depression/emotional eating.

    I can promise you I absolutely DO NOT own a single one of those over size 20s that I use to wear and I absolutely am NOT going to keep them "just incase" I become my old fat self.

    I am accountable for my actions. I'm not a helpless person subject to some weird happening of god or the universe as I sit here just cringing in my size 12 dress pants wondering if I'm going to be slammed upside the head by a meteor from outer space that screws up my metabolism.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I can understand gaining the weight back if you only had 15 to 20 lbs to lose. It doesn't take a drastic change in your lifestyle to get rid of that, so it is conceivable that you might gain a lot of it back, and it might happen pretty quickly. But I just don't believe it's common for someone who loses a LOT of weight through diet and exercise to gain it back within a year. I'm not saying it never, ever happens. I just think it's ridiculous to suggest that "almost all of us" will gain back the weight we lost within a year.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    I keep them for days that I "feel" huge, that way I put the big clothes on and feel smaller.

    Yeah. Dumb. I know.
  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    I don't think people should be discouraged by the fact that most people regain weight, however they manage to lose it.
    Since I know that this is true and I know that I am not special, I know that I have to work hard and be vigilant.
    If (when) I fall off the wagon for a while, I know that this does not make me a failure, a weak-willed loser: it just means that I am human, like everyone else, struggling in our modern obesogenic environment. That knowledge makes it easier for me to get back on track.
  • KageyKat
    KageyKat Posts: 45
    Interesting question, thanks for posting. I have about 4 bags of clothes in my closet that don't fit. I told my husband I would not get rid of them until I've kept the weight off for a year. Looking at these posts is making me re-think that decision. It maybe that I'm holding onto to the big clothes to give myself an out if I need it.

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