There is NO WAY that is going to fit me!

This happens to me too!! It is a weird, mostly good feeling...but still really disconcerting.

I shop a lot in stores like Ross, Marshalls, TJ Maxx...where there's a plus size rack right next to the regular sizes. I am like a magnet to the clearance racks, and after I've checked out the XL and sometimes L from all of the regular misses and juniors racks, I ALWAYS stop at the 1X of the plus section "just to see" and only in the past few months, everything there's too big for me...but in my brain, that is completely and totally impossible still. I have started to understand/accept mentally that I CAN wear the XL and sometimes L. But to think that even 1X is too big for me, when I wore 2X/3X for about 15-20 years...it's just hard for me to believe.

Same thing with bottoms. I am in a 14 right now, which also seems nuts to me...but I ordered some skinny jeans in a 13 because they were super cheap, and when they arrived in the mail I was like, "Holy cow those will NEVER fit me" and they do. Granted they are stretchy, but it just seems in my mind like I cannot wear a 13.

I have this all the time now! I'm still adjusting, and it's still weird. I've just gotten to the point where I can't really wear anything from the plus section (some things in the juniors plus section I can do, but that's because juniors sizes/odd number sizes have a *lot* less room in the boobs and butt, lol), and there's definitely a disconnect in my brain somewhere.

I do look at my old 4X clothes though, and think, "yikes! Did that really fit me once?!" :laugh:

I'm actually about to set out today for the next run of shopping for cheap transition-size clothes, and have finally learned that I now have to try EVERYTHING on, in several sizes, because I just cannot judge by looking. I always guess wrong. I used to be able to pick up the exact right fit off the rack without ever trying anything on.

To be fair, even though it seems like it's taken forever, I have dropped about 120 pounds now in about a year and a half (I started at just under 300). I still have about 30 to go - and I will have lost half my body weight, which I also can't quite get my head around... that's a pretty significant change. Drastic, even. Logically, it makes sense that it will take time to adapt. It just feels weird that I don't instinctively know what my body looks like and what will fit it.

But I see people all the time talking about that adjustment (just one of so very many mental adjustments we all have to make here, lol), and I wonder how long it will take me to fully adapt to my new body. Doesn't help that it's still changing, as I drop the rest of the weight, and work on getting stronger and fitter.

At least my shoe size is the same as it's ever been. It's about the only thing that hasn't changed (for me, at least, I've read stories here on the forums of people losing even shoe sizes).

Still, here's to the brain not accepting new sizes! It's all part of the journey, apparently... :drinker:

Good for you!

Me too - even the jeans I wear every day - the first time I get them clean out of the wardrobe there's a moment as I start to put them on where I think - they'll never go on me! It's impossible! My husband is really skinny! And now we're wearing the same size jeans! I find it so hard to believe! In my head I'm still twice as wide as him!

I've dropped two dress sizes from UK16 to UK12 and if I try things on in shops I still don't quite believe a 12 will fit and am always stunned and excited when it does!

But it's so expensive! I've been selling lots of clothes - nice suits and things, and there's no way I can replace them all! Some lovely clothes I bought for weddings and so forth :grumble: But I'm not working now so I can't afford things of the same quality. I've got a few nice things from Charity shops, but it's still costing a bomb!

PS and my rings are spinning on my fingers now! Another cost - having them reduced!

At least my shoe size is the same as it's ever been. It's about the only thing that hasn't changed (for me, at least, I've read stories here on the forums of people losing even shoe sizes).

For me, as well! I have read in many instances where people have had to go down in shoe size because of weight loss. Not me! My feet have stayed the same......poor little guys

OP! Grats on fitting in things that are smaller! Your brain will catch up eventually. =P Just give it some more time ^_^

Me too! I have (too many) clothes that I thought would look and fit better once my lumps and bumps diminished. Well, some of them just looked worse! They hang and bag and sag and are not flattering at all! I am gracing the nice stuff to other people who could use it, and enjoying the few that do look nice. Am hitting up sales and thrift stores until I reach my goal, but shrinking sure is exhilarating!

lol congrats! this happened to my this past weekend. we went to the lululemon outlet and because I always hear that lululemon isnt vanity sized I went right to the 12s. Had to keep sizing down til a 6! Crazy.

Good to hear this is not just "my story"! I lost 30 lbs and had been up near the before weight - just about all my adult life.
It just kept going up gradually every year - never back down - except once - when i was into bike racing and lost 10 lbs.
But 30 - is a different story. I didn't shop for any new clothes either - until i had lost the weight - until everything i had really
looked pretty bad on me. (a good thing). I went from a 12/14 - and large top to a size 6 ! And Small or medium. I was in total
shock. I tried on several brands and there i was 4 - 6 or 8. Unheard of! Never - never had i been a 6. And i go by mirrors and
constantly check myself out - Me?? Its 6 months now - that i have lost it. Still pretty wierd. But - oh my - what a good wierd......

I have the same problem when shopping. I picture myself as much bigger than I am and was really surprised the other day when I realised that a woman at Zumba who I would class as chunky (rather than huge) looked pretty much the same size as me when we were facing the mirrors during class! People treat me differently and I can't work out whether that's down to my new size or whether I'm just projecting so much more confidence? It's definitely a strange process learning who we are becoming.