When did you start shopping for a smaller size?

I waited until my friends at work offered to buy me new clothes. One of them told me that I looked like I stole my clothes from a dead hobo. It was time.

I waited until my friends at work offered to buy me new clothes. One of them told me that I looked like I stole my clothes from a dead hobo. It was time.

I think I love that friend of yours. I had an irl laugh and got looked at weird. xD

The first time I lost weight I started buying new clothes when the ones I had were just too big. Then I'd immediately bag them up and give them to my cousins. They would go through and find what fit them that they liked then give what was left to another friend at church. I knew a couple of my cousins didn't have a great deal of money for new clothes and mine were in great condition since I take care of most of them pretty well.

This time around I haven't gotten rid of most of my smaller clothes so when things get to big I just go to my smaller clothes and find what size I am now. My goal is to get back into my smallest clothes (or even have them get to big).

When I'm in the middle of losing weight I go for cheap like Walmart for the most part. There's no point in getting too many expensive clothes that wont fit in a few months.

After losing 31 pounds. I needed new underwear. I had some that would fall off me. I had to get some new pants and I bought some new shirts. The old ones hung on me.

I had no shorts for summer so I got almost all my summer clothes there.

I do ALOT of my shopping at GoodWill so I didn't pay alot. I just got a pair of black dress pants for $6 the other day. Most of the clothes I have bought at Goodwill has not even been worn. I love the "designer" one that is downtown.

I was about the same as everyone else, 15-20 pounds. Unfortunately my body seems to be wanting to lose weight from my hips, thighs and butt way before my waist, so I have to wear pants that are huge in my legs but still fit pretty well in the band. I've just about replaced all of my clothes from when I started. I did a lot of thrift store shopping, clearance rack shopping and I had a friend of mine alter some of my tshirts. I did splurge on some interviewing clothes, because I'm job hunting.

Also I have to go buy new underwear and bras today. I'm still at a large bra size so I'm worried about having to go to Lane Bryant still and shelling out $40. God I hate Lane Bryant.

I'm the opposite - I lost the first 10-ish pounds seemingly entirely from the waist up, so my tops and bras are now huge and my pants/skirts are an inch or so longer because the only thing holding them up is my lower belly - butt and thighs shrank with the next 4ish lbs. This means that when the lower belly goes there isn't going to be anything at all keeping my pants/skirts up except a belt and a prayer.

For the OP - even though I've dropped two top sizes, I'm holding out on clothes shopping until I get down to where I want to be. I started out close enough to my preferred weight that it'd just be a waste to buy new clothes twice. I have started a donation bag, though, for those things I can't wear anymore and be decent. I dropped a cup and a band size. Had no idea that I'd have to shorten the shoulder straps a couple of inches to compensate, pulling the top of my bra way up my chest. Then the smaller chest made my V-neck/scoopneck necklines fall much lower, resulting in the top of my bra sticking out of the neckline of my shirt. Not exactly appropriate.

I also didn't really have to do alot of shopping, but had to go through my closet when I could pull my pants over my hips with out unzipping or unbuttoning them.

The first time I lost weight I started buying new clothes when the ones I had were just too big. Then I'd immediately bag them up and give them to my cousins. They would go through and find what fit them that they liked then give what was left to another friend at church. I knew a couple of my cousins didn't have a great deal of money for new clothes and mine were in great condition since I take care of most of them pretty well.

This time around I haven't gotten rid of most of my smaller clothes so when things get to big I just go to my smaller clothes and find what size I am now. My goal is to get back into my smallest clothes (or even have them get to big).

When I'm in the middle of losing weight I go for cheap like Walmart for the most part. There's no point in getting too many expensive clothes that wont fit in a few months.

Thrift stores are a great place to buy clothing also!

For each 10# lost, I needed to buy smaller pants. I'm very short and 10# one way or the other makes a huge difference in how my clothes fit. (I also gain/lose in my hips and thighs.)

I had a coworker come up to me and go "suzi, that shirt looks REALLY too big on you!" She was saying it as if proud to be the one to point it out, knowing the hard work i put in. I looked in the mirror and realized my clothes were getting so big the looked terrible! I also had (still have them) a pair of jeans that got so big they looked terrible. :bigsmile:

I went down a dress size roughly every 15lbs. Some items of clothing, eg t-shirts, I made do with until I had dropped 2 sizes but I found I needed to buy new jeans every time I dropped a size otherwise they looked silly. I made do with a very small wardrobe of clothes for most of the last 12 months as I have dropped 4 dress sizes and I couldn't afford to buy too much in each size, knowing I was still losing.

My new clothes are my old new clothes, if that makes sense. When I lost weight about two years ago I managed to hit a great sale midseason, and practically walked away with a brand new summer wardrobe. Fast forward to summer 2012, and I couldn't wear any of it. Hopefully I'll be back in them sometime in July, so I can get some use out of them. Where I live you can wear summer things until practically mid-October. I also have a stack of jeans that are sorted by size largest to smallest, and when mine get too loose I swap them out for the next pair on the stack. Luckily I just managed to fit back into a size where I have three pairs to wear now instead of two. Shirts are the same, I go through and rotate down the sizes, and what fits is what goes in the drawer. I'm hoping I don't actually have to go out and buy 'new' clothes for a while.

I have gone down a size after 7kg / 15lbs. I see my underwear is also too big now so will have to go get new ones. Tops are fine. Will probably have to go down a size in about 5kgs.

I won't go and rebuy my whole wardrobe, but I will adjust to smaller clothing sizes by now. I am 7kg down (from 72 to 65) and I start noticing that my clothes are reeeeally too big by now, which feels really nice.
Best luck to you!

I've replaced mine a couple times. Has it been expensive? Sure. Thrift stores aren't so great around here and generally, I didn't find much. I started at an 18/20. I think my first replacement clothes were 14/16, then again at a size 12, again at 9/10. Recently, I've had to go down again to a 6. The last size, I only went down 6 pounds, but it was enough to make my 9/10's really baggy. I've found leggings to be pretty forgiving, too.

When I went down the stairs and my elastic waistband skirt fell off and puddled around my feet. Glad I was alone and in the house!