WHY?? Did I throw it all away?

I threw away all of my size 4 clothes after I gained weight taking Lyrica. I still have a closet full of clothes I haven't been able to wear and I am NOT throwing any of them away.

I didn't throw a lot of it away - but I chuckled at it when I got some of it back out. "Sure this fits....but I'm not wearing it." Cheap slacks from the beginning of my professional career, jeans that are outdated, shirts that just aren't my style anymore. Here's are the ways I justify buying new clothes.

1. I'm already saving money by eating out much more rarely. I'd spend $11 at Jimmy John's for a sandwich, chips, and a drink. Ridiculous. I probably save $30-$40/week packing my lunch more regularly.

2. Think of the LONG TERM savings on overall health, doctor visits, prescriptions, etc.

3. This one is probably the most important. Spending money I even halfway regret spending is the surefire way to ensure I use it. Buy new jeans? I'm NOT outgrowing them. Buy a new bike? Better use it or the wife will give me hell!

I had a really nice light-weight wool suit, with a classic cut, that I wish I hadn't got rid of. It wouldn't have looked outdated, and there have been a handful of occasions that I would have worn it, over the last year.

I'm going to echo others, here. I donated a lot of clothes, but I kept one shirt that I have never been able to wear. It still has the tags on it and I bought it 4+ years ago. I can finally put it on but...I don't even like it anymore! :laugh:

The only things that I do miss are some band t-shirts that I gave away. But I'm 31 now. Trying to be a grownup.

Actually yeah I threw all my old clothes away and I'm probably now at the point where I could be wearing them but I don't have any regrets. Wouldn't have wanted to look at them for the past few years when I was heavier.

yes, I didn't think I could learn to live and eat a different way. Finally I have made up my mind it has to be like this for a lifetime so I can stay in my clothes.

Honestly, I've been slowly doing a closet purge and a lot of the things that are gone are things that got too small - because they might fit again, but I no longer *like* them enough for them to be worth keeping. My style has changed and I'm only holding on to a few things that are actually still in good shape/I still like/have sentimental value. (Plus my body has definitely changed - in particular, my breasts are larger in proportion to the rest of my torso than they were before my weight gain - maybe because it's been 10 years since my initial gain, maybe because I'm on the Pill and have been for almost three years now, but I absolutely have tops that fit me when I weighed more than I do now that still don't fit again, because they are too tight in the bust. I'm actually king of upset, since I was hoping that when I lost some weight and went down a band size I'd be able to buy the bras I liked again, but no - I'm up a cup size from the last time I wore a 36 band (and two cup sizes up from before my initial weight gain), so instead I find that I'm considered too busty for the demi-cup and balconet styles I like.)

I do kind of wish that I didn't have to spend the money on new clothes, but there is something kind of satisfying about it (and I'm also trying to go for quality over quantity).

Congrats to you for fitting into your SMALL clothes! That is something to be happy about : )

So I actually have the opposite story...

I lost about 32 lbs a few years back, and celebrated by slowly replacing most of my wardrobe. I then cleaned out all the bigger sizes, and dropped them off at Goodwill. It felt sooooo good!

Then, after a job change and going back to school, the scale has slowly crept back up. (so here I am again!) Part of my decision to get back to my previous healthy lifestyle was that I refuse to go back 'up' in clothing size. Instead of buying new pants I am living with the few pairs that do fit, and getting myself back in to my "sexypants".

I'm going to echo others, here. I donated a lot of clothes, but I kept one shirt that I have never been able to wear. It still has the tags on it and I bought it 4+ years ago. I can finally put it on but...I don't even like it anymore! :laugh:

The only things that I do miss are some band t-shirts that I gave away. But I'm 31 now. Trying to be a grownup.

I'm 31. Reading this post in a Radiohead t-shirt. Being a grownup isn't happening today.

But for real, even though it's hard to let the stuff go, I find I've never regretted donating anything!

I had packed up all the stuff and it was in a suitcase for the longest time and i had forgotten about it. Recently i found them while i was searching for something else and voila, i have 4-5 additional jeans that fit me(actually are loose)

I did the same thing last year! I had gotten up to a size 16 and thought "I'm never gonna lose this weight!" so I took all the size 10's and 12's out and gave them to a thrift store. Now I've lost 30 pounds and I'm down to a 12 again, almost a 10 and all my clothes are SOOOO baggy. I had those small clothes for years too, now I regret getting rid of them. But on the brighter side, I see it as an excuse to go clothes shopping when I hit my goal weight!

Yup right before I started losing I had resigned myself to the idea that I was going to be heavy forever and therefore I should give up and buy new "fat" pants which i did and now those are literally falling off of me! I am now at that strange stage where things are too loose but I don't really want to buy new clothes yet since I still have about 20 pounds to go until I get to my GW. Don't want to spend all my money on "in between" clothes!!!

I know, I didn't want to spend money on "in between" clothes either, but I finally caved and went to a thrift store and found a couple of pairs of jeans on the 99 cent rack, and grabbed a few tank tops. Now I pretty much have to rotate through those few things, but I'm only 10 pounds from my goal now, so I wanna save my money to buy permanent clothes.

And good job on the weight loss so far!

All of my old smaller clothes that is?!?

Literally just about a month before I started my journey to better health I threw away all of the smaller clothes that had been hanging in my closet and making be depressed for YEARS! And now a few months into my journey I wish I hadn't! All of my clothes now don't fit right and even though most of the stuff I threw away was outdated it would have at least been nice to wear it for old times sake and to know that I could!!

Anything that you threw away in your unhealthy state that you wish you had held on to?

If I had saved all of my skinny clothes from my previous weight loss they'd have been 10 years out of date!

Ha I know most of mine were nearly that out of date but for me I don't always believe what the scale says so fitting into clothes that I know would have been too small earlier gives me a boost!

I actually have "goal clothes." I buy smaller clothes on clearance and judge my true progress by how well I fit into them. My skinny clothes from 10 years ago would have been too big for me now, which still boggles my mind!

Don't know if they'll let me put up this link, but in 1980 (i know, I know) I had this pair of jeans. I weighed 124 and was 13 years old. For some reason I could never throw those jeans away. Somewhere along the way they disappeared and ever since I started losing weight they are what I have envisioned being able to fit into as my goal. Yes, I know nobody wants to see 45yo me in those purple and pink pinstripe jeans, but what can I say. It's my mental image carrot dangling over the goal line.

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