how many lbs = smaller pants?

18 lbs. Same pants.

Others have different stories! My bum is just where I keep all my fat so until I get to the end of my fat loss my pant size will remain the same, I fear!

I think it all depends on how and where you lose it. Like if you are doing a lot of exercise and gain muscle, you may not lose too many pounds but you'll sure drop some sizes!!
A couple of years ago I lost about 30lbs, give or take a lb or 2, and went from about a size 10 to a size 2. I'm very short though and 30lbs is a pretty big range for my height.

25 lbs. Same pants.

There's no one, definitive answer to that unfortunately. When I was maintaining, 5 pounds could put me in another size. Now? 40 pounds heavier? It took about 10 pounds to get into the next smaller size. People carrying a lot of weight may not need new pants til they hit 20 pounds down. and do your current pants 'fit', or are you bursting out of them?

And it also depends on where you carry the weight. I don't really gain much in my hips at all. Stomach and chest, oh yeah. So if they are low-slung pants, they'll fit for a long time on the way down. But if they are wasit high? 10 pounds has made a huge difference at this weight. But someone who gains the weight in the lower body may need new pants at 5 pounds down.

You can't just 'shed inches off your hips', or any other place, unfortunately. You can lose fat and burn calories, but your genetics will determine where the weight comes off first.

That all depends on if you are losing muscle weight (which is dense) or if you are losing fat weight (which is fluffy). Ideally the more body fat weight you lose the smaller jeans you'll wear. Because of what I just mentioned you can be in a smaller jean size without losing a lot of weight by the scale. Does that make sense? :happy:

Acotta

For me it's *exactly* 8 lbs, give or take half a lb. for different brands/styles/materials. I'm 5'2" and 160 lbs. is the most I've ever weighed and 113 lbs. is the least I've ever weighed as an adult. Basically, for me:

size 14: 153-160 lbs.
size 12: 145-152 lbs.
size 10: 137-144 lbs.
size 8: 129-136 lbs.
size 6: 121-128 lbs.
size 4: 113-120 lbs.

Those are vanity sizes, since most of the places I buy pants vanity size. Move each down a number for more traditional sizes (e.g. size 6 = 113-120 lbs.).

It's totally different for everyone though, so you can't really go by how many lbs. = a size for other people, it's something you start figuring out for your own body as you lose weight.

I lost a pants size before I lost my first lb... no joke... it was quite wierd. I guess since I'm down 60lbs and 10 pants sizes it averages out to about 6lbs per dress size.

I have lost 30 lbs and I am down to a small size 10 jeans from a large size 14 jeans. I will be shopping for size 8 jeans soon!

I'm 5'3 and averaging a smaller pant size every 10 lbs...

Keep up the great work!

I'm a guy, but I expect to drop a pant size about every 15-20 lbs, but per a thread I started yesterday, that isn't the case.

I actually dropped a pants size about 5 lbs earlier than expected.

I've lost a total of 24 pounds, and I went from probably-should-have-been-wearing-size-14-but-just-shopped-for-large-12's to wearing some 8s, some 10s. So, 24 pounds (from 172 to 148), about 2-3 sizes. But one thing I found distressing was that it didn't seem to go in a nice, methodical, "Oh, you've lost 12 pounds, now you're one size smaller" fashion. I was still wearing my 12's until I'd lost about 20 pounds, and then it seemed like suddenly the 12's were totally falling off, and I had to go to 8s or 10s.

V. strange.

5'2", I am down 24# and 2 sizes!!