pounds to pant size ?

For me I've found that it is about 10 pounds a pants size. But everyone carries their weight differently.

It depends a lot on your body fat percentage and how your body stores fat. I weigh 125 pounds and usually wear a 6, but in some brands I wear an 8. I tend to store all my fat around my waist so that increases my pants size. If you have a lot of muscle, you may weigh more but still fit into a smaller size.

I don't think there is a definite answer to that.
I've met some people who weigh 240-250 and who are a size 28 but at my heaviest I was 338 at a size 24. I'm down nearly 50 lbs and still a size 20-22 depending on the make of the clothing.
If there is some way to do that then I'm all ears to know what it is!

for me is 10 pounds but I am 170 and I use 7-8, at 230 16-14, at my lowest (145) 6/5 ... but I think it depends on how you carry your weight... I am am hour glass shape and my weight comes off from my hips and butt faster than arms, for example///

It's all dependent on body composition. I am 5 lbs smaller than I was in high school at the same height and was a size 5 in high school, I am a size 0 now. No way was 5 lbs the deciding factor on fitting in that or not. Going from 170 lbs and a size 16 to what I am now and doing so at a moderate pace, weightlifting, and genetics determined fat loss and distribution. The best you can do is lose weight at a decent pace, get a good amount of protein and do some form of resistance training.

Not only is it dependent on body composition (and it's not linear, either)--it depends on where you are shopping, too. I can wear anywhere from a size 6 to a size 10 in pants, depending on the brand!

Again, dependent on body shape. I'm a UK 10-12 on top, 14-16 on the bottom. I go shopping when I've lost about 4 kilos or so thinking 'this time, this time I'll get into 14 jeans' nope. My top half will have moved down to an 8 and my thighs will remain unbudged.

dopeysmelly wrote: »

It depends a lot on body composition (fat/muscle), genetics (body shape), age (your body changes shape as you age) and height, and it's not a linear relationship (the differences between sizes gets smaller in the smaller sizes), plus store sizing is all different.

It's not really possible to know how it would affect you specifically. I had no idea I'd end up a US size 2 petite when I got to 125 lbs, and there was no way of predicting it either. Suffice it to say, when you reach your goal, you'd look fabulous in a paper bag!

This^......Sums it up nicely.

This is why losing weight at a rate that is appropriate for your size is important. Really low calories over time don't support lean muscle. Lean muscle is compact....fat isn't.

kangaroux92 wrote: »

how many pounds do you have to loose to go down a pant size.

i now 174 am a 13/14 woman's and when i was 150 i was a 10/11

i want to be an 8 in my dream world how much weight would that be.

would i have to be 140/135 to be a size

i thought 15 pounds equaled a pant size but that doesn't add up.

It depends on your body type and your body composition (body fat %). Pounds doesn't always directly relate to sizes. In 2006 I weighed 174 pounds and I wore a size 12 in jeans (snug). I lost weight and went down to 142 and I wore size 8 jeans. Now I weigh 160 and I still wear size 8 jeans. I changed my body composition so even though I weigh more, my size is still smaller.

I have a friend who wears size 10 jeans but her dream is to be a size 8. The thing is, her hip bones are just wider than mine. Even though she weighs less and she really is at the low end of healthy weight range, she can't make her bones be any smaller to fit in a size 8.

It really depends on your body type. I went down 3 pants sizes in the first 15 pounds I lost (soon to be 4) so one would think it would be 5 pounds per pant size, however going on that by the time I hit goal weight I would be in negative numbers (part of this could be because I am 5' 9 1/2 inches tall and have an insanely long torso). Heck my daughters are within 3 pounds of each others weights and 1 inch difference in height but wear different sizes in pants (one wears a 5 the other wears a 7-9 and its the lighter taller teen who wears the larger size)