Women 5'6-5'8 165-185 lbs., What Size are you?

5'8" about 175 and I wear a 14 or sometimes a 12 if I search hard enough and find just the right brand. Even at my goal weight I know I'll still be ginormous. Ah well.

I'm just under 5'8" and weigh 162. I'm a size 12/14. hilariously, I carry almost all excess weight on my mid section. I'm like a marshmallow with toothpick arms and legs. And I have a difficult time buying clothes. My legs are very long and most pants are too short. Also, although a size 12 pant fits my waist, they are billowy around my thighs. I need to lose weight just to better fit into off the rack clothing, lol.

I'm 5'6" and before I started my weight loss journey, I weighed about 170. I was wearing clothes sized 12/14 (but then again I have a big ol' booty). I am down to about 138 now and wear size 8 in most jeans, depending on the brand, size 4-6 tops, size 4 dress. Sizing is all weird nowadays though, I can wear an 8 in gap jeans and a 4/6 in old navy jeans.

I'm 5'8", 167. I am a 12 for pants (sometimes a 14 in dress pants especially since I do not want those tight on my butt!) and a medium or large for shirts.

At my thinnest (~158) in high school and college, I was still an 8 or 10 in pants, because I tend to carry all my weight in my hips/thighs.

Height 5'6"
Weight 159
Pants 9/10
Pull over shirts medium
Button up shirts large (boobs)
Bra size 34DD

I still carry a lot of weight in my midsection, so I have a hard time finding pants.

Our bodies sound very similar. I'm also 5'7 and I weight 178 lbs. I wear a size 10 in bottoms and a medium in tops. I'm a 34DD. I can fit into a pair of size 8 pants, but I can't get them past my butt. If you're someone with a smaller butt, that's probably why you can fit into a size 8 while women who are the same size as you can only wear a size 10 and up.

I am 5'8" currently 173 lb and wear size 10, generally. In some brands I need size 12 because I have very wide hips. However, that's tricky because the majority of size 12 pants and jeans are way too large for me. I definitely have to try everything on.

My lowest weight was 166 and I still could not get into a size 8 ever. I do have a couple of size 8 dresses that fit because they're more forgiving in the hip and bum areas, but that's only possible for me if they have a stretchy or knit top because I am also busty (DD cup). Just different body types and variations, I'm sure. A friend of mine is 5'10" 190 lb and wears size 10. She doesn't have wide hips.

patientome wrote: »

I once saw a sign that said, "Just because you can zip it doesn't mean it fits!" My rule of thumb is to look in the mirror and be sure the fit is pleasing and speaks well of the person you want to be - no matter what size is on the tag.

So true. Ha! I just said this last night about a pair of vintage jeans I paid a dollar for...they do zip, but they aren't working for me whatsoever, and are going into the donation pile immediately.

5'7" 160-163lb currently and a size 8/10. At my smallest adult weight (last time I lost) I was 140-145 and a size 6/8. My goal this time around is to get and stay in the 150s with a body fat percentage below 25%.

Im 5'8.5" and weigh 159lbs. Im in between size 11-13 right now. When i was 190lbs I was wearing size 17-18 pants. I think I might have less muscle than yall lol. Ideally, I want to get back down to a size 7!!

I am 5'6" weigh 185 lbs, and am a size 10. I tend to carry more muscle than average, so that is probably why I weigh more with smaller size waist. I was a size 3 at 130lbs, so that gives you an idea of my range in weight.

Dragging up an old thread, as I have yet to find anyone my weight/size.

I'm 5'5".5 and I weight 176lbs. However, I wear a size 28 (6) in jeans and a medium/small in tops.

I was a size 2/4 at 158lbs. I do tend to carry a lot of muscle and I wear a DDD, so I'm sure that extra weight (which is dense tissue) has something to do with it.

5' 7" - currently sitting at ~153 pounds, my heaviest "scale" weight was 163-ish, but I was higher than that. Right now I'm a US 6-8 depending on the brand in pants, and generally a Medium in tops. When I was in the upper 150's I was more like an 8-10. At my highest (when I wasn't weighing myself) my "fattest" pants at the time I couldn't even squeeze into, even unbuttoned and held on with a belt and long shirt - literally couldn't even get into them one day...that was the day I decided to start losing - since then, I've crept up into the 157-158 range here and there, spent more time in the 150-155 range than anywhere else, and was doing great in the low 140's just before covid kicked off and my life got dumped on it's head. Creeped back up to the higher 150's again this spring/early summer, getting in a slightly better place mentally has helped me get back into the lower 150's, but still struggling to get to where I was pre-covid (may not be possible as finance were in a completely different place at that time, which meant a fair bit more free time for workouts and money for certain meals/foods/food delivery and a great kitchen that I loved to cook in....my kitchen here is "okay" but I don't like it like I did where I was at just before the pandemic hit.