Lost 24lbs still in same jeans?

crystalmorrison378 wrote: »

I have lost 24lbs and believe me I am extatic about that but I am still not able to go down a size in jeans my jeans are loose but not enough to go down a size. I still have a long way to go to my goal weight but I'm getting a little discouraged. .. any 1 else going thru this?

It takes awhile to go down a size, especially when we are bigger. When I weighed 220 some odd years ago, I recall it seemed to take 30 pounds for me to go down a blouse size, but what I neglected to acknowledge was that I had lost weight other places and lost a pants size or so. Everybody loses weight differently, and in different places. Know that you will reach your goals if you continue forward!

I didn't have to replace any size 20 clothes until 40 lbs lost.

However, size 16-10 was also 40 lbs. It's because girth is nonlinear with mass.

Do you know whether the pounds you've lost are muscle or fat? (you would need to have kept track of your body composition). Muscle is much smaller and more compact than fat- so if the weight lost was muscle, you would not be losing as many inches. It's important to eat VERY HIGH PROTEIN while losing weight to avoid muscle loss as much as possible.

Then again, it may just be that the fat has come off of other places.

Congrats on your progress!

I'd say it depends on the jeans. If they are low riding leans with some stretch, then I would say that isn't unusual. If they have no spandex and fit at the waist, then I would say that is not the norm.

I have one pair of pants that were TIGHT 40 lbs ago. They had a lot of stretch and sat low on my hips so I could get away with wearing them - they caused a pretty spectacular muffin top though. I can still wear them today but the legs are no longer skin tight and I don't bother with the zipper and button anymore - a belt is a must.

Other jeans I had to get rid of but these are still a good enough fit. I think they are a 14 and I now wear a 8/10.

I lost 30lb (starting at 169lb, 5'7, and current 139 so quite a lot for my size) and at 150 I felt like I was exactly the same size. All my clothes fit the same, no size changes. Then between 150 and 140 I suddenly dropped 1 1/2 jeans sizes!! In the higher weight though, I lost it all from my feet, hands/fingers/wrists, and chest. When I moved my arms, I could see my rib bones above my breasts before my legs changed a size at all! (Now I am working on adding pecs LOL) Moral of the story: your body will choose where it loses fat and it will all come eventually....
side note: as others have mentioned make sure you're trying to emphasize loosing FAT not muscle. I made that mistake with too low of a deficit and no weight-lifting and now I need to recomp and lost a lot of muscle! It'll make your SCALE progress look slower but your body so much healthier and ideal faster!

I lost 30 before I went down a size and I just barely fit in the new size. Gained a few pounds and couldn't fit in them. So frustrating.

Be happy you don't need to spend the money yet. I kind of have the opposite problem now. I've lost the fat everywhere but, my thighs. I buy pants in the size i should be wearing and a week later they are falling down. I absolutely despise clothes shopping though. I went the first 50 pounds before I broke down and went to goodwill. Heck I started carrying a pocket knife around with me just so i could make new beltholes rather than buy new pants

Jeans are tricky and bodies are weird! It all depends on where you are carrying/losing fat and how you are shaped. To illustrate the enormous variation: there is another member here who wears the same brand of jeans that I do, in the same size (8S) who weighs something like 80 pounds less than I do. I bet that if she lost 10 pounds should would go down a size, but that is probably not the case for me.

I will second the observation that it takes more of a loss to change sizes when you are a 20 than when you are a 10.

Another thing to consider: you might want to take a friend with you when you go shopping. Sometimes when your body is changing a lot, it is hard to know what really fits and what does not--a trusted friend can be very helpful in figuring this out. Actually, what you want is a brutally honest friend!