What nobody tells you about losing weight
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So what do you do if you're a very small woman shopping in the states? It's not really a problem I'll ever face (I'm 6'1'') but if the sizes keep getting smaller, a woman who used to wear a size 2 would now wear what... a size -4?11
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-Skin gets saggy
-And how much more sexually active you get. Hubby and I seem to be in the honeymoon stage all over again!
-How much I'd check my butt out on a daily basis
-How you have to eat a lot to lose weight. I'm never hungry!16 -
Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »So what do you do if you're a very small woman shopping in the states? It's not really a problem I'll ever face (I'm 6'1'') but if the sizes keep getting smaller, a woman who used to wear a size 2 would now wear what... a size -4?
That's what I want to know! I don't like to buy clothes without trying them on, so online shops don't appeal to me. I know that Junior clothes run smaller than Misses, but this 57 yo woman is not buying teen clothes lol!9 -
Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »So what do you do if you're a very small woman shopping in the states? It's not really a problem I'll ever face (I'm 6'1'') but if the sizes keep getting smaller, a woman who used to wear a size 2 would now wear what... a size -4?
That's what I want to know! I don't like to buy clothes without trying them on, so online shops don't appeal to me. I know that Junior clothes run smaller than Misses, but this 57 yo woman is not buying teen clothes lol!Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »So what do you do if you're a very small woman shopping in the states? It's not really a problem I'll ever face (I'm 6'1'') but if the sizes keep getting smaller, a woman who used to wear a size 2 would now wear what... a size -4?
That's what I want to know! I don't like to buy clothes without trying them on, so online shops don't appeal to me. I know that Junior clothes run smaller than Misses, but this 57 yo woman is not buying teen clothes lol!
Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people11 -
happygalah wrote: »mellyrunsfar wrote: »How cold you will feel in the winter. Experiencing the seasons in a different way due to fat loss. I don't get nearly as hot in the summer as I used to and freeze in the winter
I hear so many talk about feeling colder but I really don't feel colder at all. I wonder why?
I felt colder at first, but as time went on, I stopped feeling cold all the time. Maybe you just happened to have quickly adapted to any temperature perception shift?4 -
I buy from Goodwill- the sizes are more like they were years ago and you can find a lot of good things, some barely used and a lot of name brand things for much cheaper. I also don't want to go down to the junior sizes to find clothes. Last time I had a hard time finding jeans at a regular store because they didn't run small enough. But someone above talked about clothes in Asia- you do have to buy like a large or an extra large if you are wearing a small in the USA. I've bought things on Amazon that said medium (they came from China) and they were WAY too small- like dresses that didn't fit over my hips and I weigh 125 at 5'4" so I'm not skin and bones but I'm a lot smaller than I was. I ended up giving them to an Asian woman. So maybe the clothing manufacturers are going by the average sizes of women in the population. I am also thinking that women would be more likely to buy a size 2 in a certain brand which helps that company's sales I suppose.11
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I love this thread! After losing 35 of 99lbs: My toilet seat magically got bigger. I can put my thumb and middle finger around my wrist and they touch. The driver's seat in my vehicle is actually quite roomy. Healthy lifestyles are catching - three people in my life have recently signed up for MFP and are starting their own journies.22
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Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people21
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Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »So what do you do if you're a very small woman shopping in the states? It's not really a problem I'll ever face (I'm 6'1'') but if the sizes keep getting smaller, a woman who used to wear a size 2 would now wear what... a size -4?
Several stores have started labeling zero and double zero - absurd!
If you shop on line, some vendors offer Fit Predictor. You can enter specific sizes in other brands that fit you properly (and I think you can enter numbers for tops/dresses and bottoms separately, which is useful) and it will tell you not only what size they recommend for the item you're looking at but also how good a fit it will be. The couple of times I tried it it worked.2 -
dizzieblondeuk wrote: »Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people
I think wedding dresses are like that. my sister was a smaller size but 14 for her wedding dress. I have an old 10 formal dress, it's so much smaller than an off the rack 10 now. US sizes.2 -
I love this thread! After losing 35 of 99lbs: My toilet seat magically got bigger. I can put my thumb and middle finger around my wrist and they touch. The driver's seat in my vehicle is actually quite roomy. Healthy lifestyles are catching - three people in my life have recently signed up for MFP and are starting their own journies.
I'm with you on the drivers seat. For years I claimed my legs must be longer sitting than standing, i had to put the seat back where my hubby did to comfortably reach the petal, now that i have no butt and i'm considerably smaller I have to scoot it way up to actually reach properly.5 -
dizzieblondeuk wrote: »Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people
Yes I have been sewing for years. Lesson one forget about the sizes in shops. Totally do not align with sewing patterns4 -
What they did tell me is that as I got closer to my goal my rate of weight loss would slow down. It hasn't . For most 30-day intervals since I began on January 25, it's been 10 lb per month. Maybe 50 lb remaining isn't anyone's idea of "close to goal".
On the topic of women's clothing sizes ... I had the opportunity to see a dress that my great-grandmother wore. She married during the 1860's, so this was way more than 100 years ago. It was tiny, not more than a 19th century size 2. It was made from one bolt of fabric and the fabric was a big checkerboard pattern of blue and white blocks.12 -
Oh yes I know about the sewing thing- like I said I'm probably a 2 or a 4 in the store but more like a 12 in sewing patterns. We have a sewing class at the school where I work and the girls who take it are often very upset when they are measured and told what pattern size to get and the teacher has to get out an old skirt she wore in high school to show them that sizes have changed and sewing patterns have not- by looking at the skirt it looks like a size 3 or maybe a 5, but it is a size 9 (has a tag). It's a 35 year old skirt. I sewed a lot of costumes for a musical years ago and there were girls that looked so tiny to me but they were a size 10 by the sewing pattern.3
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happygalah wrote: »mellyrunsfar wrote: »How cold you will feel in the winter. Experiencing the seasons in a different way due to fat loss. I don't get nearly as hot in the summer as I used to and freeze in the winter
I hear so many talk about feeling colder but I really don't feel colder at all. I wonder why?
I felt colder at first, but as time went on, I stopped feeling cold all the time. Maybe you just happened to have quickly adapted to any temperature perception shift?
For ages I was going 'cold all the time? What are these people talking about?', even after losing 50kgs. This current Aussie winter though, blech. Leggings under my pants, thermal tops under my work shirts, hiking socks for being in the office. I bet I look like I've gained weight because of the extra clothing I'm wearing.8 -
mangrothian wrote: »happygalah wrote: »mellyrunsfar wrote: »How cold you will feel in the winter. Experiencing the seasons in a different way due to fat loss. I don't get nearly as hot in the summer as I used to and freeze in the winter
I hear so many talk about feeling colder but I really don't feel colder at all. I wonder why?
I felt colder at first, but as time went on, I stopped feeling cold all the time. Maybe you just happened to have quickly adapted to any temperature perception shift?
For ages I was going 'cold all the time? What are these people talking about?', even after losing 50kgs. This current Aussie winter though, blech. Leggings under my pants, thermal tops under my work shirts, hiking socks for being in the office. I bet I look like I've gained weight because of the extra clothing I'm wearing.
So then I must be cold all the time since I have Canadian winters haha.2 -
perkymommy wrote: »Definitely that people who are close to you sometimes get awkward or even jealous of you because they need to lose weight and see you as a threat since you are actually succeeding.
How bad fast food or junk food tastes after eating better for several months. I can overeat or eat a bad food and the next day feel like I have a food hangover.
so thats what it is, a food hangover...I get headache or the runs the day after I have too much junk lol8 -
my jeans and pants grown longer and drag on the ground as I lose the weight lol11
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that men other than hubby will notice me too9
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Im turned off by fast food now.
I no longer look for the foods i used to eat in the fridge, but go for veggies or fruit.
I turned down a snickers, and my husband was shocked lol13
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