What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • happygalah
    happygalah Posts: 343 Member
    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 :smile:

    I hear so many talk about feeling colder but I really don't feel colder at all. I wonder why?
  • happygalah
    happygalah Posts: 343 Member
    dramaqueen45 wrote: »
    klbrowser wrote: »
    Hi! I am 52 years old and am in maintenance mode after losing 55 pounds.



    4. I was VERY surprised to find out that it is now even MORE difficult to find clothes that fit than before. Why can’t women’s clothes be sized like men’s, where you look for the waist/inseam number in inches that matches your measurements? I am disabled, and it is painful and exhausting for me to try on clothes in a store. Last week, before leaving the house, I went to the websites of the brands I intended to buy and consulted their sizing charts. But when I got to the store, NONE of those clothes fit - I only found out by trial and error that what used to be size 10 is now size 6. Also, I tried on multiple pair of pants and shorts from the same company in the same style that were labeled the same size, but no two pair fit the same. When I brought the size 6 pants home, I compared them to the old size 10 hanging in my closet, and the waist band was EXACTLY THE SAME!

    Yes- it's called vanity sizing. Kind of irritates me when I read someone's weight loss story and they say, "I now weigh 160 and I'm a size 4!" I'm like, no you're not. I was a size 8 in high school and I weighed 115. Sizes have changed over the past 20 years.
    Definitely have changed. Don't know if anyone remembers the 579 shop from the 80s. I'm 5 foot 4 and weighed 103 then and wore a 3 or 5 then. People are fatter now too. Fortunately if you're really small shopping in Hong Kong is great as they're mostly small sizes with about a size 10 the largest size you'll find.

  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    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 :smile:

    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?
  • lax75
    lax75 Posts: 118 Member
    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.
  • sashayoung72
    sashayoung72 Posts: 441 Member
    dizzieblondeuk wrote: »
    evesmom2 wrote: »
    Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people :wink:
    Well, buying sewing patterns will deliver a whole new shock on the sizing front! My 16 year old cousin just started sewing, and has taken up fashion courses at her local college. The instructor measured them all to ensure that they were picking out the right patterns and sizes for their bodies, and most ended the day in tears at their 'real' size number. My cousin, a perfectly normal looking 10-12 (UK size) ended up being measured as a size 14 in dress pattern size. The reason - dress patterns' sizes have not changed for 30 years! She went on a diet, and is now an 'old style' size 10 (but probably fitting into size 6-8 in UK high street clothing. She was already a healthy BMI, and her new weight still is within normal BMI range, but it's remarkable how the clothing industry has changed the perception of 'normal' clothing sizes over time.

    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.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    dizzieblondeuk wrote: »
    evesmom2 wrote: »
    Maybe take up a new hobby...sewing! Then start your own business making clothes for us short people :wink:
    Well, buying sewing patterns will deliver a whole new shock on the sizing front! My 16 year old cousin just started sewing, and has taken up fashion courses at her local college. The instructor measured them all to ensure that they were picking out the right patterns and sizes for their bodies, and most ended the day in tears at their 'real' size number. My cousin, a perfectly normal looking 10-12 (UK size) ended up being measured as a size 14 in dress pattern size. The reason - dress patterns' sizes have not changed for 30 years! She went on a diet, and is now an 'old style' size 10 (but probably fitting into size 6-8 in UK high street clothing. She was already a healthy BMI, and her new weight still is within normal BMI range, but it's remarkable how the clothing industry has changed the perception of 'normal' clothing sizes over time.

    Yes I have been sewing for years. Lesson one forget about the sizes in shops. Totally do not align with sewing patterns
  • dramaqueen45
    dramaqueen45 Posts: 1,009 Member
    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.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    mangrothian wrote: »
    neldabg 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 :smile:

    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.

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