saying good-bye to unrealistic "goal clothes"

yeah... i have a few pieces like that but I've not hit your mentality yet... by the same token, i feel that I could actually do it. There's ONE pair of jeans that would be the ULTIMATE TEST!!!! i just see them as a challenge i guess... keeps me going when
I hold them up to look at!!

I need to say goodbye to a few myself. I have a few items from when I was 17 and 18 in my drawers. They are from when I weighed between 125 and 130 which was too thin for me. I should get rid of them since I know I cannot be that thin ever again. I don't feel so good physically when I weigh below 135. It was not a healthy size/weight for me. I am glad I at least got rid of the items from when I weighed 115 at age 16. I also have a different body shape now, a lot has changed since then including my body. I am more pear shaped also. I am slowly learning to live with it and accept it, stretch marks and all.

It's more fun to buy new stuff anyway. Out with the old.

I would never do that! 6lbs is not much to loose, you can do it if you want!

But if you are happy with where you are at, then CONGRATS to you!! Bet that felt liberating! LoL

Good for you and what an inspiration, I need to do the same thing and after reading your post I'm more encouraged to do so. I too have to realize that I won't ever be the same as I was a decade ago and learn to love it.

Yep. I bought a dress about a month before I found out I was pregnant. I never got to wear it. Because the fabric was so slinky and hugged every curve it showed everything. I tried it on every month for a year after having my daughter....but the extra skin and saggy boobs didn't look good. I finally donated it...I sure hope some woman gave it a good home and wore it often.

omg yes - I have a giant plastic bin of gorgeous size 4 (?!?) clothes from, let's see, 7-8 years ago? Back when I ate a plum for lunch and 2 cups of bok choy for dinner. Right now I'd be happy to just get in a size 10.

I have a box of clothes in my closet. I've held on to them for the last 5 years. I actually used to have 5 boxes of clothes. I do occasionally go in there, weed through and pull out what I didnt think I would wear, or would not be stylish any longer. A friend of mine had given me about 90 % of them, so i've never worn them, and she had that gastric thing, so they are almost brand new. I had considered getting rid of them, But never did. % years ago, when I got sick again, the steroids made me balloon back up, and the almost 115 lbs I had lost, I gained some of it back. ( I had went from 315, to 205, and then I went back up to 260, and have y-yo'd with that weight for the last almost 5 years now.) Now Im not sick anymore, any the docs have promised of I relapse there will be no more steroids. So no chance of regaining. So its starting to come off. So i still have the box. I keep it as inspiration. I will get there, and beyond. what I really had a hard time with is parting with the clothes Ive hid behind the last 5 years.It goes both ways I think. I think keeping a pair of jeans is fine, as long as its not a pair that is too big just in case.

I DEFINITELY have a whole pile of clothes 'waiting to be worn'...but I don't know if I am to the point of letting them go yet...so good for you!

Some things I have kept..some I have tossed...I have recenlty worn clothes that I had kept BK (before kids ) and BM (Before Marriage) that I have been able to wear...I did get rid of items that did not fit on my body the same as it did when I first wore them.

I did a massive clean-out a while back and got rid of a lot of my pre-pregnancy clothes, either because they were out of style now or because my body has changed to the point where they wouldn't look good even when I get to my goal weight (shirts that are too short, etc). I did keep some T-shirts and a couple pair of jeans from the last time I lost weight, but I am not opposed to getting rid of the jeans if they don't fit when I get to goal. The T-shirts are pretty universal though. I also have a couple dresses from my pre-preg days that I'm hanging onto, but if they don't look good when I get to goal, they're going in the donate pile as well. Life is too short to hang onto stuff like that. I am looking forward to another closet clean-out when I get closer to goal.

Yes ma'am....I have some new NY&CO jeans size 6 with tags still I want to wear sooooo bad but can't seem to get to the right size to be for them to fit right(or at all). I would love to be a comforatable size 6....but an 8/10 seems to be as close as I am getting... :-( a lot tho has to do with not being consistant with my good eating on the weekends..... But since I am not doing a fad diet and I'm going to have bad eating days more than I'd like that means It'll be harder and longer if I EVER got to this size.... I just need to stop hoping to be in those jeans...:huh:

I gave away all my old clothes to charity shops thinking I would never fit into them again after having children, and now I WISH I HAD HUNG ONTO THEM! I am back in a UK 10, and am having to buy a whole new wardrobe and I wish to GOD I hadn't sold a £180 ball dress on ebay for £8 last year, or got rid of all my jeans! I am an idiot. It makes me sad just thinking about it!

I did the SAME thing. We never got around to taking the "give to Goodwill" bag anywhere. The other day, I dug out a pair of the jeans I thought would never fit me again. You know what? They fit. They def. don't fit the way they used to, but it felt AMAZING to put on something I had once marked down as impossible.

I would say don't underestimate the difference those last few pounds can make! For me, just ten pounds means the difference between fitting into a size 4 and fitting into a size 10.