Clothes size.

I'm down about 30lbs and I still haven't gotten anything new either. Things definitely fit better though!

I started buying new just past 30 lbs when my friends started needling me (in a nice way). Make friends with Goodwill!

I'm down 36 too, still the same clothes. Fitting into some older stuff that was tight, but haven't really bought anything new

I lost 60 pounds before dropping any clothing sizes, Still havent dropped a pant size 105 pounds later and tiny XD which is weird to me i fit size XS dresses, but large pants xD Clothing size logic will make you crazy

laur357 wrote: »

Have you gone to try on new clothes? I can still wear some things from 60 pounds ago, but they look large and sloppy. If your clothes feel big, go try on some new things in smaller sizes! You may be surprised how well they fit and how different you look.

This I bet if you went to try on clothes they would fit better than you think. I recently went to get new jeans and wanted to try on jeans two sizes bigger than I needed. The sales person made me try the smaller ones and I was shocked they fit and how good they looked. We definitely get a distorted view of ourselves and it takes alot for us to realize we don't look the way we did x pounds ago.

seltzermint555 wrote: »

Penthesilea514 wrote: »

laur357 wrote: »

Have you gone to try on new clothes? I can still wear some things from 60 pounds ago, but they look large and sloppy. If your clothes feel big, go try on some new things in smaller sizes! You may be surprised how well they fit and how different you look.

^This. I didn't fully realize how badly some of my clothes were fitting until I tried on some new ones and saw the difference. And immediately, people noticed my weight loss more because I was actually wearing clothes that fit.

All of this.

However, I seriously have no idea how someone could lose 105 pounds as JaydedMiss said, and still wear the same pants.

I wore size 22 from like 240 to 290 lb though so I know a pretty big spread is possible the larger a person is. However, at size 12 I lose 4-6 lb and seriously MUST drag my size 10s out. I guess everyone's different.

yeah no im a 1 off for sure, My weight loss has been rediculously different thn average. My legs slimmed down 100% their just pure muscle now and yet im still in the same pants/panties even with much smaller legs. Honestly makes no sense im aware of that lol. Note why i mentioned it, Just everyones a bit different and clothing sizes arent always a good indicator is all

I'm 28 pounds down from the beginning of the year and still wearing mostly the same clothes. I get the disappointment, but I'm not surprised, personally. There are two big factors in play for me: first, I had to replace my wardrobe a couple of times as I gained weight and as I did, I definitely favored knits, elastic waistbands and other such things with plenty of give that didn't restrict the old belly. And second, I decided to start losing weight right around the time that parts of my current wardrobe was starting to feel uncomfortably tight, so there was definitely "room to lose." That said, I have had to retire a couple of pairs of pants, one skirt (with mixed feelings, as I loved that skirt), and a suit (with very mixed feelings, as I spent a lot of money on it right at my fattest), and can fit into a suit and pair of jeans I'd retired 20 pounds ago, so that's nice.

I am very envious, by the way, of people who don't have to have at least one well-fitted suit at all times. Bah.

sdolan91 wrote: »

JaydedMiss wrote: »

boulank wrote: »

laur357 wrote: »

Have you gone to try on new clothes? I can still wear some things from 60 pounds ago, but they look large and sloppy. If your clothes feel big, go try on some new things in smaller sizes! You may be surprised how well they fit and how different you look.

This I bet if you went to try on clothes they would fit better than you think. I recently went to get new jeans and wanted to try on jeans two sizes bigger than I needed. The sales person made me try the smaller ones and I was shocked they fit and how good they looked. We definitely get a distorted view of ourselves and it takes alot for us to realize we don't look the way we did x pounds ago.

yeah i went from XL sweaters and shirts and the day i went in to find a dress (my first of soon to be many) i was still trying on large. Sales girl said no no no and brought me a size small. I like cried that day it fit perfect. I was so used to buying larger and the way larger clothes looked, MY brain had sort of forgotten when clothes were meant to fit like. Definatly dont be afraid of trying on smaller sizes you can be very very surprised

girl!!! you are fine as hell. I want to look like you one day!!

@sdolan91
oh my gosh thanks haha -blushing- Lost most my weight in the first 13 months been sort of just hovering/slowly losing and focused on nourishing my body since XD Hoping loose skin tones up although iv been relatively blessed as far as it only really appears when i bend over and seem to melt towards the floor LOL

I am finding that I need to replace my 3x and 4x elastic waist pants with 2x -- not only because the crotch and tush areas bag out but because my pants want to "drop trou" once I put the wallet, car keys and cell phone in the pockets. It would be bad to have my pants drop around my ankles in the grocery store. The 2x, as opposed to 3x, tunics I just bought hang without clinging to my belly even fresh from the dryer.

I'm not kidding myself. I think some of this is due to a change in sizing definitions but I do think I've gone from being tight in a 24 to a 22 fitting nicely. All this in only 26 pounds. Who knows what the future will bring? Sometime around 1960, I went from a girl's 6x to a miss 14 and I never looked back!

I'm only 5 feet tall, but I still lost 25 pounds before I needed to go down one pants size. It depends on where the weight is coming off and if you were stuffing yourself into your jeans like me

sdolan91 wrote: »

I have lost 36 pounds since the beginning of the year and I still wear the same clothes.
I guess they're way loser but I can still wear them.
What in the world? lol Is this suppose to happen? I wanna buy a new wardrobe!!

That's how it worked for me! I was at the top end of Size 16, just edging into Size 18 when I started ... down 30 lbs and I was on the edge between Size 14 and 16 ... down another 20 lbs and I was on the edge between Size 12 and 14.

The difference between the highest sizes and the lowest sizes wasn't much.

As it happens, I've got wide shoulder and hip bones ... I can't go any lower than a Size 12, my bones get in the way.

It depends on how much weight you have to lose in regards to dropping sizes and also if the clothes are stretchy.

I went down 3 sizes losing 25lbs (that's 'all' I had to lose). Plus I always favoured well fitting clothes rather anything elasticated/stretchy so it was very noticeable when they began to hang on me.

The bigger you are the more you need to lose to go down a dress size. When I was 290lb it took a drop of around 40lb to go down a size from UK26 to \UK24. While I dropped a size losing less than half a stone over the last couple of months going down from a UK14 to a UK10-12. (I'm in the UK so all my sizes are different to US, I love the US sizing it would make me a 6-8 which sounds tiny).

Definitely go try on some smaller sizes on! I went down a size but didn't even realize it until I saw a L shirt laying around and decided to try it on. It fit so much better than my XL shirts! From then on I noticed just how big my shirts were on me. I think some of us get used to how our clothes feel and don't notice when they start to get too big.