Will I lose my shape as I lose weight?

You’ll probably keep a similar shape, but the only way to know is to lose the weight and find out. Body shape is determined by genetics - there’s no way to lose fat in some places and not others, in spite of what people trying to sell you things will say. Good luck and congratulations on your loss so far!

As a pear, most of us just get proportionally smaller, whereas apples shed their belly first.

It varies by person, for sure. But I have DEFINITELY kept the same shape when going from 307 lb down to 270 lb and then my current 170 lb, I have always been a pear/hourglass depending on how you define them and always had a little belly roll I do not like...it just got way smaller. But I truly feel my shape is the same even with the loss of 130+ pounds, more so than some other people I know who complain they "lost" their breasts or butt. I definitely did not.

This may sound like a "humble brag" kind of thing to say...but I actually try to stay at my current weight instead of going 15 lb lower because I did go lower for awhile and I can't find dresses and shirts that fit my bust when I am at a smaller size than 10/12. With such a large loss, I only went from 42F to 36DD as my clothing size went from 26 to 10/12. I have heard of people going from like, F cup to B with a similar weight loss to mine. And my hips are still VERY large compared to a lot of women at my weight, and I don't mind that - in part because my husband loves my shape.

The "bad" thing for me about all of this is that I was a person who had rather skinny/small hands and feet even at 300 lb...so now they are super skinny and small, and my neck sometimes looks freakishly thin and old to me in photographs. The flipside of that was even at my heaviest I did not have a double chin and my face didn't look that full.

TL;DR...Everyone is different but it sounds as if you will probably keep your shape somewhat!

I went from extreme pear at 190 to hourglass at 117. Most of the excess weight was stored in my lower half. Looked very disproportionate before losing weight.

tiffanymariearpaio wrote: »

Thanks for everyone’s answers. I too also have small wrists and ankles! Average size bracelets and rings are always too big on me, which doesn’t make sense since my clothes size are XL (top) or XXL (bottom). And in my selfies people say I don’t look like I’m overweight. I have a pear shape definitely but I also always had a fat belly problem since I was a child. So I must be some type of apple/pear mix although I haven’t really lost the belly yet. My body as a whole thinned out. I’d love to lose my belly the most but like someone said, that can’t be controlled.

Yeah that is exactly how I am and was, too. I recently looked at some selfies/head & shoulder pictures from my heaviest weight and I look pretty average because of the thinnish face and neck thing. At 270 lb, I wore a size 5 ring and now I wear 3.75, which is nuts to me since I am still 5'8" 170 lb, M/L top and 10/12 pants & dresses. I ordered a bracelet and it fit great and all the other reviews were complaining it didn't fit and was made for a child...kind of funny.

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

I went from curvy (hourglass/pearish - more bottom heavy) to a rectangle...

I like that though. Low rise pants look good on that shape.