Pant Size??

MrsTomkins
MrsTomkins Posts: 64 Member
edited October 1 in Health and Weight Loss
I know EVERYONE's shape is different, but I am just curious.. lets compare shall we??

I am 5'6 and currently 186 lbs.. I have always felt like my pant size is on the bigger size. I currently wear a size 16-18 depending on the brand or style.

I see people on tv, on weight loss shows and they seem SO much larger than me but the same size.. maybe I am just delusional when I look in the mirror haha...

What are you??

I am hoping that by losing the 40lbs I am looking to lose I can atleast get down into the single digits!!
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  • msblueyes5
    msblueyes5 Posts: 126 Member
    I am 5'6 and weigh between 120-123 any given day. My pants size on average is a 5. But in aeropostale I take a 4 and in American Eagle a 2!! very weird. It all depends on the brand.
  • 5'5'', 206lbs, size 15 pant (I think that is juniors though...)

    When I was 180-190 I fit a size 10 womens.

    Levis. :D
  • I know exactly what you mean! I weighed about 180 before my first pregnancy and I wore an 18. I have very wide hip bones and so I think I will always wear a bigger size than others at my weight. So, bone structure definitely plays a part :)
  • dayzeerock
    dayzeerock Posts: 918 Member
    I am 5'6 and currently 189 (ouch). I have some pants that are a ten and others that are a twelve...depending on the brand...I really t hink it just depends on how you carry your weight...we're all built different!
  • melissa0001
    melissa0001 Posts: 313 Member
    190 lbs, 5'9" pant size mostly fit 12's now, sometimes 14
  • SheilaSisco
    SheilaSisco Posts: 722 Member
    I'm 4'11"... at my highest I weighed 170 and wore a size 14//16. I am now weighing at around 130(ish) and wear a size 4.
  • MrsTomkins
    MrsTomkins Posts: 64 Member
    wow! don't you just feel like some stores make their sizes more to your liking so you will shop there more!? I mean if one store said I was a 2 I would never leave haha
  • I'm 5'4" and currently 203, and wear a 16. But the women from my family are a lot heavier than we look, lead bones or something, when I was 150 I was a size 8/9, and a medium/small shirt. Normally that would make someone overweight (at 5'4 and 150). I know I'm significantly stronger than most women, so maybe I've always had extra muscle? Sizes confuse me too!!!
  • Crystal_Pistol
    Crystal_Pistol Posts: 750 Member
    I hate pants sizes! You never know. I'm 5'5 and weigh 206, but I wear a size 14. The kicker is that back in high school, weighing only 130, I wore an 8. After graduete school 5 years ago, I weighed 180 and wore a 10. When people drop pants sizes I always know that this is not how it will go for me because my sizes seem random. I just go with how I look in things.
  • Jessicaruby
    Jessicaruby Posts: 881 Member
    i am 5'7 130lbs i wear a 3 typically but some brands i have to go to a 5. it just depends on who makes the jeans. i have noticed though that once you buy jeans and wear them a few times they conform to your body shape and alot of times the fit when i tried them on but after wearing them the are too big
  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
    I am 5'5, when I was 97kilos I was 18-20 and now that I am 87 I am about a 16 for jeans or a 14 for trackies. It's weird :S People think that maybe my trackies are too tight but last time I wore 16 trackies they FELL down whilst I was doing jumping jacks! TO THE FLOOR! NO JOKE lmao!!!!!

    This is australian sizing though so not sure if different at all? :S
  • kfitz10103
    kfitz10103 Posts: 354
    I'm 5'9" and weigh 161 and I am a size 10. When I was 218 I was a size 18/20.
  • TluvK
    TluvK Posts: 733 Member
    It's amazing how different we all are. I'm 5'10", 153 lbs and wear a size 6/28 mostly but have a few size 4's.
  • susioryan
    susioryan Posts: 180
    I am 142 lbs, 5' 4" and I wear a size 10 for pants, sometimes an 8 if I am lucky. My hip measurement is 39.5. I know exactly how you feel :(.
  • savvystephy
    savvystephy Posts: 4,151 Member
    At 5'3", when I was at my heaviest (198) I was a size 16. Now I am 142-145 (depending on the day) and wear size 6 (though they are a little loose, so I am suspecting size 4 soon).
  • ratkaj
    ratkaj Posts: 166 Member
    I'm 5'6" 131 and am a 4-2 depending on store (gap, levis, American Eagle=2; Jcrew, anthropologie=4)

    When I started I was 170 and a size 10-12
  • SarahofTwins
    SarahofTwins Posts: 1,169 Member
    At 5'4, 127pds...a size 6-7, depends on the brand
  • RNewton4269
    RNewton4269 Posts: 663 Member
    5'5..215 and I am wearing a 14/16...down from a 20/22 about a year ago. I lost a lot of inches...2 in my waist since May.
  • Miss_Chievous_wechange
    Miss_Chievous_wechange Posts: 1,230 Member
    I'm 5' 8". Weight between 143-146. I wear a size 6 in misses and size 7/9 in juniors.
  • I know exactly what you mean! I weighed about 180 before my first pregnancy and I wore an 18. I have very wide hip bones and so I think I will always wear a bigger size than others at my weight. So, bone structure definitely plays a part :)

    sorry, I am 5 7
  • I am 5'3 and 155lbs... I wear a size 13 in juniors and a size 12 in womens
  • TMcBooty
    TMcBooty Posts: 780 Member
    Before I had my daughter I weighed 121 lbs and wore a size 10 in jeans. To me a size 10 is BIG for only weighing 121 lbs but I am all hips/butt/thighs. I know plenty of people in that weight range and they wear like a 5 or less. It just depends on where you cary your weight. I am now 20 lbs heavier and only went up one size (12). So I don't think the size of your jeans matters, we are all different shapes.
  • newlyknit
    newlyknit Posts: 28 Member
    I've always looked skinnier than I actually am, some nurse once said 'You hold your weight really well'
    My scale said 207 this morning, I'm 5'7" and my size 16s are starting to feel loose on me.

    In high school I was about 180 and I wore size 13.
  • MarieNevada
    MarieNevada Posts: 395 Member
    I'm 5'5", 243 lbs and i wear an 18 jeans.
  • I wear size 4 or 27" jeans but sometimes it can get tight depending on the brand and the fitting because I'm a bit on the pear side
  • zml_mom
    zml_mom Posts: 270 Member
    I am 5'8 and I currently wear a 16, I can fit in my 14's but they don't button very well LOL

    my goal is a 10 (i used to be a 5 before my kids but there is no way I can get back to that my body has changed too much)
  • stephyy4632
    stephyy4632 Posts: 947 Member
    5 foot 5 inches
    184 pounds

    size 12 but still use some of my 14`s but they are pretty baggie now. I have an average frame
  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    I am 5'7" and pear shaped. ALL of my weight is in my hips/thighs/butt.

    Started MFP at 175 pounds and size 14.

    Currently 150 pounds and size 10, though they are getting a wee bit loose. I don't see myself going below a size 8 when I get to my goal weight of 145.
  • For giggles [or not so much], I just tried on my size 10 AE jeans... yaaah, barely fit past my knee. DAMN.
  • jiggs31
    jiggs31 Posts: 117
    I'm 5ft 6.5 and currently 172lbs and wear a size 14 top and bottom (UK)
    I have never been under a size 12 and that was even at 145lbs so I think it definitely depends on your shape.
    At my skinniest I was 35/25/34 and a size 12. Don't even know what my stats are now!!

    Hope it helps :)
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