What did you do with clothes that are now too large for you?
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Altered my nicer clothes and donated the rest.0
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Mostly donated. I kept my largest pair of pants for comparison and I kept 2 pairs of 16W jeans because I spent a lot of money having them altered at the waist (got rid of the damned gap!).0
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I usually keep a range of 3 sizes in my closet--my current size, a few things from the next size down, and a few things from the next size up in case I have a lapse. Anything else gets donated.3
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I've been donating my clothes as I get smaller, then I get more clothes at the thrift store. I have some clothes I kept from when I was thin, so it's exciting to look forward to fitting into them again.3
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Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »musicfan68 wrote: »Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »hah! I've been wondering this myself. Do people keep their clothes that no longer fit just in case?
Just in case what? I think having that mindset is going to set you up to regain all the weight back. Get rid of everything and it is great motivation to stay at your new lower weight so you don't have to buy a bigger wardrobe again.
Yeah of course you're right. I never heard of anyone gaining back weight after dieting...
Yeah, right...I got rid of everything after losing 60 pounds and damn, I've gained back 20 (my fault, I'm owning this screw up and trying to fix it). All my clothes are a little snug so I went to Goodwill and bought a couple pairs of pants, (I needed something for a funeral
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Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »musicfan68 wrote: »Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »hah! I've been wondering this myself. Do people keep their clothes that no longer fit just in case?
Just in case what? I think having that mindset is going to set you up to regain all the weight back. Get rid of everything and it is great motivation to stay at your new lower weight so you don't have to buy a bigger wardrobe again.
Yeah of course you're right. I never heard of anyone gaining back weight after dieting...
Well, yeah, it happens. But having nothing that fits you then leaves you with the choice to spend money you may not have on new (or second-hand) larger clothes, or reining in your eating habits and losing the weight again. It might be the difference between only gaining a few pounds before you realise you need to do something, or gaining back the entire 50/80/100/whatever pounds you lost.
I view it in the same kind of way as I did my emigration to a new country. A lot of people keep their homes in their old country "just in case". It gives them something to fall back on if things don't work out. Guess how many of them don't settle well in the new place and give up easily because they know they have a house waiting for them "back home"? (That's also the reason I never referred to the UK as "back home" after I moved away. It ceased to be "home" the moment I got on that plane.)10 -
I kept some bigger clothes for a while just as a reminder but then got sick of them hanging around and donated. I kept a belt that I like to put on sometimes to remind me of how far I have come.1
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I donated or gave away nearly everthing. I just had a few garments altered. I was in a position where I could replace my entire wardrobe right down in my underwear. So, that's what I did.1
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Unfortunately, my two sons are now wearing my fat clothes...and I am wearing their old skinny clothes...16
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Yeah we all know simple motivation and good intentions will keep the weight off. Ask anyone in the hundreds of "starting again" threads posted everyday. No-one "plans" to gain weight back. But in the "real world" it can happen. What you do with your clothes is your business. I'd actually have to two people to care less.1
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musicfan68 wrote: »Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »musicfan68 wrote: »Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »hah! I've been wondering this myself. Do people keep their clothes that no longer fit just in case?
Just in case what? I think having that mindset is going to set you up to regain all the weight back. Get rid of everything and it is great motivation to stay at your new lower weight so you don't have to buy a bigger wardrobe again.
Yeah of course you're right. I never heard of anyone gaining back weight after dieting...
Well, I guess if you plan on gaining your weight back, then by all means keep them. Otherwise, like a lot of other people have also said, get rid of them so you stay motivated to not gain the weight back.
Yeah we all know simple motivation and good intentions will keep the weight off. Ask anyone in the hundreds of "starting again" threads posted everyday. No-one "plans" to gain weight back. But in the "real world" it can happen. What you do with your clothes is your business. I'd actually have to be two people to care less.
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Big clothes to Salvation Army. Most smaller clothes are purchased at Salvation Army.1
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Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »Yeah we all know simple motivation and good intentions will keep the weight off. Ask anyone in the hundreds of "starting again" threads posted everyday. No-one "plans" to gain weight back. But in the "real world" it can happen. What you do with your clothes is your business. I'd actually have to be two people to care less.
No, they won't. It takes just as much work to keep the weight off as it did to get rid of it in the first place. That's why so many people regain, because they presume that now they're "off the diet" they can go back to eating how they used to and they don't need to watch their calories at all. They have no plan for maintenance, so they fail at it. (That's why I said in my first post that "now" I know what I need to do to maintain my loss and how to deal with it if I notice my weight creeping back up.)
Motivation is intermittent. Commitment is what keeps us at a normal weight. Good intentions are pointless without plans and the will to follow through on them.
If you want to keep your larger clothes "just in case", have at it! Why should it bother other people? The OP asked what others did, and we're sharing. It seems to bother you that some of us don't keep our clothes, despite what you say to the contrary.
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sHoward_M_Burgerz wrote: »musicfan68 wrote: »Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »hah! I've been wondering this myself. Do people keep their clothes that no longer fit just in case?
Just in case what? I think having that mindset is going to set you up to regain all the weight back. Get rid of everything and it is great motivation to stay at your new lower weight so you don't have to buy a bigger wardrobe again.
Yeah of course you're right. I never heard of anyone gaining back weight after dieting...
Well, yeah, it happens. But having nothing that fits you then leaves you with the choice to spend money you may not have on new (or second-hand) larger clothes, or reining in your eating habits and losing the weight again. It might be the difference between only gaining a few pounds before you realise you need to do something, or gaining back the entire 50/80/100/whatever pounds you lost.
I view it in the same kind of way as I did my emigration to a new country. A lot of people keep their homes in their old country "just in case". It gives them something to fall back on if things don't work out. Guess how many of them don't settle well in the new place and give up easily because they know they have a house waiting for them "back home"? (That's also the reason I never referred to the UK as "back home" after I moved away. It ceased to be "home" the moment I got on that plane.)
Excellent example and is what I was trying to say, but you said it better than I did. It just gives you an excuse to gain the weight back. I was a size 18, got down to an 8, and have stayed there for 10 years. If things start getting too snug, I start watching what I eat again. If I want to remember my progress, I go to a store, get a pair in my original size and one in my current size and hold them up to look at the difference. Good motivation.8 -
Donated them. I may have lost the weight, but I do not intend to ever find it again!5
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I have sold most of them on eBAY. Mainly because I wanted to buy new clothes and a lot of them where hardly worn. I think I have made around £200. I have kept bits, butI never want to get back up to that size again. I have kept some of them, but the majority are gone gone gone.0
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Just want to point out places like St Vincent's which actually give the clothes away always need large clothes. It seems people donate clothes that are too small but not a lot that are too big. Just throwing it out there8
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I have replaced all my UK size 14s over time with UK size 8-10 - I sold most of my good items on Ebay, which funded my new clothes
and some went to Charity shops.
I have no bigger sized clothes left, haven't needed them in 6 years and will never return to that size again.3 -
Donated. Only exceptions were ratty thing thrown out.1
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