How long have you hung on to your oversized clothes?

As soon as I get to a point where I no longer want to wear something because it has become too big, I move it to the give-away bag (after washing it if needed, obviously). When the bag is full, it leaves the house.

Usually once I start noticing some clothes getting too baggy, I'll go through my closet trying on everything else (so if a pair of jeans is too big, I'll try my other pants). I check myself in the mirror and ask myself, does this make me look and feel great? If it doesn't, it can leave.

I used to hang on to stuff forever and I realized at some point that I was always living either in the past or in some hypothetical future. Now I only keep what I'm using -- and I'm definitely not using clothes that are more than one size too big! I've changed my lifestyle so thoroughly that I know I'm not going to gain this weight back, and why fill up my living space with oversized clothes that are useless to me?

I do have one top that I absolutely love, even though it is now several sizes too big. It has a print that makes me smile. So I'm keeping it, and will probably use it as a pj top in the future because it definitely doesn't look great on me anymore to wear outside the house (but I still get a kick out of seeing it, and it's comfy).

Oh and like @AnnPT77 I kept a bunch of t-shirts and workout pants that were not in good enough shape to give away, to wear around the house or as pj's if suitable. Eventually I will throw them away, but I don't see any need to wear brand-new clothes for doing the dishes or hanging around the house.

I got rid of it as soon as it was too big.

Having too-big clothes hanging around was a tacit permission slip to backslide.

They had to go.

The first goal, I didn’t think I could possibly lose more weight and bought a bunch of clothes to celebrate. Within three months they were swimming on me.

The next two necessary wardrobes, I bought minimum clothes, enough to last me til the next size down.

I went from a 22W to a consistent size 4.

Anything that doesn’t fit has been long gone.

I am never ever going back to where I was, and I don’t need old clothes skulking around. If the waistband gets too tight, I check my numbers, and immediately shift from maintenance back to loss.


BTW, leaving the gym a day or two ago, I got an eyeful of this:



Husband forgot his boxer and belt for after aquafit. He’s too cheap, lazy, whatever you want to call it to buy smaller pants, despite me begging, threatening and even resorting to making smartarse remarks. I hope the damn things fall down on him some day in a very public place.

Do not yield to temptation to keep clothes that are THIS big on you.

Corina1143 wrote: »

I still have one shorts outfit I absolutely love and am trying to figure out how to make them work.

The clothes that i wore--immediately. I kept a few big t-shirts, tie them in a knot at the waist, over Jean shorts--that type of thing. Everything else goes.

Still have lots of tops I never wore anyway. Slowly sorting into goodwill, soft rags, and trash piles.

If you don't sew, can a local seamstress/tailor do anything for you, for something you love that much? (It could be easy or difficult, depending on construction details.)

My aunt used to say the downfall of healthy bodies came with the invention of "rubber clothing" that stretches to fit many sizes. You can gain several pounds before you get serious about the problem. When you get used to being comfortable in the stretchies, it's hard to go back to fitted clothing. I'm trying to embrace normal jeans again instead of leggings that masquerade as jeans with a long shirt to cover the belly. When your jeans are feeling tight, you know the scale will confirm what you suspect.

Just started 20 days ago. I went through my drawers today and threw out a whole lot of clothes. I haven't got any too big clothes to throw out because I haven't lost enough to go down a size yet, but what |I did do was throw out clothes that look old or tatty or make me feel fat. I also did throw out some clothes from when I was much thinner - but that is because I thought they weren't that nice anyway. The idea is when I lose weight soon I will be able to treat myself to shopping trips and brand new clothes that do suit me. Now I have room in my chest of drawers to fill it up again with nice clothing when I lose.

I got rid of a bunch of mine when I hit 50 lbs down, but I hung on to some old favorites. I'm glad I did, because this spring I took a sewing class at the local community college to learn to tailor! Since most of my old wardrobe was inexpensively made, it turned out to be pretty easy (and even reasonably quick) to learn to take in and remake things like t-shirts and blouses. It's pretty amazing to take a much-loved 4x t-shirt down to a large (ish). And at the same time, I can fit them better to my own proportions.