Goal Clothes

I have all of my pre pregnancy clothing hanging in my closet. Sometimes I would put them out around the house and in the kitchen, but it never really motivated me more than a couple of minutes.

I bought a shirt a while ago, a t-shirt with Jim Morrison's December 1967 mugshot on it and I've never been able to wear it because I bought it smaller on purpose in the hope I would one day get to grace it. So, I'm getting closer!

Most of my clothes are goal clothes lol

I do, I don't often take my body measurements, so keeping goal clothes is a way for me to find out if I have progressed or not. I make a plan for when and where I will wear my goal clothes. I just wore this goal dress i had for 2 years. It was given to me for a gift but was too small for me. I made it a goal to wear it for a Holiday date and I did. It feels great.

I kindof take the attitude: new body/new clothes. For me, there is nothing quite like stepping into a smaller pair of jeans, pulling them up with ease and zipping them.... it's been awhile since I've taken that sweet, sweet trip... but I'm hoping that day will come. (If smaller clothes in your closet motivates you, you go girl ~~ whatever works, I say!)

I started my most recent body transformation in June, 2011. I was wearing size 42 pants and XXL T-shirts. Over the last six months I've lost 48 or so pounds and am now wearing size 34 jeans and L shirts very comfortably. Actually, I'm only a couple pounds away from size 32 jeans! I didn't buy them yet, but my next goal is to fit my *kitten* into 32x34 jeans.

YEP!
And every week I try them on, and I am closer and closer to fitting in them.

Sometimes I face the frustration of working so hard to "lose" a couple of pounds, since my weight is already in a healthy range. I may be down 5 or 6 pounds, but if I eat a ton one day with lots of sodium and feel bloated the next morning, sometimes I'm up 80% of that weight. It's hard for me to "believe" that I ever lose any weight, if that makes any sense?

To counteract that, I have a pair of pants that a friend gave me, since they didn't fit her. They also didn't fit me, but I think given another 5 lbs or so, they might. I don't even love them, or know if I'd wear the pants normally, but this way I have something ahead of time I know I would have to be smaller in order to fit I think goal clothes are a fantastic idea, and a great way of looking beyond the scale!

I do have a dress that I absolutely love but with its corset-like top half I struggle to do the zip up. Also, I need to tone my legs more to be comfortable wearing it, as it is quite short.

And of course I do have that great pair of designer Jeans I bought on sale some time ago but never fit into!

Have a pair of jeans with a 29'' waist that I will get in to.
Have not been able to fit into them for the last 20 lbs. Will get them on, and also have them be loose fit.

Of course. I am in a size 14 now and I bought 2 pairs of jeans and returned them to get a size 12. I want to look forward and not back. I do recommend not hanging onto anything in too big sizes because then you have the excuse to go back.

Just in time for Christmas I managed to lose enough to easily fit clothes in my current wardrobe. So now instead of looking in there in despair and getting all hot and bothered trying to squeeze into them and looking like a sack of spuds I am now so motivated to carry on. I have a whole wardrobe of clothes that I could fit into about 8 years ago they are now my 'goal' clothes. My ultimate goal is to bin my current wardrobe entirely the furniture too!!! it will be so good to be able to walk around my bedroom without falling over and into ridiculous amounts of clothes and furniture to contain it, that you hang onto in case you get big again!!! my plan is not this time.......
good luck and keep going, it works and it will feel great when you get there

I'm a range between UK size 10-12 and sometimes 14, depending on the shop (anyone know the best way to find true size?) and i'd like to comfortably be in the 10 range I'd much rather weigh more in muscle etc and be in this range then be skinny 10 if that makes sense?

I bought a pair of gorgeous firetrap jeans the week I started on MFP last January with the aim of fitting into them. Annoyingly last October I thought I'd try them to see how I was getting on, and they were already too big!
Need to buy another incentive item now

i have a few size 12 items that i've held onto. back in 2002 i lost a bunch of weight & that's the size i got down to. i pull them out & see how tiny they are compared to the 26/28 clothes i was wearing last year. i'm down to a women's 14/16 - which is bigger than a regular 14/16. i'll get there eventually, but i just held onto a few things that i loved dearly when i was that size!