New Clothes? When to buy them?

for me, i have been shopping goodwill and Ebay ,and on Facebook there is a group for selling womens clothes and they are mostly in my area, so i have met up and sold some bigger stuff and bought a lil smaller.

I've changed pants sizes 3 times since I started.... I will NOT buy new until I hit my goal, but that doesn't stop me from hitting second-hand shops / goodwill / salvation army / value village etc to pick up sometimes brand-name stuff still with the tags on them for $2 or $3 so I don't have to keep wearing ill fitting junk.

^ ^ ^ what she said. :):):) :happy:

I've gone from an 18 down to a 10, and I've actually bought clothes at every size drop. It's my treat to myself for losing weight. Not a full new wardrobe of clothes, but at least a few key pieces that I can mix and match with other things.

I put all my old clothes on Ebay. They made me £700! Yes £700! This enabled to me to buy more clothes and more! This included nice shoes as I've gone down a shoe size. Joe browns plus size clothing sells amazingly well so now I buy that in the sale, get som wear and when its too big put it on ebay and get more or less what I paid... So I can buy some more. Works great for me x

I actually won't need to buy any because I have a wardrobe of clothes from sizes 6 to 14. LOL. I was about 125 prior to kids and have had to buy larger sizes each child. Now, I'm in my size 12 clothes. Yah!

I hate buying clothes. I've lost 30 lbs so far and have not bought anything, given my clothes still fit fine. They're lose, but doable. When I hit 40 lbs lose, I might go buy a few new things, but really, I'm just going to wait til my clothes are literally falling off me and I have no choice but to go buy new clothes.

For me, it was important to feel better about how I looked at each new size, so I just bought some wardrobe staples that fit as I lost weight.

As for how many pounds translated to a new size, that really varied for me and it had less to do with pounds and more to do with how I was changing my shape through exercise. For example, the first true size change was probably after between 15-20 pounds, but there have been other size changes where the weight loss was much smaller but my body was more compact (thank you, ChaLean Extreme).

Good luck to you!

I have been buying clothes from other people so that way I am not spending lots of money on clothes that I wont use very long. I dont like wearing all the baggy clothes when I go to work.

Pulled out the sewing machine and started taking things in! What a great problem to have...

Because I'm trying to stretch my $$, am trying to hold off a few weeks and then splurge on new spring/summer clothes.

I did the same. I took in my pants with the sewing machine. I just don't wear my big tops any more. When I get to goal I will buy some more clothes. I get hand me downs from my mom because she is a few sizes smaller than me. When she loses weight I take the clothes that don't fit her any more. Even those are starting to get big!

I'm a clothes w***e and have a closet full of clothes from when I was younger that range from size 10-16 (current size), but if it wasn't for not having a job I would definitely be shopping every week. Always from the clearance rack at all my favorite stores. Love, love getting really cute jeans for $5 or less. And it works out for my mom who's losing weight and fitting into my clothes now. Also I know my clothes is going to fit me for a while 'cause I wear it all snug.

I was just thinking about this today since my clothes are starting to get too big... I have to keep pulling up my pants which is annoying but like someone else said, it's a good kinda annoying lol Looks like I'll be hitting up some cheap stores until I reach my GW... no sense in buying new clothes every few months :-)

I pretty much waited until my clothes looked silly.

^this. I looked incredibly frumpy, which is not exactly a good thing when you work in the corporate office for your company. I got rid of the clothes that were huge on me and kept a few things that were a little big but looked okay. I've been watching sales for jeans and such to tide me over. It really depends on what you're comfortable doing.

I shopped at thrift shops all during loss.......cheaper and when I was done with them I donated them back.

This in my opinion is one of the smartest way to go especially on a budget. You are going to change sizes so often when you have a lot to loose that you will be buying and trashing clothes regularly. My friend knows I love jeans but could never fit into them so when I had lost about 45 lbs last go round she shows up to my house with a bag of jeans from the local goodwill that she got for 6 bucks. All but two pairs fit! The jeans were in great shape! They were all name brand as well! So wash and wear and I had some great transition clothes! Good luck!

I budgeted and bought signature pieces to pair with things that were too large. For example, I could buy a white dress shirt (Target, $30) and pair with too-large, belted dress slacks... and get by. I could change the look by adding a cardigan (ok if it was baggy)... and as someone else mentioned, even try belting it all to tighten it up. The next month, I could buy a new pair of black slacks. I stayed with neutral colors that I could layer with pops of bright so it looked like I had a larger selection than I really did. So under that white shirt I could wear a hot pink shell... and the next day pair it with a lime green one and make it look like a new outfit.

I also found a local seamstress that would work cheap - and she could nip in the clothes every couple months.

Always pair a better-fitting garment with a baggy one... that was another trick I used a lot.

What a great problem to have! Congrats!

If there's one in your area you should check out Burke's Outlet (Bealls Outlet in some states) which sells mostly overstocked merchandise from other stores. They're similar to T J Max, I think. Their regular prices are up to 70% off the original department store prices, but the real deals are on the 30% to 95% off clearance racks that take up nearly half the store. All of the jeans I'm currently wearing came from there and none of them cost more than a couple of bucks. I'm in maintenance now, but when I was actively losing, I could buy nice looking jeans and tops in there at practically give-away prices and not care that they'd be too big in a matter of weeks.