The Weight Spreads
JustACaJen
Posts: 83 Member
Just want to vent a little... and I know my tall ladies will understand the best!! I have been on here for about 10 weeks... I have been busting my butt, working out 5-6 days a week, watching calories, etc. And it's working... I have lost 18.4 pounds so far! WOOHOO! EXCEPT.... It spreads. When I gain it spreads and when I lose it spreads. So 18.4 lbs down and no one hardly notices, I am STILL not fitting into smaller jeans (although my current ones are looser), I have dropped a few inches, but they are so damn spread out, it's not enough to effect anything major in my clothing department. At the end of the day, I could care less what the scale says... what I care about is how my clothes fit... and I would LOVE to put on a pair of my smaller jeans!!
UGH.
Okay - rant done. Sure some of you can relate.
UGH.
Okay - rant done. Sure some of you can relate.
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Oh - And then last week, I took a new picture of my face. The one I posted on MFP I took after about 9lbs lost. So I thought - maybe if I take a new head shot I could compare the two and tell a difference. BARELY. And I think I was just trying to convince myself.0
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Ugh I hear you! Counting the weight I lost before MFP I'm down about 30 and I'm just starting to be able to fit into some of my smaller clothes. My problem is that I seem to be losing the most around my waist while my already ample bottom half stays the same so I don't think I'll be fitting into any smaller jeans some time soon. I carry most of my weight in the thighs hips and butt and this is only exaggerating the issue!0
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Ugh I hear you! Counting the weight I lost before MFP I'm down about 30 and I'm just starting to be able to fit into some of my smaller clothes. My problem is that I seem to be losing the most around my waist while my already ample bottom half stays the same so I don't think I'll be fitting into any smaller jeans some time soon. I carry most of my weight in the thighs hips and butt and this is only exaggerating the issue!
And my problem is that I am not losing hardly any around my waist or my lower stomach. It's TICKING ME OFF!!!0 -
Completely understood! I've lost over 10% of my weight, and people are just now starting to notice my loss. It's very frustrating when so many people on here have goals to lose 10-15 pounds, and then they look fantastic. On me- that is not even noticeable!0
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And my problem is that I am not losing hardly any around my waist or my lower stomach. It's TICKING ME OFF!!!
Heh. Being a diabetic, that's where most of my weight went. I feel your pain.0 -
Oh ladies.. I wish I had better news! I have lost over 40 pounds now... and I am STILL working on my belly. Just stick with it :O) It will all even out in the end (at least this is what I keep telling myself).0
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Oh ladies.. I wish I had better news! I have lost over 40 pounds now... and I am STILL working on my belly. Just stick with it :O) It will all even out in the end (at least this is what I keep telling myself).
Oh - I know it will... I have lost it before... which only makes it that much worse... It has been gone BEFORE!!!! UGH!!0 -
Sometimes I feel like I've lost 15 pounds from my face and boobs. :huh: That lower belly/love handle area is so stubborn!!!0
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I just sighed aloud. SIGHHHHH.
At the end of it all, I'll have lost 40 pounds and dropped ONE SIZE.
It'll be worth it, but it's just so annoying sometimes!0 -
I am exactly the same. I have lost 18lbs and it is barely visable. I have lost a lot of cm off my waist and only 1 or 2 off everywhere else. My belly and hips remain the same
Something that makes me feel better is knowing that it comes off everwhere else quite evenly so it could be worse! We will just have to wait untill we reach goal. 0 -
I am 20lbs lighter than my highest weight and i am sort if in a smaller dress size, im sort of inbetween! I can wear both the higher and the lower. neither fit properly. annoying! noone ntoices when i gain 7lbs or lose 7lbs which is really demotivating. I can't even tell! wah! People only started noticing when i'd dropped about 15lbs but it did come off my stomach and hips but not my THIGHS!0
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I have always said that when it came to weight, being tall was a blessing and a curse. You can put on 10 lbs and not even realize it. Your clothes can still fit, no one will really notice at all. But then again - that's probably why I got 60 lbs overweight - because it only FELT like 30. So by the time I really started freakign out.... it was so far gone.
Sometimes I envy the girls whose pants get tight when they gain 5 lbs. Maybe I never would have gotten here??0 -
WEll ladies mine goes from the tummy and chest ( and lord knows I need all thats there) but hte thighs and butt.....................NEVER GO AWAY! if I can get these thighs to shrink i would be in a solid 14! but no they wont go away! although I must say i had to return my 16 Talls to Jc Penney to order a 14 Tall because after an hour of wear the 16 Talls were toooooooooo big! way too big! so for size nuts like me Worthington brand is our friend!0
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Oh my! I'm amongst kindred spirits! I lost 40 lbs at one point and BARELY made it down one size. All this while my Weight Watchers leader was telling us that generally for every 15 lbs or so people lose a size. Very frustrating. And as others have said, because I'm taller (5'9") I carry my weight well so it's not as noticeable when I gain or lose.
I think I'll like it here. :-)0 -
Yep its the tall girl syndrome! I lost 56 lbs and only went from a size 18 to a size 14. It took 30 lbs to get into a 16 comfortably and it took almost another 30 to get in a 14. That SUCKS MAJOR BALLS!! lol I lose from top to bottom mostly so my upper torso is slim and right at my navel to my thighs is where all my major fat is...BLAH!!
So I started back strength training. Hopefully I will lose this fat as I do my intense cardio.0 -
WEll ladies mine goes from the tummy and chest ( and lord knows I need all thats there) but hte thighs and butt.....................NEVER GO AWAY! if I can get these thighs to shrink i would be in a solid 14! but no they wont go away! although I must say i had to return my 16 Talls to Jc Penney to order a 14 Tall because after an hour of wear the 16 Talls were toooooooooo big! way too big! so for size nuts like me Worthington brand is our friend!
Dillard's have some dress pants called Investments that are nice also and the longs have a inseam of 36". They cost around $30 to $35. Check them out.
I can't wear Worthingtons. I find they shrink after I wash them.0 -
I too have the problem: 43 pounds lost = 1 jeans size. Being a mathematician, I figured it out. Ladies, look at the size chart below. It is based on the standard hip sizes for jeans/pants. Look for your current pants size. The number to the right of the pants size tells you what fraction of your current weight you would need to lose to drop down 1 size. NOTE - it assumes that you will lose weight evenly over your whole body, top/bottom/arms/etc, which I KNOW is not true for me....
Anyway, take that number to the right of your current pants size, multiply it by your current weight, and you will get an estimate of how many pounds you need to lose to drop down 1 size.
20 ........ .08
18 ........ .07
16 ........ .07
14 ........ .07
12 ........ .07
10 ........ .05
8 .......... .05
6 .......... .05
SO - note the following. FIRST, the standard sizes are closer together at the low end of the size range than at the top end. That is one factor working against you. SECOND, a 250# woman wearing size 20 will have to lose 20 pounds to get to a size 18 - provided she is not pear-shaped!! - whereas a 150# woman wearing size 10 only needs to lose 7.5 pounds to get into a size 8.
Sorry for the bad news. :grumble: But we all knew that anyway, didn't we???
And my final conclusion is this: Stand up tall, lord it over the shorties you associate with, because --- you DO work harder than they do.0 -
I too have the problem: 43 pounds lost = 1 jeans size. Being a mathematician, I figured it out. Ladies, look at the size chart below. It is based on the standard hip sizes for jeans/pants. Look for your current pants size. The number to the right of the pants size tells you what fraction of your current weight you would need to lose to drop down 1 size. NOTE - it assumes that you will lose weight evenly over your whole body, top/bottom/arms/etc, which I KNOW is not true for me....
Anyway, take that number to the right of your current pants size, multiply it by your current weight, and you will get an estimate of how many pounds you need to lose to drop down 1 size.
20 ........ .08
18 ........ .07
16 ........ .07
14 ........ .07
12 ........ .07
10 ........ .05
8 .......... .05
6 .......... .05
SO - note the following. FIRST, the standard sizes are closer together at the low end of the size range than at the top end. That is one factor working against you. SECOND, a 250# woman wearing size 20 will have to lose 20 pounds to get to a size 18 - provided she is not pear-shaped!! - whereas a 150# woman wearing size 10 only needs to lose 7.5 pounds to get into a size 8.
Sorry for the bad news. :grumble: But we all knew that anyway, didn't we???
And my final conclusion is this: Stand up tall, lord it over the shorties you associate with, because --- you DO work harder than they do.
Hey! Thanks! That is cool! And based on my weight loss and size ratio several years ago, I think it is pretty accurate!! So now I have a goal Unfortunately - it looks like another 15 lbs before I get into size 12's. And then another 14 lbs to my size 10's. DANGIT!!! 0 -
Oh my! I'm amongst kindred spirits! I lost 40 lbs at one point and BARELY made it down one size. All this while my Weight Watchers leader was telling us that generally for every 15 lbs or so people lose a size. Very frustrating. And as others have said, because I'm taller (5'9") I carry my weight well so it's not as noticeable when I gain or lose.
I think I'll like it here. :-)
You will love it here! It's nice to find friends who understand the woes of the tall women... it's not all glamour and supermodels.... 0 -
We all feel your pain! I've lost a total of about 30 so far and things are finally just starting to get loose! Also, I think that when I started my jeans were so tight it took about 20 pounds just to get them to were they fit normally.
Hang in there. It will happen.0 -
this is why I love this group. Only tall women realize how discouraging it can be to see people talk about losing 10lbs and dropping 2 sizes while we lose 20 and still wear the same size. I do find it encouraging to not be alone with this frustration.0
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I have lost over 100lbs and still have a fat tummy. granted its def not as big as it was but dammiit you would think it would be kinda flat, but NOOO instead I have this stomach bulge righ smack dab in the middle of my stomach. WTH0
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I too have the problem: 43 pounds lost = 1 jeans size. Being a mathematician, I figured it out. Ladies, look at the size chart below. It is based on the standard hip sizes for jeans/pants. Look for your current pants size. The number to the right of the pants size tells you what fraction of your current weight you would need to lose to drop down 1 size. NOTE - it assumes that you will lose weight evenly over your whole body, top/bottom/arms/etc, which I KNOW is not true for me....
Anyway, take that number to the right of your current pants size, multiply it by your current weight, and you will get an estimate of how many pounds you need to lose to drop down 1 size.
20 ........ .08
18 ........ .07
16 ........ .07
14 ........ .07
12 ........ .07
10 ........ .05
8 .......... .05
6 .......... .05
SO - note the following. FIRST, the standard sizes are closer together at the low end of the size range than at the top end. That is one factor working against you. SECOND, a 250# woman wearing size 20 will have to lose 20 pounds to get to a size 18 - provided she is not pear-shaped!! - whereas a 150# woman wearing size 10 only needs to lose 7.5 pounds to get into a size 8.
Sorry for the bad news. :grumble: But we all knew that anyway, didn't we???
And my final conclusion is this: Stand up tall, lord it over the shorties you associate with, because --- you DO work harder than they do.
Hey! Thanks! That is cool! And based on my weight loss and size ratio several years ago, I think it is pretty accurate!! So now I have a goal Unfortunately - it looks like another 15 lbs before I get into size 12's. And then another 14 lbs to my size 10's. DANGIT!!!
I think this is correct. I am a 12 now but if i lost 15lbs i would be back into a 10 which is almost exactly what I have gained since being in a size 10. SOOOO for me to get to my dream of a size 8 I need to lose 25lbs. Looking at my ticker reaching my goal weight should put me right at my goal size... HECK yes!!!!0 -
That is a cool chart.
I've also heard that most people lose weight from the extremities in and belly fat is the last to go.
I'm not so sure how true that is ,but it might explain why I feel so ugly right now. My body is pretty nicely toned from about mid-thigh down and my arms have always been pretty good from elbow down. I've been working my triceps pretty hard for the last 4 months and am seeing smidge of progress.
My belly just makes me gag! Plus, I'm almost 52 so just not pretty any more. Sigh.0 -
I feel your pain! Thirty was my magic number. Once I lost 30 pounds, it was like suddenly the whole world figured out my body had changed. Now, I get compliments constantly, but boy, those first 30 pounds were so frustrating!0
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Some of my friends started to notice at ~25-30 pounds gone. Hubby didn't notice until 35-40 pounds gone. But get this: we were out to dinner 2 weeks ago with some of his office colleagues. They asked him how much I had lost. His answer -- about 15 pounds. The total at that point was more than 40 pounds!
He says now they rib him about his answer every time they go to a bar after work. Good!!!0 -
I can relate..
It took me appx 25lbs to lose 1 dress from a 16 to a 14. Now that I'm just about a 12, I haven't had to lose that much.. maybe 15lbs.0 -
I think that it goes both ways. I've lost 35 lbs so far and gone down one full size and I'm in between the next. Fortunately, the stomach area seems to be where I lose first. However, other people don't seem to be able to tell as much as I can tell.
But then again, over the past two years when I've packed on more and more weight, other people didn't realize that I weighed as much as I did. I could definitely tell.0 -
Someone was talking about dress pants earlier.... JC Penny's has some that are amazing.
Now... I hate the tags in them. I'm currently sitting on my big butt in a size 13 jeans, but I wear a size 20 in these pretty puppies.
I for the life of me can't remember the brand...... They're either Worthington or St. John's Bay. They are AWESOME. I'm normally a jeans kinda girl, but when I have to wear dressier pants, these are my go-to's. They help flatten the gut out a little bit and are actually long enough for me too!0
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