Clothes dont fit!

[moviemom05 25]

I am now in deeper depression....I am 3 weeks post op and I am down 25 lbs HOWEVER I hear about dropping sizes of clothes...well I tried a pair of 18 jeans on (which by the way I was an 18 before) and guess what...they dont fit? They wont even go across my belly.....Im sad!?

[delta_girl 931]

That's the whole vanity sizing thing.

I am wearing size 16 pants. Yesterday I tried on 2 dresses from the back of my closet. They are both size 12 and too big. My pair of black velvet jeans from 9 years ago are a size 14 and they are too tight.

I have noticed that jeans are often sized differently from other pants.

[ruaamy 11]

I have lost 31 lbs and haven't changed sizes. It may be due to swelling since I am only 8 days post op

[dar1983 751]

My daughter had surgery a month before I did, and she has lost 100lbs, and hasn't had an appreciable change in clothing size. I have lost 71lbs, and gone from a 22/24 to a 16. She has lost more weight, and I have lost more inches. Bodies are all so different.

[Mystie 146]

It can depend on how big you are starting out, too. I've gone down nearly 50lbs preop and only went from a 28 to a 26. I've heard 10% weight loss is usually about a pant size, but it's not always so.

[moviemom05 25]

I started at 235- 5'7" and size 18 (tight)...It has been 3 weeks...weighed today and have lost 30.5 lbs. I am losing it somewhere...probably my ankles or something not important!! Ha

[Changing39 33]

I started at 235- 5'7" and size 18 (tight)...It has been 3 weeks...weighed today and have lost 30.5 lbs. I am losing it somewhere...probably my ankles or something not important!! Ha

Omg. I'll probably lose it in my chest. LOL!!

[Catherine Shinn Habhab 97]

seems like we lose last in places that we wish were the first to go!

[clk 3,519]

Plus sizes have a much larger weight range than "regular" sizes. It's about ten to fifteen pounds between sizes in the smaller sizes but anywhere from 20-40 in the larger ones. I really don't recall exactly anymore but I don't think I really dropped a size until close to fifty pounds down. And I have no doubt that part of why it took so long is that I was absolutely squeezing myself into those 18/20s and XXL shirts because I refused to size up again. Think sausage casing. So naturally it took a bit longer to take sizes off than it might have otherwise.

And the weight loss wasn't really noticeable until sixty pounds were off.

From that point, though, I flew through sizes and there were times when I lost less than five pounds but lost an entire pant size, and I skipped one entire size (10s) without wearing them at all.

~Cheri

[ashelaine 382]

It all depends on where the weight comes off and how you are built. I have huge hips and a smaller waist and big 'up tops'. I've lost two pant sizes- yet depending on the brand and the way jeans are cut- I can't get them over my hips. Even at the same stores- same brands- different cuts just don't go.

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

Three weeks post op you are still swollen from major surgery!!!

It takes 6 weeks for swelling to subside.

[ashelaine 382]

I am training for a 5K- So- I'm definitely running/jogging. But- I know there is only so much working out can do and then genetics comes into play.