Ideal size?

[AutumnPunkin 313]

I'm 5'6 and started at 291 and size 24-26. I am now a 12/14, sometimes a 10. I look at myself and don't know who it is! I'm having skin removal and abdominal wall reconstruction next month, so it's likely I'll be a 10. I weigh 158 now and if this is the end of weight loss, I'm great!!!

It is so funny how weight is. I am hoping to be a size 6-8 depending on what my body decides to keep it at. I am currently 5'6" and weight 174 pounds and am currently a size 12/14 canadian size or 10 American.

my initial goal weight is 156 pounds (normal body weight), but the body can decide where I go after that. I am quite bony now, and plan to focus on toning in the new year.

sw 333

Cw 174

[anaxila 501]

I love this topic, and am really enjoying reading all the replies. I am all over the place in trying to set a weight goal, and even more puzzled by the size goal. My clothing-related goal is to be able to shop from normal stores. I love clothes and that sounds like amazing freedom. And I want to wear boots. I miss boots. My weight-related goal is also to be normal. I am always aware of whether I'm the fattest person in the room, and these days I usually am. I'd like that to end. I just want to fit in, physically and metaphorically.

I'm shocked by all the people who are talking about size 4, 6, 8, and am shocked by my shock if that makes any sense. I mean, I know that getting smaller is part of the deal (if not kind of the point), but I haven't been in single-digit sizes since just after puberty and am having a hard time adjusting my worldview to admit the possibility of wearing any. I realize that my "shop in normal stores" goal would seem to include single digit sizes by definition, but it's hard to make the connection. Maybe size inflation really has been out of control the past 25+ years (omg I'm old!) and a size 8 today is what I would have worn then. I don't know, I just can't fathom it.

But I really think that the best thing for me is actually not to set goals. I need to make this be about the journey, not the destination. Every time I've set a destination it's felt like a punishment. Maybe this time I should just keep score and Celebrate the milestones and achievements, but otherwise just do the surgery (still three weeks out), stick with the program, live at the gym, and see what happens.

Edited December 5, 2014 by anaxila

[sassy14 178]

It is so funny how weight is. I am hoping to be a size 6-8 depending on what my body decides to keep it at. I am currently 5'6" and weight 174 pounds and am currently a size 12/14 canadian size or 10 American.

my initial goal weight is 156 pounds (normal body weight), but the body can decide where I go after that. I am quite bony now, and plan to focus on toning in the new year.

sw 333

Cw 174

Weight really is funny! I gained 2 lbs over thanksgiving-- no idea how-- but went down in overall size so that clothes are loose! I am having abdominal reconstruction dec 23 and will have my pannis and extra skin removed then. (Not exactly TT because the docs are fixing a bunch of recurrent hernias due to a huge diastasis recti).

Maybe the extra skin is why my size is larger?

I did put on a sz 12 Oleg Cassini bathing suit I wore on my honeymoon 31 years ago. It was big on me 6 months ago. Who knows what size I will be but it will be a normal one!

[ArixS 28]

Never thought about size I always look at the weight. I'm 5'4 was 280 size 22-24 2x CW-165 size 10 and medium top going to be 9 months post op18th of this month. My goal weight is to be 155 but everyone tells me I look to thin now which makes me laugh

Edited December 5, 2014 by ArixS

[Cass81 10]

Never thought about size I always look at the weight. I'm 5'4 was 280 size 22-24 2x CW-165 size 10 and medium top going to be 9 months post op18th of this month. My goal weight is to be 155 but everyone tells me I look to thin now which makes me laugh

[Cass81 10]

Your measurements are the same as mine- exactly! Congrats on your loss! I was always wondering roughly what to look forward to but I haven't seen anyone so far with the similar height and weight. My surgery is 12/15 and I cannot wait to get it done and get my life back

[ArixS 28]

Your measurements are the same as mine- exactly! Congrats on your loss! I was always wondering roughly what to look forward to but I haven't seen anyone so far with the similar height and weight. My surgery is 12/15 and I cannot wait to get it done and get my life back

It's the best thing ever your gonna be so happy good luck

[jess9395 5,450]

I love this topic, and am really enjoying reading all the replies. I am all over the place in trying to set a weight goal, and even more puzzled by the size goal. My clothing-related goal is to be able to shop from normal stores. I love clothes and that sounds like amazing freedom. And I want to wear boots. I miss boots. My weight-related goal is also to be normal. I am always aware of whether I'm the fattest person in the room, and these days I usually am. I'd like that to end. I just want to fit in, physically and metaphorically.

I'm shocked by all the people who are talking about size 4, 6, 8, and am shocked by my shock if that makes any sense. I mean, I know that getting smaller is part of the deal (if not kind of the point), but I haven't been in single-digit sizes since just after puberty and am having a hard time adjusting my worldview to admit the possibility of wearing any. I realize that my "shop in normal stores" goal would seem to include single digit sizes by definition, but it's hard to make the connection. Maybe size inflation really has been out of control the past 25+ years (omg I'm old!) and a size 8 today is what I would have worn then. I don't know, I just can't fathom it.

But I really think that the best thing for me is actually not to set goals. I need to make this be about the journey, not the destination. Every time I've set a destination it's felt like a punishment. Maybe this time I should just keep score and Celebrate the milestones and achievements, but otherwise just do the surgery (still three weeks out), stick with the program, live at the gym, and see what happens.

I totally get you. I have never really set a long term goal, it was little ones. Lose 50lbs, less than my husband, shop in regular size stores, get below 200, lose 100lbs, and so forth.

Then at size 8 I figured I would get no smaller and bought a lot of clothes. Then shrunk out of them. Did the same with size 6 and now am shrinking out of those. They were never a goal. Fitness more than size wasy goal and now I run half marathons do triathlons and have a yoga body with lots of muscle.

Size inflation is a big part of it. I wore a 12 in middle school. My 12 post wedding dress from my wedding day is big on me but not THAT big. Maybe two sizes, not four. Size 0 didn't exist back in "the day" and now we have 00 and even 000 in some brands.

It's a journey!

[Shell04976 0]

I don't have an ideal size and honestly have been 200 lbs or more over the past 21yrs so I'm not sure what anything but a size 18 looks like. My goal is 150 pounds. I just want normal blood sugars.

[leanora27801 315]

At first I didn't have a set goal, but after seeing how setting goals has helped me so far I decided to do it. My weight goal is 130lbs which I haven't worn since I was a little girl. I have always had weight issues since birth, being born at more than 10lbs.