Advice please!

[iamblessed1225 61]

Ok I'm a year and a half out I've lost around 110-115#'s but I weigh like 155-160 and can wear some 4's but mostly 6's but cant understand how my weight can be so high but pants size so low?

[Helen233 24]

When I weigh 150 I can wear a size 8

[reree6898 1,164]

Some people have a smaller frame so can wear smaller clothes. Despite my weight I have always been able to wear clothes about 3 sizes smaller then someone else of the same weight and I am not someone who will just squeeze into something too tight ????

Edited September 22, 2015 by reree6898

[iamblessed1225 61]

But I do not look like I weigh tht much!! Oh well don't understand

[Bufflehead 6,358]

Check out mybodygallery:

http://www.mybodygallery.com/

You can see there is a lot of variation in terms of clothing size between people of the same height and weight. I think it has to do with how/where you carry your weight, muscle mass, bone density (people who have been obese for a long time tend to have very heavy and dense bones -- Yes we ARE big-boned! As a bonus we don't suffer as much from osteoporosis or broken limbs as we age), etc.

[CowgirlJane 14,259]

I have an "athletic" build which means skinny butt and legs but fairly broad shoulders, wide rib cage. When i was 140, i was wearing size 2 pants, but mostly med tops (some smalls).

I outweigh a friend of mine - she is taller than me but i wear smaller clothes, especially pants, by ALOT.

We are all shaped differently and i just wouldn't worry about it.

[Veronica_mm 87]

I wore an 16/18 at 250. Maybe I'll be like you too wear smaller size and with a bit higher weight

[Sajijoma 1,324]

I think clothing sizes have changed dramatically over the years. When I was in college, I was 200lbs and wore a size 24 at 5'10(I've lost an inch in height since then from blown discs) so I kept 2 dresses and a pair of shorts from those clothes hoping someday to fit them again. My daughter wears a size 12 and is 5'8 and just under 200lbs and she fits those old shorts and dresses I held on to-just pulled them out of storage in anticipation of getting to wear them...but she wears a size 12!! So apparently, sizing has changed since I wore them in the late 90's. Really is a kick in the face to think I felt as huge as a blimp when I was that size and looking at my daughter, I know I wasn't *that* big. Probably needed to exercise some, but now I'd just love to reach that size again! Maybe what you are remembering as your weight at a certain size was before they changed the size chart?

[iamblessed1225 61]

Yes @@veronica that's the size I was before surgery actually I was 18/20's weighed 267 and 2x shirts so I keep telling myself I'm not gonna weigh today and when I get up in the morning look out scale here I come! So I'm gonna try and stop looking and focusing on the number as much I wanna get to 135-140 that's my goal and going on liquids only this week for a couple of days need this last 20 pounds gone ASAP!