Final pant/dress size?

[passion4film 44]

I know, I know, the sizes shouldn't matter, really. But I'm curious where everyone who has gotten to goal has rounded out, size-wise, compared to where you started.

I started at a size 28 and am 3 months post-op. I've lost around 78 lbs. and am down to a size 18; these size 18s are starting to get loose. I am astounded constantly by this turn of events because I was definitely not a size 18 at 240 lbs. on the way up! It's so interesting how bariatric bodies are different from normal ones!

So where did you finish up in sizes? At this rate, I may blow my dream 'size 10' out of the water!

[Bobby'sGirl 34]

I had my surgery 8/15/16 I started at 341 wearing a size 30-32 pants. And 4x top. As of today I am now 127lbs and wear anywhere from a 1 to 5 pants and small to medium top. Congratulations on your loss!! Keep up the great work.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Bobby'sGirl

[BDME 138]

. I am astounded constantly by this turn of events because I was definitely not a size 18 at 240 lbs. on the way up! It's so interesting how bariatric bodies are different from normal ones!

That’s very interesting! I am only a few weeks post and I started at a size 18 but I was 295. Crazy how everyone’s body is shaped and proportioned differently!

[njgal 535]

That’s very interesting! I am only a few weeks post and I started at a size 18 but I was 295. Crazy how everyone’s body is shaped and proportioned differently!

True! I started with 250 and was an 18

[James Marusek 5,244]

I was a size 3X in shirts down to a size small and size 46 in pants down to a size 33.

[passion4film 44]

I had my surgery 8/15/16 I started at 341 wearing a size 30-32 pants. And 4x top. As of today I am now 127lbs and wear anywhere from a 1 to 5 pants and small to medium top. Congratulations on your loss!! Keep up the great work.

Thank you!!! What an astounding job you’ve done!!!

[vcalvillo90 41]

Great job

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[Postop 411]

My DS was on 4/11/05. I went from a size 24-26 to a size 4-6.

[jess9395 5,449]

I know, I know, the sizes shouldn't matter, really. But I'm curious where everyone who has gotten to goal has rounded out, size-wise, compared to where you started.

I started at a size 28 and am 3 months post-op. I've lost around 78 lbs. and am down to a size 18; these size 18s are starting to get loose. I am astounded constantly by this turn of events because I was definitely not a size 18 at 240 lbs. on the way up! It's so interesting how bariatric bodies are different from normal ones!

So where did you finish up in sizes? At this rate, I may blow my dream 'size 10' out of the water!

Part of it is vanity sizing too.... today's 18 (or 10) is very different from that size twenty years ago. I don't know how long ago your "way up" was but that's something to consider. My wedding was 22 years ago and I have a size 12 dress I wore that day (going away dress). I wear a 4 in today's sizing and while that size 12 dress is too big, it's only about two sizes too big not four.

[CamillaCallie 179]

I know, I know, the sizes shouldn't matter, really. But I'm curious where everyone who has gotten to goal has rounded out, size-wise, compared to where you started.

I started at a size 28 and am 3 months post-op. I've lost around 78 lbs. and am down to a size 18; these size 18s are starting to get loose. I am astounded constantly by this turn of events because I was definitely not a size 18 at 240 lbs. on the way up! It's so interesting how bariatric bodies are different from normal ones!

So where did you finish up in sizes? At this rate, I may blow my dream 'size 10' out of the water!

Congrats on your journey so far! Do you credit your 78 lb weight loss from intense working out? Or more following your diet? I'm going through my first week on the liquid diet and I'm just curious to know how much weight I'll lose the first couple months. Totally understand everyone's body is different but just wondering!

[shedo82773 1,236]

Hi ya, I weighed in at 249#'s, on July 2, 2013. I had my RNY. I wore stretchy pants but I was in a size 22 or 24 my tops were a size 3XL. Now I weigh 125 to 130#'s and wear a size med shirt and a size 8 to 10 in Levi jeans!!! At one time around 3 years before my RNY I got up to 285#'s but managed to lose to 249 and stopped there for a couple years. I did have Strictures and needed 5 ENdoscopes with 4 dilations. They suck but it was a quick fix. BTW I got to my goal weight in 6 months. Even with eveything that happened, I would do it again in a heartbeat!!! Good Luck with whichever surgery you decide on!!

[catwoman7 11,210]

sizing in women's clothes is all over the board. I wear a 10 or a 12, depending on the manufacturer. A lot also depends on your shape and frame size. There are lots of women on these and other boards my height and weight who can wear a 6 or an 8. Either it's vanity sizing, or it might be frame size. I have a large frame. No way I could get into a 6 or an 8.

[Heather S 17]

sizing in women's clothes is all over the board. I wear a 10 or a 12, depending on the manufacturer. A lot also depends on your shape and frame size. There are lots of women on these and other boards my height and weight who can wear a 6 or an 8. Either it's vanity sizing, or it might be frame size. I have a large frame. No way I could get into a 6 or an 8.

Usually height takes up some of the size. I wouldn't worry about it as long as you are healthy. I can't wait to get into a size 10. I've got a ways to go since I just got sleeved a week ago. Wearing a size 20.

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[Apple1 2,572]

I was a size 18 at 255 and I am a size 8 at 159. I am pretty sure I will be in a size 6 at 155. I wear medium tops now and a 3x then.

[Clementine Sky 708]

I'm not sure of the exact jeans / trousers size I was wearing when I had the VSG because they'd become so uncomfortably tight I started wearing skirts and dresses instead (in an XL). The highest size I ever owned was a 14, but I could barely squeeze into them. My favorite pair ripped in the thigh from the strain of being too tight. I've lost nearly 90 pounds over the past two years, and am now wearing between a zero and a four, depending on the brand. But........as others have mentioned, the sizes today are definitely larger than they used to be in the past. My aunt told me to help myself to any clothes I liked while I was helping to clear out a guest room closet that had sort of been where everything she was no longer wearing but didn't want to give away went, and some size 8s from the 90s or 2000s fit as well as the 2s and 4s today.

I forgot to include top and dress sizes. I'm busty, so in more fitted dresses I am between a 6 and a 10. In dresses designed to be loose like ones by Max Studio I wear an XS. I wear anything from an XS to a large in tops depending on the fit. There's some that are XS but so huge it could be a XL in another brand, and some that are large but snug around the chest.

Edited October 29, 2017 by Clementine Sky