Cleaning out the closet

Man I had a lot of REALLY big clothes ;-) I probably have about 80
shirts/pants/shorts that I'm going to give to some lucky Goodwill..
(unless anyone in Austin reads this and needs some XXL/size 42 stuff!)

I love the casual chronology too...I'm lazy, so clothing items were
pretty much in the same order today as they were many years back (even
as we moved house to house!) It was funny/sad to see the progression
from XXL to XL to L the further back I dug into the closet!

Richard
287/250/250
247/180/175

Isn't it fun? I loved taking out the too big clothes and putting them in a
bag/cleaning out the closet. Actually I gave some to a friend who got
pregnant and have a couple other bags to save for a another friend who
says she wants to go on the Atkins diet and lose some weight. But, if she
doesn't start soon, I'm going to find another home for the bags of clothes
as I'm tired of looking at them!


Becky P.

Congrats, Richard - it must feel so good! I really wish I could say the
same!

I've lost 30 lbs and lots of inches, but for some reason, I'm still in the
same clothes. At 213 lbs I was a size 16/18, and I still am. My clothes
fit me properly at 213 (no pulled seams, no popped buttons). Maybe I'm
fooling myself, and I need to go shopping for a smaller size now?

I've had one small victory of trying on a wool jacket from a few years back,
stuck in the back of my closet because I couldn't do the bottom button
(around my hips). I tried it on last week and it fit.

The few times I have been shopping for a possibly smaller size I was really
turned off by many of the same reasons as Michelle (Luna) posted
recently...I won't wear super low-slung pants, I won't wear off-the-shoulder
tops, I won't wear bare midriff t-shirts. I've never been one to wear tight
clothes at all, even at my very thinnest.

30 pounds seems like a lot to lose, but maybe it really isn't so much spread
out over nearly 6 feet of height on a woman.

Also, kudos to you, Richard, for owning up to laziness.

S t a c i
213/183/170 - 5'11"

"RT" wrote in message
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Man I had a lot of REALLY big clothes ;-) I probably have about 80
shirts/pants/shorts that I'm going to give to some lucky Goodwill..
(unless anyone in Austin reads this and needs some XXL/size 42 stuff!)

I love the casual chronology too...I'm lazy, so clothing items were pretty
much in the same order today as they were many years back (even as we
moved house to house!) It was funny/sad to see the progression from XXL to
XL to L the further back I dug into the closet!

Richard
287/250/250
247/180/175

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"S t a c i" wrote:

Congrats, Richard - it must feel so good! I really wish I could say the
same!

I've lost 30 lbs and lots of inches, but for some reason, I'm still in the
same clothes. At 213 lbs I was a size 16/18, and I still am. My clothes
fit me properly at 213 (no pulled seams, no popped buttons). Maybe I'm
fooling myself, and I need to go shopping for a smaller size now?

I've had one small victory of trying on a wool jacket from a few years back,
stuck in the back of my closet because I couldn't do the bottom button
(around my hips). I tried it on last week and it fit.

The few times I have been shopping for a possibly smaller size I was really
turned off by many of the same reasons as Michelle (Luna) posted
recently...I won't wear super low-slung pants, I won't wear off-the-shoulder
tops, I won't wear bare midriff t-shirts. I've never been one to wear tight
clothes at all, even at my very thinnest.

30 pounds seems like a lot to lose, but maybe it really isn't so much spread
out over nearly 6 feet of height on a woman.

Could be that. Could it be that your clothes have some stretch in them
too? Or maybe they were too tight before. Oh, by the way, I was in the Gap
the other day (they were having a huge sale, I usually can't afford
anything in there) and I noticed particularly in the boot-cut jeans they
had waist rises ranging from Super Low to At Waist. The ones that were
"Just Below Waist" fit me the best, but were snug on the thighs. My thighs
don't seem to be shrinking at all for quite a while now. The fat there is
stubborn, and the muscles underneath are pretty big too since even at my
heaviest I still did quite a bit of walking and standing up work. I'm sure
in time they'll shrink a bit more with the rest of me, but they'll probably
always be proportionally large since that's how almost every woman in my
family is built regardless of overall size.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

S t a c i wrote:
Congrats, Richard - it must feel so good! I really wish I could say the
same!

I've lost 30 lbs and lots of inches, but for some reason, I'm still in the
same clothes. At 213 lbs I was a size 16/18, and I still am. My clothes
fit me properly at 213 (no pulled seams, no popped buttons). Maybe I'm
fooling myself, and I need to go shopping for a smaller size now?

I've had one small victory of trying on a wool jacket from a few years back,
stuck in the back of my closet because I couldn't do the bottom button
(around my hips). I tried it on last week and it fit.

The few times I have been shopping for a possibly smaller size I was really
turned off by many of the same reasons as Michelle (Luna) posted
recently...I won't wear super low-slung pants, I won't wear off-the-shoulder
tops, I won't wear bare midriff t-shirts. I've never been one to wear tight
clothes at all, even at my very thinnest.

30 pounds seems like a lot to lose, but maybe it really isn't so much spread
out over nearly 6 feet of height on a woman.

Also, kudos to you, Richard, for owning up to laziness.

S t a c i
213/183/170 - 5'11"


For what it's worth, I found a couple of shirts that STILL didn't
fit...including one XXL that fit like a leotard ;-) Also, I lost almost
all of my "size" vs. weight very late in the process. I think I was
almost 40lbs down before I started to shift down in pants sizes. If you
search the newsgroup you can probably find instances of me whining about :-)

RIchard

I did a sort of reality check after my first post, and took a good look at
some of my clothes. They weren't too tight before, and I think they are
probably too big now, I just didn't notice because they were never
form-fitting. Later that day, strangely enough, my husband commented on the
fact that my jeans looked too big. He said they looked like horse-riding
pants in the thighs.

I just went to sizebase.com and updated my measurements - sure enough - it
says that I'm a 12 on top and a 14 on bottom. I don't know how accurate
these are, but they are smaller than I expected. If I'm still wearing 18s,
my clothes probably do look too big.

How accurate has sizebase.com proved to other folks??

Hmm...probably time to do some shopping. I'm waiting for the big moment
when I'm down from Women's sizes to Misses' again.

S t a c i

"Luna" wrote in message
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"S t a c i" wrote:

Congrats, Richard - it must feel so good! I really wish I could say the
same!

I've lost 30 lbs and lots of inches, but for some reason, I'm still in
the
same clothes. At 213 lbs I was a size 16/18, and I still am. My clothes
fit me properly at 213 (no pulled seams, no popped buttons). Maybe I'm
fooling myself, and I need to go shopping for a smaller size now?

I've had one small victory of trying on a wool jacket from a few years
back,
stuck in the back of my closet because I couldn't do the bottom button
(around my hips). I tried it on last week and it fit.

The few times I have been shopping for a possibly smaller size I was
really
turned off by many of the same reasons as Michelle (Luna) posted
recently...I won't wear super low-slung pants, I won't wear
off-the-shoulder
tops, I won't wear bare midriff t-shirts. I've never been one to wear
tight
clothes at all, even at my very thinnest.

30 pounds seems like a lot to lose, but maybe it really isn't so much
spread
out over nearly 6 feet of height on a woman.

Could be that. Could it be that your clothes have some stretch in them
too? Or maybe they were too tight before. Oh, by the way, I was in the
Gap
the other day (they were having a huge sale, I usually can't afford
anything in there) and I noticed particularly in the boot-cut jeans they
had waist rises ranging from Super Low to At Waist. The ones that were
"Just Below Waist" fit me the best, but were snug on the thighs. My thighs
don't seem to be shrinking at all for quite a while now. The fat there is
stubborn, and the muscles underneath are pretty big too since even at my
heaviest I still did quite a bit of walking and standing up work. I'm
sure
in time they'll shrink a bit more with the rest of me, but they'll
probably
always be proportionally large since that's how almost every woman in my
family is built regardless of overall size.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Luna wrote in message news:
Could be that. Could it be that your clothes have some stretch in them
too? Or maybe they were too tight before. Oh, by the way, I was in the Gap
the other day (they were having a huge sale, I usually can't afford
anything in there) and I noticed particularly in the boot-cut jeans they
had waist rises ranging from Super Low to At Waist. The ones that were
"Just Below Waist" fit me the best, but were snug on the thighs. My thighs
don't seem to be shrinking at all for quite a while now. The fat there is
stubborn, and the muscles underneath are pretty big too since even at my
heaviest I still did quite a bit of walking and standing up work. I'm sure
in time they'll shrink a bit more with the rest of me, but they'll probably
always be proportionally large since that's how almost every woman in my
family is built regardless of overall size.

Gap - Did you seek advice from one of those Jeans Fitting Advisor (or
whatever) while you're there? I read it somewhere (fashiong mag) that
they have them in some stores in UK, so I bet they must have them in
the States too. You can book an appointment and they'll fit you with
one of the styles they make (there're 8 of them apparently?).

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(Ada Ma) wrote:

Luna wrote in message news:
Could be that. Could it be that your clothes have some stretch in them
too? Or maybe they were too tight before. Oh, by the way, I was in the Gap
the other day (they were having a huge sale, I usually can't afford
anything in there) and I noticed particularly in the boot-cut jeans they
had waist rises ranging from Super Low to At Waist. The ones that were
"Just Below Waist" fit me the best, but were snug on the thighs. My thighs
don't seem to be shrinking at all for quite a while now. The fat there is
stubborn, and the muscles underneath are pretty big too since even at my
heaviest I still did quite a bit of walking and standing up work. I'm sure
in time they'll shrink a bit more with the rest of me, but they'll probably
always be proportionally large since that's how almost every woman in my
family is built regardless of overall size.

Gap - Did you seek advice from one of those Jeans Fitting Advisor (or
whatever) while you're there? I read it somewhere (fashiong mag) that
they have them in some stores in UK, so I bet they must have them in
the States too. You can book an appointment and they'll fit you with
one of the styles they make (there're 8 of them apparently?).

No, I just talked to a regular sales person, as far as I know. The only
ones they have that appealed to me were the bootcut. He was pushing the
"long and lean" jeans at me, probably because they weren't on sale, but
I've tried them before and didn't like them.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Luna wrote in message news:
No, I just talked to a regular sales person, as far as I know. The only
ones they have that appealed to me were the bootcut. He was pushing the
"long and lean" jeans at me, probably because they weren't on sale, but
I've tried them before and didn't like them.

Thanks for the answer. Funny how all these jeans all got names. I
was browsing a catalogue today and notice that a certain bra comes in
two colors: chocolate (brown) or linen (ivory). Why can't they just
say brown or ivory instead of calling it chocolate and linen?????