So I have a question for all of you girls who are 5'8 and taller. When did you start to notice a difference in your appearance? and when did you clothes really start to get loose????
I feel like the taller you are, the more you have to lose to notice! The weight I've lost on someone who is 5'2 would be such a huge loss for them!
I've lost 20lbs, I'm 5'10 and can't notice a darn thing! My bf says in my face and arms, but my pants are still the same size and I dont think they are going anywhere anytime soon! Its very frustrating! I just want to see some change!!
I agree! I've lost about 70 lbs and it's not very drastic. My short (5'3") friend, loses 20 lbs and everyone notices. I think because I'm pretty porportioned because I have height to me.
I don't know, maybe I'm weird. But I have only lost 33 pounds but have gone from a tight 22 to a tight 16. I can tell a huge difference and a lot of people can tell as well.
This sounds like my "When will I lose my tummy" question...LOL
I agree with you, the taller you are the longer it takes for people to tell that you've lost weight. Conversely, that has served us tall girls when we gained all this weight. How many times have you been to the doctors or chatting with girlfriends and someone says, "You weigh HOW much??" 250 looks like a lot more on a 5ft2'er.
That being said, I do understand your frustration. I do believe that some of it is your brain not catching up with your body. Once, in a nother lifetime (I was 24) I lost 70 lbs and honestly couldn't tell. My clothes were 4 sizes small but I looked the exact same when looking at myself in the mirror.
I bet, one of these days you'll see it all of a sudden, your pants will fit differently or your rings will fall off, etc.
Last edited by Michelle98272; 12-18-2008 at 04:44 PM.
When I lost 100lbs a few years back (on Atkins, gained it back about two years after I went off it), it didn't seem like i'd lost any weight until I hit the 50lb mark...which is when my tummy fat started coming off noticeably. :\ I lost my arm fat, neck fat, and -'cause I was walking a lot- my thigh fat.
Mind, I was 299 when I started losing weight, and if someone 5'5" was carrying that around, they would've looked a great deal bigger.
QTest, I almost meet your height requirement so I hope you don't mind me posting. I had lost about thirty pounds before anyone told me they noticed. I didn't tell anyone I was even starting this whole thing. It took me what seemed like FOREVER to get out of my 16's. I can say once I got out of them and the 14's the other sizes have really come off somewhat quickly. In comparison to larger sizes like 14 and 16, there is little difference between a 6 to an 8, an 8 to a 10, and a 10 to a 12. I am in a very comfortable 8 now and some 6's are fitting.
Last edited by Thighs Be Gone; 12-18-2008 at 05:18 PM.
God I hope I get out of my 16's soon!! All I know is that when I was about 175lbs I was still in a 12/14. Its crazy to think that from 175lbs to 240 I only went up a few jean sizes!! Very frustrating. Looking back on my skinny pictures though, I can see that all the rest of my weight I had to lose was still in my lower abdomen, hips and butt so I suppose it's just gonna be a slower progression for me to get into smaller clothes. But d*** my legs looked good when I was 175!
5'8 here. I noticed my pants fitting looser after a month... around 10 lbs. I lost an inch on my stomach and waist. It rly depends where you're loosing it from too I guess right. I'm assuming i lost the ten in my torso, maybe you have been loosing all over, so its harder to see a diff. Oh and I lost it in my boobs too, 3 inches.
I'n NOT a tall person (5'4") but I was down 30+ pounds before anyone could tell I lost weight. I think if you are well proportioned it makes a difference. Also, folks really started noticing when my clothes started changing, I went from elastic waists to tight 22s to baggy 22s with no comments. When I finally skipped 20 and went straight to 18s, folks noticed.
It will happen. At 20 pounds no one noticed my loss either!
It took me 30 pounds to go from a 20 to a 18...and about the same amount of time for anyone to notice that I had lost weight...but then everyone started noticing more and more with every pound lost. Once I started excersising the changes were dramatic and came almost daily! People were not just suprized by my weight loss...They were actually shocked! Seems like some pounds are just bigger than others!
God I can't wait to get to that point! Call me crazy but my mom telling me I look like I lost weight doesn't matter. She's my mother, she has to say those things because she's hardwired that way!!
I suppose I started and others for that matter to notice the weight loss was when I had lost something like 50lbs.
The trouble is when you are that bit taller you can carry your weight better but the negative thing is that is takes longer to notice those changes on the scales and translate them to changes in your body.
Hang in there you will get there and trust me once the nice compliments start coming your way they will do on a regular basis which keeps you motivated to reach your next mini goal
This is really not about height, but about sheer quantity of extra weight. If you weigh 250 pounds and lose 25, that's only 10% of body weight; but if you weigh 150 and lose 25, that's 17% of body weight. Yes, the same number of pounds is more noticeable for good or ill on a shorter person, but really this is about the weight lost in proportion to the total weight of the person and what their normal weight would be. (A short woman's normal weight is going to be lower than a tall woman's.)
It took me about 30 pounds before anyone at all noticed my weight loss, and I'm only a little taller than average. Now at 50 pounds lost, it's still not really obvious enough that I've lost weight. (My husband has only recently noticed any difference, and to me I look absolutely no different in pictures.)
Calling all of you tall 3fc chicks
But, I'm weird!
