I know exactly how you feel and it's so frustrating. It seems like I can go up a size overnight but **** to go down a size it takes 30 pounds if not more, but I have a looooong way to go so really it's only expected. Plus I lose weight from my tummy and boobs(which aren't much to start with) first and my bottom half last. So everything is all out of place for a while.

Yeah it's weird but I know in about 10 pounds are so I'll drop a size. I call them my "changing pounds" because those few pounds are when I can really see a difference in my body

it took me 50lbs to lose ONE bra size!!!

And also don't forget - clothes sizing is CRAZY!!! You can't go by the label anymore. I'm the weight I am now because Old Navy kept telling me I was a 16 - HAH! I only wish ;-)

Originally Posted by CakeBatter:
I noticed the heavier I am the more pounds I have to lose to go down a size. But now that I am smaller it only takes like 10 pounds vs 20 to go down a size. THe heavier you start the more places the weight comes from at one time instead if it all coming from like your waist and thighs only. I hope this makes sense. THe smaller you are the less places the weight has tocoem from.

Originally Posted by freshmanweightorbust:
A friend and I were talking about this same thing yesterday. I have lost thirty-ish and haven't dropped a size, but I' was wearing this size yet another fifteen or twenty pounds ago, so I figure once I hit about another twenty, the sizes will change more dramatically after that. Like somebody said above, when you're really really heavy like I was and still am, the fat has a lot of different places to come off of, like the face and arms and back, which don't really affect jeans sizes. Once the body get a good bit of that out of the way, it can start shedding belly and bottom and leg fat, which is when you really start to see a difference in the way your clothes fit.

Mmmmhmm. These ladies pretty much summed it up, but just to throw in my own $0.02, I started at 263 lbs and was wearing mostly a size 18 in jeans, and I think it took 35-40 lbs before I dropped to a 16... And similarly, it wasn't until I had lost about 40 lbs that anyone even noticed that I had lost anything! But now, I definitely seem to be dropping sizes *much* more quickly--I just found out that I was a size 8 the last time I went clothing shopping about a month ago, and the pants I bought then are already starting to feel loose on me just ~10 lbs later... It seems like as you get smaller, a loss of even just a few pounds can be much more noticeable/have a much bigger impact on your body than it did before! So yes, I totally understand how frustrating it is to have to wait so long to drop sizes at first, but just think about how much you'll be loving it later when you're dropping sizes left and right! Hehe! ;)