Originally Posted by lettingslenderin (Post 4269844)

Marla, I really agree with you. I have been too lazy to hunt for my tape measure, but I keep it by my scale. My initial hip measurement when I started January 3 was 47 inches, and a week ago it was 41 inches. I started this journey wearing Target jeans size 18, which I now think is probably a real 24 or 26.

Here is a chart with standard sizes -- I would have been a 24 to start and now would be a 16 or 18:

http://www.dresssizes.org/uk.htm

For a size 12, my hips would have to be a full ten inches slimmer. Coincidentally, that was exactly the amount on the ruler that I measured when my old Gap jeans would not close.

Originally Posted by Munchy (Post 4269544)

It doesn't bother me so much, but I get annoyed that the XS yoga pants there fall off of me, but they don't have an XXS and I'm definitely not an overly thin woman.
When I was in college and got really fit I had to wear children's clothes!

Originally Posted by MARLA26 (Post 4269803)

Years ago I was thin. I am 5'7" tall.
I weighed 125 pounds and wore a size 10.
I was 36...24...38
Size 12 was too large.

Now it's plastered all over these forums that people my height and weighing 185 pounds are wearing size 12. At 165-175 pounds they are wearing a size 10?

Women are getting sooo very excited to be wearing size 10 when in reality the label should say size 16/18.
:dunno:

I think it would be much better if we all went by actual waist/bust/hip measurements instead of unreal clothing sizes in these forums.

When someone gets so very excited about fitting into a size 2...what are their measurements? (They probably are a size 10.)
:?:

The bust/waist/hip measurements would be a much truer guage of our size.

When you go just by crazy clothing sizes, you are fooling yourself into thinking you are slimmer than you really are. This can really throw you off your dieting.

We need to talk measurements more than clothing sizes to get a truer picture of what we really look like to others.

Taking a size 18 label and replacing it with a size 12 label does not make us thin. That unrealistic label is not a reason to think we are now the size of a runway model. Yet I constantly see people ecstatic that they are wearing a size 12...when in reality they are a size 18.

Originally Posted by berryblondeboys (Post 4269373)

Of course there should be clothes for fat people, but it's not like there still aren't super skinny people out there. There are now 00 clothes because the size 2 is what used to be a 6. They should just make the numbers go higher - 24,26, 30, 32 or Gosh, maybe go by waist measurement like men's pants - waist and hip and length?

Some companies are going that route - thank goodness. Calvin Klein will now say 30-10 for 30" waist. Some go by waist size on 27, 28, 29. And that makes soooooo much more sense than making a 16 into a 10 and then making a 6 into a double 0.

Originally Posted by CHUNKEY_MUNKEY (Post 4270091)

i find it EXTREMLEY difficult if not impossible to believe that at 125 and 5'7 you were wearing a size 10, how much would you have to weigh to be a size 6 then? 100lbs

i dont know why .... but you irk me,

i am aware of vanity sizing .... but your just being a little unreal here

Originally Posted by CHUNKEY_MUNKEY (Post 4270112)

even at it being years ago ... what would you have to weigh years ago to get into a size 4 then? 90 lbs?

i know that vanity sizing exisists but even years ago im sure 125 was about a size 8

5'7 is a very tall woman .... im 5'6 myself and i know for a fact im very tall and hold my weight / size better than my friends who are closer to the 5 foot end of the spectrum ..

i could believe that 125 could equal a size 10 for someone who was 5'4 or under but idk about someone as tall as 5'7

Originally Posted by CHUNKEY_MUNKEY (Post 4270112)

even at it being years ago ... what would you have to weigh years ago to get into a size 4 then? 90 lbs?

i know that vanity sizing exisists but even years ago im sure 125 was about a size 8

5'7 is a very tall woman .... im 5'6 myself and i know for a fact im very tall and hold my weight / size better than my friends who are closer to the 5 foot end of the spectrum ..

i could believe that 125 could equal a size 10 for someone who was 5'4 or under but idk about someone as tall as 5'7

Originally Posted by Sum38 (Post 4270123)

CHUNKEY_MUNKEY, please be respectful with your words ;)

Originally Posted by roxmysox (Post 4270174)

I've never understood why people are so bothered by "vanity sizing", often referring to the old size structure as being the "real" size that someone would wear.

Either way, that was then and this is now and it is what it is so what's the big deal?