Hello there...
Im just posting this out of curiosity as me n my mum are around the same clothing size.. but we weight really differently!

I just wanted to see how much of a difference there is within people who are in the same sort of weight range.

Im 15 stone 5lbs / 5 foot 6" and Im a size 18

When I was 15 stone and 5'8" I was an 18-20

Now I'm 12 stone and about a 14, however my Mum will be a 16 when she gets to 12 stone. I am younger and have more muscle and my fat is distributed in different places - hers has shifted to her tummy now she's post menopausal!

height: 4'10''
prev weight:11stone, size 14/16
current weight: 8stone 5lbs, size 12

I'm 5ft 6 and when I started off I weighed about 18st and was a size 26 squeezing myself in to a size 24 (EVERYTHING had to have elasticated waistbands). At 16st stone I was comfortably in Evans size 22-24. Then, at about 15 and a half stone I started exercising and my shape changed very quickly. I seemed to skip being a proper size 22 and 20 and the next time I went to buy clothes was at 14st when I was a size 18. I now weigh a little over 13st and I'm a size 16 although I prefer to wear an 18 on the top half.

I'm post menopausal and Frus is right - it does all settle around the tummy. I do loads of abs exercises but you can't spot lose fat so, hidden under the fat, are some beautifully hard abs - you just can't see 'em!

When I get to 12 stones I'm hoping to be a size 14.

5' 9" 9 stone 12 (ish) size 10/12 top and 12 bottom. Interesting bit is my feet when I started I was a 7 now I'm an 8!

I am 5 ft 3 and when I was 11 stone I was a 14
size 12 from about 10 1/2
9 1/2 size 10
9 stone size 8
size 6 when I was 8st 3

I'm 5'9'' and 11 stone ish, I'm a fairly comfortable size 12 at the moment.

I was a size 22 (tight) at my highest (18 and a half stone), and I was hitting size 16 at about 14 stone, from memory.

Isnt it funny how you gain weight on your feet...!
Makes me laugh when people say their feet shrunk after losing weight...
I used to wear a size 5, now Im a six... Id happily stay a six to lose an extra half pound from the double chin / fat elbows !!
Im gonna start saying to people... "Do you think my toes look fat in this?"

Hi Afrosarah

I was the same height as you but size 18-20 (and rising) at 'only' 13st 13lbs! So you're not doing badly!

I read somewhere that you can go up a whole 2 shoe sizes if you're very overweight. Must be true because at my heaviest I was mysteriously a size 6 shoe - been a 5 all my life, sometime 5 and half in certain shops. Now I'm back to a very small 5.

At 11 stone 3, I'm a size 12. Until I was 30, I was a size 8 and 9 and a half stones exactly.

5'6" was a size 22/24 when I started at 18st 10lbs, now 16st 7lbs and a size 18-20 depending on the cut.

im an 18-20 top... 24 bottoms... (im VERY uneven... hate it..)

im 5ft 6...

I think it all depends on how you carry the weight - I always carry it around my waist and tummy (so I look like a Weeble). There have been times, even when I haven't been pregnant, when my 'waist' (for want of a better word) has been larger than my bust or hips.

Yes, Sarah - I've always been a pear shape so even at my biggest (nearly 14st and size 20), my waist was 33" so when I had a BMI of over 30 (obese), according to the guidelines about danger to health according to waist size, I was still technically not so unfit. ("a healthy waist measurement (reflecting low coronary risk) is below 32 inches/ 80 cm for women". At a very large size 20, my waist was still only 1" over the 'healthy' one, but my backside/hips were huge!)

I do wonder if people have very different perceptions of dress size, too as on another site, last week, someone commented they were a size 12 (UK sizes), and then gave a waist measurement which was the same as mine at size 18-20. And I've seen similar things before.

Alot of it is down to the fit a mate of mine used to be a 14-16 when I was in a 12 and on the scales she was half a stone at least lighter than me. She held hers on her stomach and boobs though and mine is on my arms and legs.

On shoes, they're annoying me more than ever. I used to be a 9 wide, which meant that pretty much the only place I could get shoes was Evans, but I knew they'd fit. Now my feet have shrunk a bit, but only really in width, and normal size 9s are actually harder to find than wide ones. At least in Evans you know they do everything in 9 wide, in normal shoe shops they only do a couple of selected styles and don't make it clear which ones.