My waist size

Hello my fellow Marchers. Congrats to you all your success with your weight loss. I rarely post... but I read the boards daily. I guess I'm need of some of your opinions. Here is my problem... (if it is one). I am very thankful for my 85 lb weight loss. I am 5'5 and now weigh 185. When I first started this Journey I was wearing a size 22 pants. I am only down to a loose fitting 18. I can squeeze into a size 16. Some are OK fitting depending on the brand, others I have to lay on the bed to get them zipped up. All 16's fit loose in my legs and but, it's my stomach that I am having the problem with. My issue is, I feel like I should be wearing a smaller size by now, like a size 14. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks guys. Amy

Oh yes girl--below the waist is hopeless right now---Up top I can wear anything---cute stuff and all--but thats no good cause I can't below the waist---I have lost 102--course still have a way to go---but sizes for me in pants or shorts---is gonna take a while to go down---up top--i am done losing--I hope anyway!@ Lisa

Thanks Lisa. Your doing great... keep up the good work. I guess I may need to look into PS when this is all done with. Thanks. Amy

I know exactly what you mean. I'm down to a 16 that fits good in the waist but the hips and thighs are way baggy and we won't even talk about the butt. My problem is, and always has been, that I carry all my excess weight in my stomach so my waist is bigger in proportion to the rest of me. Not that I'm going to complain too much, there is no other way I could have lost 96 lbs in this short a time frame.

OH Amy. you sound just like me I am 5'1 and down to 160 pds and in a size 12 BUT I am so much larger in the stomach area and I have skinny legs and NO butt at all......My friends say that I will always be bigger in the tummy What can we do??? My size 12 pants are so big in the legs and butt.......They fit ok in the stomach area Damm. Congratulations on the 85pd loss Janice 231/160 /130ish one day