Advice/Answers please: I'm 5'5 and my goal weight is 125

4FurKids, I am happy to see your post.  I thought I was crazy.  I am 5'4" and weigh 163.  I average size 8 pants.  I have 2 pair of jeans, one a Lands End and the other a designer label (cant think of the name) that is a size 4 and they fit.  Yet I several pair of size 6's that I can't zip.  I thought one pair may be mismarked, but 2 different brands? 

To the original poster, it depends on your body.  I am a solid apple. I have 3 rolls of back fat and a spare tire in front.  I am sure I will end up with toothpicks for legs and no butt to speak of before I lose the middle crap.  I have been going down in pant sizes at twice the rate I go down in top sizes.