Weight vs. Size

Thanks to vanity sizing, you will likely be a couple of sizes smaller when/if you get back to that weight.

Lora

Thank you for this post.  It really hit home with me.  I have been and still am a scale addict.  I weigh 2x's a day.......it is crazy.

I weighed 132 this morning and wear size 2 in jeans.  I don't see myself as small so I am thinking it is in my head.

You have really opened my eyes.  So thank you!

Leslie

 Yeah it's certainly strange for me even reading people's posts - I'm at 249 right now and between a size 20 and size 18.  It was like overnight I went from a size 24 to a 20 so I'm assuming the next jump with be similiar. I carry my weight mostly in my midsection but pretty evenly in general. 

Just goes to show you that although my goal size is an 8 - I might still weight more then my goal weight that's listed.  Keep it all in perspective right!? :) 

 When I was an 8 I weighed 172 lbs. I even fit in SOME designer size 6's.

I bounced. I am now a 10/12 at 200 lbs. and despite my skepticism, folks tell me I don't look like I weigh that much.

Personally, I try not to be overly concerned about it. I would love to be JUST a 10 (not a 12) and I am working on that. But the scale can go straight to you know where!

see here is exactly what you are talking about - at 200 # you are a 10/12
I am 186 # (5'7" tall) right now and a solid size 12 - you weigh 14 lbs more than I do and are in a smaller size.  That is why the numbers truly do not matter - "fitness" matters - you are right and although it is difficult it is something we need to remember.....must stop obsessing!!  I imagine if I make it to my goal weight of 160 I will be a size 8 or 10.  I will never be a size 2 - I am just not built that way.  There have been multiple times during this journey where I have thought "you know if I never lost another pound I would be ok with that....."  My life is so drastically different and better in so many ways.....I try to remember that when I get bumed about the number on the scale!

Yep, you're absolutely right. I am working on it. For the most part I am really happy with what I've accomplished. When I stay active and I do what I know is good for me I feel great about it all. It's when I start going over to the darkside that I have negative feelings for the most part. And it has nothing to do with size or weight but the fact that I am mistreating myself during those times.

 Yep,  I'm right at 170 now, and when you were at that weight, you were an 8.  I'm a 10.  
When I was 200lbs, I was a 16.  Funny how that works. :)  Just no mathmatical formula for it. 

When I could comfortably fit into a size 8 I decided I had hit my goal rather then to lose another 10 pounds and go for the number I had originally thought of as my goal weight.  (Not that I am rational about that at all. I ran around the mall trying on 400 different brands of size 8 jeans, in order to convice myself that I was really, really, really and 8 and it wasn't a fluke.)

 Hahahahahha - This sounds like me - I'm like wait - Size XL tops and size 20 bottoms....hahaha

I finally had to go through my closet about a 3 weeks ago cause my clothes were flat out to big for me.

The guy I'm seeing forbid me to wear my pj bottoms cause it looks like I'm wearing some MC Hammer pants and him, me and someone else could fit in them. hahahaahaha 

Ohhhh What an amazing feeling! 

Yes - I told my mom as soon as I get to an 8 I'm golden. :)

I think this is so often overlooked.

We have this teeny tiny woman at work, my exact height. I've always thought of her as this tiny tiny woman. Always.

She mentioned that she was dieting (how? why? dream size to me, and always had been) and she gave me some of the clothing she'd shrunk out of, and I fit it all. Crazy to me that a tiny little woman would give me her cast offs and they'd fit.... ME? me?!?i

But ultimately it comes down to self-perception vs other-people-perception. We perceive ourselvves as BIG BIG BIG but others as tiny tiny tiny

But I do try to urge people to focus more on SIZE than WEIGHT>

Some are my height, yet wearing a size 10 when I'm wearing a 12, and they're 50 pounds HEAVIER. Not fair, I say, that they have a smaller size when they're so much heftier. But that's the thing, y'see... we fit what we fit, regardles of the scale.