Question:
Any sizes 4-6 out there?

I am in a size 6 now, I am ready to stop the weight loss, but don't know how. I bought a lot of new cloths in size M and 6 & 8, I would like to keep wearing them a while. I am headed toward a size 4, any sugesstions?    — peaceangel58 (posted on January 1, 2002)

January 1, 2002
Well, it'll be ideal if you touch the 4 and bounce back to 6, right? There's a diff between bounceback and regain, so don't panic, OK? How far out are you? The major wt loss is about 18 months, with creeping going on for awhile, but I was all done by 18 months myself. Went too low, bounced around a bit and finally settled. You may just not be DONE yet. And also, even so, the boniness you may feel now changes after a few more months and we sorta "fill out" as the muscle returns to fill up the holes. I know you want to see the finished product Right Now, but you're still being POLISHED!
   — vitalady

January 1, 2002
Hi Debra, I am almost down to my personal goal, and I am glad you posted this question. This has also been a question for me. I have recently started to buy size 6's and still would like to lose 11 pounds, plus have a tummy tuck and breast lift. I have had alot of well meaning friends express concerns, just yesterday one of them brought up the topic of "when will this end" to me.I really resent having people who used to bug me about losing weight think that they have so much to say about this now, but that is a whole other topic! I figure that somehow we will have to start to add some calories to our diets, scary as that may be. I am going to see the doctor next wek and will try to speak with the nutritionist while I am there. I can't even imagine going into a size 4 but it looks like that may happen. I feel so in control of my eating right now and am truly afraid of changing my diet, and don't know how I will do that. I think the old emotional issues are surfacing, only this time they are the extreme opposite of what they were in the past. Instead of being totally out of control, I am very rigid about what I put in my mouth and am worried about finding that middle ground. I also wonder if I will ever be able to accept this weight loss and what I really look like now and stop worrying that tomorrow I will wake up and be back to being MO. Anyway, if I get any good information from the nutritionist next wek I will email you and fill you in. Good luck, Happy New Year!
   — Vicki K.

January 2, 2002
Oh, quit bragging and enjoy! (lol). Just kidding.....I have no answers...I'm just amazed that someone can acutally have this surgery and get down to a size 6! It gives me hope that I might actually get into a size 14 someday!
   — [Anonymous]

January 2, 2002
Something has changed in the last 20 years since I was in high school, LOL! I weighed about 145 then (my lightest weight) and I wore a jr. size 11 or 13. Now I see gals here that weigh about the same as I did then and they are wearing size 6 and 8. What's up with that? Are manufacturers making clothes bigger in the last 20 years? Back then, I knew girls that were 120 pounds and wearing the size 6 and 8's. I have even seen gals here that weigh close to 300 pounds in size 18 and 20. Has sizing changed that much???
   — crishsapig

January 2, 2002
I too had this same question about a year ago. I went down to a size 6 and then headed on to a size 4. I was in a 4 for about 6 months and then finally came back up and settled into a 6. This happened at about 18 months and by 2 years out I was stable again in a size 6. I honestly thought that the weight loss would never end. It did though just like Michelle Curran had said and it happened exactly like she says. At some point, people say you look too skinny because you haven't "filled out" yet. A year and a half ago, I was in a 6 and people said I was wayyy too thin. Now, they think I look fine. My body has filled out somewhat and I don't look as scrawny. As for the size thing, I think that ours bodies lose differently with this surgery. At age 20, I weighed what I do now and was in a size 12 pants. I am now 40, and in a size 6. I can't really figure it out except that I know that I lost alot in the hips, legs and butt this time. I lost everywhere though so maybe I had more muscle 20 years ago..I just don't know. I look very different at 120 pounds now than I did at age 20.
   — Barbara H.

January 2, 2002
Ladies, re dress sizes! Today's sizes aren't the same as dress sizes 20 years ago. Today's size 8 would have been a 12 twenty years ago. That's why you see so many women who wear size 4 and 6's today...years ago you rarely saw that! My 110lb. sister wears size 0 jeans...she's small, but not THAT small! They did this for marketing reasons, as the general population got bigger, the manufacturers came to believe that women would buy more clothes if the sizes were smaller.
   — [Anonymous]

January 3, 2002
Christine--on the size vs. weight issue: I was 115 pounds and a size 12 in high school. Now I am 138 pounds and a size 8. I know I was bigger then because I remember my measurements, so the sizes haven't changed too much in the past 10 yrs or so. The difference for me is the percent body fat. Fat takes up much more room than dense muscle. I worked out and, as many others on this site know, you also develop muscle from lugging all that extra weight around. That's why people who started out at 300 plus start to look so great around 200 pounds! When I weighed 115 I was about 57% body fat--a thin fat person. Now I am at about 25% body fat: much healthier even if I weigh more!
   — ctyst