I am now in deeper depression....I am 3 weeks post op and I am down 25 lbs HOWEVER I hear about dropping sizes of clothes...well I tried a pair of 18 jeans on (which by the way I was an 18 before) and guess what...they dont fit? They wont even go across my belly.....Im sad!?

That's the whole vanity sizing thing.

I am wearing size 16 pants. Yesterday I tried on 2 dresses from the back of my closet. They are both size 12 and too big. My pair of black velvet jeans from 9 years ago are a size 14 and they are too tight.

I have noticed that jeans are often sized differently from other pants.

I have lost 31 lbs and haven't changed sizes. It may be due to swelling since I am only 8 days post op

My daughter had surgery a month before I did, and she has lost 100lbs, and hasn't had an appreciable change in clothing size. I have lost 71lbs, and gone from a 22/24 to a 16. She has lost more weight, and I have lost more inches. Bodies are all so different.

It can depend on how big you are starting out, too. I've gone down nearly 50lbs preop and only went from a 28 to a 26. I've heard 10% weight loss is usually about a pant size, but it's not always so.

I started at 235- 5'7" and size 18 (tight)...It has been 3 weeks...weighed today and have lost 30.5 lbs. I am losing it somewhere...probably my ankles or something not important!! Ha

I started at 235- 5'7" and size 18 (tight)...It has been 3 weeks...weighed today and have lost 30.5 lbs. I am losing it somewhere...probably my ankles or something not important!! Ha

Omg. I'll probably lose it in my chest. LOL!!

seems like we lose last in places that we wish were the first to go!

Plus sizes have a much larger weight range than "regular" sizes. It's about ten to fifteen pounds between sizes in the smaller sizes but anywhere from 20-40 in the larger ones. I really don't recall exactly anymore but I don't think I really dropped a size until close to fifty pounds down. And I have no doubt that part of why it took so long is that I was absolutely squeezing myself into those 18/20s and XXL shirts because I refused to size up again. Think sausage casing. So naturally it took a bit longer to take sizes off than it might have otherwise.

And the weight loss wasn't really noticeable until sixty pounds were off.

From that point, though, I flew through sizes and there were times when I lost less than five pounds but lost an entire pant size, and I skipped one entire size (10s) without wearing them at all.

~Cheri

It all depends on where the weight comes off and how you are built. I have huge hips and a smaller waist and big 'up tops'. I've lost two pant sizes- yet depending on the brand and the way jeans are cut- I can't get them over my hips. Even at the same stores- same brands- different cuts just don't go.

Three weeks post op you are still swollen from major surgery!!!

It takes 6 weeks for swelling to subside.

I am training for a 5K- So- I'm definitely running/jogging. But- I know there is only so much working out can do and then genetics comes into play.