I was thinking last night about my clothes that I have now and was curious how I will be able to keep up with clothes to fit me once I have the surgery! Question for all how to keep up with the different clothes sizes? Do you shop all the time to keep up with your weight loss?

Thrift shops seem to be a pretty popular answer. I'm still at the point where I had some older clothes (some brand new.. from years ago) waiting around for me to catch up. I used to have a drawer full of jeans from various sizes that didn't fit. When I ran out of those I picked up a few sizes from a thrift shop last week. They're still too small, but it's good to know that they'll be there. $3/piece & they're both dark blue like new almost.

I bought the least I could get away with. I bought pants snug - one or two pairs at a time. Just a few shirts here and there. I shopped at Walmart, Target, and Ross. I waited till clothes were pretty baggy and then bought snug.

Lynda

I have been finding some new items on eBay for very reasonable prices. I managed for a few months in my old clothes (and initially took some of those in) but then dropped a bunch of sizes quickly, and of course had some older things just waiting to fit into again. Happily I am now smaller than my smallest hold out piece of clothing. :-)

I had boxes of smaller clothes in my basement. I am down to my smallest and will be so happy when I can buy new clothes in a size I've never worn before. It should be soon!

The nice thing is that Goodwill usually has WAY more small clothes than big clothes. People are way more likely to donate clothes they grew out of than clothes they shrunk out of

Originally, 3 1/2 yrs ago, I wore a 22 or 3x. I had an entire walk in closet full of clothes - including about 30 items with tags still on em. I gave them ALL away, little by little when they started hanging off of me. I bought a few things but waited until I could buy a 14 and a 1x before really shopping. I was so excited to get into a 14 at Old Navy. Then I went right over a 12 and into a 10 in a couple months. When I was an 8, I knew I had arrived! Single digits. Now I'm back in a 10 - but I'm keeping all my 7/8s cuz I WILL wear them again!

There's a clothing exchange forum where you can find good deals from people ungrowing (not outgrowing!) their clothes. I sent a box to NE and 1 to Houston, TX for just shipping. Also ebay's a great place to find good deals. Make sure you read the measurements as the sizes are all different.

Good luck!