Yes I know we’re supposed to give away our clothes. So we’ve been bagging them up. Today, we took them out to take pictures since we will be donating them and wanted records for the IRS.

They were all laid out neatly, and I don’t know what’s bothering me more–giving them away, or realizing how much I had to spend on clothes to have professional wardrobes in 5 different sizes.

When I think of all the money tied up in those clothes it’s sickening. When I think of self-paying to go to Mexico so I don’t have to be here again, it’s starting to look like quite the bargain.

In my defense, at least two of those stacks are my husband’s clothes. I mean, they’re not ALL mine. That would just be ridiculous

If I had ever penny I ever spent on diets, new clothes, more expensive clothes, different foods, throwing out the foods that my new-new diet didn't let me eat that my previous diet said I should, etc.----it would fund some very nice holidays for my family.

That made me laugh! I can so relate to trying a new diet, realizing I couldn't eat whatever was still around from the last diet, getting rid of perfectly good food because "oh, I can't eat that now." That was my life. I did at least get to a point where I realized I was acting crazy. My poor friends in my book club....wondering what weird diet I would be on so I couldn't eat something they had prepared...meanwhile never really losing any weight. 11 days to Sleeve date.

That made me laugh! I can so relate to trying a new diet, realizing I couldn't eat whatever was still around from the last diet, getting rid of perfectly good food because "oh, I can't eat that now." That was my life. I did at least get to a point where I realized I was acting crazy. My poor friends in my book club....wondering what weird diet I would be on so I couldn't eat something they had prepared...meanwhile never really losing any weight. 11 days to Sleeve date.

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one! I think the the most wasteful transition was from Paleo to vegetarian. Can you imagine?

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one! I think the the most wasteful transition was from Paleo to vegetarian. Can you imagine?

Ha Ha Ha Ha! Done them both!!! More than once...Atkins, McDougal, too!

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one! I think the the most wasteful transition was from Paleo to vegetarian. Can you imagine?

Ha Ha Ha Ha! Done them both!!! More than once...Atkins, McDougal, too!

Oh and right before Paleo was juicing. So there went all that fruit too!

So the good news you should know however, is that although none of those diets worked, the sleeve is working. Eleven more days to the start of a new you! Congrats

I so relate to this! I went from a 1X (or XL in certain cuts) to a 10 in five months. I could buy a pair of pants, wear them once or twice and the next time I wore them they would be too big and baggy. This was after loosing one size in the first two months. It really is an ongoing adjustment.

I so relate to this! I went from a 1X (or XL in certain cuts) to a 10 in five months. I could buy a pair of pants, wear them once or twice and the next time I wore them they would be too big and baggy. This was after loosing one size in the first two months. It really is an ongoing adjustment.

wow that sounds fast even by sleeve standards! Good for you! So you're almost to your final size now though, right? Have you started the Beeg Beeg Shopping yet?

I have to try on clothes that were too tight once a week, usually on the weekends. It's no point saying "oh this doesn't fit" because fact is, just because it didn't fit last week doesn't mean it doesn't fit this week. And to add to the confusion, it only fits for a few weeks so you have to be careful you're not out of your "fit window".

I have three client visits in the next two weeks. One is in Key West, the other two are in Rhode Island. So not only do I need clothes that fit, they have to be warm weather and cold weather and the cold weather ones have to fit for two weeks.

It's enough to drive a sane woman crazy and I wasn't that sane to start with.

I think I'm at my final weight although some things are starting to feel loose again. I'm working on my wardrobe but I'm always working on that. LOL! I sympathize about having to find three seasons of outfits in two weeks. :/.

I'm hoarding fat clothes. 6 Rubbermaid bins later at about 5 weeks out!

I'm hoarding fat clothes. 6 Rubbermaid bins later at about 5 weeks out!

Get rid of them Ms shopaholic! Make way for the new ones

I must have worn my clothes really tight - nothing is too big yet (well maybe one pair of trousers...)

I must have worn my clothes really tight - nothing is too big yet (well maybe one pair of trousers...)

It took me ages to go from 20w to 20. When I got into normal sizes they started dropping more quickly. A size about every 7 kg (15 lb). I have lost over 60 lb now and gone from that 20w to a 14. So I still have a long way to go. I suspect the sizes will stop dropping as quickly soon. So probably the middle of the journey is where you will change the most.

I must have worn my clothes really tight - nothing is too big yet (well maybe one pair of trousers...)

Although I had no idea, my first photograph of myself in my undies showed me that I was "that" woman who wore her bras so tight that they cut into her in the back. I guess we just used to pain from that? Idk. I do know that it took a while before the bras I had fit, and only recently did I move into a different size.

As misty says, everyone says the larger sizes are cut more forgivingly and take a while to come out of. Also I know I had more "stretchy" clothes in my higher sizes because god knows I needed them to stretch!

haha! yes, everything I own is stretchy!

I really really want to believe all of this. Aside from certain things giving me more room, I haven't officially dumped a full size yet. Sigh.

I really really want to believe all of this. Aside from certain things giving me more room, I haven't officially dumped a full size yet. Sigh.

It will happen and then some sizes you'll barely be in and others, you'll feel like it's never going to change....my scale has made me it's biyotch for sure, and I can see clothes sizes being the next ones to dominate me.