Losing lbs but not pant size

[healthymommy 1]

I had my surgery on 4/28/14

Pw 217

Sw 207

2 week post sw199

I have lost lbs, but my pants around my waist feels the same. I have always had a problem with losing my tummy:(. I also am not regular, so I'm not sure if this is why my tummy might not be going down. I am on soft foods and tolerating them well. I only drink Water and get 50-60oz daily. I walk daily. Any help or suggestions would be great.

[Miss Mac 6,261]

I started out with a 53" waist. It wasn't until I lost 40 pounds that my waist started to respond. I am one of those people that loses fron the top down. At 57 pounds down, I am finally get a discernable waist. This morning it measured 41" So what a difference the next 27 pounds made. It just takes time and patience.

[PdxMan 4,292]

Like Miss Mac, it wasn't until I was 40 pounds down before I was able to change pant sizes. But let me share something I read on here awhile ago, which I know was true for me.

My pants (and most clothes) didn't really fit me properly. When I was wearing a 40 pant, I most likely should have been wearing a 42, but I would suck everything in and squeeze into my clothes. So, while I was not able to go down in pant size, the pants did fit me better, but my expectations were bigger than my reality, so it just seemed like I wasn't getting smaller, but in truth, I was.

Once I did, though, my sizes seemed to drop rapidly as I was now wanting to wear clothes that fit properly.

[DeniseNCC1701 306]

I'm glad to see this post. I'm down almost 70lbs and still wearing the same clothes I was the a week pre-op, and that made me…not sad… but non plussed.

I refuse to get anything new right now. But there's definitely a change in how things fit me. Like PdxMan said, I was just squishing myself into clothes that were too small. Then they fit "normal". Now they are getting a little loose.

And @@healthymommy, I too find that my tummy is being stubborn. I have pants in the closet that should fit me at this weight, but are still too tight. In my case, it was because I had put on so much weight that everything stretched out, and it hasn't quite caught up yet. I know that I'll get there, and I look forward to posting pics of me in these pants.

So just stay focused and keep doing what you're doing. You'll get there.

Be well…

[Fluffnomore 1,235]

This is an excellent point. My clothes pre-op varied from 16-18W in pants and 1-2X in tops. Looking back, it's pretty obvious that I *was* a 16W-18W at the minimum. So it was a little surprising to me at first that I could wear a certain pair of size 16 jeans for a very long time. There was about a month or two of them fitting more like they were supposed to, followed by about a month of them really being too big (while I also wore some size 14s.) Looking back it seems like this took forever but it was really only two-three months.

I'm currently in sizes 10-14 (depending on cut and style) but the size 14s that I still wear are cut very small. Either way you look at it, 60 pounds/7 months is equal to at least 3 sizes down, probably more like 4 or 5. Patience!

[slocin12 41]

I have just recently went down in pant size with a budge on the scale. I guess everyone is different- at first right after surgery I think my stomach was sollen from the procedure in the hospital. Now I lose weight every couple weeks, and in between I go down in pant size.