If you have met your goal weight....

[Riz2006 242]

Have you ever been in the size you are in now (in your adult life). Like if you are a size 8, were you ever an 8 as an adult? Make sense?

[mae7365 372]

I'm 18 lbs from goal weight and down 53 lbs since surgery. I pulled out my size 12's and they are actually big at this point. I do have size 10's in storage and I suspect that's where I'll end up once I hit goal. And yes, I've been as low as a size 8 in the past, but don't plan to get down to the 120 lbs I weighed when I was that size.

[ready2getgoing 41]

No - I am at a point now that is smaller then when I finished high school and started college.

It's a bit weird to say - but I'm smaller then I've ever been in my adult life - smaller then when I got married.

[Bluesea71 698]

Yes. I weigh 153 now and I weighed anywhere from 149-163 from 6th grade (11years old?) until I was 29 years old. (Note: I went through puberty really early and have been my adult height of 5'7" since 5th grade.) I slowly started gaining weight in my 30's post children. Did you have a specific question about this? I can tell you that clothing sizes have changed a great deal. A modern size 8 is equivalent to a size 12 that I wore in the 80's and 90's. I have boxes of old clothes I kept in storage that I compare. I'm currently a modern size 8 and I can't fit into some of my old size 12 and 14 pants from the 1980s!!!! Not that I would wear those pants out of the house anyway! Still questioning why I kept them all of these years?!? It's funny to go back in time though! Shoulder pads are sill awful!

Edited March 18, 2015 by Bluesea71

[bikrchk 1,313]

Obese since childhood, I was sleeved at 47 years old. I'd gotten close to a healthy weight (for no longer than a few months) only a couple of times in my adult life through dieting. I think the smallest I can recall was a size 10, and it didn't last long! Today, I hang out in a 4\6. I concur, vanity sizing is a "thing" if you grab something from a thrift store or out of the back of your closet that's 10-15 years old, it's likely to be a size off, (smaller). I weigh less today than I did in Jr. High. I never would have though it possible.

[CowgirlJane 14,261]

I was an obese child too. I did get trim in my early 20s and wore a bigger size than I do now, but i was actually smaller or same size. Sizes have changed. At 22, I weighed about 140-145 and wore size 9/10. I now weigh about 155 and wear 6/8 range pants. I don't think i am slimmer now, I think vanity sizing kicked in...