Question is when is it appropriate to buy new clothes after vsg? Should I buy some before surgery to have when the weight does start to come off or just wait until I'm at a stable weight to get some clothes? Also, has anyone been able to eat spicy food? All of my food has to be spicy now so I wonder if that is going to have to change after my vsg.

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I do spicy food.

Buy new clothes when you need them. Get stuff that fits now, or maybe one size down. Don't buy for your goal size until you get there. You don't know where you'll stop shrinking, or how your body will be proportioned when you get there.

I find when pants are about two sizes too large, they start getting uncomfortable. I buy then.

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I guess buying clothes depends on your budget. As soon as my old fat clothes were loose I dumped them all.

As soon as my new clothes get loose, I dump them. So I buy a few things at each new size. I mostly wear workout clothes around the house and I just get those from walmart. I wear those longer than my street clothes, I have been wearing the same workout clothes all summer and they are like 3 sizes too large now. I'm not buying new shorts, when it cools off I am just going to buy new leggings. My short have draw strings and I have been just making them work. Some of the summer workout tops are on clearance at walmart so I was able to pick up a few new tops in my correct size for $1 each.

I think we notice our weight loss better if we wear clothes that fit and you look better in clothes that fit. So I suggest if you can afford it, keep a nice pair of jeans and a few tops that fit at all time. You can wear dresses longer than other things, but clothes that fit I think are really important.

I have said this before on this forum but the only person I know that lost 200 pounds on their own and kept it off for years gave me the advice of wearing clothes that fit and immediately tossing the ones that do not. It is a very powerful thing mentally and I really suggest it.

If you keep wearing the same loose fat clothes, you feel fat, even when you are smaller.

I don't plan on buying a whole new wardrobe until my weight is stable for a long time. Then I will start investing in expensive quality pieces, that might be a year or 2 from now.

I have had hot sauce and spices since about 6 weeks. You don't have to give up spicy foods.

A lot of my pre surgery clothes had elastic waits so they actually can work for a

while. When you get things depends on what you have,

budget, etc. Like a lot of women I have a few sizes in my closet including some that are 2-3 sizes down from my pre surgery size. Also, most of my weight loss thus far has been abdominal. I wasn't really expecting that. Your new shape will emerge and it is possible it won't be your old shape.

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I'm still pre op but I was planning on buying some work out type stuff leggings sweats...etc in the next size down to have. That's a plus to having surgery in the fall I can get away with slouchy clothes!

Good luck!!!

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I am not working and have a lot of dresses so I have been wearing a lot of my old clothes. I have bought one or two skirts and some tips to wear in public here and there. I swim a lot so I do make sure I have bathing suits that fit. I buy 2-piece tankini a where I can buy different sizes for the tops and bottoms. I am bottom heavy and my top is shrinking faster than my bottoms.

Be careful about buying clothes ahead of time because you may actually skip sizes as you go down.

By the way, I have no problems with spicy food.

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I don't suggest that. In the beginning you might lose weight so fast and your shape changes so quickly, you will skip sizes. You probably won't go a size down, you will probably go down 2 sizes very rapidly.

Buying clothes as you lose/fit them and wearing them immediately is kind of the only way to go in the beginning. I would have clothes fit one week and be too large the next week.