How many pounds did it take for you to finally go down a size?

I know it varies from person to person, so I'm wondering what's about the average.

At the same time, I'm trying to remind myself that it's not always POUNDS, losing inches are way better. Ah. The joys of bandland. It's a serious rewiring of the brain haha.

So, revised, how many pounds/inches did you have to lose before you went down a size?

Edited December 17, 200817 yr by takeitSLOW

I had a BMI of 36 and I think it took me about 30lb to go down the first size.

Now of course it would take about 8.

My highest weight was 251 wearing a size 22 pants. 32 pounds lighter now and wearing a size 18, which are very loose. I track inches, because I exercise a lot. I am lossing lots of inches in the waist, hips, thighs, and butt. But not so much in the top area.

I was in a 16, some 18's and now I am in a 12 (bottom) and a 14 top. I always lose from the waist down much more quickly than I do on top. Although I have to say that I have gone from a 1x down to a regular XL and in some cases a L. I can even wear some of my skinny husband's t-shirts now. Overall I'm down 60 pounds, so I guess it was about 30 pounds per size although I didn't really pay that much attention to it.

Well, I started at my heavyest 280, then i was a 22/24, then about 260, i was a 20/22 now at 240, i am a 18/19.

I started at a 14 at 195 now I'm a size 6 at 153...I still have huge boobs tho..so my tops are mediums ...I shop at banana republic ,vs and gap mostly

I lost 25 lbs before I went down a size. I had made a pact with myself that I was not going over the size I had been wearing, and I was really struggling to stay there. I've lost ten more pounds and my clothes are staring to feel a little loose. I would think once I go down ten more pounds, for a total of twenty, I'll be needing to buy some new clothes. I bought a really gorgeous dress for New Year's Eve, and I told my husband that I hope I'll only wear it once. :-)

15-20 pounds was a size for me. Started at 22/24W, now 14/16M.

I think it also took me around 30 pounds to go down the first size . . . but now it seems to only take 10-15 to move a size down. When you get closer to a normal BMI, you skip through sizes very quickly. The beginning is always slow where it would take me a several months to drop to the next size . . . closer to goal it seemed like it was almost monthly.

I am 5'3 and a BMI of 40 (225 pounds) was size 18/20 and XL tops, BMI of 25 (141 pounds) is a size 8 and Medium tops.