Dealing with clothing not fitting (weight loss) rant

I have waaayyy too many clothes because I have sizes ranging across 10 sizes (women's sizes) and from M to XXL. Thanks predenisone! They are packed all over my house.

As you pointed out, the pants are the most telling. Maybe you can buy a pair of pants two sizes down (instead of three) so you can "grow into them" and they would still look less drastic on you.

i've had to buy a lot of new clothes, too. most of my really small stuff for when i was in the 80's was from salvation army, marshall's or sears. it was hard to find adult clothing for someone who is 5'5" with long legs but with a double zero to zero waist size. a lot of the pants were too short. i did find a pair of pajama jeans at salvation army that have fit the whole time and were $1.50. other than that, it's a lot of extra small leggings. i was buying children's underwear for a while, too, and most of them had ridiculous characters on them haha walmart has the best ones.

i've noticed the tighter i wear my clothes, the skinnier i look, so for a while, i wore my "normal size but big" clothes just to add more width to me. i looked weird though and like i was trying to be a rapper. i was always pulling up my pants.

i know you don't wanna buy the new clothes, but you have to be realistic in that you don't know when you will be the weight you want to be. i tried for a while to still wear my normal clothes, but i ended up being in the 80-90's for two years and just had to buy a new wardrobe. i honestly felt better when i bought new clothes because i felt more confident that the clothes fit right. a hard thing to find was scrubs because i worked at a doctor's office and those pants were enormous.

Spend as little as possible and buy some smaller work clothes! I suggest consignment shops and right now the sale sections at department stores. Hang on to the tiny clothes, just in case. I got rid of a lot of my super skinny clothes from massive post partum weight loss and had to buy new ones when I developed UC and lost all the weight again.

I always wondered when folks here complained about the weight loss. I never lost any weight. I ALWAYS gained. 150lbs 3 years ago, 195 lbs highest and now at 180lbs, desperately trying to lose the weight.

I do have same problem as others with clothes. Have pants, ranging from 31 to 34 waist. The shirts still fit but its more like bodyhugger than the shirt.

I know this sucks (as does everything IBD related). For the most part I've been able to maintain my weight for quite a few years until this unexpected turn happened to me early September, then I lost weight...I've got a terrible addiction to Lululemon and my luon pants are all fitting me too loose and I've still been buying my usual size even though they're a bit big in the leg area but I don't want to buy a size smaller because I'm expecting (hoping) to get back to my usual weight. I only lost about 7 lbs, it's amazing how loose my clothes are fitting, and be darned, my boobs aren't filling my bras properly either!!!

It's helpful to have a variety of sizes in your closet for unexpected weight gain or weight loss, it just sucks when your favorite clothes aren't fitting properly anymore.

I've lost weight too...and have had to deal with co-workers asking what's wrong with me. Like I chose the sickness. I've even had some say "I need your weight loss plan" I always inform them they don't want any parts of it.

There are times where my panties fit me fine and others when hey seems to hang a little.