The FastDay Forum

Hi everyone
Well, I have survived my first year of 5:2 and very successfully at that. Internal and external improvements.
I have a strange thing happening to me. As one diets and loses weight, there is the necessity to shop for
more fitting clothes, that stay on and don't fall off. I have discovered that I am somehow (and still in shock)
a size 10 in some clothes. I tried on a pair of size 10 linen pants and loved the look BUT decided that a size 12
was better suited for when the heat arrives in Western Australia, dry and humid in February and March. (Thinking of body swelling with the heat). Today the first day of our Summer I wore them to work to find that they were so comfortably accommodating me and wanting to fall off me.
Why have I got a phobia about size 10. Does it take a while to adjust one's mindset to the fact that you are actually a smaller size than you ever expected. This has never happened to me before. Is there a scientific adjustment period to the change in one's size?
tenshi

[carieoates]

What a great surprise. Well done also. Bet you feel a Million dollars.
I suppose you will pick up that wonderful size 10 soon enough. Maybe you should take the 12 back right now.
Go on you know you want to.

Its my HIPS that cant get round a size 10 Tenshi!
Seriously tho,yes i do believe our body image takes time to catch up with reality.
And dropping a size down from a 12 to a 10 is a VERY big deal! X

Enjoy wearing those skinny new sizes!

But don't hang up on the size. I don't know how it is where you live, but here in the U.S. the sizes are so inconsistent that I have no idea what size I wear. This fall I have bought size 8s, size 10s, and several size 11s along with Mediums, Larges, and an XL. I even found a Small I fit,tThough obviously it was a large small or even perhaps an XL small. And I still fit an XXL shirt I bought a few years ago at Target. In fact, I'm wearing it right now.

All of which explains why I never buy any clothes from catalogs or online.