Losing weight yet not fitting into my cloths??????

Hi, I'm 6 wks out and have lost 37 lbs. Most of the weight was/is concentrated on my belly. Pre-surgery people always mistook me for being pregnant.

Anyhow, in the past year I was on work accident leave and I put on 30 lbs. Seeing that I now lost 37 and am about the same weight since when I stopped working I figured I would try my work pants to see if they fit (I go back to work in 3 weeks) and I was horrified to see my work pants still don't fit yet technically I've lost the weight I had gained on my sick leave. 

Did I lose the 37 lbs behind my ears?????????

Is it because the belly is the last to go?

Thx for your wisest input

Could be you have some post-op swelling still, especially if it was open surgery.

Ive lost weight EVERYWHERE except my belly. Well its smaller than before but still the biggest part of my body. =/

Ditto.  I now have great legs and arms, no butt, and this huge belly.

After 65 lbs, I am starting to see the belly going down.  I now have a waist.  But it has been the place I always packed my fat on - and the last place to lose.

I also noticed that the first 50 lbs seem to come from above the waist.  I swear.  My back fat was gone, my boobs dried up, my arms got thin, my face thinned out and the jowls disappeared.  But it took a while for the weight loss to head south. 

But even then, the belly fat is fighting to stay intact.

Every time someone gains weight and loses they change shape a little. I am having this same issue. I should be down a size but because of my stomach dropping lower due to weight loss my pants no longer fit me around the belly. Even though the next size up is way to big. SUCKS!

I'm 4 months out, and the fat is not coming off the way it went on.  My dowager hump  and belly are subsiding quickly.  But my thighs, butt, and love handles are reducing relatively slowly.  I figure I'm just a work in progress.

By any chance did you put on weight in the thighs and butt areas first when you gained a lot of your weight?  I sounds like you are a pear shaped person.  So they lose weight in those areas last. 

Where as an apple shaped person loses weight every where but the belly.

ok, thx everybody...that really got me depressed yesterday but today is a new day.

Aaaahhh.  The belly fat eventually comes off, but your body tends to offer up other areas of fat first.  It's a process that unfolds over time. 

You will get there, but you have to lose in other areas first to meet your body's plan of survival.  It likes to hang on to that belly fat for last (if you are shaped like an apple, which is sounds like you are). 

Something to look forward to.

I feel your pain.  I've lost a decent amount now, very little from my gut, though.  Boo!