Need to vent about poor fashion choices post wls

laura_vermont
on 7/12/12 4:23 am
My biggest pet peeve for post-op fashion is clothes that are too small....

Just cause they zip doesn't mean they fit.  A muffin top looks as bad when you're an 8 stuffed into a 4 as it did a 24 stuffed into an 18. 

It's just a number!!!!  A manufactured one at that!!!  It doesn't mean anything!!!  Wear clothes that fit properly, please? 
High Weight 278; consult weight 234; Surgery Weight 219 Surgeon's Goal Weight 150 -10/27/10  -  Personal goal weight 140 - Achieved 12/11/10  
  
beth1010
on 7/12/12 5:56 am
RNY on 08/01/11 with

My pants zip and fit in the legs fine. However I am post op and I have lost over 100 pounds. I cannot avoid the muffin top without plastics.  Anything sized larger doesn't fit in my legs and falls off my hips.  
    
Amy R.
on 7/12/12 12:22 pm
Thanks for throwing that in Beth.  I have the same issue.  If my jeans fit in 99% of the places they are supposed to, I am going to end up with the dreaded muffin top.

When I get frustrated and buy big enough to eliminate that issue, they literally look like they are falling off (and they are).

Sometimes a muffin top isn't a choice.  Loose skin will spill over, even sometimes over clothes or waistlines that are too loose, simply due to having the restriction caused by any fitted waistline, tight or not.

What a crappy run-on sentence that is.  Too bad I'm too lazy to fix it......

Hope all is well in everyone's world, regardless of what we are all wearing=)
Hillery82211
on 7/13/12 12:43 am - New Carrollton, MD
RNY on 08/22/11 with
That's why God allowed someone to invent Spanks.  They get rid of muffin tops and are a God send for loose skin.  And if Spanks are not an option, get your pants tailored/taken in.  Yes it is expensive, but you will feel 1000x better in clothes that fit properly ALL OVER rather than trying to "justify" why you have spillage and/or a  muffin top.  It's not attractive on ANY one...non opts or post opts.
HW & SW: 363     Surgery date: 8/22/11    
Cleopatra_Nik
on 7/12/12 6:08 am - Baltimore, MD
 You know I think I was guilty of that. Well sorta. Post-bounce I refused to give up my 8's. But they had to go. I'm actually a 10/12 now (which hurt at the time). 

While the change in size was a bummer, I'm actually liking some of the fullness I got back. My boobs made a comeback (hallelujah!) and I have a nice hourglass shape. But you couldn't see that when I was trying to sausage into clothes that showed every lump and bump.

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laura_vermont
on 7/12/12 6:23 am
 Nik - you've got it!  The sausage look is the problem.

I've lost over 100lbs too.... I know about excess skin.  I have clothing issues.  I struggle to find 2's (which are actually hard to find) when I could go to the jr's dept..... but they are mostly low-rise and I would be showin' more muffin than should ever be done.  You just have to keep trying until you can find clothes that flatter you.  I do things like pants from Chico's even though they're a bit "old", they have good coverage.  
High Weight 278; consult weight 234; Surgery Weight 219 Surgeon's Goal Weight 150 -10/27/10  -  Personal goal weight 140 - Achieved 12/11/10  
  
Lady Lithia
on 7/12/12 6:45 am
My problem with the muffin top is that it's going to happen no matter what. A size 12 has about 6 inches lee-way in the waist. A size 12 is stll loose around my waist (I'm wasp-waisted) and yet there's the inevitable overflow because I have a LOT of skin, and my waist is higher than average clothing waists, and so the skin just oozes out.

I do see some of my students with muffin tops that look more like fully inflated spare tires. Don't understand that look, but it's common. *shrug*

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost! 
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
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laura_vermont
on 7/12/12 7:25 am
 Your student look description is what I'm talking about.  

That, and my daughter -- DS in October -- who took any of my too large clothes that were youthful, just wears them too tight.  She shows cleavage, I don't get it but I don't care.  It's the clearly too tight, overflowing look that bothers me.  I wasn't trying to cause controversy.... people simply look better (and thinner) in clothes that actually fit.
High Weight 278; consult weight 234; Surgery Weight 219 Surgeon's Goal Weight 150 -10/27/10  -  Personal goal weight 140 - Achieved 12/11/10  
  
Lady Lithia
on 7/12/12 8:01 am
I think we're thinking the same thing... so I went looking for pictorial examples on the net

When I wear clothing that is loose around my waist, I still get something like this (but I do NOT show the skin, which was a fashion sin when I was a kid/young person): 

I can't help the bulge, much larger and the pants would fall off my body. (these pants are tighter than I wear)

A lot of the teens wear THIS look in public, and if they're comfortable, good for them, but for myself I can't fathom it. They cover the belly with thin tee-shirt showing every nook and cranny of the overflow 


that was the best I could find. Though a lot of my students pants go up to their waists (the girls) and then above the pants they're about twice as big around as their hips, slopping down in a sort of enormous but melted muffin top. Again, if they are comfortable, good for them, but I don't see the personal allure.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost! 
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
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laura_vermont
on 7/12/12 9:22 am
 I went looking for examples too.... but I thought I'd get slammed.  I don't mind the tiny top.... it's this that bothers me, it does not bother me that she has some extra weight:

http://www.roflgirls.com/images/girls/Muffin_Top.jpeg




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