I'm 5'7", currently around 218 lbs., and wear a size 18. When I was 155, I wore a size 10. I'd like to get back down into the 12 to 14 range...but, see above. No pressure on myself this time around.

I'm 5'7", 155 pounds, and usually a size 12, sometimes a 10, sometimes a 14.

See, this is why I don't get sizing, because I weigh much more than that (how much more I find out tomorrow) and yet the sizing is about the same.

Yeah, What Megan Said. I'm about 20-30 lbs heavier than that, but the same size (minus an inch or so of height). Maybe I have lead-lined bones.

Hola, Bitches.

I'm feeling a little glum today. The empty apartment has finally gotten to me, combined with the dread of what the next month or two will bring. I have work in a few hours, so I'll just concentrate on that for a while.

I have a wide as hell frame, I know that. My hip measurement isn't ever going to go under 40 inches, and my shoulders are wicked broad.

eta: {{{hugs to Sean}}}

The empty apartment has finally gotten to me, combined with the dread of what the next month or two will bring.

BRACKET HUGS TO YOU.

I think I am a size 12. Could be less if I could be more active, but size 2's are little tiny elf-people.I could never be that. But of course, I still have BIDs from people starting conversations with "Hi...what's wrong with you?" my whole life. Deena, thanks and don't worry about it. I had a lot of computer weirdness this summer, as you know.

Poking my head in briefly because I hate to infect anyone with my particular brand of snarly doom and gloom, but WRT the size thing, I'm just over 5'2" and right now, I'm at 160 and wearing a size 6 or 8, depending on the cut of the clothes. Fifteen pounds less, where I'm far more comfortable, I wear a size 4 pretty easily. I'm like juliana in that I have a wide as hell frame, with big hips and wide linebacker shoulders.

When I weighed 250, I wore a size 24. I'm not one of those people who's meant to carry that much weight. Probably a big reason why, when I decided I needed to lose the weight, a great deal of it came off fairly easy.

The fifteen pounds I've put on in the last year are a lot harder to lose than the first fifteen from when I weighed 250.

{{{{{Sean}}}}}}

{{{{Ginger}}}}} You are beautiful, and what a sense of style you have. If I didn't say it at the time, I adored your gorgeous frilly blouse at the Prom. I think maybe I didn't because I was too drunk to say it without the envy leaking into what I would say.

{{{{{everyone else, because now I'm still crying but for an entirely different reason than before.}}}}}

I spent the thinnest years of my life believing I was a fat cow.

Yep, same here. I was thin enough that my parents routinely would invite me home for dinner so they could make sure I was eating. Friends who have seen the photos from that era are all VERY EMPHATIC that I should never be that weight again.

I'm 5'4", 166-7(ish)lbs, and somewhere between a size 12 and 14. I'd like to get down to 160, but if I don't, I won't beat myself up agout it. Do the Body Image Demons still stage surprise performances of their greatest hits? Of course they do. But I'm getting better at ignoring them.

Twisted as it is, I'm often really glad I've NEVER been thin. So SHE (that I-was-so-thin-back-at-such-and-such chick) doesn't haunt me. I'm about the same size I was in high school. I did have a few years right after high school that I was below 200 lbs. (at barely 5'3"), and I wouldn't mind going back. But I've never been thin, so I have no idea what I'm missing, and I think I'm better off.