is everyone really a size 2

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 11:52 am

amother wrote:

OP here, my apologies for anyone I may have insulted. I was not laughing at anyone at all.

I am actually a 10-12 myself and struggling to bring it down. It seems everyone in my life is just sooo thin. inc dh, regardless of what he eats. so I was wondering if they really are or am I just being blind and choosing to look only at those people?

thank you voters and posters.

Don't struggle. A 10-12 is a fine size for most heights. It sounds like you are a healthy weight unless you are tall. Just eat healthy and don't worry about what other people are. Obviously, if your DH really wanted someone of a different build he wouldn't have married you. Smile

And always remember, Marilyn Monroe was definitely not skinny.

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 11:55 am

thank you above poster. appreciate your words. my problem is that I'm a size 6 top and 12 skirt. that's no fun. but I rly shud be happy to be healthy. that will be my motto today. LOL

↑ debsey ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 11:56 am

I will tell you this. I've been a size 2 through a size 22. Right now, I'm a size 8. When I was a size 2, salesladies in more upscale frum stores were nicer to me. That much I noticed (because I had lost weight down to that size, so I was able to compare.)
I'd like to lose some more weight, but I'm not hung up on a number. My biggest desire is to fit into a really nice jacket I bought when I was a size four, that I LOVE, that is classic and will always be in style, and that DOESN'T FIT YET Mad

So, yeah, I get where OP is coming from. There's a store in Lakewood that doesn't stock sizes larger than 12. And it's not a primarily teen store! Where are all the skinny minnies coming from, that they don't stock anything in a larger size? That means the customer base is out there! Is there a skinny pill that people take that I never heard of???? Someone let me in on the secret! Because by the time I lose the rest of my weight from my baby, I hope to be pregnant again...........

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:06 pm

[quote="amother"]thank you above poster. appreciate your words. my problem is that I'm a size 6 top and 12 skirt. that's no fun. but I rly shud be happy to be healthy. that will be my motto today. LOL

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Don't worry! Where you are is my current weight loss goal Smile

(I'm the amother who posted her body measurements) I was a 4 on top but 8-10 on bottom when I got married and I was slightly underweight for my frame. Join the pear shaped club! You can't change your basic body shape whatever you do. It IS frustrating to always have to buy separates. That's what motivated me to learn to sew and go to design school!

↑ Ruchel ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:09 pm

Raisin wrote:

Actually, some shops don't sell higher then about a US size 12 or so. (Zara, some high fashion chains)

I find 10 years ago it was way more common. Now even shops for teens who tend to have smaller sizes, like some 2 and even a couple 0, will often go to 14 or more... unless beshita they won't. Isn't Abercrombie&Fitch that way

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:13 pm

amother wrote:

Don't worry! Where you are is my current weight loss goal Smile

so you sew your own clothes? how cool is that? do you do for public? im looking for a seamstress that can sew me clothes. Very Happy

↑ Ruchel ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:18 pm

I always say, wear vintage Wink

it's refreshing to see they're true to size, not trying to save on cloth, and you're a smaller size Smile

my dad taught me how to measure clothes and indeed they're often much smaller than what's written. I've seen 12s who were big 8...

I'm tall 5'10 kah and probably would be good to bury with a size 2 Smile

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:21 pm

amother wrote:

Don't worry! Where you are is my current weight loss goal Smile

So, like both of you- I'm a size larger hips than the rest of me. I'd be a size 6 (If I didn't have hips that are perfect for bearing children, as a Caribbean dressmaker once told me. I asked her to alter my wedding gown so my hips wouldn't stick out and she said "I can alter and alter honey, but those hips are always gonna stick out. You was built to have children.....)

So, when are you gonna launch your collection!?! For frum pear-shaped women who actually bear children? (cuz I'm convinced that the size 2 ladies in Lakewood with the Bugaboo double strollers are actually toting around plastic replica dolls. There's no way they've given birth twice......)

debsey

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:22 pm

LOL! what if my size and the rest of the people in my office either all don't fit into your category?
anyone above size 10 can't take the poll???
that's discrimination!

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:31 pm

amother wrote:

And always remember, Marilyn Monroe was definitely not skinny.

Marilyn Monroe was pretty skinny actually. Her waist was 22 inches!

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:36 pm

The RW frum world is obsessed with flat and small. They don't even understand the beauty of a woman's figure. They don't go for an hourglass so consider 29,19,29 to not even "skinny" even though it fits in a 0. They like measurements like 24,22,24 Flat chested, small waist, no hips and behind. It's so stupid that they can't appreciate the beauty of a woman's body shape!

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:39 pm

amother wrote:

LOL! what if my size and the rest of the people in my office either all don't fit into your category?
anyone above size 10 can't take the poll???
that's discrimination!

im the OP, like I posted before, I DID PUT UP ANOTHER POLL OPTION WITH SIZES 12,14,16...
But it did not show up. I looked if I could add it but it wont go.
PS this is not the first time an option from a poll did not show up

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 12:45 pm

amother wrote:

If anything I see fewer discrimination against slightly or not so slighty overweight in the right wing circles (and also the low key MO ones). This is really random what you say.

dancingqueen ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 1:00 pm

amother wrote:

I know many women here don't listen to secular music, but trust me, secular people are loving the pear shape right now, and probably always have. Skinny is not worshiped there.

I'm a small size but I'm also petite so I'm actually curvy.

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 1:01 pm

dancingqueen wrote:

Just to let you know that a pear and an hourglass are two different shapes, but yes, many people could love both!

yo'ma ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 1:48 pm

amother wrote:

Next time you need to click on add option after each poll option.

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 1:50 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Secular people into Hollywood worship skinny and silly... normal secular people don't seem to obsess as much as some "frummy but with it" NY circles

But they like a REAL figure: beautiful hips, breasts, and behinds. They want the hourglass whereas RW like the SICK flat no curves at all look which is IMHO gross.

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Sep 09 2014, 2:02 pm

amother wrote:

But they like a REAL figure: beautiful hips, breasts, and behinds. They want the hourglass whereas RW like the SICK flat no curves at all look which is IMHO gross.

Skinny is not always flat, you can have a great hourglass shape and be skinny.
Have you never seen super skinny people with nice figures?
I have!