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Well, I'm below average sizes too, if you can trust the tags! When I got measured for my wedding dress, by a dress-maker, I was an 8 - 10. She made my dress and everything fit wonderfully, until I lost more weight just before the wedding. Now, I'm buying size 2 pants and jeans just 7 months later, and I've only lost a couple more lbs.

IMHO, the manufacturers are making the clothing labelled with smaller size numbers to make the larger sized people have a different self image. ie - my size new 2 jeans measure the same as my size 6 jeans I bought years ago. With the average population being "over weight" according to surveys, I think that the manufacturers are sending the wrong message - that even overweight you can be a 2, a 4, a 6, etc, because they have manipulated the sizing to make it so.

I have no pre-conceived idea of what body image anyone here has because I have never met any of you in person. As someone who was 172+ lbs and is now 117 lbs, I still have a terrible self image. I have to make a conscious effort to not wear the big baggy clothes I hang onto in my closet, I look like a deflated balloon! ie - today I'm wearing yoga pants, size XS, and a XL cotton sweater. I look like I'm drowning in the sweater, but it "hides" me. (my tum is distended today) And as my DH tells me, I'm a "hottie" now, don't hide in big, baggy clothes. That is much easier in the summer, when I don't have to dress in layers though too.

Anyways, irregardless of what size you are, what clothes you wear, or how you perceive yourself, you are beautiful people, and I love you all!

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Cassandra

Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.

IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up!

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