Well it doesn't help that all my wicked cool clothes fit me nice 44 lbs ago. . .now everything cool doesn't fit me and the things I wear hang on me. . .But with three kids who are constantly out growing clothes it is hard to justify spending money on clothes I won't fit into in next year in summer. .. So right now I am wearing size 3x red stretch shorts that were large on me at my biggest. . .now they hang. .. I did not wear them before when they would have been closer to fitting. .. and now I need something for summer. But on a happy note T-shirts that i used to pull down around my middle to hide my tummy (silly name for a mountain of flesh!) now floats down to my somewhat smaller tummy (no longer a mountain. . .now a hilly marsh) my t-shirts used to 'fit' me around. . now they flow. . .alittle. redawn