How many lbs do you need to put on to go up a dress size?

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I have been having a sort out of my clothes, and lots of my skirts and trousers don't fit me any more. I reckon I have put on about 5lbs and must have gone up a dress size. I am 5' 4". Is that about right?

For me at the same height it's about a stone for each dress size.

A stone? That's more than I thought based on the fact I can hardly get the trousers over my thighs.

Unless I've put on more weight than I thought .

Surely it depends on how tight the clothes were when they "fitted" you. So if they were quite loose on you, it would take a stone but if they were quite fitted, you'd only need to put on a few pounds for them not to fit.

The good news is you only have to lose 5lbs and they'll fit again.

it depends where you are. Same height as you and have lost a stone and a quarter, this year. Have gone from 14-16 to 12-14. Bra size has changed the least - my 32GG are only a tiny bit baggy in the cup, but I suspect I'd outgrown them at my heaviest, anyhow!

100 years ago, iirc, in weight watchers, they used to tell us you went down a dress size for every 10lbs you lost.

Yeah, I was going to say about 10lbs.

Yeah, around 10lbs sounds more like it.

5 would definitely make a difference though.

I think it depends on the size. It seems to take me much more in weight terms to go from a 16 to a 14 vs a 12 to a 10.

I'm about two stone heavier than when I wore a 12 and I'm now a 16 so I think for me it's about a stone.

Now a half stone down and hope to be a 14 again soon. Not sure if I'll get back to a 12 but perhaps someday.

I forgot to say that I'm 5'10" and I gain in my belly.

Funnily enough I put on 10lbs (gradually, I didn't even notice) and have lost 5lbs but it's hard to maintain so my weight is probably fluctuating.

Tops still fit fine. I put weight on around the belly and hips and thighs.

I think it depends entirely on the person, what shape you are, and what brands you're used to wearing. I've put on 4 stone over the past 16 years. 16 years ago, I was a size 16, sometimes a size 18 in trousers to be comfortable. Now I'm a size 18, sometimes a size 20 in trousers.

I also think though that a lot of this is to do with vanity sizing over the last 16 years - 4 stone for 1 size seems a bit ridiculous.

I think it depends.

I've put on almost a stone since March (lost our dog and I'm making up for the lack of long walks by stuffing my face). I'm still wearing a size 10, but everything is definitely tighter. If I was to shop for clothes now I'd be buying a 12.

Really depends 10-12lbs, I'd say. BUT I can maintain wait and drop a dress size when I complete the 30 day shred!

I'm 5'3", and was 11st 8lbs at the start of the year. I was in a size 14 on the bottom, and 16 on top. Now I'm 8st 13lbs and wear a size 8 comfortably. I think dress sizes vary so wildly between individual heights and builds, it's not a very reliable measure.

I've lost 1.5 stone but haven't gone down a size. The only thing slightly smaller is my shoe size.

I think if you can hardly get them over your thighs then the truth is you've went up by more than a dress size. That sounds like two. Sorry,,,😞

I'd say I went up a dress size if I could get the item of clothing on but it was too tight to be comfortable, i.e. Straining at the seams of muffin top scenario, then I need a bigger size. But if I can't even get them on....

I'd also think about ten pounds per dress size.

I'm in denial then .

I haven't weighed in years but recently bought a weighing scales to work out why I'm bursting out of my clothes as I thought I never put on weight. I obviously do.

Ah, we've all been there....

I disagree, I am a size 10 (also 8st 13 but 5ft 10) and if put on 5lbs on I really struggle fitting clothes over my thighs. I put all my weight on my tummy/hips/thighs and none on my top and so I think it makes more of a difference.

Surely it just depends on how you carry weight? I'm 5ft 6 and at my heaviest ever weight was 11stone 8 - I was a 12/14 on top, and a 14 on the bottom. Now I'm around ten stone, and a 10 top, 10/12 bottom. I have a small waist/flat tummy but big thighs/bum - at my heaviest my arms were like ham hocks, but I still had a deceptively slim mid-section.

If I gain 5 lbs my clothes feel tight, but I'd have to gain at least a stone to go up a dress size.

I reckon it is about a stone to move up a dress. 5lbs??? No way. You could put that on just with water retention or when you are due on.

Ha, never - I am always about 5lb up just before my period starts, and am usually about 3lb heavier in the evening than if I have weighed that morning.