Thinking about weightloss? Prepare yourself for one of the biggest expenses (don’t worry, it is an expense but it is totally worth it and motivational in itself). The largest size I ever wore was 8XL (70″ waist). As you can imagine, I had little choice from where to buy clothes and these were not cheap. When I liked something, most of the time I used to change my mind once I try it on as I didn’t like the fit due to the massive size.

During the first months of my Journey, I used to buy new clothes every 3 or 4 weeks due to the amount of weight I was losing. I admit, this wasn’t something I liked (even though as I said before, this was motivational) since I am that kind of person who buy clothes for each occasion and I hate to wear the office clothes for an evening outing. But this had to change and I ended up looking for clothes which I could wear both for work and outings. That’s not all! It was only one of the problems I was facing! Imagine when going on a holiday! The luggage weight allowed used to be reached after packing only 2 jeans and some t-shirts (as you can expect, the weight of 1 jeans was equivalent to 2-3 normal jeans) and once I land in a foreign country, I used to be worried that my luggage could get lost and I end up without clothes (you must be thinking that I could buy new ones if this happened but keep in my that finding my size was not an easy task).

Weddings? Ohh that was another headache! Most of the time I ended up ordering a custom made suit as I couldn’t find my size. If normal suits used to cost €200-€300 to the average person, I used to pay approx. €600 to have it done in my size! (lucky me, more bigger sizes clothes shops started showing up on the Island and I could get a suit for a cheaper price!)

Today (2 years 5 months from the date I started this journey) it was time to buy some more cloths for this summer since the ones I had are not fitting me anymore. As per usual, I went to the clothes shop to buy some gym clothes and whilst going around, I picked an XL shorts. Tried it on and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. That shorts that appeared to be the perfect size for me in my eyes was too big. I had to ask for a smaller size. Can you image how I felt? How happy I was?. How is that possible? I asked myself. Some 2 years ago I used to ask for 8XL and now I was asking for a Large? Yup! I wasn’t dreaming! That was the size! I must admit, I tried it on myself twice whilst in the dressing room as I still couldn’t believe my eyes!

Just a tip for those who are also in a middle of their weightloss journey or maybe those who are planning to start theirs, keep a pair of the biggest clothes you own. As you can see from the pictures in this blog, these are my biggest motivation. Sometimes I end up putting them on to remember from where I started. Believe me, there are no words than I can use to explain the feeling!