Managing Your Closet When Losing Weight
Recently a man who'd lost 65 pounds shared some of his tips with BuzzFeed Video . I agree with and experienced many of them myself. A key part of his story was when a friend tried to tell him to keep all of his old clothes so that he would have something to wear when he regained his weight. Instead, he decided to get rid of them all. And that's the right attitude. No going back. At least within reason. I was fortunate to be a pack rat over the years. When it came to clothes, I'd outgrow them, but I'd keep them around partly out of the hope I'd someday lose the weight needed to fit back into them and partly out of pure inertia. As a result, I had boxes of clothes I hadn't even looked at in years. It can sometimes seem a trip through time. When I started losing weight and shrinking down, it was time for me to unbox all those clothes and get organized. When all was said and done, I had clothes from 20 years of adult life that str...