Lose 10 pounds lose a dress size?

OK yesterday on Oprah it was said that a 10 pound loss would equal a drop by one dress size. I do not thinnk this would be right. As I worked it out if I weighed 140 I would be a size 2. Get real that has to be wrong. Any ideas?

I think it depends on the size of the person.  For me, 16-20 pounds is a size.

For me it's 20-25 lbs!  Weird huh!

For me it depends on how many very strong people I can convince to help me get the zip up in my favorite red dress!

For me it's about 20 lbs for a size.

Thats sounds better. Thanks!

I think it depends how much weight you have to lose. I used to be able to drop ten pounds and lose a dress size but now I have more to lose so Im guessing its more like 20lbs.
But I remember Oprah also saying that if you wear high heels you can LOOK like you dropped a dress size. This is why Im nearly always in chunkies.

This is why Im nearly always in chunkies.

I just am chunky. Does that count?

I just am chunky. Does that count?

AS IF!!! 
lol

It would depend on how much of the person's weight is muscle, fat or water, all of which have different densities. From exercise, I have gained weight but lost inches.


I think it also depends on how much you weigh originally, and the percentage of your total body weight you lose. A ten pound weight loss is much more significant to a 100 pound person than a 200 pound person.

I have found the ten pounds a dress size is accurate--- but it is with the notion of a dress size (example from 18 lose 10 pounds now a 17) when reality is when we talk sizes we talk two sizes (18--- down to 16) which is why most find the 20 pounds more accurate.

Did that make any sense at all?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Helena