I am 5'3.5", medium build and was just telling someone a week ago that my goal was to get back down to a 2-4 (I was there a few years back, then regained 20+#s). She was appalled and said "oh, no, that is too small." I said...not so much. Today's 2-4 is like the 6s I wore when I graduated from HS in '91. When I fit into 2s and 4s I am generally still 10-15#s heavier than what is considered the low-end of healthy weight for my frame.

Think of the old thing about Marilyn Monroe wearing a size 14. Women like to kid themselves and say that they are the same size as Marilyn when they are obese (what...are we really so blind?). When I was a size 14 I looked NOTHING like Marilyn. But I knew it. I wasn't in denial.

A while back someone had taken some of her dresses and measured them...they were actually the equivalent of today's 4s and 6s.