The other day my brother was asking how I was doing. I said "GREAT!, I've lost 21 lbs so far this year, 43.5 total" He said what you mean total, you mean from like 2 years ago? I said yes. He told me that I should only count what I have done this year or "this time" not what I did 2 years ago.

What do you guys do? Do you count from your highest or from your most recent "renew?

It really made me think.

I count from my highest...

it's not a race - it's a journey. I don't include when I was pregnant.

You need to count the total weight you have lost from your total.


Dana

You can count from your highest ever weight? I didn't know that cause my highest ever was 276, can I change my start weight to that instead?

I count from my highest. I agree w/Dana that this is a journey. My kidney doc was very pleased w/me that it's taken me 3 1/2 years to lose 42#--he told me he would like to see me lose no more than 2# per month. I thought he was nuts, and must have given him a funny look, because he said, "That way, it comes off slowly and has a better chance of staying off."

See....this is my question!!!!

I was @ 320 - 3 years ago

311 when I get pregnant with Jacob

297.5 Jan 1st 2003

I always count from my highest because somewhere along the line you DID in fact lose that weight and kept it off for the next time around.

I would say highest, although I have no idea what that might be for me. I'm assuming it's what I weighed when I started WW in the fall. I hadn't been on a scale in years. I refused to get on a scale when I went to my doctor. The last time I remember weighing was in 1999.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. . . :-)

I guess I'm one of the oddballs (you guys knew that already).

My highest weight was 298. I've lost some, I've gained some back. I lost some more.

I recalibrate each time I get new resolve.

But, when it's all said and done and some one asks how much weight I've lost, I'll count every pound from 298.

mine was easier than that. luckily... i haven't quit and started over. well, of course over the years there was always "i'm watching my weight" but not REALLY. i didn't weigh myself.

so my starting weight is from the day david bought me the scale.

ABSOLUTELY from the highest weight ever!!!! and if someone else is REALLY nosy [as only a family member could possibly be!], then you can break it down for them...

my highest: 506. current: 244. and i count every blessed pound of it, not just the 165 that's come off in the past year!

wow, jiffy! i had no idea you had lost so much, that's AMAZING. congrats!!!

Jiffy, when do we get some before & afters?

I have been counting this time from when I started being motivated even though my weight has bounced around a bit. I started really caring again last July when I weighed after not knowing for so long, gulp, 231 lbs. My highest ever was 265, and I got my butt down to 170 and started the upward slide again. I found my job maintains in the 230s without doing anything at all. Isn't it awful that I know that?

Miss Chris

hmmm. i finally have some before pics as jpgs,taken 1 week before the surgery, after i'd lost 97 pounds... and the office has some current jpgs... let me see what i can do...

give me a week or so... ok? there's still 60 or so to go!!!!

Absolutely count from the highest. You LOST that weight. You get to count it.

If you lost something small, like 10 pounds a year for 10 years, that would still be an accomplishment in the long run.

I've never been pregnant, though, so I don't know how that figures in.