I have a few magic numbers too. I think my first magic number will be 213. The lowest I've been over the past few (7 ) years has been about 215 at the very least, but then I always balloon up. If I can make it down to 213 I will feel like that curse is lifted. Of course, the next biggie (or smallie) will be 199, for the obvious reasons. After that, it'll be 184, because 185 was the weight after which there was no return (prior to 185, I was able to maintain or lose, but once I got to 185, I just kept on going)
Well, I sure have got a few number milestones ahead of me. I didn't realize that I had so many numbers on the scale that meant something to me. Interesting thread, Skinny, thanks for starting it!
192, 194 and 198 were magic numbers because they were all weights that when I hit in the past moved me to start eating better.
188 was a magic number because that's the magic weight where I feel better at or below it and feel bad above it. And it was the weight I started gaining from this last time.
155 is my next magic number, because I go to a normal BMI there.
I have a few also. 199 was very magical for reasons everybody has mentioned. Next, 174 will be special because it's what I weighed 9 months pregnant with my first, so I would like to be below a pregnancy weight. Then I want to weigh less than my DH, but he is making that harder because he is losing weight too and has gotten down to 165, so he is lowering the bar on me (or is it raising it?).
It's kinda funny, when I first started at 323 my magic number was 299 because i hadn't seen a 2 in so long that's kinda sad, but it is what it is! Now my magic number is 220, simply because when I started this thing, i'd found an old journal of mine from when i was about 22 years old, I'd been dieting since I was about 18 and it was all laid out there -- at 18 I was about 165, went down to 150, back up to 175, and so on and so on, til i hit 220 and thought i was the HUGEST person in the world - I see pictures of myself from then and i was so hot! LOL well DH thought so It's all about where your mind is at any give time. If i'd known then I'd be 100 lbs heavier some day I'd never have believed it :O ergh I'd love to go back to that 18 year old girl and knock the first diet book out of her hands!!!
I would love to say 125 (been 9 years now since I saw that number) but that's my ultimate goal. So I'm going to say 150 cuz it's been almost 5 years since I was 150ish and I did meet my DH The evil scale has been creeping up ever since.
My magic number was 169. Really just getting into the 160's. Everything else still made me feel like I was the fat chick; once I got into the 160's it felt like I weighed what "normal" people weighed. It made me feel like I blend in to the crowd.
WOW! You guys are all so great in your replies! Funny how no matter what the number is we can all relate. Why is it that we have these numbers that we can't seem to get past? Crazy!
You all were inspiring in your posts - can't believe how successful you all are on your weight loss - congrats!! and Trazey I have to say that I too have looked at pictures of myself and thought I looked huge, only to gain weight and look back at them again and think I actually looked pretty good in the picture. Sure would be nice to posses a realistic perspective! I remember being told as a child/adolescent that I needed to lose wight and I look back at that girl and see she's exactly the right size. Wish I could have seen it then!
215 is probably mine. it's when I was my thinnest (and at 6'1", I wasn't so terribly overweight). It will be great if I get to goal which is 170, but 215 will be magical.
231 - I remember being this weight for a while, but when I see pictures, I was not as huge as I was in my mind! Also it'll put me in a size 15, which means I can shop in all regular stores!
199 - for obvious reasons
163 - the weight I was in high school, also my goal weight.
For now I am trying to focus on trying to get OUT of the 250's!!
) years has been about 215 at the very least, but then I always balloon up. If I can make it down to 213 I will feel like that curse is lifted
. Of course, the next biggie (or smallie
) will be 199, for the obvious reasons. After that, it'll be 184, because 185 was the weight after which there was no return (prior to 185, I was able to maintain or lose, but once I got to 185, I just kept on going
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scale has been creeping up ever since. 
