You know, this is something that I've been thinking about a LOT lately: whether or not my goal weight is a good one. Quite honestly, I didn't have the slightest idea what the heck I was doing when I picked my goal weight... I've seen a great deal of the members on here explain that they chose their goal because they remember looking/feeling great when they weighed that much at some other point in their lives, but I have never, ever weighed this little in my entire (post-age-9-or-10) life, so I am absolutely clueless as to whether or not 150 lbs will look good on me... Or if my body can even reach that weight at
all!
When I first joined this site and was choosing my "goal weight," the whole thing felt completely and utterly preposterous--I would think to myself
Okay, I'll just aim for the first weight where I'll have a normal/healthy BMI (which would have been 164 lbs), but then, even the idea of me ever weighing
164 lbs seemed like a complete fantasy--not something I'd ever actually achieve! So I just felt like,
Well, as long as I'm already dreaming, I might as well set my sights even *more* ridiculously high! For a woman of my height, 150 lbs is not just the bare minimum to be healthy--it's not TOO ambitious by any means, and there are even a decent number of members on here who
start around that weight, heh, but since I had no basis whatsoever for choosing it as a goal weight, I
definitely wonder whether I'm being unrealistic. I guess only time will tell!
Of course, it's also 100% possible that I'll get to 150 lbs and
still not like the way I look, in which case I guess I'll have to lower my goal... Sheesh! Goal weights--they can drive a gal nuts!