I was just fooling around with my sparkpeople account which I’ve had for about 2 ½ years and was looking at my graph that showed my weight loss..boy did I have unrealistic goals in the beginning. Needless to say, I’m about 40 lbs shy of where I should have been a year and a half ago…lol! My goal was to go from 234 to 120 in, what now, seems like the snap of a finger, 1 year…lol. How misguided I was. I must have thought that I was always going to lose 3-4 lbs a week, that I was never going to have weeks or months where I just gave up…
Hindsight!
Anybody else write down goals in the beginning that now you know were totally unrealistic?
I won't get to 120 in a year!
talk about ruining a girls dream
:P
Last edited by lupin; 11-21-2008 at 05:18 PM.
Reason: oops didnt see the burger bit in the pic
Well, you can lose 100 lbs in a year, but that means you have to cosistently lose 2 lbs a week, and I know for me, even working my butt of and staying 100% on plan, some weeks I lost nothing, or, sadly even gained.
What's funny is that there are some people here who lost 100 lbs in about a year. I see that and sometimes I think ... bah! why couldn't *I* do that.
It's taken me almost 2 years to get to and maintain in the 160s (which is a little over 70 lbs). I'm still hoping to lose another 30, but I know that it's going to be slow going and I am ok with that ... now. 2 years ago if I'd thought this is where I'd be in Nov 2008, I probably would have quit trying.
It's all such a learning process. And honestly although I want with everything in me to lose that last 30 lbs, if it never happens, as long as I keep eating healthily and exercising, I will consider myself SO much better off than I ever was.
Which, again, is a mindset I'd never have had 2 years ago.
ya, me too photochick, 2 and a half years to lose 60lbs, had I known that when I started I think I would have just given up. I guess having a lofty goal kept me in the frame of mind for a while, about a year, and then I realized somewhere that I may never be 120 lbs, but that doesn't mean I won't be healthy and fit. Right now, at 167ish lbs I feel healthy, and I'm in a size 11 jeans, something I havn't done since high school. I know the next 20 lbs is going to be insanley hard after getting to 165 and not being able to maintain that. But, no matter how slowley the weight comes off, even if I'm at it for anther 2 and a half years I'm not going to give up on my 100 lbs goal, and I'm going to be healthier and fitter then ever.
I can agree that pant sizes don't do the trick! I'm 170 and in a size 10. When I was 155 I was a very comfortable 8 occassional 6. People were asking if I was healthy or starving myself.. at 155! My body is heavier than it looks.
My unrealistic goal: I look at people that have super flat stomachs and think that someday i will look like them, but I won't because I have no torso and I've ruined any dream of a flat CUTE stomach for my future. I kno w it won't happen but I still like to dream
^ LOL, in that vein, my unrealistic goal would have to be having nice arms... I have terrible stretch marks all over my stomach/abs and arms, as well, and it's just never gonna happen. Stupid loose skin! I don't know if I could brave going under the knife to get it removed, but I know when I reach goal I'll be sooo tempted, heh.
Ps. Just thought I'd throw out there that I've lost 65 lbs so far in just 4 months (totally healthily, I *promise*), so 100 lbs in a year might not be totally impossible? Not that I at ALL think that I will lose 100 lbs in year, or that it's my goal to do so, heh, but I feel like it's still in the realm of possibility, y'know? Lol.
Amen to that. Right now I'd be happy to be losing at all.
Unrealistic goals? I used to think I should be able to wear a size 6 because my sister can. But at 150 lbs. I'm a size 10. I'll be thrilled if I get into a size 8. My body just isn't built to be a 6.
My initial weight loss goals were not unrealistic - I wanted to get back down to 125 pounds, which is the weight I was at before I got fat. I did it in 6 months, and that was the time frame I set for myself. I honestly never had issues with giving up, because the desire to lose the weight and fit the whole closet full of clothes I couldn't wear was stronger than the feeling of potential defeat
HOWEVER...
Once I got to 125 pounds, I STILL was NOT satisfied! I thought, "Well, I've already lost all this weight, so I KNOW I can lose MORE if I want to!" I started setting this secretly irrational goal of 115 pounds, which is the lowest possible healthy weight I could ever be at just under 5'7". I was determined to be as skinny as I could get away with being, and then...
...I discovered bodybuilding and realized I was out of my mind to want to pursue that pseudo heroin chic look!
There have been PLENTY of times when I have said I would lose 60lbs in 6 weeks. CRAZY! Mostly because I have dropped 10lbs in a week a few times, but this usually by working my azz off and starving myself...sooooo not the way to go. Generally, my goals are about 5 lbs a month...but I haven't lost weight in sooooo long, I'd take 2 lbs a month now.
My unrealistic goal: I look at people that have super flat stomachs and think that someday i will look like them, but I won't because I have no torso and I've ruined any dream of a flat CUTE stomach for my future. I kno w it won't happen but I still like to dream
I so don't do that..geez imagine if someone was to actually google roxy bikinis just to stare at their amazing tummies, despite the fact they too have stretch marks galore
I like visual aids, dreaming for my holiday next august (and a gorgeous tattoo I designed)
OH but wouldn't it be nice to be a size 10! I don't think I've been that since middle school, and I don't think it's unrealistic. But you're right it can be frustrating since so many sizings are so different. Why does the number drive me so crazy!
I won't get to 120 in a year! 
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