So I finally figured out my goal weight today. And this is a weight that I feel I won't constantly have to "fight" to be. Its something I am 100 percent confident I can reach and maintain. Right now I am 320 and my goal weight is 200. I'm not trying to be skinny I am just trying to be healthy and strong. I don't feel that I have to be 150under to be that. Another reason why I set my goal weight at 200 is because I don't feel like constantly trying to loose weight. What I mean is that I feel like I'll never be satisfied. Right now I wish I can be anything but 320. I wish I can go back to 3 years ago when I was 270. But when I was 270 I wished I could go back to 250....and so forth at each weight. I feel like I just always been struggling to be something that I am not, I can never just be happy. I am overweight, because I like to eat, because I like food! There is nothing more that I love than a good, tasty, meal. How can I change that part of myself? How in the world can I completly give up good food (which in my case is bad, ie. anything with carbs, sugar, and fat lmfao!) and still be happy with myself? Moderation right? Ok, so thats one part down. The next reason I decided for 200 to be my goal weight is because I'm lazy! I don't feel like being drenched in sweat and out of breath. I want to be able to exercise and feel comfortable and get some peace out of it! Yoga, ok so thats down pat. I figured 200 is a good number to be at. When I think of being 200 pounds (and I can't really remember when that was, I think it was middle school) I can't really think of a feeling. I think of nothing related to weight issues, and thats a thought I can live with!

I set my initial goal weight to something I thought I could happily maintain, too (130 pounds). But once I reached it, I thought..."man, I could totally go all the way with this". It's good to have a goal you feel you can attain and be happy with. And who knows, once you reach it, you might even be so excited that you'll keep going.

I set an interm goal, I have done this before and gone to the lowest I could go but was never able to maintain. I took a different approach this time, I took a comfortable weight for me which puts me in a size 8-10 and plan to stay here for a while, a few months and then I will re evaluate my situation if I choose to stay here fine if I choose to go lower I will give it a try. I am hopeing that this approach will lead me to long term improved health. While I understand that you don't want to get all sweaty you do need to keep moving more than you do now, go for a walk at your own pace, take the stairs, things like that. I am not one of those people who loves to excersice but I do know that it makes a big difference in my wieght loss and when I excersice My dad used to love to got to the gym and work out I think I missesd that gene but yes I do go and while I can't say it is funI can see the benefits. Good Luck

I never really set a goal weight but like you I was looking to be fitter and healthier. I made it further than I thought I would (173) and really loved being that weight. I could do more (and wear cuter clothes), but I thought I could maintain it. Then I gained back 20 pounds!

Anyway, maintaining weight loss is always tough, but those of us who were morbidly obese have extra challenges. I think knowing WHY we're doing this and setting goals that make sense for US are very very important! So great job!

Its good that you are setting a goal that you can be comfortable at. However, I do truly believe that maintenance is not much different to losing and there's really no end point to watching your weight. Maintenance is probably only a couple of hundred calories more per day and certainly just the same amount of exercise. Although I've not got to the point where I wish to maintain, I'm pretty close and reading the maintenance boards makes me realise that for most people maintenance takes just as much work as weightloss.

I know that this is where I failed in the past in not realising just how much work maintenance would be.

Kitty

That is where I have failed also KforKitty. And the reason I am so happy to be on these boards is that there are people on here that are maintainers. I need to know that it is possible to do this without yo-yoing for the rest of my life.

Puccikat, I think you have made a good goal for yourself. As long as you are healthy and feeling good about yourself that is all that matters. I remember weighing 200 pds and still turning a lot of heads and my skinny ***** friends getting angry about it... being happy with yourself is the key. I am just now working on getting to the loving myself again key.

We are here if you need us!!!