This may sound weird but I don't. In the past I've said I want to be X weight by X time. This time I haven't set a time or a weight I want to be at. I feel like I've gotten much farther this time and a lot healthier. I feel like if I set and goal and don't reach it I get discouraged and just quit. My goal right now is to just be healthy!! Anyone else in the same boat?
I have my goal weight posted, and I am looking in the general direction of that number (the "normal" BMI for my height minus a few pounds of wiggle room) BUT if I don't look or feel healthy, I am not going to stick with it, and I'll go up or down accordingly.
You could say that I don't have a goal weight, or you could say I have more than 150 of them.
My goal weight is always my current weight, minus one pound. I try not to look further ahead than that.
I've always, in the past focused on my "failing to lose." Whenever the scale stalled or moved too slowly, I felt like I was failing. It felt like I might as well not even try, because there was no way I would ever be able to reach my goal.
That only makes sense if only the goal matters, and with weight loss that isn't true. Every pound matters, so although I'm not always succeeding at weight loss, I can always succeed at weight maintenance. There's never a reason to give up, because giving up doesn't just end the weight loss, it usually begins weight gain.
Even if I don't ever lose another pound, I'm still going to be committed to weight maintenance. I gained a lot of benefits from my 85 lb loss, and I'm not going to give those up by regaining.
I really don't have a set in stone goal weight. I want to be healthier and I know to do that the scale has to be moving in a downward direction. Other than that I guess I'll know when I get where I'm going.
That only makes sense if only the goal matters, and with weight loss that isn't true. Every pound matters, so although I'm not always succeeding at weight loss, I can always succeed at weight maintenance. There's never a reason to give up, because giving up doesn't just end the weight loss, it usually begins weight gain.
Even if I don't ever lose another pound, I'm still going to be committed to weight maintenance. I gained a lot of benefits from my 85 lb loss, and I'm not going to give those up by regaining.
This is really insightful. I really like the concepts expressed.
It ties in with the maintenance concept here that you're maintaining as soon as you've lost one pound and kept it off. It's really powerfully expressed. Thanks for stating this is such a thought-provoking way.
I should also state that I really don't know what my goal weight is. I think I picked 155 because it's at the top of normal weight and I was a number I could believe I could reach.
Like another poster, I remember a world when people were much thinner than they are today, and normal was, well, normal! I want to get back there again.
I don't have a goal weight either. I just want to find a place where I am both comfortable and healthy. right now, I'm comfortable, but I'm not healthy.
I don't really have a "set" goal weight. If I like how I look/feel at a certain weight I'll stay there, same goes for if I get to 150 and want to lose more. It just all depends really.
Other than a laser focus desire to get under 300 no real goal in mind. I like being curvy and not we'll just kind of continue and see what happens after 299
I don't have a goal weight either. I set one on my ticker just so I could have a ticker. When I started on this journey I looked at losing 20 pounds because my doctor promised me that my knees would feel better if I lost 20 pounds. After the first 20 pounds, I looked at 5 pound goals.
I had/have no time restrictions because I lose slowly. Kaplods has posted that she believes that people often give up not because they aren't succeeding, but because they aren't succeeding fast enough. That describes several of my weight loss attempts. So I just took the time factor out of the equations.
I may never get to a "healthy" bmi, but my life and my health is already greatly improved. Maintaining at my current weight would still be an accomplishment.
I don't, even though I put one on my profile. I know I'm never going to be model thin, which is okey-dokey by me. But I gained my weight VERY gradually, about 10 pounds a year for most of my life - so I dont really know what weight is going to suit me best and leave me feeling healthy enough to live the life I want to. All I can say is that its not what I weigh today
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I have lots of goals big and small. My overall goal is to be healthy, happy, and to have a healthy baby. And I do have an ideal target weight, but the reality is that the last time I was close to that all too familiar BMI zone I was maybe... ummm 11 yrs old. SO I'm trying to think of this weight loss journey like school. The overall goal is to graduate but there are smaller goals to achieve along the way, tests to ace, projects to do, lessons to learn...I'm less concerned with a perfect GPA and more concerned with simply graduating and being proud of my accomplishments. So for now I'm just trying to get through my Freshman year (a.k.a. first 50lbs.)
I have a goal weight range more than a specific weight. My goal weight is listed as 175lbs for simplicity's sake, but once I get there, I plan on losing an additional 5-7lbs so that I have a buffer zone in which to maintain my weight.
So yes, I have a goal weight, but a very loose and flexible one.
Does anyone NOT have a goal weight?
