I have been the same for about 18 weeks. I play with the same 1 or 2 lbs. Let me also add I DO stay on points, I DO drink my water and I rollerblade 5 miles, 3 -4 times a week!

Last week my Leader said, this is where you just might stay!

Ugh!!!

I am at the weight I have mostly been all my life, from high school til now. Just couldn't get baby weight off, she is 2 years old next week.

This week we had the leader that is at our location in the evening. She asked how long I had been on and how much I had lost. She said "you have to be close to goal, you look great" (she hasn't seen this butt in a bathing suit)! I said I have 15 more pounds according to WW. She said you need to get you Doctor to write you a note. She said she couldn't see me with 15 more off.

I can't either really, since I haven't been that low since probably grade school. I am just a big boned 5'4" person, who has skiied and done gymnastics since I was three, hence the big butt and legs!

O.K. now what do they mean by a Doctor's note. Does he have the authority to say what a good weight for me is?
He was shocked at how much I had lost since my last visit and said I didn't need to lose any more (he hasn't seen me in a bathing suit either!!!)

Help, I need advice !!!
Has anyone else done this and what weight do you choose???

Thanks,
Bunny

Yup, you just need a note from your doctor (I've heard letterhead or a prescription pad with his name are both ok) saying "ms so-and-so's goal weight should be x pounds"

Yep! In fact I am going to the doctors on Monday for the same thing, although for a different reason (health isseue). ANyway congrats on losing all the weight, and I am sure you look great! (even in a bathing suit!)

My doctor and I talked before I started weight watchers, and I am setting my goal weight at 150. That is actually acceptable to WW since it is the max weight someone 45 (which I will be in August) can weigh and be at goal. I am only 5 ft 5 in, but of German and Indian blood and when I had my bone density done, they said I had heavy bones. I know that from the other women in my family, mainly short but large framed, 150 will be a good weight for me. I won't be model slim, but I will be much healthier, etc. I know there are people who start at 150 and go down, but I think as we are all individuals, we set our own goals, not someone else's.

Elaine

Absolutely - when I originally joined WW years ago, my goal weight was 138 which I was never able to maintain. My doctor wrote a note saying that based on my physical condition and age, he set the goal weight at 150 - and WW used that number as my goal. Fortunately, I have been able to get down to 145 and hope to maintain between 145 and 150, where I am more comfortable. I will never be truly thin, but I am happier with this weight.

Hey there... I certainly hope that a doctor can set my goal weight for me because if I go strictly by what the charts say, there's no way I would be able to maintain my goal weight even if I was able to get to it in the first place. I believe that I was told once that based on my height (5'2") I should weigh about 110lbs. Well! I don't think I *ever* weighed 110lbs and if by some miracle I was able to get there now (right now I'm about 217lbs), it would be very difficult for me to maintain it. There has to be some common sense used when setting these goals - a combination of where you're 'supposed' to be, and what you can comfortably maintain. Because if it's totally unrealistic that you'll be able to maintain the weight once you get there, then there's no point in having that as your 'goal weight'. I would have no problem at all having my doctor write me a note saying that my goal weight should be higher than what the charts tell me I should be at, because once I reach that goal, I have to be able to stay there. And if it's too unrealistic, then I think you're worse off in the long run - imagine the pressure of trying to stay at an unrealistic weight - it would be worse than trying to get the weight off in the first place.

Christine

LilEngine
The weight range for 5'2" is 109-131. That 110# is an old estimation of "ideal body weight" - 100# for 5' and 5 pounds for each inch over for women. very unrealistic.

And even the WW weight range is flexible with your doctor's agreement.

That old estimate of "ideal" body weight haunted me for a long time. I was convinced in HS (when I weighed 132) that I needed to weigh 115. I was subsequently sure (when I weighed 180) that I needed to get to 126--got as far as 140 and "gave up." Joined WW at 217. When I reached my WW goal (which could have been as much as 141 but I chose 135), my mother (who had just commented on how I didn't need to lose any weight) said she was shocked that they let me set a goal that high. My doctor had seen me (for the first time) at 143 and said I didn't need to lose any more as far as he was concerned. Truthfully, sometimes I still succumb to thinking the number is too high--but if I didn't have a scale, I'd be happy with my weight. I suppose that's a reasonable definition of ideal weight for me.

Bumby, I know you are so right about that awful number haunting us. My "ideal" weight was 100# being 5'0". I think the last time I weighed 100# was when I was 12 years old (a long long LONG time ago). Throughout HS and college I weighed 120 and felt like such a tub. Then post-marriage the weight really blossomed, topping out at 172# - geesh. Now I'm struggling to get and stay at 128#. Boy, I'd love to be 120#!!!! And yet I don't think it would ever happen unless I got terribly ill, God forbid.

Okay, another one of my personal theories is that dramatic weight loss can lead to dramatic weight gain - it's not really that original. When I was in my last year of college (as a dietitian student, no less) I decided to try to get to that ideal weight and did succeed after being on a really low cal diet and a lot of exercise in losing 7#. That's as far down as I could go - i.e. 113#. Looked wonderful, BUT then the inevitable weight gain started and brought me way way past the old comfortable 120# mark. I still wonder if I hadn't joggled my body around that way if I wouldn't have gotten so heavy. I admit there was a lot of eating that helped, but still. I wonder...

I don't count weight loss the WW way as being dramatic. For my part it has been very slow, so I'm hoping it will stay off (and working hard toward toward that end.)