Hi!
I'm wondering what I should set my goal weight at.
Currently I'm over 200 lbs (which is new to me, I just gained 30 in the past month because I quit smoking!) and I am 5' 6". I'll also be 45 in just a few weeks--though I'm not sure that makes a difference as to what my goal weight should be.
The last time I lost weight, in my 20's, I got down to 135lbs. I worked out 4x a week with low impact areobics and did 2 stretching classes a week (which I taught). I didn't do any weight training at the time. I am fairly fine boned. People usually didn't believe me when I told them I weighed "as much" as I did. I maintained that weight, about 135-140 for about ten years until I became pregnant.
Would 135 --a lean, mean 135 be reasonable this time around--or not? I just can't see how the activity I maintained as a single 20 something "translates" into the lifestyle of a married with kids forties-something housewife. It doesn't of course--so I'm wondering if the goals need be different if indeed the methods must be. (I hope that made sense. It's late. I've a touch of mid-life insomnia tonight!)
I'm all for reading up on the issue and figuring it out--so any suggestions or links would be welcome.
Thanks.