Did you change your goal weight once you got there?

a_candler

Yep I started at 192 and first goal was to get back to 170 (pre-pregnancy weight) and when that happened so quickly I set it again for 160. Well even that happened fairly easy so settled at 150. I've been holding here for a couple months now and am ready to shave a couple more lbs off and then really start som strength training.

kdz526

When i started a few years ago, I had the goal of 135 put in, but mentally I was all...160 would be awesome...after losing 40some lbs and getting to 160, i stopped losing and was pleased. After 2 years bouncing around in the 160's, I have decided that its not enough and am back on track for hitting 135. When I get there and maintain that, I will go from there. I can't know what I will do till I achieve it. I do know that I want a body fat of around 25%, so once i hit weight, I will probably try to achieve that regardless of weight. I do some weights but probably not enough.

susiebabygirl

Yes, I've reached my original goal and I'm not 100% happy (although much happier) so I plan to lose a small bit more while staying within the healthy weight for my body type of course.

McCloud33

Yes. I started at 235 and roughly 30%bf. My goal was more BF related than weight and I wanted to get down to 10%bf, so doing the math my LBM at the start was about 166. Using that and 10%bf you get roughly 185lbs which also turns out to be an even 50lbs lost so that was my initial goal. What I didn't count on was LBM not only being muscle and organs, but also water weight etc...as I got closer to that 185lb goal I realized that I was much closer to 17-18%BF instead of the 10-12% I was hoping for. A year later and I'm down to 170lbs and about 13-14%bf so I still need to go another 5-10lbs down.

klbrowser

I hit my goal weight today, 150 pounds. I'm 5ft 6 and started at 182 pounds. Now that I'm here, I discover that my upper body looks smaller, but my hips and abdomen are pretty close to the size they were when I started, which is still too large for my frame. I have arthritis in most of my lower limbs that I am trying to not aggravate with excess weight, so I think I should try to lose some more, but I don't know how much more. The BMI chart says I could lose another 30 pounds and still be in the normal weight range, but that might be a bit ambitious for me. I guess when my hips and abdomen are measurably smaller I will say I'm done.

CSARdiver

cwolfman13 wrote: »

No because I never had a specific weight in mind. Body weight is made up of many things, not just fat and I think people tend to forget that.

My goal was more BF% and composition related. Also, a lot of people who think they need to keep dropping Lbs don't...it often is simply a matter of body composition for which incessant dieting isn't going to fix.

This is where I am ending up. I will change my goal weight from 220 to 205, but I'm more concerned now with endurance performance. The good habits have become routine, so I'm converting more to maintenance mode - the weight loss is just an added bonus as it is easier to run without 20lbs of azz.