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    Non Scale Goals

    Posts: 31 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Does anyone have non scale goals? I mean I have a weight goal on MFP, but it's really just to make sure I'm not eating to many calories. My real goal is pant size, waist size, and body fat%. I figure the scale number doesn't matter since body composition can mean that 130 looks healthy on someone with low body fat, but pretty chubby on someone with high body fat. I want to look good and be healthy, not have the scale say a number I like to see! Does anyone else do the same?

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      Absolutely - I care far less about the numbers on the scale than I do about building strength, and fitting in to my clothes better. I'd be happy to remain the weight I am if it meant that I had a lot more muscle, and was fitting in to a size (or two) smaller.
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      Goal jeans. And dress :D
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      Tacklewasher wrote: »
      10K in an hour and a 1/2 marathon without dying.

      There was a guy the day I did my first 5k, who did the 10k race in 40 minutes. I was dumbfounded.
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      MelanieCN77 wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      There was a guy the day I did my first 5k, who did the 10k race in 40 minutes. I was dumbfounded.

      There's one guy who does our parkrun (5K) in ~17 minutes. I'm happy being under 30.
    • Posts: 3,574 Member
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      I am going to ride my bike in the TD Bank Five Boro Bike Ride this year in New York City. That's a 40-mile bike ride. I have ridden well over 20 miles on my bike while being at this current wait but I am going to be at least 25 lb lighter when we do this in May. I want to do it and thoroughly enjoy it and not feel like I'm dying the whole time LOL

      I also have schools for the weight machines at the gym. I know serious weight lifters do not count the machines as anything but they are a starting point for me. I am hoping to get from 20 lb to 50 lb on the shoulder press. Currently I am doing a hundred and thirty pounds on the leg press very easily I'm bumping it up to 1:50. I am hoping that by the end of the year I can do 250 on the leg press.

      Then at some point I am going to hire personal trainer to teach me weight lifting. I don't want to become a bodybuilder at all and do competitions like some people I know... LOL. I just want to make my body the best looking body I can.
    • Posts: 1,001 Member
      I've been signed up to do a triathalon in May (never even done a 5k and the running part of the tri is 6.3k) so I'd like to be able to do that and get out in one piece >_<

      Also I'd love another couple of inches off my waist line, I've always stored my weight on my stomach so losing inches there is my main vanity goal, I couldn't care less if the scale stayed the same or even increased as long as the inches go down. :)
    • Posts: 3,788 Member
      Of course! I don't much care about the scale number and more about getting back into the clothes in the skinny side of my closet, run at least 3 10k races in 2018 and sign up for a half marathon after the 10k's. And the most important - feel confident naked. :D
    • Posts: 69 Member
      I don’t have a scale goal it’s just what I currently use to track progress but I want to be a size 8 -10 in pants, not have my thighs rub together so much in the summer that I can’t wear skirts cause of heat rash, I want to be able to life heavier weights and see the different muscles in my arms
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      I wan to squat 300, deadlift 400, and bench 135. I'm really not close lol.

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      My goal is to get my borderline high blood pressure down to normal, to increase my run speed and to get a resting heart rate in the mid 50’s.
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      Tacklewasher wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      There's one guy who does our parkrun (5K) in ~17 minutes. I'm happy being under 30.

      That's *kitten* crazy.
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    • Posts: 3,118 Member
      edited January 2018
      There’s a great thread in the success forums on NSVs that I read through for encouragement sometimes. I definitely think it’s worth checking out.

      ETA: It was right at the top! http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1275030/whats-your-most-recent-nsv/p1038
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      NSVs:
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      2. Get A1c down so I can get off Metformin.
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      Fit myself into a bikini this summer and feel good doing it.
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      To do a full back bend and to wear size 5 jeans
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      1/2 marthon! size 10 jeans. back bend!
    • Posts: 2,111 Member
      Body fat percentage is more important to me than weight. I also have a goal bikini for a vacation I’m taking in April - as long as it looks good I won’t care what I weigh wearing it
    • Posts: 138 Member
      To be able to run without losing my breath after a quarter of a mile.
    • Posts: 4,571 Member
      SwansonWafflepecker wrote: »
      WEIGHT IS A FORCE AND IS MEDIUM DEPENDENT.... HAS NOTHUNG TO DO WITH FATNESS

      Why you yelling?
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      SwansonWafflepecker wrote: »
      You have a stinky butt

      I just took a shower. It is very fresh, thank you.
    • Posts: 3,495 Member
      I have two goals that are realistic within the next 8 months. Commuting to and from school on my bike without having to rely on the bus to take me up some of the hills and there's a century ride in late June that I need to sign up for. Both are realistic but, almost amusingly, I have far less trepidation about the century (which is hilly).

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    • Posts: 83 Member
      Abilities and inches are my non-scale goals. More abilities and less inches. Less inches is pretty self explanatory. Abilities include handstands, impossibly difficult yoga poses, one arm pushups and pull-ups, pistol squats, running, climbing, jumping, etc. You get the idea.
    • Posts: 148 Member
      I have cellulite on my arms. Itz got tah GO!!!
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