How did you pick your goal weight?

Sammileann1314

Was it just a number you wanted to always be? A BMI calculation? Or do you have several milestones you want to hit and a big goal overall?

I want to see if other people have a better way than picking a number just because it sounds good .

I started at 250 in June last year right before I gave birth. Now I’m weighing in about 194. I’m not sure what my big goal weight should be because all I’ve ever said is I just want to be healthy.

quiksylver296

I've readjusted my goal weight several times.

It was "what I weighed in high school". Then it rose a little. Then I started lifting heavy weights. Now it's 20 pounds more than my high school weight.

Ultimately, when I see in the mirror what I want to see - whatever I weigh at that point is my goal weight.

lx1x

BMI.. just below the overweight line..

etherealanwar

My goal is getting back to the weight I was in high school as I was very comfortable in that range.

LyndaBSS

My ultimate goal is 150. I had been 148 before I got sick and felt good. Today my mini goal is 200. After that, every 5 pounds.

grimendale

It's a moving target. I'm mostly interested in getting my body fat percentage down to a healthy level, so I'm adjusting my target weight as I go to approach the desired end.

cwolfman13

Never had one. Never really cared about some arbitrary number. I think people get way to fixated on a number.

sweetbe44

I’m in the same boat. I’ve never been a healthy weight that I can remember so I have no frame of reference for what that would look like on me. I picked 145 because it’s the high end of the healthy BMI range for my height, but right now I can’t even wrap my head around that number. I’ll see how I feel as I get closer to it and adjust if necessary.

cmriverside

Moving target.

At 220 I just wanted to be in a healthy BMI - so 163 lbs.

At 163 I still didn't like what I was seeing. 155 was okay for a while.

Then I decide to get back to the weight where I felt good and could maintain without effort. Now I'm at 140-145 and happy there (21 BMI)

Panini911

congrats on your progress so far!

It changed with time for me. first was to get into a healthy BMI (normal weight). Then to the weight i got to the first time i lost weight (like 135? not sure). then i hit that and it was going well so i went for mid-way of the healthy BMI for my height. and well i just kept readjusting which is probably not the smartest.

dloewen17

I was in the best shape of my life my senior year of high school and looking at pics from then I decided to make that my target weight which was 168. My 4 closest buddies are pretty athletic and still play lots of sports and they are all in the 170 pound range so I wanted to fit in I guess. I hated being the fat one.

sijomial

My favourite adult weight was my initial goal.

Turned out to be a little too high but then just experimented in a series of small downward steps until I was happy how I felt/performed/looked. After a while that lower weight became a bit too low to maintain easily so came back up a little again. As I change or my fitness targets change my goal weight changes too.

Most of the time that has turned out to be near the top of the BMI Healthy range.

thanos5

bmi. but i'm at the lower end of 'healthy' (5' 11", 148lbs), so my doctor yells at me to stop losing weight. but since i still have fat, i don't wanna.

HoneyBadger302

My body was pretty happy in the 126-130 range (so right around 128) for the first half of my adult life. When I had active jobs, that was a pretty easy weight for me to maintain with reasonable course corrections.

Desk jobs and overall activity dropping, and not adjusting my eating, weight crept up. Heaviest was around 163-166. Lost some from there, fluctuating between 148-158 depending on my dedication. Lowest purposeful loss was down to about 140, increased my workouts and got up to about 145, was slowly dropping when a bad injury sent me on another spiral - lost a lot initially with the injury (some muscle, some weight), but ended up gaining back most of my losses (I knew it, too, but didn't care at the time).

Back to losing it again, my goal is still around 128, but allowing for a few pounds difference due to focused weight training which may move that up a few pounds - so right now the goal is to get to into the 130s and just access as I go. I figure I will likely land closer to 132ish.

sardelsa

My goal changes depending on my body composition, but overall it has been around the same range my whole adult life.

KNoceros

I went for a BMI based number. I started at about 27.5 and have been maintaining 22.0-22.9 for about a year. I’m pretty althletic and do a fair bit of sport.
I may revise the bottom of the range to 21.5 but wouldn’t want to go any lower than that.

kristen8000

When I was at my highest weight (193) my goal was to get into the healthy BMI range (Under 179). Then I decided I could do better. Over the years I've learned that I'm at my best between 150 - 155 (but have dropped as low as 140). I think it's a case of trial and error. Like most things.

yweight2020

165 lbs is my goal, I chose that weight because it's the last healthy weight I've been as an adult and I felt fit and healthy. Still not there yet, but I'm working in it.

meganpettigrew86

I want to be 58kg to 60kg so I can fight at 55kg. I'm sick of being the shorter person in a fight.

RelCanonical

I just picked somewhere in the middle of my healthy bmi range as a guideline. My original goal was the top of the bmi range, but when I hit that I decided I wanted to lose more, so I moved it for this round (I gained weight back in between lol).

Kita1818

My senior year high school weight was a guide, but not a goal. I’m not a girl, I’m a woman. Thank G-d! And i’m also a mother in my late 30s. So I added 5 pounds to my HS weight and set it as a goal. Random? Yeah, you could say that. But achievable, as I weighed as much as an adult before pregnancy.

Kupla71

I decided to aim for a weight that seems doable at the high end of a healthy bmi and I have felt good at that weight in the past. About 140. I need to lose 20 pounds to get there. When I get there I will reassess. It’s about 20 pounds heavier than I was in high school.

ketsuban25

What I weighed when I was 21 which is coincidentally right in the middle of normal and overweight.

JenSD6

I haven't set an ultimate goal weight, I've just been trying to focus on each mini goal. I should probably eventually aim to be in the 140's, but it feels so far away. For now, just getting from 185 to below 180 is what I'm working towards.

umbramirror

I think that when an individual has a lot of weight to lose, starting with a goal of being within a healthy BMI range is a good foundation. It helps calculate a semi-objective frame of reference. After a target BMI is reached, then it can be beneficial to reassess a new goal weight from there if necessary since BMI is a very limited reference, and in my opinion, should only be one factor to consider in an overall assessment of health.

In my case, I started by keeping a healthy BMI in mind to reach, though in the back of mind I knew that this would simply be a preliminary point. After I reached that weight, I set a new goal based on my knowledge of how I had felt and looked at previous weights. My goals kept shifting once I reached them because I would gather how I felt with my new body, and analyze if I wanted to make any adjustments. I have finally reached a weight in which I feel healthy and fit and am enjoying experimentation with maintenance.

Lenala13

prior to having two kiddos (when I was working out 5+ days a week), I was sitting around 140-145 and was happy with the way I felt and looked. That's my goal and we'll see how my post-baby body looks at that weight once I get there, and then adjust up or down as needed.

chelny

You all make me feel old... I honestly don't remember what I weighed in high school! I remember I always felt like I was too fat. Maybe I was and maybe I wasn't. But I certainly wasn't as heavy as I became later as an adult. I guess my goal is based on my previous weight loss, when I got down to 150 around age 30. When I get there, I'll see how that feels & looks. I'm thinking 140 may be better, as it would put me solidly in the healthy BMI range. I'd like to get my BMI actually tested with calipers or whatever, to see if that is accurate for me.

bjkoziara

I've never been a healthy weight (yep, even as a baby) so initially I just picked a "healthy weight" for my height which was 140 because I have nothing to go on. Even at my thinnest in high school I was about 190.

I've since readjusted and right now, my goal is 310, because that's 50 lbs down from starting. Right now im 337 so I'm damn near halfway there. Once I reach that goal, my next goal is to get under 300. Then it'll be to get back to the weight I got down to last time I successfully lost weight, which was 270. Then it'll be to get below 250. You get the idea. I'll stop when I feel like I have lost enough.

QoLmatters

BMI

smantha32

Sammileann1314 wrote: »

Was it just a number you wanted to always be? A BMI calculation? Or do you have several milestones you want to hit and a big goal overall?

I want to see if other people have a better way than picking a number just because it sounds good .

I started at 250 in June last year right before I gave birth. Now I’m weighing in about 194. I’m not sure what my big goal weight should be because all I’ve ever said is I just want to be healthy.

I wanted to be a weight I weighed in the past. Back when I was thin and thought I was fat.
I was dumb about things in my 20s.

NovusDies

Ask me when I get there and I pick it. I am not sure when that will be other than my trusty spreadsheet tells me on my present course I will not be in goal range in the next 234 days (end of second year) which is as far as care to calculate right now.