I realized I don't ever remember being my goal weight
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I can remember being almost my goal weight and feeling fat. That was 25 years and two babies ago. I have to keep in mind that when (not if!) I reach my goal weight, I won't have the same body I did back then. Don't get me wrong, I know I'll look and feel great, but, alas, my 47 year old body will never look 22 again.
But no matter...I won't be rocking any teeny tiny bikinis on the beach, but my 47 year old body is going to look GREAT in size 6 jeans!0 -
I hear ya! I haven't been anywhere near my goal weight in 20+ years. Started gaining weight quickly my senior year of high school due to a myriad of factors and had some success here and there with diets through the years but I'd never gotten as close to goal as I am right now. It's pretty exciting!0
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I can remember it barely because it was when I was eighteen (I'm 35 now). I did a series of pictures at that time, and those images have haunted me for years as to how I should and want to look. In fact, I haven't allowed anyone to take a picture of me in over 5 or 6 years because I don't want to see how much different I look.0
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I know I was my goal weight (128) at one point, because I was very underweight for most of high school (about 115-ish pounds) and looked/felt horrible. I used college as an excuse to gain weight/try to fix my disorded thinking and went from 115 to 160. So somewhere in there I hit 128 but don't remember it. This time I'm going to enjoy it0
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I was at my goal two years ago and for most of my adult life, so I definitely remember it. What I don't remember is gaining the weight. It's like I went from a 6/8 to a 14 overnight. It took 18 months, so I know it was not overnight, but it seems like it was. I still don't understand how I could have gained 7 inches each on my waist and hips in that timeframe and not noticed.0
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My goal weight would put me about a decade back, probably more. However, I won't actually fit into the same clothes as back then, because my body composition has changed. It will be a completely new territory for me as well.0
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I think there are a few people here that don't remember their goal weight.. me included.. I have been bigger since middle school so it is hard to judge how that will reflect to the weight I want to be now.0
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Reading your post, the same is true for me. I don't remember my goal weight either. Maybe because when I was that weight, I never got on a scale and people related to me in a way that my weight was never an issue! :frown:0
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It's funny, a friend and I were just talking about this. I haven't weighed this little since I was in middle school. I can remember as a freshman in high school wearing a size 14/16 (now I am in a 6/8 almost half of what I was).
I can remember going to friends houses for slumber parties and they would all be trying each others clothes on and I couldn't because I was too big. Well now I could, lol.0 -
It's funny, a friend and I were just talking about this. I haven't weighed this little since I was in middle school. I can remember as a freshman in high school wearing a size 14/16 (now I am in a 6/8 almost half of what I was).
I can remember going to friends houses for slumber parties and they would all be trying each others clothes on and I couldn't because I was too big. Well now I could, lol.
Guess what - I bet most of them wouldn't be able to try on YOUR clothes now
I was always the biggest in my class - I surpassed my weight before I even started weighing myself when I was a kid (I'm thinking 12 or so). Now, alot of the kids that were "skinny minnies" in school - they have the beer bellies and are overweight. I find being the healthiest you now totally surpasses what it would have felt like at 16.0 -
The last weight I really remember is where I'm at now, and I still have 20+lbs to go to get to my goal weight, which I have no knowledge of.
I only ever remember being/feeling fat... even when struggled with anorexia a bit in HS/early college. The only way I can see my body is with a belly hangover and plenty of extra on my upper thighs... I still have no vision of what these last 20 or so lbs will do to change that.0 -
It's a crazy feeling! I actually had a similar feeling not that long ago. I'm still not at my GW but that's because I've adjusted it down twice. I was able to lose way more than I thought I could!!! Currently, I am 14lbs lighter than I remember myself ever being in high school. Even when I was a 6th grader I was still 15+ lbs heavier and probably 4 inches shorter! It's definitely an amazing feeling and I'm glad you're on the journey to get to your "moment"!
It's also nice now because I don't find myself comparing my body to others now. I don't feel like I have to hide my body anymore and it's a fabulous feeling!!!0 -
Same with me!! I don't remember the in between. I remember I was 125-130 when I was 18-19 and then the next thing I remember I was 150 at 21. But I didn't own a scale at the time. Now I am a freak about weighing myself everyday! lol0
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My current goal weight is 150 but once I get there I might just want to go lower. I was 130 when I got pregnant at 19 and weighed 150 when I had my daughter. Five years later when I got pregnant with my son I weighed 145. After a very unhappy marriage and nasty divorce I got up to 205. After my divorce, being single and finally meeting Mr. Right I got down to 168 which I thought I looked GREAT!!! Well fast forward nine years of being truly happy and but having my gall bladder out and a hysterectomy and I was at my highest weight ever 212. I actually might have been more but I stopped weighing myself. I have no idea what 150 will look like on me. I am excited, scared and determined all at the same time. Who knows maybe I will get to that pre-pregnancy high school weight of 130!!0
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Like many people on here, I've alway been overweight for as long as I can remember, so all through high school and what I can remember of primary school but I never used to weigh myself, just knew I was fat. So I've never been a healthy weight nor so when I finally reach my GW it will be like a new person has been born, not that ive never seen, nor thought I would ever see.
When I finally reach my goal im not sure how I will look or how I will reacted when I get there beacause ive never been there. Its going to be a massive phyiscal and psycological shock to me, I can't wait!0
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