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Why is your goal weight your goal weight?

Crystal_Rudolph
Crystal_Rudolph Posts: 632 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Yep you read the question right! :happy: I want to know why the goal wieght you have chosen is the goal weight you are working for or already achieved!
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  • GreenGettingLean
    GreenGettingLean Posts: 252 Member
    Good question! Not only is it slightly on the lower side of a healthy weight for my height, it's also the weight listed on my driver's license. Ready for that weight to finally be accurate again!
  • bookworm03
    bookworm03 Posts: 88 Member
    I took my height then did 100lbs for the first 5 feet, then 5 lbs per inch above. I've weighed 10lbs above my goal weight before and felt I could have lost a little, so I feel its close to accurate.
  • TNAJackson
    TNAJackson Posts: 686 Member
    My goal weight is 165 pounds... 65 pounds under what I started from. The reason I chose this goal weight is because it's what I weighed when my husband and I got together in 2005.
  • Charger440
    Charger440 Posts: 1,474 Member
    Right now my goal weight is -100 pounds. The reason is, I feel if I have lost 100 pounds that I will have accomplished something. not to mention I will be 100 pounds lighter on my feet :)
  • jessica_mom343
    jessica_mom343 Posts: 61 Member
    My goal weight is the high end weight of a healthy BMI. Maybe I can get smaller than that...maybe not, but just being in the healthy range when right now I'm in the morbidly obese range would be AWESOME!!!!
  • Katefab26
    Katefab26 Posts: 865
    I just chose mine because it was right in the middle of my "ideal" weight for my height. If I get there and find it's not right for me then I'll do some adjusting.
  • Angelabec
    Angelabec Posts: 505 Member
    I picked a nice round number, just the 200lb to lose!! To be honest, I will probably need to go a little lower than that, but I thought I'd get the 200 out of the way first, and take it from there! :tongue:
  • LaurieEReid
    LaurieEReid Posts: 273
    It's the middle of my healthy range for my height based on the MFP BMI.
  • springtrio
    springtrio Posts: 429 Member
    As a runner, I feel the lighter you are the faster you are...and I want to be a pretty damn fast runner.
  • Ruder94
    Ruder94 Posts: 24 Member
    Because it is exactly 100 pounds less than where i started at! I figured that would be quite the goal to reach, on my own. Give me something to be proud of.
  • jamielise2
    jamielise2 Posts: 432 Member
    I actually went to the university and had my muscle to fat ratio tested in the bod pod. Then I took my lean muscle (with 0 fat) and multiplied it by 1.22 (because I want to be about 22% fat). May be bass ackward, but that's how I came to my goal.
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    My goal weight = My current lean body mass plus 20% fat. If my LBM goes higher, my goal weight will go higher too.
  • mermx
    mermx Posts: 976
    My goal weight when I started was 160lbs from 179lbs but now I have lost 14lbs I have made my goal 145lbs..then I may change it again...but for now my goal is 145lb
  • killerqueen17
    killerqueen17 Posts: 536 Member
    My goal weight is 115 because this was my natural weight a few years ago without even trying!! I'd like to get back to that, because it's where I feel comfortable. Also, because I've been there once I feel like it's reasonable to reach it again.

    ...With that said, I'm willing to re-evaluate my goals at 125 based on how I look and feel at that point. I am a few years older, and may end up with more muscle mass that would make my weight higher but my health and appearance would still be fine. :)
  • karensoxfan
    karensoxfan Posts: 902 Member
    Because at 140-150 lb., I don't feel "fat".
  • amylanphierd
    amylanphierd Posts: 20 Member
    Chose mine because it in in the "healthy" range for BMI. 39 down, 21 to go.
  • vanessaclarkgbr
    vanessaclarkgbr Posts: 731 Member
    A nice achievable (I hope!) number in the middle of my healthy BMI range. I'd love to enjoy clothes shopping again, but my BMI drives me more :-)
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    I actually went to the university and had my muscle to fat ratio tested in the bod pod. Then I took my lean muscle (with 0 fat) and multiplied it by 1.22 (because I want to be about 22% fat). May be bass ackward, but that's how I came to my goal.

    Jinx.
  • philOHIO
    philOHIO Posts: 520 Member
    My goal weight was my weight at my fitness peak, early 20's. I would be happy enough if I am just within 20 lbs. of it.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    I chose my goal weight because when I was that weight before that was when I felt and looked the healthiest.
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    I lost weight three years ago and was 180... I realized that I still had some "fluffy" areas and figured that alittle more off would be okay. I decided after putting back on 34 pounds I needed a new wake up call and joined MFP.

    I also knew that after I had my son at 20 I weighed 145 and the pictures show that I might have been too skinny. So I am planning on getting between 160 and 165 to maintain :wink:
  • Krys_T
    Krys_T Posts: 1,406 Member
    Mine is based on where I was about 6 years ago, being in great physical shape playing sports. I liked my physique then, and the amount of tone I had.
  • tickletickle
    tickletickle Posts: 147
    My goal weight is 65Kgs, because for a healthy BMI i need to be 67.7 and 65 sounds nice and rounded and i remember myself at this size and liked it.
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    Because it's right smack in the middle of a healthy bmi range and 100 lbs sounded like a good number to lose.
  • Ajan9500
    Ajan9500 Posts: 5
    My goal weight is 145 pounds. I chose this weight because its in a healthy BMI range
  • PurpleCoookie
    PurpleCoookie Posts: 334
    I don't know, 175 seems like a good match for me. Never seen onderland before but I'm sure it will be a great trip.
  • alyssamiller77
    alyssamiller77 Posts: 891 Member
    Mine was pretty much arbitrary. It was a round number that I figured would put me in the range of where I wanted to be body fat wise. I was pretty close. I'd still like to put on some additional muscle and take off some more fat in my mid-section but overall I'm happy where I'm at now and very excited to have countless people notice and make comments to me about it.
  • Rags2Righteous
    Rags2Righteous Posts: 200 Member
    My goal weight of 140 lbs on my 5 ft. 4 in frame was suggested to me by a nutritionist several years ago. I haven't weighed this since I was in high school, so I am quite curious as to what I'll look like at that weight now that I'm a grown woman. :-) I should add that I was a very physically active dancer at that time as well.
  • CuteEllais
    CuteEllais Posts: 39 Member
    I picked mine based on a rough estimate of what I weighed when I could wear my favorite jeans! It's technically about 25 lbs over my supposed BMI acceptable weight, but I'm a solid type person and the BMI is a joke to me. If I still want to lose more when I get to my goal weight, I will, if not, I won't.
  • NicLiving
    NicLiving Posts: 261 Member
    Well....long sigh.... I tried buying life insurance and was denied due to my high BMI. So I had to make some changes and it was time. So I started out the new year by making a serious committment to lose 1 pound a week for the entire year. So far so good =)
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