New goals for 2013

SuffolkSally

Just wondering what my realistic weightloss goals should be...

I've already reached my original target, which was 180lb (I'm 6' and 49 years old, and have lost 29lb in about 10 months).

Another 3lbs off would get my BMI below 24, which seems very do-able. I'd like to get below that but I don't want to discourage myself by keep resetting targets so that I never in fact meet them! Especially as when I try to figure a weight that I was ever happy at, I can't really remember one - I seem to have gone from superskinny to overweight without a happy medium!

But I have gone back through old photos etc and think that of the ones I'm happiest with, I weighed about 165/168 lbs, (when I match up medical records with the dates of events in the photos). However I was about 10 years younger! I do realise BMI isn't an appropriate tool for everyone and some dismiss it altogether, but for me it seems a pretty good guide (just for weight, not of course fitness).

I'm moderately active in general i.ie I'm not sitting about much, but not doing manual labour either, and I walk every day, and average of about an hour. However I don't workout as such, and I am conscious that I need to increase my exercise (I deliberately decided not to do so until I'd lost at least a chunk of weight, which I know wouldn't be everyone's advice, but that was my choice).

So now I'm not sure whether to eat at maintenance for a while and start more of an exercise regime (which would add yoga and heavier/more frequent weights), or whether to concentrate more on getting to a set weight goal, and be able to tick that as an achievement.

The ideal would obviously be both, but I struggle quite a bit with health issues including chronic fatigue and depression, and I'm not sure this is realistic for me - if I get seriously overtired it's hard to maintain eating properly and sets of a downward spiral. For the most part my diet is pretty good, btw - getting that way was the major reason for joining MFP in the first place.

Sorry this is such a rambling post - I feel I'm rather going round in circles with it it and would appreciate other perspectives...

angmarie28

with a ghood diet and exercise, you could be down to 160 or so by the end of the year

gpstrucker

I would say set a goal to be healthy and happy