How will you know your done losing weight?

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  • Joey2283
    Joey2283 Posts: 12
    For me I think my motivator is how my body looks. After being injured and not being able to play baseball or football anymore, I have seen my body change rapidly. I'll know I'm where I need to be when people start saying "you're built like a brick *kitten* house again"lol.
  • brainfreeze72
    brainfreeze72 Posts: 180 Member
    I set mine to my weight (scale goal) from 6 years ago when I met my husband, before thyroid issues and having a chef cook my meals and no longer running around like crazy as only a single mother of 3 children does.... I reached that a week ago but had been re-evaluating my goal as I approached it...knowing I was almost there. Now I'm shooting for a lower weight to finish getting rid of the fat around my thighs and butt (visual). I know I'll be too bony then, I'm kinda tall (5'8") and I've got big bone structure with wide shoulders and hip bones so I need some muscle to balance that out and look "fit" not "scrawny". I plan on re-evaluating until I'm comfortable with the scale and what I see in the mirror (naked or otherwise). I don't go by what other peoples opinions are though. Nobody told me I was getting fat but everybody seems to want to tell me I'm getting too skinny.
  • hmadrone
    hmadrone Posts: 129 Member
    This is definitely a question I've been asking myself. I'm trying to swap fat for muscle more than strictly lose weight (I'm just a few ounces overweight atm) this time. I want to be lean and tight and strong.

    The downside is that leanness emphasizes stretch marks. After 12 pregnancies and 4 kids, I have a LOT of those. Also, there's a point where my bust goes. I wouldn't mind being smaller there, but the wrinkles are not at all attractive.

    I have friends who worry about their faces getting haggard when they lose too much weight, but thus far, I've only made it to gamine.

    So: I look good at 157, still have a decent bust, but still have bulges around the belly and hips. At 152, I have lost the bulges, gained a thigh gap, still have a little layer around the chest and belly, and lost quite a bit in the chest. At 148, my hips, belly, and legs look awesome, but my husband starts talking about my poor little breasts instead of admiring them.

    So we shall see.

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