Weight?? Body fat?? Size??

AllNewMelanie

How do you figure your goal? Are you going to a certain size? Do you care about weight? Is it your BMI? Your body fat%

Mine was weight but I am thinking maybe just BF and size?? I just don't know...hard when you get closer to your original goal weight and it moves way to slow....

jzammetti

Initially my goal was a weight. but now that I am at that weight, my goal is a lower BF% (currently 24% - goal is 19%).

fittiephd

I don't have a specific goal anymore. I'm happy with my body how it is and really only care about increasing my lifts at the gym. Oh actually I guess one goal I have left is to get some visible abs . It'd be nice to lower my bf % a little more but I don't have a specific number in mind.

k8eekins

How do you figure your goal? Are you going to a certain size? Do you care about weight? Is it your BMI? Your body fat%

Mine was weight but I am thinking maybe just BF and size?? I just don't know...hard when you get closer to your original goal weight and it moves way to slow....

1 Weight (for I was huge) => 2 Body fat percentage (to consciously avoid the danger zone) => 3 Targeted size(s) (some for work purposes)

ricklperry

I have a weight goal. Once I'm close ill figure out if a bf goal is needed.

deksgrl

Initially my goal was weight. But, weight is just a number that nobody knows but me, and the doctor's office..... so who cares. I'm more concerned with body fat %. A lower body fat % will translate into smaller in size. And being healthier and stronger. Win/Win.

willdob3

I don't have a set goal. No weight, BF% or size is going to miraculously be "IT."

For anyone interested in long-term success there is no point at which one is "done." I'm making lifestyle changes that I plan to continue forever.

EmilyEmpowered

My goal was always a specific weight. But I didnt lose the weight the right way, and in hindsight which I had done more reading earlier in my journey. Now, my goal is BF% of 20%

pastryari

My goal is getting stronger and having a bangin' body.

MidwestAngel

My goal is getting stronger and having a bangin' body.

5n0wbal1

More a size goal than a weight goal. When I can look in the mirror and feel comfortable with what I see, I know I've gotten where I want to be. Also, when I impress my husband with how I look. I just have a weight on here because when I was that weight, I was that perfect size.

LillyLove28

I started out with triglycerides(health issues), than weight, but now that I started a more intense workout I do check my BF for health reasons. My main goal at this moment is to improve cardio fitness, it feels so good to be able to jog!

william622

when all of my abs show lol

SJackson50

My goal is getting stronger and having a bangin' body.

^^This for sure. Initially I had both a weight and size goal, but they clearly don't match! Twenty years ago, I was the same size, but 20 pounds lighter due to having zero muscle mass :-) Now, going for a specific size and ability to keep it!

smantha32

I'm going for a size... but if my body fat gets lower I'm happy too.

Sunny_fit4life

Personally I feel like body fat % is probably the best goal, but it's not exactly convenient for me to have it accurately measured.
I used to have a goal weight based on a BMI that was in the middle of the healthy range, but I don't trust using BMI to determine what weight would be healthy for me since it doesn't account for body composition.

Basically I'm watching the scale and taking measurements because it's conveninet, but I think my concrete goals are more based on clothing size. Currently I'm in a 16 and trying to get to a 12.
When I get to a 12, if I'm still overweight I will decide where to go from there, but I don't really care to be smaller than an 8. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I just want to get healthy and don't care about "thin".

SteelySunshine

I want to lose enough to be able to run. But, I have to be able to walk before I can run. I can walk a bit more now. The most I could walk last year was around the block, I am up to 45 minutes at a time now.

socioseguro

My objective is to be healthy for the long run. This is a journey. Choose your battles carefully. Trying to optimize all at once does not work for me.
I have achieved my weight objective after 15 months of a healthy living journey that includes both successes and reversals. Yay ! Now for the next mountain, Body Fat.

persistantone

Fit, healthy, hot.

o2bADyer

Good question! I think that it was initially about the ideal "weight" but now it is about my BF% that I want to get down to and the size that I want to wear that makes me feel better. I'm wearing a size 8 now and that feels pretty darn good! :bigsmile:

deadmittens

I care about not being fat anymore lol. I would like to be in a healthy BMI or at least under 200lbs

Sunny_fit4life

My objective is to be healthy for the long run. This is a journey. Choose your battles carefully. Trying to optimize all at once does not work for me.

Great point! One step at a time is a good way to make permanent change.

jessicaj22

Define Huge... From what I saw on your page, your highest weight was 142... What does that make me? Obese?

Congrats on losing 161 pounds though..

How do you figure your goal? Are you going to a certain size? Do you care about weight? Is it your BMI? Your body fat%

Mine was weight but I am thinking maybe just BF and size?? I just don't know...hard when you get closer to your original goal weight and it moves way to slow....

1 Weight (for I was huge) => 2 Body fat percentage (to consciously avoid the danger zone) => 3 Targeted size(s) (some for work purposes)

k8eekins

jessicaj22:
Define Huge... From what I saw on your page, your highest weight was 142@1 Weight (for I was huge) => 2 Body fat percentage (to consciously avoid the danger zone) => 3 Targeted size(s) (some for work purposes)... What does that make me? Obese?

Congrats on losing 161 pounds though..

Prior to being recommended I join MFP, I was a whopping 297 lb (September 2012). Joined MFP when I'd weighed 287 lb (within the month of November). 142 lb as you'd spotted on my profile was of a different progressive facet of my de-fatting phase ~ Phase 1, knowing that I was entering into the average weight category NOT where I'd started ~ obese. I'd chosen to have it there as a reminder to me of what is normal weight, before I'd started working towards my working weight.

Txracy

My goal isn't a weight, since you can line up several different people who weigh the same, and see drastic differences in their body. Clothing size? God, they're so different just between brands that it doesn't make sense to base my goals on something that isn't even a constant!

My goal is to be better, faster, stronger runner.

Killer abs wouldn't hurt either, of course.

Cait_Sidhe

I used to care about weight. I don't anymore, I lift heavy weights, so I'm going to end up weighing more for my height anyway. I have no way to accurately measure my body fat right now, so I'm not going by that. I would go by measurements, but I don't really know what's normal/attractive for my height. My current measurements are generally considered ideal, but I'm very short (4' 10 1/2") so it looks bigger on me. Clothing size varies so very widely depending on maker, so no, I don't go by that. Right now I'm anywhere from an XS-L depending on maker.

I'll just go until I'm happy with what I see in the mirror. Almost there.

flywithabowtie

My first goal is to get under 200lbs, then I would like to get my waist down to a 34. After that, I will just try my best to maintain those stats.

muayqis

Weight + performance.
Stupid Scales.

lina011

weight.... im stuck at 70 kilo but my BF is 18% so thats not too bad:) id like to be smaller but it so so hard to get there. my size could be smaller maybe a 10 im ok though being this now im at maintenance atm

Bonny619

When I can feel comfortable wearing a skirt above the knee. That's the goal.

volume77

to maintain my current weight while eating as many calories as that permits