Did you find your goal weight to be too low?

I'm not there yet completely but I do know that I used to say I would give anything to be 220 and now I'm very motivated to move on from this weight and keep going!

I thought my goal was going to be too high and I would want to go lower, but it turns out that it will probably be about right, maybe a couple pounds low. The best way to pick a weight that is right for YOU is to find out your body fat percent by calipers (or circumference if you don't want to spend a couple bucks on calipers) and then go to http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm with a goal body fat % depending on how lean you want to get, and you can search through google images of people at different body fat %s to get an idea of what look you like. I'm aiming for 17%, which is on the lower side for normal women, but I like that look with muscle mass as my ideal "fit and lean" look.

Choosing a goal weight is really tricky because there isn't any exact formula to figure it out. I chose my goal weight knowing that it may be too low. My primary goal is in body fat percentage. I want to get to 24%, which is the maximum for a woman to be considered "fit". I think that's a good goal, but I accept that fact that I may feel differently when I get there. I want to have a healthy body that I feel very confident about, so regardless of my body fat and scale weight, I plan to keep working until I get there.

I'm fairly short so I was going for 115 - 125 ish (5'3) but now I realize I'd look pretty bad at that weight. I don't know if I could even get to that weight with my bone / frame size. My wrist is 6.5 inches around. My goal weigh is 135 now. I'll figure it out from there.

I based my ideal weight on the BMI scale and just wanted to get in the middle of the healthy section. Set 140 pounds as my goal and feel good around that weight. I did drop below it for a little while but looked and felt too skinny.

My goal weight is 5 pound less then the high end of normal, I too will adjust if necessary. Considering that is over 50 pounds away it will be huge just to get to that point. I think out of hs I was only about 15-17 pounds lighter then that, though in 100 percent better shape, lean and athletic, doubtful that will ever be my body and is not my goal, should add outof HS24 years...gasp!

I should add I think I am over an inch shorter then I was in hs, which also changes the weight dynamic.

My GW is 140 (I'm 5'3). BMI says that's overweight and 130 is the max "healthy" weight for my height. I think BMI is a load of ****e and I'd be a bag of bones at 130. 140 might even be to low, I'll re-evaluate when I get to 150 (only 37lbs to 150!)

You're like my twin! :P

My goal weight is 54kg, but when I'm realistic about it, I know I coudn't healthily be that weight, as even when I was quite thin I was still only just below 70kg. But I am short. I'd probably be happy at 62kg. And probably healthy. So while I say my goal is 54, I don't think I'll ever end up going to that. I'll be reassessing as I go!

I'm unsure about my GW still. I've put it at 125 because I know if I ever get there I know I will have accomplished what I wanted in losing the weight. However that being said, I don't know if I'll be happy at that weight. Once I accomplish my goal I may want to set it higher again. However I want to prove to myself that I can do it and set my mind to it!

My goal weight is definitely high for my height, I'm 5ft and my goal is 145lbs. There were 2 reasons I picked that weight: I've lost weight a few times before and that weight seems to be the weight my body has maintained the easiest and longest. Right now I'm disabled and don't get around much at all so I have to be realistic that I'm probably not going to maintain 120lbs. But hey, once I get to my goal, I can always aim for lower

Choosing a goal weight is really tricky because there isn't any exact formula to figure it out...My primary goal is in body fat percentage...

Then you're in luck. There is a good formula to figure it out (if you know your current BF%):

Determine your current lean mass. If a girl weighs 170 lbs at 30% BF, her lean mass is 119 lbs.

Assuming she wants to maintain that lean mass and was shooting for a goal of 18%, her goal weigh would be 119 divided by 0.82, or 145 lbs. (0.82 is 1 - 0.18, where the 0.18 is her goal BF% as a decimal).

I'm having a hard time picking a goal weight, because it's more how I want my body to look than what the number on the scale says. I'm thinking 140-155, and everyone tells me that's much too low and I'll look too skinny, but I don't know that. I've never weighed that much at the height and build I am now, so I have no idea how I'll look. It's hard to explain, I just want that flat stomach and toned body. Not super muscle-y, not bulked up, just flat and toned and healthy and in shape, whatever that number may be!

A looooong time ago I was at my ideal "goal weight" (according to bmr charts) and I got asked all the time if I was sick!
I'm pretty tall (5'8") so being that weight made me look terrible.
As long as my blood pressure, etc. are on track I'll be happy with a higher bmr, even if it keeps me out of the "healthy" bmr category.