Weight?? Body fat?? Size??

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%).

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)

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.

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%

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

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!

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!

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".

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.

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:

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@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.

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.

Weight + performance.
Stupid Scales.

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