How did you pick your goal weight?

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What was your process for deciding where to set your goal weight? What if you get there and don't feel "done"? What if you feel satisfied before you get there? How firm are you with the number you chose?

I had an ED in high school and got down to 115. That is way to small for me. I have a medium bone frame with slightly broad shoulders. I kind of kept that in mind and took a shot in the dark at 135.

If I get there and I don't feel that it's what I want, I will keep losing.

I almost expect to feel satisfied before I reach that goal. I'm guessing I'll actually be happy with 140... but I really don't know. It's so varied based on LBM and body shape. I have big boobs and a booty so I can look good at a higher weight.

I am not at all firm on my number. If I'm happy at a higher weight, I'll switch to maintenance. If I want a lower weight, I'll keep on going. I would like to be a size 5/6. If I reach that at 150, I'll stay at 150. The number on the scale is a lot less important to me than a healthy appearance.

I've been very fit before. I know when I felt and looked good. I know when I was too small and got comments about my bones and how that felt. If I get to the weight I have my mind set on and I don't feel done, I'll continue lifting and training. If I'm happy with my bf% and my strength before a mythical magical number appears on the scale, perfect. Strength, functionality, and fitness matter more to me than what the digits say. When I was at my most fit, I felt and looked my best and was theoretically overweight. But when you're 5'2" and jacked, overweight is easy- even at a size 4.

I looked at the healthy range on the BMI chart and it was 100 to 120 less than my starting weight. One of my precious posessions is a string of mala prayer beads made out of lapis... it has 108 beads. So I chose 108 lbs to lose as my target. I move a ribbon around the prayer beads and tie it to show my changes. It adds a nice visual reminder that is not related directly to the scale. It lets me look overall at when I was "just starting" "almost half way" "past the halfway mark" and now "about three quarters to goal". Its a beautiful set of prayer beads, and will be an ongoing reminder.

my goal weight was simple ...it was before i had my kids lol n im almost there

I also picked my weight on the high end of the healthy section of the BMI scale for my height. I'll probably reassess when I get there. Last time I was in a healthy BMI range it was all through diet so my body was still kind of 'meh'. Now I'm exercising daily and that weight might actually fit me better because muscles!

I have an amazing collection of vintage lingerie, cocktail dresses and evening gowns, seriously...a whole closet full. Some were my mom's and/or grandmother's...some I've picked up at estate sales, some have been gifted to me. I also have bins of outdoor activity clothes, camping/hiking, skiing, etc. When I can fit into all my really COOL clothes again, I'll be done!

Mom's old lingerie? Awkward.

I used the Ideal Body Weight equation we learned in class. If I reach my goal but still feel like I want to move on, I will just focus on stronger and eating healthy. If I feel okay before my goal, I will stop since muscle weighs more than fat. I'm not too set on my number, I want to trim down my pear frame and be healthy. I want to beat my genetics! lol

I just guesstimated that with my size and frame, I should hover around 200 pounds. Once I hit that target I go to a doctor or trainer to take specific tests to measure my fat % to see how much I should lose...*if* I'm not happy when I hit 200 pounds.

My goal weight of a 300lb+ deadlift.... I picked this after looking at what elite women powerlifters of my weight can achieve, plus factoring in that I have really good genetics for picking up heavy stuff, i.e. short, large frame, naturally muscular and probably more than my fair share of neanderthal genes.

I'm not sure of what my goal weight is for squats, seeing as my deadlift is a lot better than my squat. So I don't have an actual goal weight for squats. When I can deadlift 300+lb then I'll see where I'm at with squats and base a goal on that.

For bench, my goal is to bench more than my bodyweight. I think this is a reasonable goal weight for a woman. How much more... well I'll see when I get there. Currently my lower body lifts are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than my upper body ones.

For OHP........ well my OHP is pants. Triple figures would be lovely (but that seems like it's on a faraway cloud in rainbow unicorn land currently). And improvements in my shoulder mobility to actually get the form right on that one.

So anyway, those are my long term goal weights.... if I don't get there, well at least I'll have tried. If I do, I'll probably set even higher goals and work towards those.

My pre pregnancy weight was around 112lbs so I chose that. I am 114 so I'm more or less in maintenance mode now. I'm focusing on toning and strength training now

I chose mine because I used to hover around the 140s most of my adult life before my initial weight gain. My body had a setpoint there, I guess -- and I never watched what I ate, though I was active. I want that back!!

my goal is to get abs.....which is coming along very slooowwly

Weight i cont care for as much.

you can always change your goal. its not set in stone. i started out at 327lbs.. so i had ALOT to lose. looking at how i NEEDED to lose 100+lbs.. would have gotten me nowhere. i would have given up. that would have seemed way too impossible. my first goal was to get down to 300. losing ANY weight.. was good enough for me. anything would be a success. then i just decided to get to 250.. 200.. lose 100lbs total.. and 150lbs lost total.. and i just keep going.. ultimately i want to reach HALF the weight i started with.. and then maybe get down to the weight of 150... see how that goes for my body.. which will end up with maybe taking it a little further and then maintenance.

My mfp goal weight is for 11 stone, the weight I was when I was at Uni and felt quite confident in my shape. But if I get there and decide to go any lower it will be 10 1/2 stone minimum (my GP who knows me very well suggested this as a minimum for me). I am quite curvy and even when I am lighter I have a fair size bum and boobs, so I like to be a nice balanced hourglass shape. But basically I am going to see how I feel along the way.

I started this new routine in mid October at 14 stone and have lost 1 stone so far (14lb). The last time I was successful at losing quite a bit of weight I got down to 12 stone 2 and, following an illness for a few months, I got disheartened and put it all back on (and more). I think that getting below 12 stone will be a real milestone for me.