Hi, this is an interesting thread.
At goal or nearer to it, I want to join a martial arts class. My kids are in Karate. It looks like a lot of fun but hard work. I need to be much lighter and in better shape before I attempt it.

A lot of goals are smaller and I'll hit them before I hit my goal weight. Like fitting nicely in airplane seats and riding the rides at Disneyland. I'd like to learn how to properly ride a horse without injuring it. lol! I want to play soccer with the kids without getting winded and race them down the street when they dawdle. The world is just nicer to you if you're not heavy.

Shop in normie clothing stores!

Simply everything.

I'm getting out of the obese and into the normal overweight range. My poor husband is probably tired of hearing "I can this" and "I can that"... A shocked look usually accompanies the comment.

I can wear those clothes. I can bend to untie my boots. I can hurry to catch that plane. I can fit in that seat. I need to tighten the seat belt. I can carry those bags. I can stand while waiting. I can squeeze around those. I could ride that horse. I could hang glide with my brother. I could ride a motorcycle. I could walk for hours. I can tuck my foot underneath me. I can fit sideways in the recliner. I can walk barefoot on a tile floor. I can tiptoe.

Okay, okay, I'll stop. But it doesn't ever end.

What an amazing accomplishment you've made already! Way to go, You!!

I love your list...I've enjoyed them all. But as I read yours I was nodding...yep! yep! yep, me too!

Ride horse, kayak, camp. Trance dance for more than a couple minutesat a time.
Some things seem impossible now, bu it is important to do what one can in the meantime.
Kookie says ... don't let what you can't do keep you from doing what you can. Sounds like maybe a new thread.

I think that may be the Milestones/NSV thread(s.) If not; Start that thread off. We are always game for new material!

I want to be able to shop outside of the plus size section and free from that limitation.

I want to be able to do whatever moves my spirit without having to feel self conscious. I want to be able to run around a playground , slide down a corkscrew slide, and play with my grandchildren without having to hear the all too often candid comments about "that fat lady". I want to shop in the regular sizes, fit comfortably in any seat anywhere. I want to ride a horse again, climb a mountain without my knees and back having to deal with 100+ extra pounds of weight to carry around. I want to swim in the community pool without feeling like a beached whale. I want to be able to smile when I answer when people ask how much weight I've lost and I can say "I've lost a whole "me"". I want to send a picture of my new healthy self to everyone who ever told me I was too weak/lazy/much of a loser to be able to accomplish my goal. I want to pick up a hundred and twenty five pounds of weights and make the connection with how much excess weight I've carried around so long. I want to hug my children and grandchildren, know that I've done something amazing that will help enable me to look forward to being there to share their achievements and to love them as long as I can.I want to finally be at peace with that voice deep inside me that reminds me of every time I've failed, and be able to quiet it with a "not this time".

I also would like to get strong enough that I can lift over a hundred pounds. My first little goal of things to do is to sit in my new-to-me chair in the living room, comfortably. I kind of spill up the sides right now. I have to wonder what my cat will do when I lose the weight. The only nice thing about being this size is that it gives him a close place to sleep!

This is vain (maybe I'm vain) but all I want to do when I reach my goal is wear a bikini.
I also want to try zipline (i honestly think the thing will break LOL)

Cawoods: I think that is a great goal. I have never been good at running, mostly due to asthma, but I would love one day to just take off running and not be able to worry about having to phone it in after just a couple of minutes.

Cawoods,

I'm the same way. I've lost enough now to be able to walk. When I'm walking briskly, it feels like I should just amp it up a notch and break into a run, but just can't yet.

Paula

you're right, the wish list never ends and the possibilities are endless!!

I want to shop in any clothing store that is not for plus size people! My short term goal is to be able to get down on the floor and get back up without assistance.

I have a bucket list that I’ve been working on. A lot of them I can only accomplish at a much lower and healthier weight, some of them are already in the works.

I want to hike the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone/Grand Tetons, Mt. Rushmore, Little Big Horn, Black Hills.

I want to visit the Mediterranean, the Panama Canal, the Danube and Rhine River countries, Disneyworld/Epcot, New England in the Fall, Paddlewheel down the Mississippi, visit Australia/New Zealand and south Pacific Islands.

My coworkers and I are all about the same age (28-29). The other day, we were discussing how awesome it would be to go skydiving next summer as kind of a celebration of us all turning 30.

Whether or not we will /actually/ follow through with this, I don't know. What I do know is that I'm too heavy to go skydiving right now. And if we decide to do this together next summer, I don't want to have to tell everyone I can't because of my weight.