How long will it you take you to reach your goal weight?

I started in January 2013, my goal is 102 pounds, but as I get closer, I would like to loose about 5 more to account for fluctuations. So far I've lost 81 pounds. The only hang up I had was Christmas. It was the first holiday I "allowed" myself some old comforts. That was a bad idea. I gained about 7-10 pounds. So beginning the new year I had a reality check and really got myself back on track. There's no room for "allowances" when your trying to reach a goal. Hard lesson to learn after a year of dedication. Things have slowed down a bit now that I'm in my last 20 pounds. I hoping to get there by June 1st.:happy:

forever :grumble:

right now I'm considered morbidly obese. When I reach my goal weight I will be in the healthy range for my height according to my BMI. Should reach that goal this time next year.

Hi! I'm just curious how long does everyone think it will take?
Also is your goal weight a healthy BMI or not (mainly asking this for people who are/were obese)
Thanks!

I don't really have a goal weight.

I should mention at the start that I do not need to lose weight. IMHO once you are no longer fat having a goal weight becomes a bit silly. I mean sure, if you're 300 you might say you want to be about 150 and that's a fine goal. But once you get to 'normal' there isn't necessarily a point to being 150 instead of 155. Ironically goal weights become more irrelevant the closer you are to achieving them.

My goal is as much muscle as I can get naturally, while being fairly lean, maybe ~15% bodyfat. In other words I want to be strong and athletic. I think for someone my height theoretically that would result in me topping out somewhere around 200 pounds if everything goes perfectly.

Put that way I guess the time span to get close is probably a couple years. But it's basically a life-long quest from there.

That plan will put me a bit into the "Overweight" category of BMI, but I don't care because BMI doesn't tell you anything useful about individuals outside of extreme cases. (And you don't need a mathematical formula to tell you if someone is morbidly obese or in danger of blowing a way in a high wind anyway do you?) It was designed for population studies.

I started out Obese, still am. I'm 5'6 and started at 216lbs and have lost 20lbs in the 70 days I have been logging on MFP. I would love to hit 155 by my birthday in late September. That is my goal for now, and I will reassess when I get there.

October 15, 2013 was my start date. I was 321lbs. This morning I weighed in at 248. 73lbs gone in not quite 4 months. My goal is to be 159 or less. (I want to say I lost half my body.) I am fine with however long it takes. If I keep going at the rate I am going by my 1 yr I should be there. But loosing weight is just part of it. The strength, endurance, and confidence is so much more important. The weight loss is a perk.

I started as Obese Class 2 (barely into the class 2 category) in September and am now 4 pounds away from the Overweight catagory. I'm hoping to be at my goal by September, and the way it's been going it seems possible.

A conservative estimate (of 250g loss pr week) should land me at my goal weight on the 6th of August. Though I've calculated that my net calories per week since december would actually equal an average 291g/week, which would then get me to my goal on the 2nd of July.

If I could stick to what I've been at for this past week, I would be at my goal for the 24th of May. But I don't think I can!

Oh, and I started out in the wat upper end of obese (almost morbidly), now I'm in the low end of obesity, and my goal is to exit the obese, and just be overweight. After that I will set a new goal.

A couple of years I'd imagine. But I'm ok with this. I'm lighter than what I was, and hopefully this time next year I'll be even lighter.

Hoping to lose 2lbs a week at least. So about 6 months to goal weight.