How much do YOU weigh?

I'm among friends here. I don't mind. I'm 5'3" and presently down to 165 pounds. My highest weight has been well over 200 (twice) but I managed to lose and then maintain 120 pounds/size 8 for most of my adult life. Phew. There you have it. I just remembered. Has anyone been to the site called COCKEYED? There is a photo chart which shows just how different people can look at the same height and weight (did that make sense?). I'm older now so I"m aiming for 130...have to choose between a skinny butt and a sallow face or a few extra pounds and one less facelift...lol.

Was pushing 290 at one point. Down to 244. Goal weight of 190.

When I was at my starting weight of 230, I wouldn't tell anyone my weight because I was too embarrassed that I had let myself get that heavy. But when I got down to 190 and people started telling me to stop losing I had no problem telling them how much I weighed and that I was definitely going to lose more. I had a coworker ask me how much I weighed the other day and I had no problem telling her that I weighed 171. I'm tall (5'8) and I carry it well. It is just a number!

I never used to let anyone know how much I weighed but now I figure what the heck? They can see that I'm overweight. They aren't blind so I'm just open about it. I don't know if it's to keep me accountable or whatever, I just don't feel it's necessary to keep it a secret.

To each their own though.

I don't mind because I feel proud of myself and how I've done.

165lbs down to 143ish

I talk about it because I feel it holds me accountable.

I started at 275. Last week I was 209. Today I'm 212. I'm not stopping until 150.

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6"0 149lb

Yeah i dont mind...thats what we are here for after all ?.

Me? I bounce around 157-165.

If someone asks me about my weight, I'll freely talk about it, because I want to stop attaching all this shame and judgement to a stupid number. It's oddly liberating to not treat your weight like is some fragile, private, dirty thing.

Personally, I've had the greatest success with announcing to my friends what workout program I was doing. That way I stayed accountable and did what I needed to do to lose those last couple of pounds. In April I had publicly posted on every forum that I was a part of that I was doing Insanity. Adding that community aspect that was cheering me on everyday to do my workouts got me to get my yoga pants on everyday

I don't mind announcing it online where no one knows me. I don't mind telling my family, or people of similar weights. I have recently told my 2 best friends (who are pretty much really my only friends lol) because wanted to be honest about how bad my weight is. I always get told I don't look like I weigh as much as I do. I've had nurses thinking they were weighing me wrong, lol! It's because I have a big booty/heavy lower body I guess. So, yeah, I feel like I needed to tell people. To say "YES! I need to do something about this, or you're no longer going to have me as a friend when we are 50."

I look like I weighed 240 (according to pretty much everyone), I actually started at 297. I am down to 284.

I used to NEVER want anyone to know what I weighed not even close family members. Now I'll tell anyone who asks because I could care F**in less what their reaction is or what they think. Am I happy? Good. All that matters. LOUD AND PROUD OVER HERE!

I'll announce it. I started at 284 and I'm down to 244. The first time I tried MFP I hid my diary and didn't post my weight anywhere because I was ashamed. When I came back I decided I was putting all my cards on the table. Once I got over being embarassed about how much I weighed/what I looked like, it was so much easier to accept realty and start making changes.

I don't mind telling people what I weigh (140 - 145 range depending on the day). It does get annoying though when people constantly feel the need to tell you they're worried about your health and that you're not eating when you are clearly well inside the "healthy" range for your height so for a lot of people I've changed my answer to "no less than the last time you asked"

That said, as a side note, for those who started at a weight of 300 ish or more (I started at about 310), i think it's good to be careful with goal weights at the lower end of their healthy range. Unfortunately they will likely end up with a fair number of pounds of excess skin that's not really doing anything but hanging there as opposed to actually contributing anything to their "healthy weight". Apparently it's not uncommon to have about 10 pounds of excess skin for every 100 pounds lost. So, if you're 5'8", for example, a goal weight of 130 pounds would not be unreasonable. If, however, you started at 400 pounds and at 130 pounds would have an approximate 27 pounds of weight that's just skin, it would be like putting a 103 pound 5'8" person on the scale, saying "oh dear, you're quite underweight...hold out your arms...", and then just draping 27 pounds of skin over them so the number fits their healthy range..