Scared..

wises5
wises5 Posts: 53
edited September 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Is anyone scared they won't be happy with their goal weight? i'm 4 foot 9.5 so I am really short. I started off weighing 122/123...I gained weight when I started to have thyroid problems; because of my thyroid I know it would be a struggle to drop the pounds and keep them off. I have lost 12.5 pounds. I weigh (as of today) 109.5 my goal weight is...i've seen a little difference since I have lost but I see so much more I could work on...I get fitted for my wedding dress June 1st. So once I hit a weight that day I have to stay around there, it took me over 75 days to lose 12.5 so I know even if I wanted to change my goal weight, it would be hard to get down to it before my fitting.

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  • Meganne1982
    Meganne1982 Posts: 451
    About 6 years ago I reached what was then my goal weight, coming down from 320 to 160 and I still thought I was disgusting. I felt so fat still. I gained back 20 pounds since then- now I've lost 7 of those, and I've given myself the new goal of 150. When I look at pictures of 160 now, I think I look pretty great... but I have a feeling that even if I weighed 120 (which at 5'9" would be pretty skinny) I'd still feel like a cow. I worry I'll never be satisfied meeting any goal.
  • chanstriste13
    chanstriste13 Posts: 3,277 Member
    you can't predict what your body will do or how it will change with weight loss, so the image in your mind of what you will look like at goal may or may not be what you actually get. drat! i would suggest working on strength training and toning moreso than weight loss at this point. if you are toning, you will appear trimmer whether you are losing weight or not. and if you keep at it, you may lose more weight still. but at such a low weight, i would change your focus to toning - it will 'shrink' you. best of luck to you!

    ps~drink tons of water. i mean, *tons*.
  • emd0019
    emd0019 Posts: 179 Member
    I'm slightly worried I won't be happy. I've gotten down to 142.5 before and felt the best I ever have. I was definitely thin and fit at that weight. I'm at 152.5 right now down from 162 and I don't see the difference. I know I look skinnier but it isn't enough and I wonder if it ever will be. I'm a happy person so weight isn't the biggest determiner of my happiness in life but it is high up there. I guess I will just keep working toward my goal and reevaluate once I get there.
  • rmkorama
    rmkorama Posts: 232 Member
    I think that coming to accept ourselves for who we are and recognizing our own beauty is part of the journey. It was a real eye-opener when I looked in the mirror recently and realized that I look so great! It's all a matter of perspective. If I was 140 recently, I would think I looked awful at 190. But being 230 recently, 190 is so awesome that I could have done a happy Snoopy dance if I'd had the room (I was in a changing room).

    It takes practice to look at the good and not the bad. I have seen it so many times here, where people post saying all they can see is the flabby arms and thighs and abs. We don't HAVE to look only at the flab. We can look at the rest of ourselves. We can be kind to ourselves, and we can love ourselves, too.
  • WA_Teacher
    WA_Teacher Posts: 1,042 Member
    I think that coming to accept ourselves for who we are and recognizing our own beauty is part of the journey. It was a real eye-opener when I looked in the mirror recently and realized that I look so great! It's all a matter of perspective. If I was 140 recently, I would think I looked awful at 190. But being 230 recently, 190 is so awesome that I could have done a happy Snoopy dance if I'd had the room (I was in a changing room).

    It takes practice to look at the good and not the bad. I have seen it so many times here, where people post saying all they can see is the flabby arms and thighs and abs. We don't HAVE to look only at the flab. We can look at the rest of ourselves. We can be kind to ourselves, and we can love ourselves, too.


    DITTO, it’s all about learning to love who we are.
  • wises5
    wises5 Posts: 53
    Thank you everyone(:
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