10% weight loss challenge/goal

emmadunkirk
emmadunkirk Posts: 16 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
After losing my first 10lbs I decided to set my next goal at losing 10% of my body weight. All the studies show that losing 10% of your body weight makes a HUGE difference in overall health. At 10% your blood pressure and cholesterol drop and so does risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. That's a lot of benefit for 10%. I wonder if I will feel a difference after losing 10%?

So join in and post how many more pounds to lose before you reach your 10% goal. (I have 14lbs to go). Tell us when you're there and how you feel.

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  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I'm almost there! 1.5 pounds to go (170 was my starting weight).
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    10% was 16.7lbs. (Starting weight 167, ending weight 149). I reached 17lbs last week. So I guess I succeeded! YEAH.
  • emmadunkirk
    emmadunkirk Posts: 16 Member
    kristen6350 wrote: »
    10% was 16.7lbs. (Starting weight 167, ending weight 149). I reached 17lbs last week. So I guess I succeeded! YEAH.

    Do you feel the difference? Tell us all about it.


  • emmadunkirk
    emmadunkirk Posts: 16 Member
    sofaking6 wrote: »
    I'm almost there! 1.5 pounds to go (170 was my starting weight).
    Woo hoo so close!
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    It is good that you have health as a motivator. I do not. Improve health is a byproduct of what I really want.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    emmadunkirk wrote: »
    kristen6350 wrote: »
    10% was 16.7lbs. (Starting weight 167, ending weight 149). I reached 17lbs last week. So I guess I succeeded! YEAH.

    Do you feel the difference? Tell us all about it.


    Well, I went from an tight 12 to a lose 8 in pants...sometimes 4/6's jeans. I feel "like me" again.

  • deathninja82
    deathninja82 Posts: 108 Member
    Trying to go from 220-odd to sub-200, if only so I've got *one* thing in my life not to be totally ashamed about, after that I don't know. Part of me wants to be back at 150 where I was fastest, but that was nearly 10 years ago and the weight loss was after serious illness, so it's probably out of reach.
  • emmadunkirk
    emmadunkirk Posts: 16 Member
    I am officially disabled so I am sedentary and have been for nearly 3 years. My weight skyrocketed and I started collecting the diseases of obesity(^BP, ^cholesterol and ^blood sugar-prediabetes). So yes, health is my motivation. I am riddled with osteoarthritis in multiple joints and facing several joint replacement surgeries and more spinal surgeries. I just started getting into a pool at local fitness center in an attempt to improve muscle tone. It's hard enough to lose weight when you are healthy so this is a challenge to say the least.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    emmadunkirk wrote: »
    I am officially disabled so I am sedentary and have been for nearly 3 years. My weight skyrocketed and I started collecting the diseases of obesity(^BP, ^cholesterol and ^blood sugar-prediabetes). So yes, health is my motivation. I am riddled with osteoarthritis in multiple joints and facing several joint replacement surgeries and more spinal surgeries. I just started getting into a pool at local fitness center in an attempt to improve muscle tone. It's hard enough to lose weight when you are healthy so this is a challenge to say the least.

    I might have forgotten to mention that all of my weight loss, all 17lbs of it, was from eating less. I did NO exercise. You can lose it without. But you have to be diligent and consistant.

    Here's to 10%!

  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    emmadunkirk wrote: »
    I am officially disabled so I am sedentary and have been for nearly 3 years. My weight skyrocketed and I started collecting the diseases of obesity(^BP, ^cholesterol and ^blood sugar-prediabetes). So yes, health is my motivation. I am riddled with osteoarthritis in multiple joints and facing several joint replacement surgeries and more spinal surgeries. I just started getting into a pool at local fitness center in an attempt to improve muscle tone. It's hard enough to lose weight when you are healthy so this is a challenge to say the least.

    From what I know yes those stats can improve with weight loss. I was 265lbs 3 years ago. I have a physical around 257lbs. I went up in weight before I dropped. I just had a new physical last week three years later at 212lbs. All my stats have improve and the one I like was I naturally raised my testosterone levels.
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