How did you decide your target weight?

It's up to you. Just pick something that sounds reasonable. Once you get close to goal, you might readjust it, Or you might not. Best of luck on your journey.

lisawinning4losing wrote: »

It's up to you. Just pick something that sounds reasonable. Once you get close to goal, you might readjust it, Or you might not. Best of luck on your journey.

That's what I did when I lost my big weight - started at 178, thought, "eh, I probably won't get further than 150, so I'll go for that", but stuck with the lifestyle changes (because they had a huge impact on me in 10 million ways, losing weight was the least important of them), and wound up at 124.

I think picking a conservative goal is good bc it's way more attainable, so it's motivating when you reach it, and you don't feel you have this huge stretch ahead.

Personally. Let me start by saying that I don't recommend being zealous about a target weight. It's good to have something to aim for. But overly focusing on attaining a goal that proves unreasonable will only cause you to backslide. Happened to me so yeah .. I know. The truth is once you feel healthy and happy and comfortable in your skin your done. With that borne in mind however I have given myself a rough goal by taking the numbers most website calculators give me (about 208lbs ideal) and rounding it up a bit because I am a very large person regardless of the fat.

It depends on your goals too. If you just want to be healthy the numbers going to be higher. If you want defined abs your gonna have to shoot lower.

So honestly weight should be a way of tracking progress and only loosely associated with your goals. Which should be feeling healthy and being comfortable with the way you look.

I just want to be within "healthy" BMI and have a "healthy" waist measurement. The upper limit, and what I'd be happy with, is 137 lbs and 30 inches for my height. (5'2")

Sure there's always going to be a range of acceptable healthy weights - that's good because each person is a unique individual with different genetics and life histories. A weight for a young thin-boned Chinese woman might not be realistic for an older thick-boned German woman. But they can both be healthy even at different weights & BMIs.

I set my target back to where I was comfortable after I had my kids, in the middle of the healthy BMI range. I definitely knew it was time to stop when I found size 2's to be llose and am having a hard time finding appropriate size 0's that don't come from the Jr dept. At 54 that is definitely not a good look I am a little under 5', but larger boned so I really couldn't imagine going lower at this point despite being10 pounds heavier than I was way back when I got married, although I am working on the toning up, stretching and strengthening part. You just have to shoot for where you personally are comfortable.

I don't really do BMI because they don't take into account muscle and also like another person has said, genetics build us differently and most importantly different people are happy at different weights.

At 5'2, BMI tells me I should weigh between 104-132lbs*.

Currently at 161lbs I think I would be happy at 150lbs - however once reached this I will re evaluate..

My goal weight could be somewhere between 145-133lbs (lower end)

As in when I get to one of those numbers I'll give my self 5lb room space
145-150lbs or 140lbs-145lbs.

My goal is to be at the high end of my bmi range with a lower bodyfat %. I'm about 24 or so pounds away, weight wise.

My scale rates me at 16.5% bodyfat currently. I've seen pictures of guys at that bodyfat and I am thinking my scale is probably not reading something right, because they definitely have more visible muscle than I do.

I picked the high end of the range for my age and height. I'm not really focused on that though, just on losing some weight. If I actually get to that, well that would be great. We will see.... But I'm just going one pound at a time.

My first target weight is my old college weight. That will put me just in the normal range for BMI. When I hit that I'll do body fat measurements and the goal will be to build muscle and lose fat.

(My starting weight) - (my younger daughter's weight at the time) = (my target weight)

When I decided to get in shape, I set a goal for myself. Once I achieved it, I reassessed and decided I wanted to keep going. I guess where I landed was a healthy (on lower end) BMI where I feel good and don't feel like I'm starving. For me that's 120.

I've never been slim, so I used my sister's weight!

We are the same height but built differently so I'm using her weight as a soft goal. Once I get well into the healthy BMI range (150s) I'm going to switch over to tracking body fat composition and aim for a goal of 20-25% and see where that puts me weight wise.