How did you pick your goal weight?

%BF....% Body Fat. I started lifting and changed my eating habit back in April. Every week I got more and more frustrated because I was only losing less then 1/2 lb a week. Then my trainer did my %BF. First measurement 31%. Four weeks later, 24% and the scale was only down 2.5 lbs. When she did my %BF the first time, she took a bunch of photos of me. I was seeing myself everyday in the mirror and in my mind wasn't seeing a change. Then she took photos again at my second measurement and HOLY COW...is that me? My goal is to get my %BF down into the low teens (In my dreams I want single digits!) I'm a 67 yo male and they tell me it will be very hard to build a lot of muscle. My intention is to prove them wrong. If I get my BF down without the muscle, I'll be a prime candidate for a part on The Walking Dead! Next %BF measurement September 4th.

I just went to a personal trainer and he did the math for me. I'm supposed to lose 17 lb of fat and- this is the interesting part- gain 5lb of muscle. The net effect, interestingly, is the same end number as the Dukan diet calculator.

108 is the lowest I can go to have a healthy BMI. I'm going with 115-120 because I know I'll want a bit of muscle.

I have a large frame. I picked a number that I had weighed before and was able to maintain easily. I am 57, I am 5'8" and weigh 226 lbs. My goal weight is 170. I will check my fat percentage, when I get to that weight, to see if it is reasonable. I had input from my Jenny Craig councillor when I joined the program on my goal weight.

when I first started, i did not really have a goal in mind, but figured 135 would be good. At 5"2 that is on the higher end of the bmi. After more research and finding I have a large frame (6.5 inch wrists), I know that even though its on the high side, for me that will probably be fine. However, I got down to below college weight (160), and felt really good about it and slacked for a couple years, maintaining a 5lb range. I actually had that number in the back of my mind when I started, that it would be most excellent to hit 160. Now I am about to turn 40, and am less satisfied with where I am at and decided to get back on the wagon and hit 135 before I turn 40. The range I get is 128-143, so 135 is nice in the middle.

My goal weight is still a bit of a question mark with me.

I'm still at a point where I have fat to lose. I'm at the mid healthy range on my BMI. I guess I could stop now if I wanted to but I don't feel like I'm quite "there". I think for me, it's more about how I feel than what the number on the scales say. I could stop another pound from now - I could stop another 10 from now. It's really hard to say!

At my SW of 183 (I'm 5'5"), I picked 130 because (about 3 decades ago), I felt like 125-128 was really a good adult weight for me, and thought a few pounds more might be rational at age 59 . . . but I knew that was a "for now" goal.

Now that I'm getting closer (CW 144), I'm looking at myself and thinking I may still have more than 14 extra pounds on my body - but we'll see as it gets closer. This ignores any future goal adjustments that may come if, once I reach maintenance, I try to build some more muscle. . . which could be an ambitious goal at my age.

Everyone's got a bit different frame, different muscularity, different sense of what feels good - I'm not a big fan of calculators as the key to a goal weight, though they may help with an initial guesstimate.

Personally, I think BMI is a load of bs. If you're happy with the way you LOOK and FEEL, the number shouldn't matter.

I'm 5"10 and currently weigh 251 lbs. My goal is 210. According to a BMI chart, I need to be <170 lbs to be "healthy". Yet, I have 180 lbs of lean body mass. I could be 180 lbs with 0% fat (which would mostly likely mean I'd die), but I'd still be "overweight". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯