Goal Weight
Momof3inBama
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How did you choose your goal weight? Or did your doctor? I am 5'5", sleeved 6/13/16 SW: 241 CW:200. My doctor said he would love for me to lose 100 lbs and get to 140, but he would be happy at 165.
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I honestly didn't have a goal weight going in to all of this. My doc said that if I lost 80-85 I'd be doing well. I lost 88 pounds lot during my pre-surgery phases. Since Surgery day, I'm down 100, and sitting at 162. I'd like to try to lose that additional 12, just to say I got to 200, but honestly I am happy with where I am. I think my goal now is actually to increase weight through muscle mass. My upper body needs a bit of work.0
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My doctor had a statistical goal to consider me a success. I am 5'3", was 41, and 283 on surgery day, October 15, 2015. He wanted me to hit 183 by October 15, 2016 to consider my surgery a success. I hit that in April. When I saw him in May, he changed it to 158 by October. I hit that this month. I'm now 153lbs, high weight of 307. I have now lost more than I weigh (153/154). A final goal has not been decided and I don't see him again until October 14, 2016. At this point, I have no final goal. I have friends I work out with and see me in all states of undress (heh) in the locker room who have agreed to help keep me realistic. My trainer is also monitoring what I eat and how much and how I workout and will bring the hurt if he thinks I'm overdoing it. It's so hard to determine at this point because of all the excess skin. BMI isn't a one-size-fits-all, and for sure when you have x lbs of loose skin, it won't work. I'm thinking about having a dexascan or body pod to get a better analysis done...but $$$.
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I wan't given a goal weight. I'm 5'4 and just wanted to get to 150. The Doctor said he would be satisfied with me getting there and felt like it was reasonable. I'm at 132 now and I'm still not sure how that happened. I was trying to maintain and continued to lose. The one thing the doctor told me that stuck with me was the charts for ideal weight are not one size fits all. He said it depends on the person and I should just work toward a healthy weight and ignore the charts. He also said I would know when I got to the right weight.1
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My surgeon's take on goal weights is that it isn't necessary to set one as long as you're consistently and faithfully following the guidelines because your body will slow down and stop when you're ready to maintain. (Note that's if you are consistent and faithful to the guidelines - it's easy to lapse and regain if you fall back into bad habits.) I do better with a goal, though, so I went ahead and picked one. I picked mine based on it being the top of my BMI "healthy weight" range. I honestly never dreamed I'd get there, much less be slightly under.1
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I set my goal weight as middle of the Overweight BMI. I know the reasons why BMI is not a pure individual metric, but it allows people of different heights to understand the goal as it relates to them. This number was about 20 pounds lighter than I had been since middle school and my doctor was good with not aiming for 'healthy', both because older people may prefer being a little higher as well as the weight of the excess skin I was likely to have if I got there.
I got there and was very happy with how I looked and felt so I attempted to slide into maintenance at that weight +/- 5 pounds. It was hard to add calories without adding bad habits, so I have crept up a bit, but I am happy with that range as my goal weight. Now I need to get back into my habits to re-achieve that goal range.1 -
If I remember correctly, according to my surgeon, the expected weight loss from RNY is around 70% of the EXCESS weight; meeting or exceeding that statistic is considered successful and a reasonable goal. However, it can still leave someone outside of a "healthy" BMI range. I believe losses with the sleeve are in the 60% range of excess weight.
I never set a goal weight before surgery and, to be honest, I never thought I'd manage to lose as much as I have. I've never really weighed myself regularly so I couldn't even begin to think about what weight I could be. I did remember being pretty fit and happy when I was in the 170s (10 years or so ago) and felt like I could be happy if/when I reached it...and I did less than 6 months after surgery. I didn't know where to go from there so I switched my goals to be fitness based and have focused on running.
At my 1 year check up, I was 147 pounds and was told that I could maintain there if I wanted. That all being said...I'd REALLY like to be able to say that I lost half my body weight. I'm SO close to it (less than 5 pounds away) but I've really struggled with balancing my caloric intake with the number of miles I've been running and my love of peanut butter.
If you're happy and healthy at 165...then make that your goal but you might find, like I did, that as you increase your activity and make meaningful changes to your intake that the scale continues to creep downward.
I do believe that, absent extra calorie restriction, our bodies will find a natural balance.
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