When you hit goal:
Bonny132
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What is the one thing you want/wish for/crave etc?
I am totally boring, I want to look good naked in the mirror. I just want to be able to love myself again. I want to feel confident. I don't want men talking to my "girls" I want to be approached because of me. Because I am a pretty amazing person. Someone who is slowly learning to love herself again.
I am totally boring, I want to look good naked in the mirror. I just want to be able to love myself again. I want to feel confident. I don't want men talking to my "girls" I want to be approached because of me. Because I am a pretty amazing person. Someone who is slowly learning to love herself again.
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I've put my sweet bod through the ringer! I just want to take good care of it from here on out... Never starve her again.4
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I started by just wanting to be healthy. Now that my diabetes is under control I want to beat IR and achieve a normal weight.
On the vanity side, I would love to wear a dress again, it's been 20 years or more. This may be a dream that not even keto can achieve because my legs are swollen and unfit to expose. Le sigh.
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To feel my best. At 54 I want to look at myself and say "not bad, not bad at all" and feel good about it. I don't color my hair or wish for face lifts ... I wish to age gracefully because I feel I've earned every gray hair and every wrinkle I have. Life's battle scars. They aren't a bad thing. Treating my body like I did IS a bad thing.4
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I haven't been at my goal weight since age 13, so I don't know if I'll ever hit it or not and it's not really a focus for me. But, along this journey, as I hit milestones, the things I embrace include the improvements to my health and mobility, wearing smaller sized clothes, being able to shop for clothes in normal stores, seeing my husband so proud of me, being able to explore new places that I couldn't before because walking was so difficult, and overall just being able to live a fuller life.
If I do actually get to my goal weight though, I'd probably celebrate with some type of outdoor adventure, i.e. A multiple day guided hike in another country or whitewater rafting.
I'm way beyond the vanity side of things, I've just done too much damage to my body. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to look better and I love being able to wear nice clothes already, but I don't think I'll ever be able to even wear a one-piece bathing suit in public and feel comfortable or confident or even a tank top. The saggy skin is already a major problem, but I don't freak out about it, it is what it is, but that's why I try to focus on the health aspects of my journey and the new physical things I can do.5 -
At just 23yrs, I've been through a ton of *kitten* in my life.
I'm a warrior at heart - I want to look like one on the outside.
I've given up on trying to impress men. So from now on I'm going to focus on getting strong enough to maul a bear...
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My goal weight is 130, but really I just want my insulin resistance/pre-diabetes resolved. I think I would reward myself with new clothes.
One of my major goals is to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and stay carb controlled and hopefully non-diabetic through pregnancy! If I can achieve that everything else is just bonus on the Keto train.
I would like to get back into the single digit pants sizes again.5 -
Once I reach true single digit pant sizes Im rewarding myself with a new wardrobe and a beach vacation. I just turned 40 and my goal is to feel and look better at 40 than I did at 30. Totally achievable.7
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Life long maintenance.5
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I definitely want to lose weight for vanity's sake. I cringe when old friends fly into town, we get together and they see how much weight I've gained. My high school is talking about an all classes reunion next year in Vegas - I'd love to look like I'm aging well.
Ultimately, at 50, I have some aches and pains that I hope resolve or get better when I'm back to a reasonable weight. I walk (used to run) and the last time I tried running, my ankles hurt so bad that I was limping the next day. I have an old running injury on my right ankle - but both ankles hurt so it has to be because I'm carrying around an extra 60 pounds on my frame.
When I get down closer to my goal, I'd love to do a beach vacation. I haven't worn a swimsuit in public in years!0 -
LOL @coloradoartstudio and the class reunion. I attended my 45th class reunion this year and was tickled to have lost my excess. For a nano second, I considered taking my old cheerleading jacket for effect but quickly realized that was unnecessary, would be a little much...and hot. LOL. Heat hot that is. But then on the other hand somehow a 62 year old looks a bit silly and not so "hot" or even slightly "cool" in a varsity jacket.
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I'm so hoping that when I reach my goal (32 pounds to go), that my blood glucose has tamed itself and my insulin resistance is well on the road to recovery. I'm learning as I work my way down to my goal that it's not even so much about the weight as how much better I am feeling, the abundant energy I have, the patience I have found, and the fact that I have finally found my woe for life.3
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I don't know about goal weight, but I want to backpack this trail in Washington state/Canada with my husband for our 15th anniversary. It's supposed to be brutal, so we need to have a couple excursions before then. That gives me 3 years.6
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I want to be 'yummy' again. Far more achievable goal: it may sound odd, but people perceived as obese have a harder time being promoted. Losing the weight will make me more promotable. Currently down 50 lbs total, 40 to go.8
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I just want to be a good example to my daughters. Being able to be active and set an active life style for them would be my wish.4
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I'm looking for better health and more energy. I've also realized I will need skin removal surgery as well as a boob job. So maybe the girls will stand up and say hi again. A mean feat after 60!4
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1. I want maintenance to be easy, because I have finally found the correct way to eat for me. 2. I also want to be able to continue improving my cardio health, keeping below the prediabetic A1C no. and being able to do some yoga positions I haven't been able to get into for years.3
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I want to lose one pound more than my goal, then eat 3500 calories worth of Cap'n Crunch, then start maintenance. Don't judge me!5
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I want to feel comfortable going out in white pants (before Labor Day) and not wish I'd worn Depends when I get home.4
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I just want to look better. I've always been fat... since about age 10... prior to that, I was actually underweight for my height until I got type 1 diabetes and tripled my weight in just a few years.
I should also be able to go further and faster for outdoor stuff (hiking, trail running).3 -
Reaching goal is just the start of a new chapter, or hopefully many new chapters!
I have taken on a few new hobbies that are fitness related. It is easier to go do fun things. I hiked to a nice waterfall yesterday and enjoyed a great day with a friend.
Once reaching a weight goal for fitness goal, I don't see why we don't have a new set of life adventures to set out on! I'm lookingoforward to an Ironman 70.3 next spring. There will be lots of little events between now and then and good times with fitness friends
Reaching goal was not an end, it was more of a new beginning.2 -
I guess I'm weird in that I don't have a goal weight. Once you get to the point of becoming and staying morbidly obese for a time, your body will never quite be the same. Medical science is saying that they even need to create new standards of new BMI charts because folks who have gotten to a certain level of fat and or stayed fat for a length of time now have fat cells that will never have the same capacity to achieve the former/traditional BMI expectations due to volume of empty fat cells and such.
My goals are all health gains and wanting to be off meds and have good labs and such...1 -
@kpk54 - Congrats on losing the weight and lol on the cheerleading jacket! I also cheered a long time ago and still have one of my practice uniforms packed away somewhere - I think it's a size 00. I'm pretty sure 1 of my current thighs would not even fit in the waistband.
BTW, I don't aspire to be that thin again, just healthy.
@Niccidawn092 being a good example for your daughter is wonderful - I try to be very careful about how I speak about my body around my 18 year old daughter.
@KnitOrMiss I think health gains are my top priority too. I want to age well and be active in my senior years.1 -
Hmm. I'm of two minds (as I usually am).
On the top of my list is being healthy. The heart thing and the T2 diagnosis really scared the bejeebus out of me. So normal bloodsugars and a clean bill of health top my what-I-want-out-of-all-this-effort/focus list.
After that the list gets more interesting (at least to me). In no particular order except how they occurred to me,
I want:
To be able to bend over without my stomach in the way.
I want my boobs to not try and choke me when I sleep.
I want to not need the CPAP anymore.
I want to try on all the "someday I'll fit into this again" clothes and then get rid of them all!
I want my flexibility back.
I want my belly not to be in the way during sex.
I want another sex related goal that I think is TMI to explain.
I want a vacation where I wear nothing but a bikini and look good wearing it.
I want my daughters to see my success and join me in this woe.
I want my wedding and engagement rings to fit again.
I want endurance for doing things (housecleaning, shopping, hiking, etc)
I want to be comfortable wearing a standard 18" chain necklace
I want to be able to dance again.
I want to be able to sit in an airplane seat without feeling like I'm crowding the person next to me.
I want to be the woman my husband deserves.
and perhaps the biggest one
I want to live more fully, I want to take advantage of all the opportunities life gives me without trying to accommodate my fat limitations.
I could prolly come up with more, but that's a start.
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Good health. Less pain. Forever.
And never having back jiggle again. I really disliked back jiggle.2 -
I gained weight through the menopause. Then followed hormone driven breast cancer, with no boobs I can see my belly, I would preference to see my toes LOL. I have decided to go low carb as cancer 'loves sugar" so this WOE has to be a permenant life change for me, but so want to lose some LB's2
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I want to find the funds for boob and arm surgery, and also for the skin under my chin. Could be pretty expensive... but I really am unhappy with those areas after losing so much weight. Would be so nice to feel really good.1
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