How did you pick your Goal Weight?

NinaSharp · October 2016

I am questioning this because I'm wondering if my goal is unreasonable. I've never been at that particular weight before. I started at 175 and my goal is to be 139. I picked it as a challenge, because it would be something I've never done. My lowest adult weight was 141. I'm wondering if I'm picking something that is not sustainable/unrealistic for someone my height; I'm 5'6". How did you go about picking your goal weight? Was it the weight you used to be? Or was it a challenge you picked for yourself?

Kelll12123 · October 2016

I'm 5'6" and I started at 175 pounds too. My original goal was 150 pounds, then once I reached that I made smaller and smaller goals until I got under 125 pounds. I'm 135 and focusing on strength training now. When I was losing weight, I discovered that I loved to run and ran one mile further each week until I was ready for my first half marathon. Weight loss was a goal, but I also made exercise goals.

When I first started, the thought losing 50 pounds seemed impossible, but you have to take one step at a time. Set small goals, reach them, and then set more. 139 sounds like an excellent goal-- work toward it, don't rush. Do and eat things that you enjoy!

Machka9 · October 2016

I didn't pick my goal weight.

When I started here, my goal was to stick with it for 16 weeks. I figured I'd lose something in that time which would be nice. I lost 15 kg.

Then I took a 1-month diet break and decided to stick with it for another 16 weeks to see where I might end up. I lost another 11 kg, and dropped to the weight I was back in 2004, a weight I have been most of my adult life.

I was thinking of losing a bit more, but my focus changed this year to long distance cycling, and fuelling is a bit tricky. You don't want to be in too much of a calorie deficit for that. So I've been maintaining for almost a year now.

I may try to lose a bit more now that my ultra-distance events have eased up a bit ... we'll see. It's not urgent. I am in the lower half of my BMI range.

nowine4me · October 2016

I'm 5-7" and picked 149 because it's under 150 and a healthy BMI. Once I got there, I realized I had a long way to go and reset to 130.

Not sure how old you are, but things do shift and you may look entirely different at 141 than you did in the past. Take and evaluate photos every 5 pounds. 139 sounds ideal, but you won't know until you get there. Most important, take your time.

RA60172 · October 2016

I'm 5'5" and started this year at 230#. I'm now halfway to my goal of 140#.

My lowest adult weight is 160#, but I decided on 140# because it's in my healthy weight range but more on the higher end. I could go lower and still be a healthy weight, and maybe I'll try for that when I reach my goal, but for now it feels right for me.

foxandflora · October 2016

My goal weight ranges from 128-135. 128 is a single pound "underweight" in reference to BMI for my height. This amuses me. 135 because I may just get too lazy for those last 7 pounds!

GottaBurnEmAll · October 2016

My original goal weight of 150 was still overweight for my height (5'2"), but being older, I thought it was as low as I'd be able to get because I thought losing weight would be pretty hard for me.

When I saw how easy it was to lose weight, I lowered that goal to 130. When I hit 140, I knew 130 was too high and thought maybe 125.

Nope.

I'm 117 now and still not sure where I'm going to end up. Some days I decide I'm going to maintain and recomp, and other days I think I want to lose a few more pounds. I still can't make up my mind.

Cbestinme · October 2016

Hi I don't have a goal didn't puck one yet, just lose weight until it's right. The lightest/heaviest I've known myself to be is about 25 pounds from where I am.

Chadxx · October 2016

My goal weight isn't truly my real goal. It is an educated guess at what weight will have looking the way I want. I have been close enough to it before to know that it is pretty close. Actually though, I would be perfectly fine being heavier than that and actually plan to be but I am tired of the fat and getting lean is priority one.

nikesandbows · October 2016

NinaSharp wrote: »

I am questioning this because I'm wondering if my goal is unreasonable. I've never been at that particular weight before. I started at 175 and my goal is to be 139. I picked it as a challenge, because it would be something I've never done. My lowest adult weight was 141. I'm wondering if I'm picking something that is not sustainable/unrealistic for someone my height; I'm 5'6". How did you go about picking your goal weight? Was it the weight you used to be? Or was it a challenge you picked for yourself?

I picked it based on what is a healthy weight range for my height and age... Granted weight isn't everything. But the highest weight I "should" be is between 121-158. So I picked kinda between the two at 135-140. I'm more focused on BF% though rather than weight.

Chieflrg · October 2016

I know I start to look too skinny around 210lb, so I use that as a rough guesstimate when I'm about to cut. The mirror and my general feeling is when I decide to stop or continue before I start reverse dieting into a bulk.

janekana · October 2016

There is no such thing as an unreasonable goal weight, however there is such a thing as unreasonable weight loss expectations (like if you expect dropping 10 lbs/week in a healthy way). It's very reasonable to lose that much weight, but you need to make sure that you know what a healthy weight loss is (around 0.5-1 lbs/week) and that you're eating enough.

My goal weight is 55kg (121 lbs) though, and I'm currently at 63.6kg (140 lbs) that's still 20 lbs to go! I've never been that weight before since middle school, so I want to see what I look like in that weight and toned, I also really want to look good in skirts and tank tops!

capaul42 · October 2016

I'm 5'5" and started at 181. I picked 150 to start because that's what I remember being before my daughter was born. As I got closer I reset my goal for 135, which I've been maintaining for last month. I probably could go another 10 but more interested in recomposition right now.

Alatariel75 · October 2016

To be honest, I don't have one. It's been far, far too many years since I was at a healthy weight for me to have any idea what I'm going to look like when I get to one, so I don't see the point at picking a number. I do plan to be in my healthy weight range, but I think what will happen is that I'll get there, be happy with my size and have a range in which I stick rather than one number.

I can fluctuate up to 3kg in a day, so I don't want to drive myself nuts if one morning I'm above a certain number.

Willbenchforcupcakes · October 2016

I settled on my current goal weight because it's just a couple kg under the top end of my weight class. Close enough that in the weeks before a weigh in I will have to be on point nutrition wise to make sure I make weight, but low enough that I won't have to water load.

jamcdonel · October 2016

My goal weight was given to me by an activity I have planned next summer. As in, "you must weigh less than x amount by y date or you will not be permitted to participate". This is an activity with my kids that we have been aiming towards for 5+ years. Gotta go from 300 to 230. Halfway there!

SusanMFindlay · October 2016

janekana wrote: »

There is no such thing as an unreasonable goal weight,

Of course there is. If a person was aiming for a BMI of 17, I hope we'd all tell them that was an unreasonable goal weight.

My goal weight is the weight I got down to seven years ago, and I was fit and healthy at that weight. It's near the top of my "healthy" BMI range, but I'm relatively muscular for my height, age and gender so that works for me. If I get there and am not happy with how I look, I'll either decide to recomp or readjust my goal.

savithny · October 2016

I'm setting goals as I go: 10% of body weight to start with, as that's an amount that makes a real difference to health. Then 10% increments.

I have no illusions that I will get down to absolute "ideal" for my height - even my doctor didn't encourage that as a goal, based on my build, age, etc. She liked the 10% at a time idea because its way more achievable than a weight I last was before I got breasts...

JeromeBarry1 · October 2016

I haven't been at that weight since I was 11, but now for my height it is the middle of the healthy BMI so that's why I chose it as a goal.

tlflag1620 · October 2016

I'm 5'7". Initially my goal was 160 - that was the lowest I'd been since reaching adulthood. Once I got there I just kept going and got down to 140. I then had my 4th child, and after the pregnancy my goal was to get back to 140-145. I did that, and was happy with the number on the scale, but my focus has recently shifted to building some muscle I've lost over the years... I'm not as "firm" as I would like to be. So for now I'm trying to gain weight (something that is beyond foreign to me, lol). With a progressive lifting routine and a modest surplus I'm slowly gaining (about a half lb per week). Once I get up around 152-155 I'll cut again and see where I end up. At this point I know I'm within the "healthy" category so it's about aesthetics and I'm kind of having fun playing with the numbers. I will admit it's nice to be deliberately "over eating" (without guilt) for the first time ever.

Tldr- I still don't know what my "goal weight" is.... I'll know it when I see it

Alatariel75 · October 2016

janekana wrote: »

There is no such thing as an unreasonable goal weight, however there is such a thing as unreasonable weight loss expectations (like if you expect dropping 10 lbs/week in a healthy way). It's very reasonable to lose that much weight, but you need to make sure that you know what a healthy weight loss is (around 0.5-1 lbs/week) and that you're eating enough.

My goal weight is 55kg (121 lbs) though, and I'm currently at 63.6kg (140 lbs) that's still 20 lbs to go! I've never been that weight before since middle school, so I want to see what I look like in that weight and toned, I also really want to look good in skirts and tank tops!

Um, yeah... say that next time someone starts a thread saying they're 5'6 and want to weight 100lbs. You won't have to wait long, they crop up pretty often.

How did you pick your Goal Weight?

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