12 pounds left to goal! Was your first goal your final goal or did it change?

I'm 12 pounds away from my final goal as well! Taking a bit long since I kept falling off track lol but I know I can do it. I chose my goal weight of 130 because it was 30 pounds lighter than my heaviest at 162, which at 5'2" looks heavy and felt worse. And 130 is what I'm aiming for and I'll lose more if I feel the need to currently 142 and I plan on eating only one meal christmas and a small dessert so I don't fall off track again!

My initial and very tentative goal was 165 because that's where I was when I graduated college and was pretty lean and fit and fit looking...I kept an open mind about it though as I knew that some of my 55 Lb weight gain over 8 years was muscle mass.

I landed on about 180 to have the roughly the same level of leanness (around 15%) that I had 8 years earlier...so yes, my goal changed...but it was higher.

I chose to break my goals up, so I can feel more accomplished...I guess. Dieting is rough, so I broke mine up 3 goals. My 1st goal is a weight where I feel ok--not good, but just ok. My 2nd goal, which is 10 lbs under that is a weight I feel good at. My 3rd goal, which is another 10 lbs below, is where I'd look great.

There is a distinction between feeling good (2nd goal) vs looking great (3rd goal). The looking great goal is a weight where I usually don't feel well, likely because I'm not taking in enough calories. It's also hard for me to maintain. I'll decide when I reach my 2nd goal whether I want to continue or not.

The way I have it set up, I can maintain at the first or second goal and be ok or happy with myself. The third will be something to decide on later, pending how I feel physically.

My first goal was 161lb before Christmas, which I reached at the end of November, so decided to try maintain till the New year and then my next goal is 147lb which will bring me to a healthy BMI.

My initial, totally random goal was 145 (starting weight 190). When I reached that relatively easily this summer I decided to keep going with my doctor's OK. Now at 130-133 I'm at a point where it's been extremely hard to lose any more so I think I'm there even though I was shooting for 125. At 63 years old, I weigh less than I did 35 years ago so I'm pretty good with that. I feel good, my blood workup is perfect, I don't look emaciated and I am going to work on recomp as soon as the holidays are behind me. This whole experience this time around has been a real learning experience for me. Through research and following many of the successful people on MFP I feel like I have finally figured this sustainable lifestyle thing out. I know what I have to do from now on, forever, to maintain a good weight.

My goal is set in 10 lb. increments...that way it's not so scary to me.

Proud to say I met my first goal on time...11 lbs actually.

I was well over 200 . So my first goal is to reach onederland .. according to mbi scales I should be around 50 pounds from good weight . I'm thinking 30 to 40 more ..I'll see when i get closer..good thing is I can still wear old clothes there just baggy lol

I also broke my goals down. I'm 5'3. I stared at 181lbs (currently 149) and my first main goal is 142lbs as that is the top end of the healthy BMI. I'm finding it difficult to choose a goal as I've never been this low so I don't know how I'll look at specific weights. I'm thinking maybe 125-130, but I'll see how I feel about my appearance the closer to my goal I get.

I change my goal all the bloody time, I'm flighty like that I'll know when i get there...

My goal seems to be constantly changing. I pretty much gave up on landing at one number and being happy with it. Instead, I'm focusing on losing until I'm in a healthy weight range and then focusing on body recomp (also doing some now, but focusing harder on it then) I think it benefits me to have a range rather than a specific goal, but that's just how my brain works.

Congratulations!
My first goal was tiny, only 5 pounds. Now I'm on the second 5 pounds. I do much better looking at that than scary-big-number goal (which shouldn't be all that scary, it's around 40 pounds, but that's a quarter of my bodyweight! The perils of being really short). I do have a ballpark weight to aim for, but when I hit that I may decide to lose more. We'll see!

If anyone wants numbers, 5 foot nothing, started at 171, now 165, headed for 130?

Way to go closing in on that goal OP!

Initially my goal was 165 (5'9") because that seemed attainable at the time. Because I carry weight poorly and run distance I have since reevaluated several times and cut to my current range 128-130. Fluidity in goal is important imo

Congrats on your success, OP!

I set my original goal as overweight for me because I thought it would be hard to lose weight. When I found it would be easier than I thought, I lowered that. I keep lowering that number based on body composition. At this point, it's a matter of "I'll know it when I see it". Right now, I'm shooting for a tentative goal that's 40 pounds below my initial goal weight. I'm 6 pounds away from that, but with Christmas coming, I'm sure I'll be a little further away than that for a teeny bit.

Congratulations on all of your success even through the holidays!