Little success add up to big results
Cbaka27
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I started using MFP 48 days ago. I'm not really sure why I started but I sure am glad I did. My starting weight was 248 with an overall goal weight of 175. I am 25% to my goal (CW 229.5) and so glad I started this. I am finding that setting little goals is making the big number easier. Here are my next mini goals I am working toward over the next few months.
Drivers Licenses Weight 225
Wedding Day (2002) Weight 218
50% to my goal 211.5
What mini goals do you set to make your big goal feel smaller?
Drivers Licenses Weight 225
Wedding Day (2002) Weight 218
50% to my goal 211.5
What mini goals do you set to make your big goal feel smaller?
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Awesome progress!
I don't set too many "mini goals", but I did reach my wedding day weight last month and it is kind of fun to think about. I have a goal to break the 130lb mark by my vacation in a few weeks. I am so close, but I am not sure I will get there. I am ok with it though. Ultimately this is a lifestyle change for me, so goal dates are a bit arbitrary as long as I am making some kind of progress. I would love to reach my drivers license weight one day, but it is a bit of a stretch. It hasn't been updated in 15 years. It is actual 10lbs less than my current goal weight LOL.1 -
This morning I was 224.4!!! I am officially past my DL weight and headed to wedding weight. 6.4 lbs to go for my next goal.10
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My first goal was pre baby7 weight. Hit that then lowest weight in several years hit that. Now onederland is my next goal.
I would love to be at my wedding weight but thats 55lbs away.1 -
I want to log my food every day and go to gym 3 times a week3
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MyLovesMyLife wrote: »My first goal was pre baby7 weight. Hit that then lowest weight in several years hit that. Now onederland is my next goal.
I would love to be at my wedding weight but thats 55lbs away.
You can do it. Log every day!0 -
Awesome progress!
Yes so much to this!
I don't set too many "mini goals", but I did reach my wedding day weight last month and it is kind of fun to think about. I have a goal to break the 130lb mark by my vacation in a few weeks. I am so close, but I am not sure I will get there. I am ok with it though. Ultimately this is a lifestyle change for me, so goal dates are a bit arbitrary as long as I am making some kind of progress. I would love to reach my drivers license weight one day, but it is a bit of a stretch. It hasn't been updated in 15 years. It is actual 10lbs less than my current goal weight LOL.
This is me to a 't'. At the beginning, I could not mentally handle the idea that I was 40 lbs away from a healthy bmi. It was too much and I had failed so many times before. I made it instead about learning more about my IBS. In addition to food and exercise, I use MFP to monitor how I feel from my stress level to how my body is physically feeling. This has been key. I learned that more than WHAT I eat, my IBS is most triggered by how MUCH I eat. And that has been huge! Even when I am in high stress and in pain, I know that tracking my food will keep me from making it worse. So, the little goals have been about logging all those things, staying at a deficit 5 days a week, and/or getting at least 10k steps every day. I move these little goals as needed. For example, when I travel for work, I am in 8-10 hour meetings. So 10k steps is not feasible...but an hour on the elliptical can be if I get up earlier.
I take each success day by day and like you all, it's added up to 25 lbs. lost. Would I love to be at 40 lbs lost? Heck yeah! But at the beginning, I couldn't imagine 10 lbs much less 25! It will come. I have all the time the Lord allows me here on earth to get there if my body is ready.0 -
pacingoamy wrote: »Awesome progress!
Yes so much to this!
I don't set too many "mini goals", but I did reach my wedding day weight last month and it is kind of fun to think about. I have a goal to break the 130lb mark by my vacation in a few weeks. I am so close, but I am not sure I will get there. I am ok with it though. Ultimately this is a lifestyle change for me, so goal dates are a bit arbitrary as long as I am making some kind of progress. I would love to reach my drivers license weight one day, but it is a bit of a stretch. It hasn't been updated in 15 years. It is actual 10lbs less than my current goal weight LOL.
This is me to a 't'. At the beginning, I could not mentally handle the idea that I was 40 lbs away from a healthy bmi. It was too much and I had failed so many times before. I made it instead about learning more about my IBS. In addition to food and exercise, I use MFP to monitor how I feel from my stress level to how my body is physically feeling. This has been key. I learned that more than WHAT I eat, my IBS is most triggered by how MUCH I eat. And that has been huge! Even when I am in high stress and in pain, I know that tracking my food will keep me from making it worse. So, the little goals have been about logging all those things, staying at a deficit 5 days a week, and/or getting at least 10k steps every day. I move these little goals as needed. For example, when I travel for work, I am in 8-10 hour meetings. So 10k steps is not feasible...but an hour on the elliptical can be if I get up earlier.
I take each success day by day and like you all, it's added up to 25 lbs. lost. Would I love to be at 40 lbs lost? Heck yeah! But at the beginning, I couldn't imagine 10 lbs much less 25! It will come. I have all the time the Lord allows me here on earth to get there if my body is ready.
My big goal is 73 lbs so I get it. That number is way to hard!!! Right now I am trying to loose 6 lbs to get to my wedding weight. After that I need to loose 6.5 more to get to my HALF WAY POINT!!!1
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