What Mini Goal is motivating you right now!

I wanna lose my first 8 pounds before my family's annual Christmas cookie baking day (with all the ladies in the extended family working together for a few days we make hundreds of cookies lol and I intend to eat some)! I'm about 3.5/8 down since I started (I'm a newbie) and I'm hoping to keep up the progress!

My mini goal was to get BMI from obese to overweight. Mini goal accomplished.

My goal is that by Nov 30 I am down 5 pounds and my bench press is at 185 pounds.

I want to be down 15 pounds. That would be awesome.

lizcarpenter146 wrote: »

I’m SO close to the 150s! I’m really hoping to hit at least 159 this week.

I hit 159.8 today!! Now my next goal is 153 by the end of the year - this will move me from an obese BMI to overweight.

To be under 300 pounds by December.

melto1989 wrote: »

My mini goals are
1) resist stealing all my kids Easter chocolates!
2) make it to the 70s in kg I weigh 84kg currently and would love to get down to the 70s

Oh my gosh so long ago!!
1)I admittedly ate too much chocolate
2) I made it to 70kg last week
3) new mini goal lose 5kg

Ultimate goal 60kg before my 30th in February

Lose another 5lbs to get to 50lbs lost. Then from there focus on each 10lb increments.

My current mini goal is to be no heavier after Christmas than I am now

<65.0kg by New Year.

Only need to average a daily deficit of 277kcals from last week. I'm currently running a little greater than that, so I'm hoping for a little bit of a buffer for Christmas.

My last 6 pounds until hitting my first mini-goal weight!!

My current mini goal is probably stupid, but I'll take whatever motivation I can get right now.
There's entirely too much back-story here for context/explaining why this goal is important to me, and because I'm notoriously long-winded, so the tl;dr is I'm trying to lose 8 pounds by the end of November (4 gone so far!).

Seasonal depression hit me pretty hard this year, which led to binge eating potato chips over the last 2 months (this does not keep me in keto, btw ), which then led to regaining 8 of the 67 pounds I worked so hard to lose over the last 4 years. And of course it all went right to my stomach, which is already my worst area.

I'm basically dirt poor, and struggling through the process of trying to get disability benefits. I have crippling anxiety and depression (on top of the aforementioned seasonal depression), which feeds into agoraphobia. All of that combined with an inability to drive means I never get to leave my house much except for doctor appointments and grocery shopping. I only go out for 'fun' maybe 2 or 3 times a year if I'm lucky, and more often than not it's just to have lunch with someone.

But when I DO manage to go out for fun, I like to dress up. I spend most of my time in my pajamas, only putting on jeans and a t-shirt for doctors and groceries. I look like crap because I feel like crap. Going out is my rare opportunity to escape that crap, so I dress up a little more than I probably should, because it helps to psychologically separate me that much more from feeling like crap.

So at the end of the month I'm going to see Penn & Teller in Seattle. It's pretty much the only achievable thing on my bucket list (it wouldn't have been achievable at all if I'd had to go to Vegas for it). I purchased the ticket back in March, and it's the only thing I've had to look forward to all year. This is one of those ultra rare, super special, too expensive but worth it sort of outings for me. It's been 2 years since my last major outing like this (Chris Fleming was hilarious), and I don't expect there to be another for some time, if ever again.

So I have this ridiculous, over the top outfit I plan to wear.
And it will look so much better without the extra 8 pounds on me.
And I will feel so much better without the extra 8 pounds on me.

To be objectively fair to myself, I did try on the complete outfit and all accessories the other day, and even with the extra weight I think I still look like a polished turd pretty good, so I'll try not to be too hard on myself if I don't hit this mini goal completely.

Here's the ridiculous outfit.
Neighbors approve. Internet pals approve.