Weight or Size

For me, it's both. I'm 144 pounds but within the healthy B.M.I range. Honestly though, the thought of 144 pounds and my pants size disgusts me considering the weight I once was.

So for me, it's my size and my weight. Health is important too and I wouldn't compromise my health to get to my target weight. I really want to wear my 7 for All Mankind jeans but they ride so low and I'll know that once my *kitten* can fit into those jeans, my goal will be met.

I think it can be both. I have a weight range that I am aiming for but the weight I will attempt to maintain will depend on how my body looks and how I feel. Being african-american I want to keep that curvaceous look without the extra plump around the middle. I don't follow what is considered the "healthy weight range" though. For my height my weight should be between 148-155, I am aiming for around 165-170 and see how I feel and fit into clothes.

I don't like to be the downer but weight and size pretty much go hand in hand. My 225 size is not oozing as a healthy body squeezing into size 16's.

I will say depending on my exercise I might be able to fit into my 16's differently than without exercise. So when I take these 80 lbs off I hope to see my size 10s again and with the exercise I might be an 8 instead. I will tell you my 139 will be maybe an 8 but I won't see size 4's and 6's that everyone else raves about.

So with that said size is kinda relative but still in order for me to be healthy I could say it is a size 10 for me but that would also tell everyone that going from a 16 to a 10 is all about the weight. I'm excited about my 14's and even more excited about my 12's but I can't imagine the 10's and 8's besides I think I threw those out years ago.

One upside to my exercise is not only fitting into my 16's better (some I didn't fit into at all 5 weeks ago) the best part is my BP is down to 140/74 from 160/108. It actually has been better than tonight but this week has been horribly stressful so on the way home from a very tough day i wanted to see what my BP was in a stressful time. I have made progress no matter my weight and size of my pants.

Keep Moving it really has an affect!!!

Stacy

My first thought is health, of course, but that's because I'm still 50 pounds from goal. The way I choose my goal weight was to put in weight/height until I got a combination that puts me into a healthy category. It seems ridiculously low, only 12 pounds above what I weighed in high school. But it is what it is and when I'm anywhere close to goal, I'll reevaluate. By then I'll have a physical and some numbers from test results so I'll see how healthy I am.

For me it's body composition...just being small doesn't make you fit, just like being light doesn't. You can be small and light, but have no muscle, so your BF% can still be high and you can still be at risk for diseas. Similarly, you can measure large, and weigh a lot, but have low BF and high muscle mass. So I think BF levels and overall health are most important.

I would have to say size, pre pregnancy I was right in the middle of the BMI index for me and I was not happy with how I looked (although I was young and silly). I think when I reach my goal weight I will have to determine if I am happy with that or if I want to try to lose or gain a few lbs. My goal is 144, my husband said he thought I was perfect at the weight I was when we met, 150, so we'll see.