Milestones. What’s Yours?

OkieFitness · October 2019

Let’s celebrate together our periodic / long-term goals and milestones here! Success secrets? Please share those too! Here’s mine: Reboot of fitness journey back in April of this year after not accepting and knowing that nearly 200 pounds was not a healthy weight. The journey has been a roller coaster ride since but today? A milestone. 184.8. Lowest weight I’ve been in over 2 years. Almost 13 pounds down since April. Over 100 miles logged in brisk nightly walks. Weight training in the morning. Goal? 170 by year end. I’ve GOT this! Success tips? Guessing at least 50% psychological and mental - especially split second decisions. Say NO to that donut at work! Get your butt out of bed! No, you don’t need to eat that entire meal out. Eat half. Plenty of sleep and water. Consistency and focus. And a $4 JNL fitness DVD I picked up at a garage sale! The 10 minute whole body video is life-changing and kicking my butt!

Hollis100 · October 2019

Well done, congrats on the weight loss and healthier lifestyle. I'm 2.6 pounds away from my first milestone: "normal" (not overweight), which I should reach soon. My success tip is meal planning, always having food on hand that I can grab when I'm tired, and taking lunch and snacks to work instead of grabbing potato chips and a candy bar.

BTW, I love your user name. The old ABC news documentary "Seeing is Believing" is one of my all time favorites, especially the interviews with commercial and military pilots.

nighthawk584 · October 2019

I started at 280ish lbs last April. My first milestone or goal #1 was to get my A1C from prediabetes to normal range. Just had my 6 month follow up. It went from 6.1 to 5.2 and every # on my test was reversed to perfect. My 2nd milestone/goal #2 is almost here. To be under 200 lbs for first time in 17 years. I'm at 201.2 right now. My 3rd and ultimate milestone/goal #3 will be hitting 180 lbs, or 100 lbs total lost. I will then be finally at normal BMI compared to severe obese when I started.

gemiller87 · October 2019

Started at 330-340ish in March of this year, 252 as of this morning. First "major milestone" i'm aiming for is 225-230 for a full 100 lb drop, with a stepping stone goal of sub 240 by xmas if not closer to 230. Technically will still be on the line for overweight vs. healthy BMI but if I factor in waist/hip calculations I should be in the healthy range (i'm 6'6" and pretty wide shoulders). Keep at it everyone!

bobsburgersfan · October 2019

I rebooted in June of 2018, and I'm getting very close to some really big milestones! I'm 3.2 lbs away from 75 lbs lost, which I've never hit on any previous weight loss effort. 4.2 lbs will put me in the 260s, which I haven't seen since high school 25 years ago. Every day of tracking is a new milestone - I've tracked daily since rebooting last June (except for an overseas trip this summer).

RelCanonical · October 2019

My original goal weight was 130 pounds. About six years ago I lost 50 pounds to hit that goal, and ended up gaining it all back +10 pounds due to emotional issues as well as developing a binge eating issue from over-restriction. I'm now 1.5 pounds away from that original goal, and plan to lose 20 more because I wasn't satisfied the last time I hit goal (still all well within a healthy weight range). This is a big milestone for me from a physical level and an emotional one. I feel much more relaxed about my weight and eating now, and I consider it a success that it took me 18 months to lose the same amount of weight that took only 10 months the last time. It means that weight loss is just a part of my life rather than my whole life, and my diet is sustainable to the point where I don't really care that it's taking much longer, 'cause I could do this forever.

jhanleybrown · October 2019

I'm 2 lbs away from "halfway there". I'm "only" losing 20 lbs but the halfway mark has me super motivated right now.

OkieFitness · October 2019

bobsburgersfan wrote: »

I rebooted in June of 2018, and I'm getting very close to some really big milestones! I'm 3.2 lbs away from 75 lbs lost, which I've never hit on any previous weight loss effort. 4.2 lbs will put me in the 260s, which I haven't seen since high school 25 years ago. Every day of tracking is a new milestone - I've tracked daily since rebooting last June (except for an overseas trip this summer).

I’m glad you mentioned tracking - especially weight and food intake - which has been key to my positive path as well. If you don’t know where you’ve been how can you know where you are going?!? Although I don’t track food intake so much anymore because I’m hyper aware of eating healthy and avoiding the opposite - or if I do, I know I have to pay the price through more exercise or meal adjustments otherwise. Weight? Nearly everyday. Not because I’m “obsessed with the scale” but because it gives me those real-world goals to shoot for. I’ve also enjoyed seeing the increase in weight and reps through tracking as well.

OkieFitness · October 2019

By my loose calculations just the 7 of us above have lost over 300 pounds. That’s pretty impressive!

riffraff2112 · October 2019

Milestones
Getting under 200 lbs 5 yrs ago (now about 205..was as low as 192)
Running a 5k in under 30 mins (can do 5km quite easily now but my time has slipped a bit with older age)
Bench pressing 225 for 10 reps and 300lbs once (I don't lift that heavy anymore...)
Doing ten real chin-ups (this is a very recent accomplishment!)

geraldaltman · October 2019

I re-booted in late spring after getting "re-hipped" in January and April. At my last Dr. appointment in May, I weighed 281 lbs. On October 16th, I weighed 247.6 lbs. I am planning to weigh tommorrow (Trick or Treat!) and hope nay, expect a better number. I have a November appointment and I am pysched up to "blow away" my doctor with much improved appearance and labwork results! Milestones? Every time I walk normally and without discomfort, get in and out of my car, do a pool exercise or a household chore without pain (unless I bump something which I do) is a milestone. So, it can be said I have had many, this year alone!

tuckerrj · October 2019

just a couple of pounds from no longer being "obese" on the BMI chart. Have no desire to be in the normal range, it's just too light for me. I like that 30 minute 5k goal of riffraff, too. I'm about 5 minutes from that. Biggest goal is to maintain or not gain significant weight over the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday.

geraldaltman · October 2019

Milestones, part 2: Months ago as I began PT after my second hip replacement (the first few sessions were in-home until I demonstrated that I could safely drive again) my therapist and I had a chat about what I hoped to accomplish. Naturally, my central theme was walking. My sister (staying with me a night or two to set me up for home recovery) chimed in, Stairs! I'd like to see him do stairs! Fast forward: I am expecting to be invited to my sister's for Thanksgiving where she will see me walking and using stairs. Rewind: Last Thanksgiving, I was at her daughter's. I could not get up her steps without her bracing me from the front and her husband steadying me from behind with his hand on the small of my back which he said he could feel and hear cracking. They both were rather freaked out. I was embarrassed. Neither has seen me since that day. This upcoming milestone WILL BE HUGE!!!

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