How many # until your goal?

ReenieHJ
ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
From right now, how many # are you away from the weight you want to be?

I'd like to lose another 5 before I even think about maintenance. But I've spent my whole life needing to lose lots more, anywhere from 20-100. My mindset tells me I'll always be overweight although I'm not. Maybe that's a good protective tool for keeping my guard up but then again, I hope I can be happy where I'm at.
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  • ElizabethKalmbach
    ElizabethKalmbach Posts: 1,415 Member
    I'm currently about 2.5 lbs from the high end of my maintenance range and 12.5 from the low end. It's seasonally backwards for me to be at the high end of my weight range at the BEGINNING of winter. Generally I finish winter at about 155, drop about 10# through spring, due to all the extra walking and maintain at 145# all summer and fall, until it goes back to being unsafe for walking outside again. (Nov-March - ish). I'm kind of waffling about what to do with myself at the moment. I could start a recomp in about 5# and just let the weight come off naturally in the spring, or I could have a go at maintaining with 145 through the winter and see if I can hit 135# in spring - if that is even a thing that happens with what I normally eat.

    Mostly I want to keep an eye on my lean muscle and try not to lose too much of it. USUALLY, at 145#, I'm at about 18% body fat per bod-pod measurement. I feel pretty good there, and am comfortable with the way I look, so that's essentially what I'm aiming for. I've had a number of medical issues this fall that have been the cause of my weight spike and appetite fail, so when I'm done evening those out, I'll pause and reassess where I've ended up and where I want to go from there.
  • netitheyeti
    netitheyeti Posts: 539 Member
    I'm currently within normal BMI range (towards the high end of it) but I'm aiming for another 4-5kg
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    I am 7 pounds away from my second goal which I plan on making the high end of my maintenance range once I reach 120 lbs (my ultimate goal weight) which is 12 lbs away for me.

  • kymmixxx
    kymmixxx Posts: 151 Member
    Between 5 and 10 x
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,940 Member
    13lbs to go! That’ll take me to a weight I’ve maintained before for long periods of time and it’s slap bang in the middle of a normal BMI range.

    I do have a suspicion that once I get there I’ll want to go lower because I’m pretty sure I have more than 13lbs hanging out on my midsection still!

    But, I may settle there for a while and see how things reshape themselves because I know from past experience that it’s really hard to find clothes that fit once I go below that. (Children’s clothes work for my bottom half but not on the top half)
  • Lobsterboxtops
    Lobsterboxtops Posts: 92 Member
    I have about 10 to go to get me to my first goal. Then I’ll reevaluate and decide what I want to do from there. I’ll either continue for another 15 purposely or go into a maintenance cycle and treat any additional loss as gravy.
  • SnifterPug
    SnifterPug Posts: 746 Member
    I am just under 3lb shy of the goal I originally set. I need to lose a bit more, though. Probably another 7lb on top of that. I shall gun for weight loss until our Christmas cruise and then re-evaluate precisely what needs to be done in the new year. Next year's job will be maintenance/recomp.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    10-12 more lbs until pre-pregnancy weight. I might stop sooner and do some recomp until next fall though.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    15 until I get to my pre-pregnancy weight, but I'd like to lose another 5-10 beyond that. Maybe. We'll see.
  • Cyberbartender
    Cyberbartender Posts: 1,319 Member
    12 kg.... So next week?? :D
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    I have about 20 to go, have lost 60, so 3/4 of the way there. Well, pound wise. It's probably going to take just as long to lose the next 20 as it did to lose the first 60, lol.
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    1.2lbs below my "goal". 1.8lbs until I hit my low end of my maintenance range. Now the fun part starts!
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    I have about 20 to go, have lost 60, so 3/4 of the way there. Well, pound wise. It's probably going to take just as long to lose the next 20 as it did to lose the first 60, lol.

    This has totally been the case for me right now....So frustrating :(
  • Go_Deskercise
    Go_Deskercise Posts: 1,630 Member
    5' 4" and in the normal BMI range, but only 1.2 away from being in the overweight category. I'm about 20lbs away from my goal.
  • sexynurse801ms
    sexynurse801ms Posts: 37 Member
    I have 7 lbs to go to reach my first goal of 170 lbs. I've lost 33 lbs since June 20th. My ultimate goal is 150lbs which is the high end of a normal BMI.
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,069 Member
    5-15 pounds away.

    It's a very wide range because the last 6 pounds have made a massive difference in my appearance. My goal was set based on my weight in my 20's and early 30's, but I've been doing a LOT more focused weight lifting the past few years (not always consistent), and believe I may have a bit more mass than I used to carry - even though I was "strong" I didn't really do focused weight lifting back then.

    I feel like another 10 pounds sounds about right, but like I said, the last 6 was such a dramatic difference, I'm really not sure. 10 pounds would be ~3-5 over my old "happy weight." 15 would be slightly under that weight (but a weight that I always thought I looked best at), and 5 I think is a bit higher than I'll be happy with, but based on the last 6, might actually be about right.

    I'll know when my saddle bags are gone LOL.
  • wmweeza
    wmweeza Posts: 319 Member
    11 to next goal, 39 to ugw
  • rumbaimom
    rumbaimom Posts: 46 Member
    22 down and 30 to go!
  • mouser36
    mouser36 Posts: 15 Member
    I’ve lost 19.
    Want to lose 10-15 more.
  • sarko15
    sarko15 Posts: 330 Member
    I've lost 12, and have about 5 stubborn pounds left to go. Five years ago I would have been horrified to think of 140 as my goal weight, I was too intent on cardio-ing down to 115 or so, which is still healthy for my height (just shy of 5'4") but just not sustainable for me.

    I really just want to bump up to maintenance to see how that impacts my weight lifting, but I started at a pretty high body fat % and wanted to cut it down a couple of percentage points before I increased my calories.
  • whoami67
    whoami67 Posts: 297 Member
    2.4 lbs before I get to my first major goal. Then another 20 lbs.
  • FriendlyNeighborhoodEngineer
    FriendlyNeighborhoodEngineer Posts: 940 Member
    ~50 hashtags
  • lgfrie
    lgfrie Posts: 1,449 Member
    edited November 2019
    Lost 64. 66 remaining to get to my original goal, and 81 to my new stretch goal of "normal' BMI.

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