Finding an Initial Stopping Place aka The First Goal Weight
Replies
-
I finally got a handle on things this morning!....swam 95 minutes and ate ONLY A little under maintenance....it felt SO good to eat less today!3
-
conniewilkins56 wrote: »I finally got a handle on things this morning!....swam 95 minutes and ate ONLY A little under maintenance....it felt SO good to eat less today!
I knew you would.
I am not worried about you. I think you will get around or through the obstacles. It is inevitable.2 -
Ha!....this morning I was down SEVEN pounds....is this even possible?....I will say I had a perfect maintenance day yesterday after being all over the place earlier in the week so that helped....I will finish this week up strong and Saturday morning the second half of my diet/journey/whatever it is will begin....90 down, 70 to go....4
-
Good for you Connie!1
-
I am waiting for my follow-up with my plastic surgeon before I finalize this but I think I have made my decision on the end of phase 1.
193 would keep me out of the 2's most of the time so that seems like a good weight to stop and just work on recomp for a year or more. However, I am done with this being open-ended so I am also going to set a final date and I have decided on November 20th. So 193 or Nov 20th - whichever comes first.
I thought about Nov 11th because that would be 1000 days but I really think I will make 193 before the cutoff and my weight loss/management weeks begins each Friday morning as soon as I have weighed and Nov 11th is a Wednesday. My preference is to reboot my spreadsheet on Fri mornings.3 -
I am waiting for my follow-up with my plastic surgeon before I finalize this but I think I have made my decision on the end of phase 1.
193 would keep me out of the 2's most of the time so that seems like a good weight to stop and just work on recomp for a year or more. However, I am done with this being open-ended so I am also going to set a final date and I have decided on November 20th. So 193 or Nov 20th - whichever comes first.
I thought about Nov 11th because that would be 1000 days but I really think I will make 193 before the cutoff and my weight loss/management weeks begins each Friday morning as soon as I have weighed and Nov 11th is a Wednesday. My preference is to reboot my spreadsheet on Fri mornings.
I admire and envy your patience!....I guess I don’t have as much time as the rest of you do!....but I realize time is going to pass anyway....I can not imagine being your present weight!...I hope you realize how many people you are helping,especially me!....you are a great mentor and role model....
I stayed the course yesterday and was down two more pounds so I have put on 8 pounds during this break...I still have a few more days....
Thank you for all of your encouragement and advice!1 -
I am waiting for my follow-up with my plastic surgeon before I finalize this but I think I have made my decision on the end of phase 1.
193 would keep me out of the 2's most of the time so that seems like a good weight to stop and just work on recomp for a year or more. However, I am done with this being open-ended so I am also going to set a final date and I have decided on November 20th. So 193 or Nov 20th - whichever comes first.
I thought about Nov 11th because that would be 1000 days but I really think I will make 193 before the cutoff and my weight loss/management weeks begins each Friday morning as soon as I have weighed and Nov 11th is a Wednesday. My preference is to reboot my spreadsheet on Fri mornings.
Sounds like a solid plan!
AT 5'8" and female, 196 lbs is the upper end of overweight for me, but I don't think I'd want to stop there; I'd rather be firmly in the middle of overweight before I'd consider stopping. I need 164 lbs to be considered normal weight, but I don't even look at that as within reach. 180 ideally; perhaps 175. Course if I can hit 175 lbs naturally, I may have enough flabby skin on my arms and stomach and thighs that if I ever had the means for the surgery to remove them might have enough weight to push me over the 164 lb mark!
But right now, I'm aiming for 220 lbs. I'd like to hit that by October and then try holding it until January next year, then start deficit again and try to be 200 by the end of March or before my 41st birthday.
Course, while that might be my hazy plan, that's 6 months and who knows what can happen in that length of time!
@conniewilkins56
I'm proud of you! You made it, even if you had some bumps along the way (and we all do that, so that's perfectly normal)2 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »I am waiting for my follow-up with my plastic surgeon before I finalize this but I think I have made my decision on the end of phase 1.
193 would keep me out of the 2's most of the time so that seems like a good weight to stop and just work on recomp for a year or more. However, I am done with this being open-ended so I am also going to set a final date and I have decided on November 20th. So 193 or Nov 20th - whichever comes first.
I thought about Nov 11th because that would be 1000 days but I really think I will make 193 before the cutoff and my weight loss/management weeks begins each Friday morning as soon as I have weighed and Nov 11th is a Wednesday. My preference is to reboot my spreadsheet on Fri mornings.
I admire and envy your patience!....I guess I don’t have as much time as the rest of you do!....but I realize time is going to pass anyway....I can not imagine being your present weight!...I hope you realize how many people you are helping,especially me!....you are a great mentor and role model....
I stayed the course yesterday and was down two more pounds so I have put on 8 pounds during this break...I still have a few more days....
Thank you for all of your encouragement and advice!
I think only death row inmates know how much time they have left and even they could go before their date. I am hoping you will be with us for a very long time to come.
I could never imagine being at this weight either. Even when I was sure I wouldn't stop I had no idea where it was leading. That might be part of the problem for some of us. It is SO hard to imagine something that you either have never been or you were but it was so long ago you were a very different person. I guess I have and still do just keep imagining it could be better than it is and I keep knocking out another day of process towards "better".1 -
My goal has always been plastic surgery on my excess skin. Last October before I started I called to make a consult just to see what was needed and they wouldn't even see me until I was a normal BMI. Even though I had lost over 200lbs. So my goal is 174. That is the highest weight I can be and have a normal BMI. I don't have an end date but I do have a goal to reach and a motivating factor to help me reach it.2
-
My goal has always been plastic surgery on my excess skin. Last October before I started I called to make a consult just to see what was needed and they wouldn't even see me until I was a normal BMI. Even though I had lost over 200lbs. So my goal is 174. That is the highest weight I can be and have a normal BMI. I don't have an end date but I do have a goal to reach and a motivating factor to help me reach it.
I had no idea you had lost so much weight!...you really are a Large Loser....it is so good that you are doing this at a young age....hindsight is a wonderful thing.....had i lost this weight 40 yrs ago and kept it off, I would not have had the problems my weight has caused me!..I would like to get under 200 to see that I can do it...not sure how much lower my weight could be because of my age,excess skin and my height, etc....at 69 years old I don’t want to have surgery to remove skin....I have had enough surgery to last two life times....my doctor recently told me I probably will never be completely happy with my body when I reach my goal but my body will sure be healthier than it was!...I really think you will reach your goals and can’t wait to see pictures of you!1 -
My goal has always been plastic surgery on my excess skin. Last October before I started I called to make a consult just to see what was needed and they wouldn't even see me until I was a normal BMI. Even though I had lost over 200lbs. So my goal is 174. That is the highest weight I can be and have a normal BMI. I don't have an end date but I do have a goal to reach and a motivating factor to help me reach it.
I wonder if my surgeon would do the final one if I decided to stop short of "healthy" BMI. I guess I will find out. I was able to get the first one done after I reached a safer BMI (under 40) and because my PCP considered it medically necessary. I wish my insurance company had agreed but they didn't care and they won't care about the next one either.
I am assuming that due to the amount of your loss that skin removal is not even close to optional. I wanted it to be optional for me but it was not. I considered waiting or at least waiting longer but every medical opinion was to get it done as soon as I could.1 -
My goal has always been plastic surgery on my excess skin. Last October before I started I called to make a consult just to see what was needed and they wouldn't even see me until I was a normal BMI. Even though I had lost over 200lbs. So my goal is 174. That is the highest weight I can be and have a normal BMI. I don't have an end date but I do have a goal to reach and a motivating factor to help me reach it.
I wonder if my surgeon would do the final one if I decided to stop short of "healthy" BMI. I guess I will find out. I was able to get the first one done after I reached a safer BMI (under 40) and because my PCP considered it medically necessary. I wish my insurance company had agreed but they didn't care and they won't care about the next one either.
I am assuming that due to the amount of your loss that skin removal is not even close to optional. I wanted it to be optional for me but it was not. I considered waiting or at least waiting longer but every medical opinion was to get it done as soon as I could.
It is totally optional according to my insurance company too! I however find it in the non optional realm. I will pay for it out of pocket. Will it be the end of the world if I don't get it? No. But I hate having a "front butt" as my niece calls it. It makes me uncomfortable so I'm going to do it for me!3 -
My goal has always been plastic surgery on my excess skin. Last October before I started I called to make a consult just to see what was needed and they wouldn't even see me until I was a normal BMI. Even though I had lost over 200lbs. So my goal is 174. That is the highest weight I can be and have a normal BMI. I don't have an end date but I do have a goal to reach and a motivating factor to help me reach it.
I wonder if my surgeon would do the final one if I decided to stop short of "healthy" BMI. I guess I will find out. I was able to get the first one done after I reached a safer BMI (under 40) and because my PCP considered it medically necessary. I wish my insurance company had agreed but they didn't care and they won't care about the next one either.
I am assuming that due to the amount of your loss that skin removal is not even close to optional. I wanted it to be optional for me but it was not. I considered waiting or at least waiting longer but every medical opinion was to get it done as soon as I could.
It is totally optional according to my insurance company too! I however find it in the non optional realm. I will pay for it out of pocket. Will it be the end of the world if I don't get it? No. But I hate having a "front butt" as my niece calls it. It makes me uncomfortable so I'm going to do it for me!
Leaving mine would have taken years off my life. My BP was fixed almost immediately after the surgery and I was finally able to walk freely. Not to mention the rashes and infections I would have kept getting. None of that mattered. The insurance company basically said that if that area of skin was on fire and the only way to put it out was to remove it I would still be out of luck. Of course they do not mind that my medical costs are easily 2k less a year now that it has happened.3 -
I like how the insurance company will take the savings... but not contribute--even when the facts are there!
Well... November 20 has another special significance... at least to me @NovusDies !
While November 20, 2014 wasn't the beginning of my attempt to lose weight (I was about 50lbs down and significantly more active by then), it was the FIRST DAY I LOGGED MY FOOD on MFP!
And it was also the START of truly figuring out how I would continue to lose weight so as to best position myself for a chance of success at maintenance.
Just a week before that I was ready to give up losing weight and regain it all... because there was no way I could "continue like this forever".
So good day that November 20!4 -
This content has been removed.
-
@PAV8888
It is nice to pick such an historic date. Although I am still thinking I will be done before then.
All in all this makes sense to me based on my approach to weight loss which has been pretty relaxed throughout. This is a 180 from the super uptight approaches I have taken in the past that always failed.
Where is it written I have to get to my permanent goal weight right now? Why not put the last few pounds off a year and work on recomp so I can better assess what a goal weight might should look like in the mirror? I am not miserable losing weight so I have no reservations about returning to a deficit in a year or so. Plus this goes back to accomplish the thing that I tried to do before covid hit which is practice maintenance and recomp. Although I will not be considering this a practice as much as maintenance with an asterisk.
The other thing is, and I could be very wrong about this, but I have already been in a deficit for so long I am not sure how great that is for my body. My total reduction is almost 60 percent so I am not even half the man I was. Granted I am in much better health now it seems like this is just another thing that in serious excess may have some negatives. Even with the extended break for surgical recovery this has been a long time. I want a break that is long enough for my body to treat maintenance as normal again. I do not even want to come close to risking the hunger blowback some people describe. I am not sure I am in danger of it but it seems like something worth avoiding.
Setting the speculation to the side this feels like a good plan to me. It felt like a good plan to do the 4 month deal but this might even be better. There is a voice inside saying this is MY way. Also, knowing that I am not quite done may give me a little extra sauce for maintenance adherence. Then when I lose whatever weight I feel I want to lose later I will have experience.
I hope the plastic surgeon agrees because that will carry a lot of weight in this becoming a surety.1
This discussion has been closed.