How Did You Pick Your Goal Weight?

I want to be skinny and I know I can be skinny and healthy. So, I picked my goal weight as just a little lower than I know I used to be when I was comfortably fitting in my clothes.

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I picked a weight I knew to be a healthy weight for me. I have no plans to be skinny, I settle for healthy.

this isnt the place to 'settle' take it all the way we're all pushing for you

Well, I really picked a weight that was in the middle of the "healthy weight range" for my height according to the BMI scale, but I was around 160-165 in high school and after for a year or two (and haven't gained any height since) until I got a serving job and gained 20 pounds. I didn't ever like being that weight (although I look at pictures of myself then and I think I looked awesome!) and always thought I was big, so I'm aiming for 145. We'll see what happens, you can see from my ticker that I have a long way to go to get there!

Last time I lost I ended up getting to a weight that was too low for my preferences. I 'let' myself gain until I found my happy weight, & I'm shooting for the higher end of that range right now.

I went with the weight that I was at on my wedding day 4 years ago which was 135. I was happy with the way that I looked then and the way that I felt and I want to have that back.

my instructor at job corp told me if i gert to 285 he would send me on a job interview so i can start working

I picked it as a starting point I want to see how I look at the weight and go from there, I dont wanna be overly muscular but I wanna put on more muscle cause I dont wanna be scrawny either even though I have quite a bit of muscle right now with all the fat though its hard to tell just how much is there lol I want an atheltic look not a bodybuilder look if all that makes sense.

My previous low weight was about 139lbs and I knew I could do with losing about a stone back then. I was a comfy 14 (UK) at that weight but would like to get down to a 12. 125lbs would give me a decent BMI and I think it's a weight that, with some effort, I could realistically achieve and maintain.

I'm not super fussy, just want to feel good about my body which for me is around 125. However I wanted to be about 120 but not sure if that's realistic for me as I'm quite muscular and curvy at 5'5".

I didn't have a weight problem until my late 40s, so I just picked a weight that was normal for me as a young adult. I went back a decade or so further in time, weight wise, than I originally intended, to my weight around the time I graduated from college. I wish I could say the pounds are distributed the same.:grumble:

I was in my early 30s when I started putting on serious weight. I was ca.70kg all though my early aduly life.

I would be quite happy as a middle-aged man to be a happy 80kg. I know that's still in the overweight range, but if I could get back to a 34" waist and a L 40" chest, I'd be quite content.

It's not about being skinny... I was never skinny and don't think it'd be healthy for my frame... it's about being happy and being able to maintain a healthy weight.

I looked starved at 150 when I was 26, my goal is 155 now that I'm 43.
I will be happy with 165, total happy! I would still like to know if I can get down to 155, so I set two different goals.

I took the healthy weight range for my body type and height, then picked the middle number.

I did a search "healthy weight calculator for women" or something along that line, and checked out a few sites that seemed legit, like a medical site and a health insurance site, etc. They generally ask for your height and body build...can't remember if they ask age or not. Anyway, the calculator gives a range. After checking with a few sites and seeing the ranges, I chose the weight that was the middle of the range as my goal. I may adjust some when I get close.

I have weighed less than 140 only once in my adult life and my family (after not seeing me for over a year) thought I had cancer! At 5'8", I get to carry a few more pounds than others I have my favorite pair of jeans hanging in the closet, waiting to come out to play so I set my goal weight of 170 at what I weighed when I wore them. We will see what happens from there.