What Mini Goal is motivating you right now!

Your story is very similar to mine. Four years ago I went into the doctor (dermatologist insisted I get a checkup before she removed a mole) and I had high BP, a very high A1C and was 212. I went on a low carb diet and in nine months or so I was down in the 160s. Then I moved and in a new place, my diet really went by the wayside and I gained 30 pounds over the next three years. Another dr appt and I was high BP, high A1c again and I told the PA I wanted to handle the latter with diet and exercise. Now I'm 143.2, and I want to lose another 20. My A1C is prediabetic now. I am hoping with another 20 to get it back to normal. And I am (at the high end) of ideal weight and ideal BMI. So it can be done. I haven't been at this low a weight for 30 years. I honestly am looking forward to losing the last 20. I have added a few more carbs to my diet but I'm still sticking more or less to 1200 calories a day. And lots of walking. (And I'm 67).

Wow….yes….our stories are very similar. Congrats on your amazing weight loss and overall health improvement!

I have found I can now take less insulin, so I guess my efforts are paying off. I still have a long way to go, but I will get there. Stories like yours encourage me to keep moving forward. Thank you for your reply and continued good health to you!

Well, the PA wanted to put me on insulin (my A1c was 10.4) but I refused. Then she offered metformin but I refused that, and told her I wanted to do it with just diet and exercise. Maybe I was wrong to avoid taking the drugs. But I have a horror of taking medication and so that's why I worked so hard to lose the weight and go low carb. My PA was astonished at my last visit that I went from diabetic to prediabetic. And she said my bloodwork was otherwise fine. I just have to keep it up. I'm introducing some limited carbs to my diet now, to see how I tolerate them and if I have improved my insulin resistance. I am having like 50 net carbs a day, rather than 20-30. I will see how it goes for a month. If my A1c goes up or doesn't go down (it was 6.3 last testing and my DMI (from mysugr) is currently 6.1), then I'll go back to 20-30. I test my A1C once a month with a home test kit (A1CNOW) so I don't have to wait for the next appt 4 months from now to see how I'm doing. So it is possible to reverse T2. I wish you good luck and good health.

My current goal is to lose 10lb. I'm on Day 5 of a 30 Day Fat Loss Challenge. I would love to be able to achieve this mini goal at the end of it.

Just met my goal of 60lbs lost (early) - now hoping to NOT BE OBESE by the end of the year! That means out of the 200's by December - ~40 lbs to go!

@rms62003 Excellent work! I'm in the same boat, I'm about half-way through the obese range now and hope to be out of it by the end of the year (ideally earlier). Let's do this!

Well, in my first week back—with a goal of 2 lbs this first week—my scale moved 7.2 lbs. We all know that is NOT 7.2 lbs of fat, though. My knee lost a LOT of swelling (post total knee replacement done on 4/14), so I think that accounts for a lot of the loss.

So my goal for this week is 2 lbs again.

I seriously restarted my weight loss journey on 17th February this year at 86 kilos, the heaviest I’ve ever been. Through diet and walking, I’ve managed to get down to 74 kilos and my mini ho is to get to 70 kilos by the end of June! I haven’t been 70 kgs since September 2022. And then 2019 before that! Wish me luck!