Goal Weight vs Clothing size/measurements?

When I got married I weighed 168 lbs and was a size 8/10. I didn't know about healthy BMI's then or anything else I thought I was average size and not overweight...however according to the BMI standards I should be less than 140lbs. I can't even remember a time when I weighed that little in my entire life! I have to do some checking on my goals for this reason because I think I would be pretty sick looking if I was at 140.

I originally set a goal weight just to please MFP. My real goal is a clothing size. US size 6 to be exact. If I get down close to my goal weight, but am happy with myself, I will stop. I have never been down that small, so I can't judge if I'll be happy or not. We shall see.

My goal is a size ten :-) The last few months my bigger jeans are falling off me, but the scale continually says F off ;-) So screw the scale, I'm going by size and measurements. I do occasionally weigh myself. As to the BMI - I just found a post about people who are large boned and their BMI does not fall into the normal category BMI scale....

Check this site out - SAVED ME! :-)

http://www.livestrong.com/article/36520-calculate-accurate-bmi-large-frame/

Experiencing this presently myself. I have dieted many times in the past and know that a certain weight means I wear a certain dress size. This time around, I have been exercising daily and found that I am hitting the small dress sizes quicker, and at a much higher weight than I would normally expect. I now only weigh myself fortnightly just so I can update MFP, otherwise I am not that interested in my weight. I am not complaining

Yes, as you get closer to your goal weight...it can be tiresome as the weight may take some time to come off..but the clothing results, the mirror results, the complements of friends, family are the greatest goal of all..so it depends on how you feel about the scale..some people don't even account to the scale anymore..and just rely on the visual changes, clothing changes...it is a great feeling to be able to have loose clothing, falling off your booty.. (no plumber flashing, or anything else for that matter..bahahaha...if you can help it!)

I myself go by both..the scale doesn't bother anymore...as I soooo love the way my clothes feel right now..and have clothing from prior that I totally can fit into..easily...loosely, and can't stop smiling!!!

at my height im supposed to weigh 120 but i would stop if i got to a size 5/6 even if i weighed 130 or whatever... i think thats a good idea not a goal weight but a goal size... thank you!

My mother weighs 45 kilos (about 100 lbs.) while I weigh 53.6 kilos (about 118-119 lbs.) but we're both wearing the same clothing size, US size 2-4 or UK size 8 & a jean size 26-27 or US size 2-4 . Funny thing is I used to weigh 50 kilos (about 110 lbs.) way back 11 years ago but I wore a jean size 30 or equivalent to US size 10. But I do admit that back then, I lost that much weight because of Bangkok diet pills so around 80% of my weight loss before was from water & muscle. Now I can say that my current loss is mostly from fat as I weight train 3x a week aside from 4x a week mini-cardio. So while I still consider the scale as an important tool, we shouldn't make it as a sole criterion for our success.