Weekly Weigh In 9/12-9/18

Last week I posted that my next big goal was to reach just overweight.  And I made it!!  Yay rah!!  So now my current goal is 169 - One Hundred Fifty Lost/75% EWL.  My other goal is to get far enough under my partner's weight that the scale no longer asks us to select who we are when we weight.  He hovers around 170, so I think I'll need to get to 164 for that.  :P

High weight: 319
Last week: 176
This week: 174
Next goal: 169 - One Hundred Fifty Lost/75% EWL

How about you?

Nice! Just overweight is a big deal, congrats!

I'm happily still losing. I have a mini goal to get to 162 before my trip to NYC in a few weeks, just a random goal I set. I like having the mini ones to set my sights on.

HW: 377

LW: 166

TW: 165

Next Goal: 162 by 9/29

Dream GOal: 149 -"normal" BMI

HW 368

LW 168.5

TW 164.5

Next goal 150

HW:  373

SW:  316

LW:  170

TW:  169

new goal:  150  (this could be tough...)

Awesome!  How tall are you?

5'6"    The high end of my normal BMI range is 154, so I'm aiming to get under that.  Although my surgeon said I probably have pretty dense bones from weighing well over 300 lbs - so that might account for some of the overage.  I actually think I look pretty good at my current weight, but I'd like a cushion and I'd also like to get to a normal BMI if at all possible - if even just for a few days!!

I totally understand.  I'm 5'4" and top end of normal for me is 145.  But the dense bones thing is real, and there's excess skin of course.. so I wonder.  Once I hit 150 I'm going to talk to the plastic surgeon I have chosen, and my VSG surgeon, and see what they think about weight goals and plastics, etc.  

someone else whose beginning and ending weights more or less parallel mine had plastic surgery recently.  She had something like 6-8 lbs of skin removed - which isn't as much as you would think - but still, that's about half of the 15 lbs that I'm overweight by...

Right!  That's what I wonder about as well.  Ideally I'd like to see 120, but with bone density and even a low estimate for skin weight, it might not be feasible to get below 130.  So.. what's a realistic "final" goal?  

I guess we'll know when we get there, right? :D

I'm going to ask them to check my fat percentage next time I'm in there.  Probably more accurate for us than the standard BMI chart.  If it's 30% or less, then I'm technically not overweight.  And if I'm over that, then at least I'll have a better idea of how much more I need to lose....