Setting goal weight ?.?

How did you pick ur goal weight. I remember my surgeon saying the line abo

50%-75% of excess weight  but I see lots of amazing goals being met. 

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I picked something pretty much in the middle of a healthy BMI. My starting goal was 175, then it moved to 150 then it moved again to 145 now i run between I 135 and 137. So even if I gain back 5-10 pounds I am ok with being at 150. My doctors goal was 175.

I had lost weight to 135lbs with my lapband, so I picked that weight. Now that I have reached it, I adjusted my new goal to 12lbs to hopefully compensate for 'bounceback' after the honeymoon phase is over. Nothing scientific for me, just where I feel best in my own skin.

I was 140 in my mid 20's and liked my body back then so I picked that weight.

The best quote i read about goal weight is that it should be something you can easily maintain while living the life you want to live.

Good luck!!

Thanks for your responses. I am just beginning to believe I can really be good at this wight loss thing. I have had an easy-almost effortless time in the last 2 1/2 months.  I joined a gym and will begin tomorrow with some cardio n weights.  I actually HAVE to get some clothes because I look ridiculous in big baggy things now. And I let myself begin to see a thinner gal in my future...... Maybe even a "thin " girl.  But I am still hesitant to get my hopes up and set a hard to attain goal- or any for that matter. 

what I mind game I am playing with myself!

Search for the BMI calculator on this website to find what weight will get you in the NORMAL range and see if that seems like a reasonable goal weight.  When I told my DH how much more I'd have to lose to hit NORMAL, he said, "jeez, you're going to end up dropping right through and hanging yourself on your axxhole!!!"  

My doctor set my goal weight and BMI. Both are based on my health. I agreed with him. I will see if I still agree with the goal weight when I get there and adjust as I need too.

Many years ago before my first surgery I picked a weight that I thought might be achievable and could maintain in the future. It is still a bit above the healthy weight range but something I thought that I could live with. I am relatively tall and people were always a bit surprised by my actual weight at my heaviest. so think I will be okay around that mark- able to maintain, etc. Thankfully most of my co-morbidities went with the first 20-30 kg lost so that hasn't come into play either. 

I have just had a really good week and for the first time ever I think I truly believe in my head that this goal is possible- truthfully it is now but a sniff away and I think within the next month I will need to re-evaluate and lower it a little. I am also having to factor in that I have heaps of excess skin and I suspect plastic surgery is in my future.

Leisa

I have never been a normal BMI ****il now). So I had no idea what 155 would look like --- but it was a normal BMI and I figured it would have me shopping in stores that don't have W's and + signs.

At 5'7 1/2 and 156 lbs I wear a size 10 pants if they are curvy cut.  I also feel like I could/should lose more -- so I am thinking of bringing it down to 145.  However, if I stay this size forever I will be happier than a pig in poop.... all about the maintaining.