How did you set your goal?

I agree this is strangely intimidating for me as well!  If I lose the average 60%, then I'm already within 12 pounds of that goal.  I'm only three months out.   I decided to set my goal as what most call a "stretch" goal.  It's a weight I don't remember either, but one that is solidly healthy for my body type.  I guess I call it "stretch" because I cannot imagine what that would feel like.  I've always been a "aim for the moon" type, and it makes me excited and amped up.  

Depending on your preference/comfort level, start with 160 and then adjust as you close in on it.  Or, if you feel motivation from the lower goal, allow yourself to dream (realistically) a bit?

Same here, with hitting goal fast! I'm 40% to my surgeon's goal and I'm just shy of a month out! There's a part of me who is afraid I won't like myself when I get to be "that thin". I think I feel that way because I remember getting down to 190 a few years ago and loving life at that weight, so my brain is tricking me into thinking it's too much. 

My secret ultimate goal is to weigh less than my 155lb husband. If I get that I think I'll be happy! 

For me the Dr set my goal during my first full visit with him. He set it for 170lbs which at the time seemed so crazy to me, I had been over 300 for so many years so initially I just wanted to be under 200. I remember telling him I'd be happy at 199. Well I passed 199 and I passed his goal of 170 and I have been at 150 for a little while now. I'd like to hit 140 when all is said and done. I am 5'5" so I feel that would be a good landing spot. 

I've had lots of small goals instead of a final goal.  I figure I'll decide where I want to stop when I get there.  Because, you're right, I have no way to conceive of what I will look like at anything lower than 180 since that was my lowest previous adult weight - at age 18!  How could I know what I'll look like smaller than that now, when I'm almost 40?  

So.. we'll see. 

I didn't pick a goal until well into the weight loss process.  When I started at 385 pounds, I would have been happy just to get under 300 pounds again.  I never thought I'd get below 200 pounds.  I'd see others talking about getting to one-derland, and I'd think, "that'll never be me."  I could never imagine I'd be that successful. 

My surgeon's goal was to get below the obese range into the "overweight" range.  That was 190 pounds for me. 

I reached one-derland, and I blew right on thru my surgeon's goal.  I think that's about the first time I started thinking about a goal for myself.  I decided on 180, and then when I reached 180, I still had a huge tummy, so I decided to keep losing until my tummy looked good.  I didn't realize it was all skin.  When I hit 160, and I was in the normal BMI range I decided to stop the weight loss.  I talked to a plastic surgeon who told me that I didn't have any more fat in my belly, the bulk was all excess skin. 

I had been maintaining around 162 pounds since - until I've jumped up in the past few months to 170.  But I'm back on track, and hope to be back at 162 soon.

I think that setting a weight goal is a very personal decision, and that its easier to decide when we see how we look and feel.

best of luck on your weight loss journey.

My surgeon didn't even really give me a goal.  The closest he came to one was to tell me that the BMI index was basically hogwash, and even he would not be at a "proper" BMI without spending time in a concentration camp to do so.  

I set my original goal by using the average loss for a VSG patient.  I quickly revised that lower, and if I pass that, I pass it.  I am getting pretty close to where if I don't lose any more, I will be content.  I am still fat, and I still want to lose, and am working very hard at it, but I am thinner than I have been in almost 20 years.  

No one in my bariatric practice has ever talked to me about a goal weight. I was told to loose a certain amount of weight before surgery and blew past that easily. The surgeon did show me a chart with expected weight loss from surgery but that was on my first appointment and I surpassed that in my pre surgery weight loss. Right now my minimum goal is to get to a normal BMI which is 135 at my height of 5'2" but would like to loose another 10lbs on top of that. My weight loss is going soooo slow now.  The smallest I've been as an adult was 145 and I was a size 10-12, occasionally an 8 at that weight. I would like to be in a size 8 and maybe even a 6. I love to ski and those ski clothes run so small so I think it would be easier and more affordable to find ski clothes. 

My surgeon's goal for me was to get in a normal BMI. I'm now about halfway into a normal BMI. Like the others commented, when I started, I would have been happy under 300...then under 250...then under 200... Now I'm not really sure where goal will be. I think right now, I'm shooting for like 155 to cushion a bit in case of regain, and to be as skinny as I can be for plastics. I have a consult next month so I'll see if the surgeon wants me to go down a bit from the 161-164 range I've been floating in over the past few weeks.

It's hard when you've been trying to lose weight your whole life to be content at any given point...It's hard for me to wrap my brain around NOT trying to lose and just maintaining. 

having the same issue.  Maintenance is a totally foreign idea to me since I've spent my whole adult life trying to lose weight - and for the past 2.5 years, I've been in mega-weight-loss mode!

I am 5'2 and my surgeon set my goal at 136 which is 24.9 BMI.  Then he told me to lose an additional 20 pounds as a cushion for Bounceback regain.  I had a goal weight to meet at each post-op visit and always exceeded it.