Did You Doctor Change Your Goal???

My doc said about 170 which at 5' 2" is still to big imo.  I was going to Dr. Beale (a famous dc weight loss Dr) at 170.  I on't wanna be 170! I want to be 135 which is still thick for my height.  I would be at the healthy BMI.  My goal is to get down to 150 and then have plastics which should get me down to 135 I think.  That will be a 200lb loss!  

Hey Diva!

Did he base it off expected weight loss? Keesha, I really do think some of these Docs underestimate the power of the determined!

Hey BABE!

YUP, I think that's exactly what he did.  I'm not fooling with him.  170 is still WAY to big for me.  I'm a freaking midget LOL.  Wonka, I'd gotten complacent with the amount of weight that I've loss.  I was happy shoot I haven't been this small in almost 10 years.  BUT then I remembered my committment to myself, and my committment to this process.  When I decided that I was going to do this, I decided that I was going to ride it all the way out.   Thus I have refocused and am grinding. 

My surgeon's office never set a particular goal for me. At my 3 month visit the PA said that for my height 5'6 and bone size 155 would be good for me. I think it would be too small but who knows. It's funny how we all carry our weight differently. At 193 I am wearing some 12s and 14s depending on who makes them, and I def don't want to go below a 8. But even if I do go a lil lower (the DS has a mind of its own) it will leave me room for a lil bounce back while I get adjusted to my stable weight.

193lbs ??? Where???? You are looking mighteee hot these days! I'm so jealous that you still got the girls.

Victoria Secretions had the nerves to tell me that I'm still in a D cup...yeah right!

As a DSer, how are you planning on maintaining?

Girl I don;t know where all of it is hiding. Well, I still have da boobs and I have big thighs, which hubby aint complaining bout. He likes big legs. If if wasn't for these boobs I could wear a size 12 dress! I wear 12 jeans but still 14 tops. Shoot at least you can wear some Viki's ish! I had a coupon for one of those new bras......they don't come in DDD? WTH? LOL I just saw your most recent pic, girl you are doing it!

Once I get to my goal and I'm still in the window I'm going to up my carbs. I'll weigh weekly and when the numbers start to creep up then I know to cut it back a lil cause I'm either going overboard or my "window" is up. I can't wait to have real smoothies from Smoothie King again. In the summer I used to drink them erryday but now I have one like once every 3 weeks. Maintaining with the DS is pretty easy, from what I can see. I'm still gonna be exercising 5xs a week so that'll help too.

I can't wait to really start shopping. I only buy something once in a blue moon cause I'm tired of running through these sizes!

oh juanita, juanita, why arst thou in my head?  LOL! 

doc didn't set a goal for me, but my personal *magic* number was 130 (i'm 5.5 and a HALF lol)  which i thot would be a 6/7.   got to 140 (an actual 7 on me) and talked myself into dropping a couple more for wiggle room and nightsnackage.  that lasted exactly 45 minutes before i "celebrated"  147 as of this morning and i could get rid of  it.... i was about to say if i exercised more....um, if i exercised at all.  i'd be a firm 7 instead of a fluffy 8.   so yeah i changed my original goal cuz don't nobody like a bone but a dawg.

How did the 140 look on you? Wow, a size 7, I would gladly take that! But if I figure a ten pound reduction will result in one loss size:

177 - 12
167 - 10
157 - 08
147 - 06

i've got a profile pic of when i got to goal.  titled "lil bobblehead-ish"  me and oprah have the same size head so it looked crazy but it was the first time in my life i'd had no muffintop.  10 lbs at your height should absolutely get you down one more size, gurl you skippin, how you go from 8 to 6, no 7 LOL!!! 

I called my doctor's office to schedule my next appt and asked the nurse this very question.  She indicated for a height of 5'7" a range of 155 to 165 lbs would be reasonable.  I then ran the bmi calculator on this website and it suggested 150 to 155 lbs.  While those two seem to support each other, my personal estimate was about 20 lbs smaller, I was thinking 130 lbs. 

Frankly,  I would just like to finally have my real weight match the weight I have on my driver's license for once in my life.  Know what I'm saying?