Whats Your Goal?

Having a BMI Over 50; I don't know whats realistic. How did you get your Goal? What did you base it on? Whats your goal clothing size?

My bmi was over 80 and i weighed 526 -509 the day of surgery now i weigh 289,i had 30 pounds of skin removed on 2/26/09.
My weight loss surgeon wanted me to be 250 on 2/18/09 cause i was a year out but im not there yet.
I will settle for anything under 200
I am now wearing a 20/22 pants and a 2x shirt and i am happy,my dr set my goal at 220 because of my height and bone structure.
Good luck sweetie

I have never had a weight goal but instead a feeling.  I want to feel like I can tackle any physical task without having to worry if I am too fat to do it.  I am nearing that belief and pleased that I am still losing weight.

Love your reply - after being so large (over 350 pounds) , anything under 200 would be great for me personally but I also want to feel that I can sit in any chair, bend over and tend my flowers and plants and not lose my breath, tackle any activity with a positive attitude and the knowledge that I can do it.  I am getting there now but am really looking toward the future.  I think how different I am from the old me 7 months ago (over 110 pounds lost) and eagerly looking toward the future.  Oh yes, and I love being able to go to regular stores and buy clothes, even if it is still in the women's department.  Janice

That is what I wanted too.  I was around 250 lbs. when I felt I could still do things and that's where I want to be.

greetings

i think goals are tough to figure out...at least for me. i'm over 4 years out, and my goal seems to keep shifting. i started at 463, bmi of 66.4. when i asked my surgeon what should be my goal? he said 210. i said okay, but in my head, i told myself my goal was to be in the normal range of bmi. at my height to reach the normal range, i needed to weigh 174. well, when i reached that, i thought...geez, i'd like to reach 163 -- then i'll have lost 300 lbs. well, today, i'm at 164, and thinking, wow, wouldn't it be wonderful to weigh 150?? that would be right in the middle of the normal range.

so, my goal continues to shift...perhaps my thinking isn't clear on this, i don't know. for me, my goal seems to reset as i reach it.

all the best to you.

deb

My goal is 250 lbs.

When I went in my doctor asked me if I had a goal in mind. ( I believe this was his quick way of seeing how realistic you were as a patient.) I told him I would like to be 200 pounds. Which for a girl who weighed 407 pounds at the time seemed like a impossibly large way to go. He seemed please by my goal and wrote it down in my charts. I go back May 14th for my 6 month check up and I have already lost 141 pounds of the 207 needed to reach goal. Since I am dropping an average of 4 pounds a week sometimes more I am thinking I might even get below goal. I wanted to be at least a size 18 in pants and well I am already in a 22w and a 1x shirt depending on how they are made so I might be below teh 18 when I reach goal. I can say that even if I didn't loss another pound I would do the surgery again just to be where I am already, it had made such a improvement in my life already.

Last night I slept restfully for 8 hours without a CPAP. Today I walked for over 7 hours. I cleaned my house. I painted my toenails. Cleaned the kitchen. Bought several pairs of second hand pants for a buck. Ate a McDonald's ice cream cone completely un-selfconsciously in public.

What's my goal? Days like today.

My BMI was over 81 with a starting weight of 500lbs. My doctor wants me at 340 lbs before he will do my surgery (RNYGB) and I want to be 150 lbs. I haven't lost much yet. I keep yo-yoing. I need help to get to my first goal of 340 lbs. Any suggestions from all you winners out there? I'm going to star****er aerobics in May, I walk as much as I can but I'm not up to the 10,000 steps a day goal yet. I'm working on that.