Rethink your goal weight?

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Daily Inspiration for April 21, 2010Katie Jay,MSW

Rethink your goal weight. 

 

A common attitude for many WLS patients is, "My surgeon said I should weigh about 150 pounds, but I want to weigh 135--the weight I was when I graduated from high school." 

While common, the desire to get down to a number you have assigned meaning to, whether the number is realistic or not, may sabotage your long-term weight loss. Your ideal weight is more a matter of the intersection between the sustainable lifestyle choices you make and how your body responds to weight loss surgery. Consider giving yourself permission to let your body weigh what it wants to weigh, with you eating and exercising at the healthiest levels you can sustain. 

Action for the day: Rethink your goal weight. Is it realistic? Is it sustainable? If you are not sure, do some research. Talk to your doctor and nutritionist. Then make a decision based on the knowledge you gain. 
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Hmmm... good point.

I´ve always had my goal weight at 143 lb.
I actually remember one day when I looked down at the scale and that´s what I saw. I think that day was the day when I was feeling the best about my body.

But seriously. This WAS 11 years ago... before I had my little girl.

Maybe you have a point. I will look into this.

Thanks for the post.
Marisa

Great post!! Thanks for putting that info out there and helping us to understand that the weight we WANT to weigh might not be what our bodies at this stage in our lives might be able to attaine.

*big hugs*

I wished my Weight Loss Physician was still around.  He retired and my Gen Prac is ignorant to bypass patients....


Jeff W Waldrop

Thanks for this post Molly.  I've been trying to get down to the weight my doctor says I should be and according to the BMI.  Realistically I think at 5'4,135lbs. is too small for me.  I think taking one day at a time  and not pushing to what the doctor wants is really going to be my goal.  Following a better eating plan w/ exercise...I'll let the body tell me when enough is enough. 

Dreamgirl119

My goal weight is 130 lbs...I weighed that in 1980 when I graduated from Nursing School.
I have been at a constant 150 lbs for the past 6 months or so. EVERYONE comments that I'd be waaay too thin if I lose another 20 lbs(definitely NOT...think humongous THIGHS)
DH (love him...always knows right things to say...said..."Barb...you were 21 yo when you were that weight...you're 51 yo now!)
OK...so I may NEVER reach my personal goal. I may have been setting myself up for failure by setting an unreachable/unobtainable goal weight.
I truly believe what I have learned from reading Beck's Diet Solution(over and over and over...)

Lowest Achievable weight= the weight at which you naturally plateau. May not be able to stay at this weight because you have to keep eating same # calories and exercising to same degree for rest of life.

Lowest Maintainable Weight= the weight you can sustain permanently while still following sensible eating plan and exercise program.

I have thought about this often during the past 6 months of no weight loss and am resigned to believe that I am currently at what is my maintainable weight. Does this make me a failure....HECK no...I've lost 170 lbs in the past 28 months...what an achievement...now...my goal is to KEEP it off....if I happen to lose a few more lbs...ADDED BONUS!!!!!!!

150 pounds look great on you!!! Keep up the good work!!  You are an inspiration!!