Weight watchers (or anyone really) - how did you decide your goal?

[loler]

Have been doing WW - have today reached a healthy BMI (first time for about 15 years!). When I joined ww in my head this is the weight I wanted to get to, now I'm there I'm thinking I could just go down a little bit more. Haven't talked about goal with my leader as (sounds silly) didn't realise how close I was - just keep aiming for the next 2lb!

I'm still looking in the mirror seeing a saggy tummy (I know this isn't going to go - and I think it looks worse with lost weight as the fat kept it nicely rounded!) and lumps and bumps - not a thin person.

So tell me - how did you know when you were happy with your weight?

[Dorothyredboots]

I'm doing WW on line. I determined my goal by using a BMI of 22.5 which is the mid point in the 'healthy weight' range. Coincidentally this means I have 10% of my body weight to loose, or about a stone. I'm nearly half way there!

[2bayumimum]

I did it based on something that I was asked many years ago....if you could walk out of a room, and walk in again being your ideal weight, what would that ideal weight be...for me the ideal weight was 10 stone 3lbs. Ive got 6lbs to go.

[AMumInScotland]

Well done on reaching a healthy BMI - that was a good goal to have. I've been losing a bit of weight lately, and that was my first aim. Now, I want to get down to 10st 6, which is about a BMI of 23, and about a stone down from the weight for a BMI of 25. I think it's a goal I can achieve, and if I get my weight down to that I can allow it to vary a little naturally, but still be well within the healthy range. I'm not comfortable with the idea that if I put on just a little, I'll be back above the healthy range again, so I want to be well within it.

Part of me would like to get back to 9st 12 (pre-pregnancy weight) but I think it's probably not realistic as I've aged since then, so I don't want to set myself up to be disappointed by aiming too low then not being able to reach it.

[loler]

mmmm - the 22.5 BMI (which I can see the logic behind) would be 10st - not sure I could maintain that forever - think I was about 15 last time I weighed that much.

I would probably like to be about 10 1/2 stone but prior to have 3 huge dc. I think I'll aim for just above it then - may be 10st 8lb so that I get my meetings free up to 10st 13lb - that's another 7lb - sounds doable!

Thanks for your replies and let me know if you're happy when you get to your goals (will look out in the next couple of weeks )

[loler]

Amum - are you 5ft 6? 9st 12lb is tiny!

I'm actually lighter now than I was before pg. I'm probably a lot fitter too - less alcohol and more moving but more aware of my lumps and bumps.

[AMumInScotland]

5ft 7, so 9st 12 would be BMI 21.6 - I was pretty slim, but I'd been 8 st 12 when I married, though that was too thin for me really (but BMI 19.4, so not technically unhealthy). But, that was all a long time ago .

You sound like you're not in bad shape - if it's the lumps and bumps that bother you, make sure you're doing some toning exercises as well as losing the weight, as that will pull everything into a neater shape, however much you weigh.