Goal weight?

[mashingwachine]

Does everybody have one?

I have started on MJ at over 19 stone and so far lost around 3. I haven't got a target weight though. I think because I have spent so many years going up and down between 15 & 19 stone my brain is struggling to believe this might be it and I will actually achieve a healthy weight. I have been setting small goals, but I'm a bit nervous about saying I want to be 10 stone or whatever.

This was me. I started out over 17stone and my original thought was 12stone.
Then once I got there I thought 11stone
I'm now 9stone and definitely done but I didn't think it would ever be possible so my goal kept changing as I managed it!

I'm setting interim goals. I started at 19'9 and the first one was 17'13. I'm just past that now so the next one is 15'4 as I think that was my starting point when I lost about 4 stone before. If I got that then I know I've got from there to 11 something before, so might feel ok to set that more confidently.
I'd love to get to 10 something but that's the lighter end of what I was when I was young and too poor to eat!

Believe it @mashingwachine ! I started at over 21 stone having weighed more than 12 stone since the age of 11. I'm now 12st 5!! It's been 11 months on the jab :) (nearing 40!) I set a goal weight of 14 stone and hit that 7.5 months in and I'm nearly at goal weight now :)

I'm going for between 65-70 kgs, depends on lean mass really when I get there.

I feel the same. I have gone up and down and up and down. Never less than 11.7st and my highest was 16st. In my head I think 'ok 10st might be achievable' (I am currently 12st) but my ultimate goal would be 9st. I can't believe I could ever be that weight though!!

I do not have a goal weight exactly, just a very general ball park of 11 - 12 stone. What I feel comfortable at….

I would like to be at least 12 stone (a stone above BMI). I’d be happy with that. But who knows, maybe I would go lower 11-11.5 stone if it felt right. I would be gaunt I think at less than that, even though at top of or just outside bmi.

Its hard to know because it’s been many years since I was at that weight - I’m in my early 60s now and have absolutely no idea what my body would feel and look like at anything under 12 stone!

Another one who has done interim goals. Started at 15.7, I think my first goal was about 13.7 as never believed I could be under that!
I move it down a stone at a time so currently goal is 11.7 and I am 11.12.

I think 10.7 could be be final aim. I think my neck would be too saggy if I go any lower, and I have lost fairly slowly (13 months on Wegovy).

I’ve never been anything under a size 16 for my adult life so being a size 12-14 will be amazing for me!

The same. Isn't it amazing, the feeling you get when you start to think that this could actually be it this time, it could work..and then the confidence kicking in, that this will work this time. I've never ever had that before in 45 years! I started at 22st. I lost 5 stone 13 years ago (obv all went back on) but my first target was realistic, and i wanted to see the 17 stone bracket, then when I reached that I thought 16 stone. I'm currently 16st 5lb. The lowest I've weighed in 20 year and lower than when I prev lost 5st. I'm setting goals a stone at a time. But in the back of my mind I know I can achieve it now, so I'm hoping I can get to 11 stone. I haven't been that weight since being a teenager. Good luck on your journey

I have an initial goal - it's the weight I last remember feeling good at. It's still about 10lbs or so above a healthy BMI so I may adjust as I get there.

I've periodically thought about goal weights but it's hard since I just don't know what it's like to be a healthy weight. I haven't been under 200lbs since I was a teenager and I'm early 40s now.

I started this at 22 stone exactly. I've now lost nearly 3.5 stone and I do feel vastly more hopeful about this than anything I've done before. I used to hover around the 19 stone mark, once managed to get down to 16 stone by sheer willpower but I've always lost the momentum eventually. Lockdown saw me pile on weight to get to the 22 stone I eventually started this at so I'm just pleased so far to currently be below what I was when Covid kicked off.

I suppose my current mini goal is to be below 250lbs which hopefully is only a matter of weeks away then I'll work in micro increments of 10lbs. I 100% know I will cry the first time I see 199 or lower on the scales.

On a personal level, the hope this has given me is far more important than the actual numbers. Getting to anywhere near a health weight has just never felt all that doable before and it finally does.

I posted this on the June starters thread. I didn’t have a final goal weight for ages as it just didn’t seem achievable. It was only when I moved to Pharmulous in preparation for maintenance (really?! ME??)that someone asked what my goal weight was!! I have chosen a nice round number about midway in the healthy range but genuinely have NO idea what it will look like on me. I am 2lbs away from being the lowest weight I ever remember seeing on a set of scales so after that is a journey into the unknown!

Oh and I have set myself mini goals all the way through - get onto the NHS bmi chart! Under 200lbs, under bmi 35, next stone bracket, next 10kgs etc!! Getting under 30 bmi amd no longer being obese has been amazing so what reaching a healthy weight will be like…

I set my goal weight at 10st (started at just under 16st)

When I got there I decided to reduce it to 9st 7 to get closer to the middle of the healthy range.
Then reduced it to 9st 5 to give myself a buffer
As of this morning I'm 9st 4.6

Currently toying with the idea of aiming for 9st

I'm still on 15mg. I have a stockpile of 3 pens which I was planning using half doses of for maintenance but I'm actually finishing the suppression seems to be reducing even on 15mg so I'm not sure.

I'm going very slowly, struggling to move up even to 5mg because of the gastro symptoms so it's taken me seven months to lose just over three stone. I started at 18 stone with a BMI of 41 so to be under 15 stone with a BMI under 35 now feels like a big achievement. I don't tend to think too far ahead. I have a history of yoyo dieting and weight cycling and consequently I'm very worried about loose skin so I feel OK about my slow progress. It also keeps people from mentioning it; I didn't want a dramatic change that would invite comments and questions.

I've never maintained a healthy BMI my whole life. When I did briefly dip into the 10 stone bracket, getting to my lowest ever adult weight of 10 stone 3 which I think might have been a BMI of 23 or 24, I actually looked dreadful. I don't really have the idea of a BMI of sub-25 being a goal at all. It doesn't feel like that would be me. I can't imagine that woman, honestly, or what it would be like to live in her body.

What I really value about MJ is the peace I have found inside my head and the appreciation I have of my body and how I can - finally - nourish it and move it in a way that feels good. I felt when I started taking these jabs like something inside me was corrected - some imbalance or dysfunction was suddenly righted and now my body and brain can exist in harmony with each other and work the way they should.

I don't think my body would ever naturally be at what's categorised as a healthy weight, but then apparently people with BMIs of around 26, at the low end of the overweight category, live the longest? I feel like around that zone would be right for me, but I don't know precisely what number or size that is. I feel like I will know when I get there - and that it will take a long time, but these injections will actually enable me to get there and so I don't have to worry about how long it takes.

The cost is the massive downside and I believe I will have to take some dose or some version of these drugs forever so I hope at some point there is an affordable maintenance strategy. I guess I don't have a goal because there's no end point for me! It's a journey I think I'll be on for life.

i started at 15 10. My initial goal was 13 stone as this seemed a huge weight loss. Then I realised that I still did not fit many of the size 16 clothes in my loft that I loved and felt that i still had the motivation to keep going.

I reset the goal to 12 stone 7 thought that this might be a ‘happy weight’ and then reset that goal to 12 stone where I felt quite ‘trim’, all my loveky clothes fitted me. At 12 stone after 3.75 stone weight loss BMI 27 I had had enough of the MJ side effects.

But I then regained 1/2 stone in a month all on my tummy and have decided that 12 stone was a much better weight for me and that I will drop another 1/2 stone using MJ and then maybe aim to be under 12. A healthy BMI for me would be 11 stone . I’m also trying to build some muscle this time and focus less on the MJ and weight loss.

I worked out what the mid point of healthy BMI would be yesterday as this is my goal. It feels very far away from my 14 stone something starting point and I’m not convinced I will ever reach it. I have spent years losing and gaining the same half a stone. I’m planning on taking it half a stone at a time.

I started at 20st 12, and my first goal was to get into the 14st bracket. It felt very ambitious, and I didn’t think it was possible. But I’m 3lb away from that goal now, and no longer obese. It’s taken nine months on MJ.

I’m fairly happy really, I can move, I feel good, I can buy clothes in normal shops. I’m not interested in trying to push it ever lower, or trying to be a size 10, but I think for health reasons I will reset the goal to be at or close to a healthy bmi. Which nine months ago felt completely unachievable.

I’m also finding that suppression is less now even on 15mg. I do plan to be on a maintenance dose forever.

I've got other goals in mind. I'd like to be a size 10. My frame is small. I'd like to be able to chuck any outfit in that I like and know I look good in it. I want to be able to wear a bikini on holiday and shorts too. I know I can do all of these sized 18 but I don't love what I see.
I want to be able to sit on public transport without having to squish myself into the corner.
I want to be able to look at a photo of me and think 'what a brilliant day' rather than 'urgh, I look awful'.
I want to be able to exercise with ease.
I know us Fat people are meant to love ourselves, no matter what, but that's kind of hard when you dislike what you see.

I don't really have a goal weight. I want to improve my health and reduce risks so my targets were based upon this. They were as follows:

1. Lose 10% of starting weight - done
2. BMI below 30 - done
3. Waist to height ratio below 0.6 - done
4. BMI below 25 - outstanding
5. Waist to height below 0.5 - outstanding

When those are complete I will re-evaluate. I think I probably want to get to around BMI 23 or 22 but I'll see how I feel.

ive found mini goals v helpful (out of obese, lower than X date). A slightly sad thing now is that as the goalposts shift I also have readjusted my sense of self from before MJ. So I always said that I carried my weight well etc, that camera adds pounds, that it wasn’t stopping me doing anything I wanted to. Now I feel fine (but not slim) at a healthy BMI and have realised all the fibs I told myself were nonsense. It’s taking the shine off my achievement a bit if that makes sense.

I was 120kg when I started, which is over 18.5 stone I think. I just set myself 10kg goals at a time. I'm now 73kg and just set my last goal of 65kg, which is 10st3 and in the healthy BMI for my height. I'm pretty sure that's where I'll stop. I'm actually quite happy at my current weight and size but I think a lot of that is that this is probably about the lightest I remember being so it feels like me.

It felt like an impossible journey when I started, but 10kg at a time has got me to the end in sight and by then I'll have lost nearly half of my original weight.

What I'd really advise to you at this point is to do as much strength work as you can from the start. I started a few months ago and am ramping it up because I can see I need it to make my thinner shape a more appealing one. Your bum especially will thank you for every effort you put in to saving it!

As I still have so much to lose I don't have a goal weight as such and just a range of about a stone.
My ultimate goal is more to do with overall fitness.
I am not sure what that looks like yet but I want to have a nice body fat percentage that is easyish to maintain through a moderate exercise regime and diet that isn't too restrictive.

Started at 16 st 6lbs

Goal is 10st 6lbs which for me would be a healthy BMi

currently at 13st

Could you try to rejig your thinking with that?
The fibs weren't nonsense, they were kind white lies you were telling yourself, to protect yourself. It would have done that version of you no good if you'd been telling her she was a big fat lump. Now your body and health are changing, you don't need to do that to protect yourself any more.

What a kind message, thankyou @PinkArt