How did you set your target weight?

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I'm curious in how everyone else sets a healthy target weight? A number, BMI or something else?

I set it to the weight I was most comfortable at. 21lbs to go!

I’m aiming for a BMI of 21.5. I may get closer and change it slightly up or down. 18lb to go.

Final target is where I started. So to my pre weight gain weight.
Otherwise I would do somewhere in the healthy BMI.

Good luck everyone!

Because I can't remember how I felt at the weight below BMI of 25 is not weight this time. I felt very emotional when it went under 30 a week ago or so.

For now, I'm aiming to get to the healthy BMI range. I'm about 5 stone from that at the moment. I'll fine tune when I get there and see what I'm comfortable with.

I just want to be a healthy BMI so have set mine at the weight I need to be to hit a BMI of 24.9. If I can get there and sustain it, I'd love to shift another stone but I haven't been that weight since my early 20s and have spent very little time since then at a healthy BMI so I'm not getting too carried away!

I am aiming for a bmi of 23 as anything over that is more risky for Asians. There is loads of diabetes in the family and so being obese, as I currently am, is something I’d like to change.

It was where my clothes fit most comfortably and I looked best.

If you’ve got a fair bit to lose, I think it’s hard to know exactly where to aim. I’d pick something in the middle of the bmi range in that case.

My first target was to get to the top end of healthy BMI. BMI has its limitations but it is a decent yardstick for the vast majority of the population, and a healthy BMI meant that my doctor would not be able to moan at me about my weight.

I am now working towards a stone below that - but very slowly as I am basically trying to increase muscle and lose fat.

I would need to lose 26 kg (4 stone) to be a healthy weight, according to my BMI. I don't think I've ever weighed so little as an adult! It seems pretty unachievable. @UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername how do you feel with a similar target?

I'm currently 90kg. Honestly even aiming for 80kg seems so unreasonable!

First goal - top end of healthy BMI range for my height. Secondary goal is to get into the middle of the range of healthy, so that when I have inevitable weight fluctuations I stay within the healthy range rather than go back into overweight. I keep reminding myself that there are ranges for a reason and that I'm doing this for health, not a number on the scale...hard not to beat myself up after years of feeling bad about it though.

Thank you everyone, it is genuinely helpful to see how other people approach it. I can see that I've perhaps had the wrong goal myself.

Thanks again

Any weight loss has been an achievement for me and 10lb increment losses always celebrated. Fitting into a size 12 was the ultimate goal. Size 10 would obviously be better but I'm being realistic at my age (40s). I'm not naturally slim but a size 12 has been maintainable for the last few years. Surely that's better than aiming for something that you'll potentially lose again. BMI - Never followed it. Just feel good and healthy within yourself.