How did you determine your goal?

[gettinghealthymom1 70]

I am trying to figure out what my goal is? I looked on the BMI calculator and found what a 25 bmi is for my height. Then I read online healthy bmi is 20-25.

How did you determine your goal?

My surgery is 1/6

[Sarah Michelle 2]

I looked up the ideal weight for my height which gave me my bmi.

[athena3127 199]

In speaking with my nut she advised to best calculate goal weight is to allow 100lbs for 5ft of height. Then add an additional 5lbs for every inch. I'm 5'7" so this gives be 135 lbs. however you must also take into consideration that I have a large frame or large bone structure which I would then add an additional 10% or 13.5lbs. So my goal weight would be 148.5lbs. So I'll be happy with 150. The nut also said that the exact number has to be one your comfortable with as long as it is healthy. I personally feel 130 anything would be too small for me and I would look sickly. My sis was in her 140s and it wasn't a good weight for her 150s worked better and looked better on her.

[changingmylife4ver 17]

I set a goal that I thought would be attainable for me. After so many years of being extremely obese, I wanted to be able to reach a goal that I felt would be healthy. So I set it at 150 even though I am only 5' tall. I am almost there and if I go lower, that is fine with me. I lose slowly and that is fine too. As of yesterday, I reached the "overweight" category. I am longer obese!! Even though I am short, normal BMI is only 23 lbs away. Will I get there? I have no idea. If I don't, I will not stress over it. No more stressing about my body size. I am healthy, love to get dressed every day and feel normal for once since I was a teenager and that was so long ago as I am 60 now.

[Miss Mac 6,261]

I am 5'4" and started this process at 235 pounds. I chose 135 as my original goal, because that was my healthiest adult weight when I was in my early 30's. Last week at my one year appointment, the bariatrician reset my goal to 155. She said that if I lose another 14 pounds (I am at 169 right now)and take another 12-15 off with a panniculectomy, then I will be at a healthy weight for my age (63).

[par1959 470]

Guess everyone is different. My doc said to start with a BMI in the green then see where my body wants to go.

[Dajones 46]

I looked at the BMI Chart and for my height, I'll be in the "normal" range at 150 pounds, not overweight and not obese. As of about a week ago, I am obese, not "morbidly obese."

[KayleeC14 159]

The way I determined my ideal weight was; I told myself that I want to be 200 pounds after this is all said and done. If I loose more than awesome but I didn't want to set a number so far out that it would put stress on me to which I would some how fail. Now my doctors want me to be at 150...if I get there then yes! that is awesome number but ideally for me to be happy to get down to 200 will be amazing. I have already lost 168 pounds to which I never thought I could ever have done.