Is it the weight you were last comfortable at?

Is it something you pulled from a medical chart?

Is it something your doc told you?

Is it a guess?

Is it a number you have in your head because that's where you think you want to be?

Are you not going by weight, but instead going by size, or "when I feel good", or something a little more arbitrary?

Just wondering.

I did mine by what the BMI chart says and what I weighed when I was 17!

Well im 20 and ive been very heavy since i was maybe 10. So i never have been under 200 in my teenage or adult life. but i figure for my 5'7" frame i should be around 150 to 170 i pray every day to get to my goal. I had surgery July 30 of 2005 and im already down to 238 when i was 297 just a few months ago. I saw a medical chart and it told me i should be 120. I would be a twig at 120 so f**k that!!!!

Kim

My goal weight is not the same as what they think I should weigh at my doctors'. According to the 'those" charts, at 5'5" I should weigh about 125-150, but my lean muscle mass right now is 150. Based on my age, my body fat should be between 25 and 35%, so that would put me at about 180 - 195.

I'm an Amazon

Anywhere between a true 16-12 is good for me.

I chose the weight that was on my driver's license when I was 22 years old! Back then it was a lie lol! The driver's license lady changed it to 230lbs from 190lbs. I thanked her greatly because I was 275lbs then lol!

I did mine by the weight charts for my height. It says my weight should range between 125 and 140. At my age, 140 is sounding mighty slender!

I remember being in my 20's (maybe, 22 or 23) and wieghing in at 140 and feeling so fat! I got down to 118 or 119 for about a day, but averaged out at about 125 for a good year or so. I promised myself I would never get above 140 again! Ah, to be 140 again would be heaven now.

So, charts, and a distant memory gave me my goal weight.

I saw a medical chart and it told me i should be 120. I would be a twig at 120 so f**k that!!!!

What she said.

I picked the weight that I was last truely comfy with in my own skin.

I'll know it when I get there!!!

Like Vines, I figured 125 was ridiculous, so I chose 150 - but the last time I hit 200 I looked all right, so I may need to revise upward to 175.

as 150 sounds ridiculous for me.... My chart puts me around 155 ....

But I think 195 is the perfect goal..... Iys under 200 and I would feel GREAT at 195.. and IF I lose more that will just be a bonus..

I secretly will feel fine if I bottom out at 250#..... if it has to ya know.

They say we have the chance of loosing 75% of our excess weight.. so thats my average...

I started over 400 pounds... my skin alone is gonna weigh alot..

I will never look right.

At 195 I will prolly look 250... oh well

Is it the weight you were last comfortable at?............No...I never was 195,

I prolly was 7 months pregnant at 195, .... I had no clue until my baby was born that I had went from a 145 pound teen to a 230 fat mama.

My goal use-to-be 144, according to a bmi of 40 when I was 244 and I needed to loose 100 lbs. that would put me at 144..

In my dreams

2+ years... I'll be happy at 160. heck I'm happy now at 168!

I think age has a big effect, I'm 46. those that are under 30 have a greater chance of loosing more, my opinion.

I wanted a lower goal weight, I want 150, I've been there and I look good there. However my dr talked me out of it. He only wants me to have a BMI of 25 which is high end of "normal" (whatever "normal" means). So we agreed on 160. We'll see how I feel when I get there and if I'm still motovated then I'll probably continue on to 150.

The thinnest of my adult life was when I was 18 at 230lbs and I was happy there which is the reason for my mini-goal being 230lbs - I was pretty atheletic and a tad muscular so if I can only make it to there I would be happy - if I can make it to 200lb that would be even better - and if I can strive to make 170 - well it depends on how I look and how my body acts but I'm thinking 200 might be perfect - I'll have to wait and see but the ultimate goal would be 170 that way I have room to play with in the future for pregnancy etc. According to those dr. charts I'm supposed to be like 120 but I would look completely anorexic at that - it would be ridiculous as when I was thinner I was so much more active and had a lot of muscle mass - can't wait to get there again.

I'm 178cm tall and want to be about 68kg. I determined it like this - health range is 63 to 79kg. For long periods of time I weighed around 78kg. Was fat, honestly. Too overweight to be much of a runner which I enjoyed at the time. Before I got married I dieted down to 72kg. Looking back at honeymoon photos, several of me in a bathing suit, I think "oh, I'd love to be that size again" but I was still quite pudgy. I had fat arms and rolls round my middle. So I just want to subtract a few kg from that weight and I should be right.

My sister is an inch shorter and weighs 65 kg. She looks fantastic, womanly, curvy with boobs and hips but not bony or skinny at all. I think I need to be on the lighter end of the weight range.

Mine's a BMI of 27. I figure I am probably never going to be skinny. But I could be really happy with a BMI of 27, especially since I started with a BMI of 47.