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.

Like I said earlier...I doubt that I am 185lbs of leaness....but was just wondering if there were ways to find that kinda of thing out. My scale says perscentage too, but I'm not sure I really trust it either. And no way would I be perfect weight at 225 oh that is so laughable, since when I was 200 I was still too chubby...some of which is skin. Isn't that yucky. The thing I noticed when i lost down to 200 before was...with all the extra skin I still look like i'm huge...or is this just a personal thing that we always see ourselves as huge?

Melissa

My biggest determining factor was that I did not want ot be fat at 40..I had my surgery 3 weeks before my 38th birthday so I had to two years to get this fat off..I'm now 39, will be 40 in April and I now will be fit at 40!

My Dr. told me 90 lbs but I am going strong still and have lost 102.5 in 18 months..I'm going for another 12.5 lbs to make me at 150 lbs for a total loss of 115 lbs.

I chose my goal weight of 140 because it was right smack dab in the middle of the "normal" bmi range. I know BMI doens't REALLY have much barring on anything, but it was a place to start. According to the site that Vines found for "Ideal Body Weight" I should be at 162, and I've been playing with the idea of changing my goal to 160 for quite a while anyway. Right now though, I kind of feel like changing my goal is cheating myself. It's kind of silly, but here's the thinking behind it: If I change my goal now, my mini goals change, ie: I'm closer to halfway to goal, when with my original goal, my halfway point is still 15 lbs away. So it almost feels like I'm changing it just to get to my miles stones faster or something. I figure when I get to 160 I can re-evaluate and see how I feel and THEN change my goal.

I also think that my sister looks very good at 130, she's my same height, but has a slightly smaller frame than me, which is another reason I picked 140.

I don't think it's about the exact weight so much any more for me. I am 160 at 5'8.5" and I look pretty good in clothes (as long as I camouflage my hanging stomach & abdomen) but unclothed is a nightmare. I really feel the need to have PS in order to complete the process.