Mini Goals

[Maxibee]

I am an official member of the "Glacier Club", 'cuz I lose so slowly. I don't really get too frustrated because A) I feel better eating on plan, B) I don't think I'll get that awful bunch of extra skin if I lose more slowly, C) I've heard many times that if you lose slowly, you are more apt to keep it off.

Anyway, as you can see, I have joined some challenges here and they're fun! My long-term goal weight is 179, which is 15 pounds heavier than I was in my "prime", so realistically, 20 years and a baby later, I cannot expect to be THAT thin ever again!

But in the spirit of THIS discussion, I will say that my goal is to be under 200 by the end of the year, which will be here before we know it! That means I have to drop 30 more pounds by December 31. Equals to 6 pounds a month and that will be tough for me. There's Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas to get through during that time!

My best to everyone in reaching their goals.

[slatelee]

I hope to be at 255 by Labor Day, 250 by my birthday, 245 by Thanksgiving and then just maintain it through the holidays, and by my one year anniversary on Atkins (1-19-05) be at 235. Trying to be realistic since my weight loss has slowed drastically now.

[huskersfan869]

My short term for now is to get to 60 lbs total weight loss--would liek to be able to claim that by the 5th of August! that is 3 lbs more. and two weeks to get them off--the next goal is to be 168 or less by Labor Day. I want to be able to wear my 12s by then too! I think that is doable even if I don't lose that much more--as long as I keep lifting weights the toning will come!

[Goddess]

maxibee- i'm not letting 20 years and a baby later keeping me from thinking i can get back to less than i was in high school! now, i may be _wrong_ but hey, i didn't work all that hard on it in high school, either...and heaven help anybody who tries to tell me it ain't realistic, 'cause about 8 months ago, they would have said where i'm at now isn't "realistic!"

[heykim]

wow goddess... you did it.. 80 lbs eh? thats something to get jacked about!

[huskersfan869]

WAy to go Goddess!!!!! 80 lbs--I ca'nt wait to get to 80--heck I can't wait to get to 60!!! LOL Alas, I am still stuck at 57!

[MaryKay]

heck, I'd be happy with half of that - still waiting on the 40.

[Goddess]

thanks for the encouragement, folks! some days i need it more than others! i have been one of the fortunate ones in that the weight is pretty steady coming off, knock on wood. nobody could be more surprised than me.

[huskersfan869]

I am beginning to wonder if you somehow kidnapped the weight stealing fairy or something!!!!!! Anyway, Keep up the good hard work.

[Maxibee]

goddess:I wonder now if I may not aiming low enough!
My first brush with weight problems came when I was about 25. I was growing out of some jeans (sizes11-13) and finally weighed myself. I was 184. OMG!!!! (What I wouldn't give to weigh that now!) So, I put myself on a "diet" of sorts and lost a whopping 22 pounds.
I kept that weight off for over a year, then I left my hometown with a broken heart and a new car and moved in with my Aunt & Uncle. I live in their upstairs apt. for about 2 years and in that time I gained 60 lbs. I went from about 165 to 225. It crept on so slowly, I don't even know when I finally realized how big I had gotten. And NO ONE even hinted to me that I was fast becoming a blob.

I then met and married my DH. I was 225 when I found out I was pregnant and 246 the day I had her. I lost the baby weight fairly quickly while breastfeeding.
I started lowcarbing after my best friend lost 75 pounds in 9 months. I lost 19 the first month and 20 more over the next three months. I was at 202 when my car was hit and totalled. I just kinda lost my focus at that point. I remember weighing in at the chiropractor's office over the next couple of months. 207...210....212...etc.
Then, all the way up to....230....233....240...247....and finally the day, the ONE day that I saw 250. That freaked me out. I realized with one more pound I would be closer to 300 than 200.
I spent a couple of years half-heartedly "lowcarbing" in between Krispy Kreme binges. Then I saw myself in some photos from church. I looked like I could've been on my way to the delivery room! I still made vague attempts at my "dieting" until Dr.Phil's Weight Loss Challenge started. I started getting my head on straight, then joined this site, and now....I'm down 17 pounds since Easter! I'm not losing very fast, I think from all the yo-yoing I did all those years. But, now since I have been so good for so long, my body is finally decided to quit fighting me.

My sister had a gastric bypass 3 years ago. She was close to 400 when she had it done. Now, she takes great pleasure in asking my weight and telling me hers. She's lost over 200 lbs in 3 years. She stays around 180-185. She says she never got to her goal weight of 160-165 because she still has all that excess skin. I am a couple of inches taller than her (I'm 5 foot 9) but not really big boned. I have very long, thin arms for my weight. And I do and always have worn a size 7 ring on my little hands. I wear a size 9 1/2 shoe. So, I don't know if I am considered big boned because of my height, or medium, because my wrists, fingers, and hands are small.

When I get to 175-179, I should be wearing (since I actually exercise now!) a size 13-14. I would be satisfied with that. Sister wears 14's, but they're tight. She's mid 180's now.

SORRY!! I didn't mean to write the Maxibee Chronicles! I just know that age plays a part in how we gain/lose, and having had a baby, I wonder if I COULD get back to the mid 160's. That would be 60 pounds from where I am now....All opinions and inputs welcome!

[Goddess]

hey, i like reading the maxibee chronicles! seriously, we all have so much in common in so many ways....i can releate. personally, i think i yo-yo-ed a little less, just because i spent almost all my adult life fat, with slight 40lb letup thanks to phen-fen. which of course i put right back on, posthaste! but when i got over 250, shortly after, that's when i threw out my scale. the highest i ever saw it read was 265 i think, which totally freaked me out for the same reason...300 was looming and that was scary. so instead of using that as a wakeup call, i just tossed the scale. some problem solving skills, huh?

i don't know for sure how you'll wear it at 5'9", since i'm barely 5'5". one thing i can tell you though: at the beginning, i would have said, oh, i'd be delighted to fit into 18's or maybe 16's. 14's were too much to hope for.

well, now i'm in 14's and they ain't tight. and you know what? i'm NOT satisfied yet. because i know i can do more! i'm thinking that 135 should maybe put me in a 7/8 or somewhere around there, which is smaller than i've ever been in my adult life. my lowest was when i was about 18, and i hit 145. i wore 9/10 then. and i lived off of salad and tab and worked out 10+ hours a week at the gym and didn't really enjoy it all that much, thank you.

not too long ago, my parents made a referene to me being "finished" dieting. (i was still in 16's then.) and i was like, "are you CRAZY? of course i'm not finished! for the first time in my life, i found something that works and that i can live with and lose weight without all the pain and hunger and misery. and it comes steadily, too. there's NO way i'm gonna stop before i'm completely thorugh!"

there was something i read in dr. atkins book that didn't really make sense at the time about your goal weight, but that i understand differently now. he said, why stop part of the way there? yes, it may be "good enough" but why not get it all gone and be safer from the risk of regaining?

and i think to myself, yes, i feel good at the size i am. but being a size 14 is not that far from being a 16, or an 18 or a 20, eventually...it's like you're closer to the edge of going right back up there. whereas being a size 7 is WAY far from 20's...it would take a lot more problems to go up from the 7 than it would from the 14. that's what i think.

now, i don't think there's ANYTHING wrong with deciding you want to be size 14 or whatever. my daughter has said she's wanting to stay around there, and that's fine. she's getting closer to that now.

but for me? i've finally lost enough weight to have faith that this does work for me, will work for me, and can work for me if i decide i want it to. and i'm not stopping until i could shop in the teenybopper stores and wear whatever i want to and feel great in it.

that's my take, anyway.

[huskersfan869]

I feel the same way--I feel good in my nicly fitting 14s but, I want to be in those smaller things--teh ones I could wear when I was in college and high school. I want to walk in--pick out hte things I like and try them on and now worry about someone looking at me like I am crazy for even being there! and I agree--7 is a LONG ways from the 22 I was and 14 is only halfway from where I want to be so I keep working--if I could break this stall. . .

Goddess--you jsut hit my goal for Labor Day--consequently--it was my goal for 4th of July too! Way to go girl!!!!!

[celest24209]

Hi all, the one short term goal i hope to hit is to be under 200 lbs by Xmas. My weight has been pretty steady and not too bad so far. Im like you goddess, this is my first time dieting, never really focused on trying to lose weight in the p**** always had this idea that i was fine like i was. being under 200 by xmas would also put me at losing over 100lbs, whoa, now that is something for the brain, im 33lbs from this goal.

But you know whats really bugging me right now, when i was 300 lbs, i was so full of confidance about myself, not worried much about my weight or what anyone thought of me, but now im 68lbs down and the last time i can remember wearing a size 20 was when i was in my early 20's ( im 40 now ), but now its like 234 is way too much weight for me, im not content with my size anymore, i want to wear a size 12 or less.

How can it be that i was more confidant and comfortable with myself at a size 26/28 and 300 lbs, i think i have some twisted psychological thing going on here. All i know is i wont be staying at 234-size 20, just wont happen here.
Im beginning to wonder exactly how much more i will lose, the smallest i can recall myself weighing was 167 and i think i wore a size 14 or 16, and i was 16 yrs old then. Wow, can you imagine going under your teen size, this would be ultimate, for me anyway.

[Goddess]

celeste--i didn't say that i didn't diet much, i said that i stayed fat! there's a big difference!

actually, i would guess most of my "diets" lasted about 3-4 days, on average. and i did quit doing it in the last few years, with an exception of my 2-wk adventure with atkins several months before i got serious. you know. before i got the book. har!

[god_still_rulz]

Goddess, I always like reading your posts! There is so much intelligence and wisdom in them! Plus you're doing GREAT at your weight loss! That is just so awesome!

Personally, for me, I'm not too sure about mini-goals. I really have to think about that. Well, maybe a mini-goal but longer version of it - I would just like to maintain the weight where I am now for at least a year. If I can do that, then I know I have this whole thing under control, and i'll never gain weight again. I still have 17 lbs to go to get to goal but decided not to worry about it right now. I'm just going to worry about maintaining for right now, and I'm determined never to see myself in the 130's again.

From 4th grade on, I have NEVER been below 145 lbs and never below size 13/14's...now, here I am, in my 30's, weighing 23 lbs below that and wearing size 1's - 4's (depending on the manufactuer) I know there are some who thought this could never be done...but I've proven them wrong - and I've also proven myself wrong. Yes. I doubted myself in the beginning. Not anymore!

Sheyla