Ideal Weight Goal

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Okay, since we're starting our respective weight loss plans tomorrow, we need to figure out what our short-term and long-term goals are. The healthiest short-term goal is to lose 2 to 3 pounds a week. To lose weight too quickly throws your metabolism for a loop, especially women. Our bodies go into a sort of survival mode and tell us to store fat. Rapid weight loss is counter-productive. So, if I decide I want to lose 20 pounds and lose 2 pounds a week, I should be able to reach my weight loss goal by March 15 (SPRING BREAK, BABY!!!)

How do we know what our goal weight should be? Well, a way long time ago when I was in nursing school, we used the insurance height and weight charts. Now they use something called a BMI. I'm old school, so I'm going by the charts. Though all the charts differ, most of them say a woman my height should weigh roughly between 125-150 pounds. I weigh 168 right now, so I'm shooting for losing 18-20 pounds. I'm gonna be looking good come spring break. I weighed 155 when I got married, and I thought I looked pretty good then, although the charts would have called me overweight. I figure at my age, 150 is a very realistic goal. Then when I reach that goal I can decide if I want to lose a few more pounds. My sisters weigh alot less than 150, but they have personal trainers and work out religiously. I'm just not able to do that.

Anyway, you'll probably want to find some weight recommendations, talk to your doctor, or whatever, and then set a realistic weight loss goal for yourself. Is everybody ready????
Oh, by the way, if you don't want to post your weight, but would like to entrust that information to me privately for accountability, you can email me or put a message in my Facebook inbox. Your weight is safe with me. We do need to share publicly our weight losses and gains each week.