I keep telling myself I don't want to have a goal weight b/c I don't know what my body is capable of. Well I've changed my mind. Last night I had a dream I was working in a shop that sells snakes. I am absolutely petrified of snakes! I couldn't understand why I would be working in a shop with something I'm so scared of! (The store also checked your pool water, but that's neither here nor there) Once I woke up from this ridiculous dream, I started to think. My subconscious must be telling me that the only way to face my fears is to just jump into the thick of things. I'm never going to overcome my challenges by continuing to be scared.
A healthy weight for my height's BMI is 121-164 lbs. Personally, I think 121 lbs at 5'8" is absolutely disgusting. So I have officially decided to aim for 140 lbs for several reasons.
1. It's exactly 100 lbs weight loss. That's going to be an insanely proud moment to say I've lost 100 lbs.
2. It's in the middle of the healthy weight range.
3. 140 is low enough that, if I can't maintain it realistically, I can always gain a little more back and still be healthy.
I would like to be in the single digits of clothing too. But since 140 lbs of fat is different from 140 lbs of muscle, I'm not sure what that'll translate to. But I'm determined to get down to single digit sizes and then determine whether or not it's healthy for me.
I can feel the motivation coming back. I had a rough week and a half but I think I'm finally back. I hit the gym hard yesterday for an hour and 45 minutes and the scale is continuing to move, slowly but surely. I think when I hit 75 lbs weight loss I'm going to throw a three-quarters party...
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Single digit clothing is a hard thing get to. When I was as skinny as I was when I first started wcc I was still a size 10 is some things. One because I'm tall, and two I have broad shoulders and a big bust, which always makes buying tops hard for me. And three, my wonderful child bearing hips rarely allow me anything less than a 10 even a 12 in some brands.
ReplyDeleteI find it's not about the size of the clothing, and more about the weight loss and inches lost, and feeling better, and achieving your goal. ;-)