Weight Loss Goals
This is a list of all of the goals I have to help me along my weight loss path. This list is constantly changing, as I add more and more goals to the list and, of course, as I meet them! This is true even more so now that I have had a second child and have rejoined Weight Watchers.
All weights will usually be My Home Scale weights, but there are some milestones specific to the Weight Watchers Scale weight, so those goals are marked accordingly. Ten percent weights, are all based on WW weight. Also, there are two sets of 10% weights now that I have rejoined Weight Watchers. I have a new starting weight with them, but I want to hold on to my own documentation of my original starting weight with them.
The difference in the weights lost via the different scales is due to different starting weights (411 personal, as that is my highest weight ever, but 409 is what I weighed in at Weight Watchers when I joined); also, because I weigh in on my home scale in the morning, unclothed. The time of day I weigh in at Weight Watchers depends on what day I weigh in on. Usualliy it’s Saturday morning, but if I’m out of town or busy, then I need to rearrange that. This difference also explains the reason that I have different goal weights for my home scale and for Weight Watchers. Plus, I weight on my home scale, every day; whereas at Weight Watchers it’s just once a week.
Revised April 11, 2008:
Highest Weight Ever: 411
2005 WW Starting Weight: 409.4 (New WW starting weight - 363)
Current Weight via MHS: 347
Current Weight via WWS: 348.2
Weight released via MHS: 62
Weight released via WWS: 61.2
PPLs via WWS: 14.8
My Personal Goal (PG): 161
Pounds to go to PG: 186
Weight Watchers Goal (WWG): 169
Pounds to go to WWG: 181
Beginning BMI: 59
Current BMI: 51
411: Highest weight ever. I would say, let’s just not talk about it, but that’s what this is for. I need to talk about it. I weighed four hundred and eleven pounds.
409: This is my Weight Watchers starting weight. I gained all but two pounds back from the weight that I lost in 2003. Looks like I joined WW in just the nick of time.
399: Means I’m out of the 400’s. A weight I never ever thought that I would see. When I was younger, that was my big thing: “I know I’m overweight, but I could never allow myself to be 400 pounds! How does that happen?!?” Well, a sedentary job, depression, hanging out with pot-heads, crappy eating habits, a pregnancy where I gained like 60 pounds, eating fast food three times a day, not working out, depression and even more depression. Not paying attention to how it happens. Not paying enough attention to my body. Not realizing that I can’t breathe because of the extra weight that is pressing on my lungs. Not realizing that it’s hard to stand up from the floor. Crying over the fact that I’m in the largest size the fat-woman store carries. Knowing that last fact for two years before doing anything about it. It happens. If you allow yourself to be unaware for long enough, it will happen. Goal met.
386: 25 pounds lost via home scale (MHS). Goal met. (Again.)
384: 25 pounds lost via Weight Watchers Scale (WWS). Goal met. (Again.)
382: When I attempted to lose weight in 2001, this was my “starting weight”. Goal met. (Again.)
374: Means I’m closer to 350 than to 400. Goal met. (Again.)
371: Fred’s starting weight when he had his breakthrough moment. It felt like a sort of milestone to get there. Goal met. (Again.)
368: This is the weight I reached in 2003 and my 10% weight loss goal for Weight Watchers. Less than 200 pounds to WW goal. Goal met. (Again.)
367: One pound less than my 2003 success. Also, I have lost as much as my daughter weighs (At that time - 44#.) Goal met. (Again.)
362: Robyn’s starting weight. Goal met. (Again.)
361: 50 pounds lost via MHS. Goal met. (Again.)
360: Less than 200 to PG. Goal met. (Again.)
359: 50 pounds lost via WWS. Goal met!! (Again.)
355: Pregnancy starting weight with my first daughter. Kind of. I didn’t go to the doctor until I was about three or four months along, because I didn’t know I was pregnant. This is the first weight they have recorded for me. Goal Met. (Again.)
350: !!! An even numbered milestone. Plus, this is one of those magic numbers. Once you pass 350, it seems like you’re out of the realm of “normal society”. Doctor’s tables, amusement park rides, massage tables… many different things have a weight limit of 350. If you’re one to pay attention to those sorts of things (I’m not, and I’ve never broken a doctor’s table, have ridden many amusement park rides and have received many massages) then it can make you feel a bit ostracized. But once I hit this weight, they can weigh me on the scale at the doctor’s office! I will weigh what my license says I weigh! This is a big one! Look at all this stuff that happens when I hit this magical number! Goal Met. (Again.)
349: Closer to 300 than 400. Goal Met. (Again.)
346: Lost what my second daughter’s weighed at the time I started Weight Watchers from the new Weight Watchers starting weight (363-17).
338: Passing for Thin, yet?
337: Weight to lose is less than goal weight. (WWS. Goal is 169, 168 to go.)
336: 75 pounds lost via MHS.
334: 75 pounds lost via WWS.
331: Second 10 percent loss based on old WW weights.
329: Lost my second daughter twice. (New WW starting weight.)
327: New WW 10% goal.
326: My pre-pregnancy weight with my second daughter.
324: Closer to 300 than to 350.
323: Lost my first daughter twice! (From original WW journey.)
321: Amount to lose is less than my goal weight. (MHS. 161 Goal, 160 to go.)
316: Simply half way between the preceding and the following goals.
312: Lost my second daughter three times.
311: 100 pounds lost!!!!!! (Via MHS.)
309: 100 pounds lost!!!!!! (Via WWS.)
301: Lost one more pound than B from my WW meetings. (Via WWS.)
300: !!! Another even numbered milestone.
299: In the 200’s. Bye-bye 300’s!!!
298: Third 10 percent loss based on old WW starting weight.
295: Lost my second daughter four times.
294: Once upon a time, in 2003, I was trying to lose weight. I have this medicine cabinet that has a chalkboard on it, and at that time, I was using it to track how much weight I’d lost. One week, I was having party and Cameron (or maybe it was Adam, I dunno) came out of the bathroom and asked: “What’s 117 mean?” I thought for a minute, confused, then realized that he was talking about. (I’m almost certain it was Cameron, now that I remember this story more.) ME: “Eleven point seven! That’s how much weight I’ve lost!” Not anymore. 117 means 117 pounds, baby. Also, this is my second 10 percent loss, based on the new WW starting weight.
289: Half way to my WWG!!
286: 125 pounds lost via MHS. (And half way to my PG!!)
This is where I pooped out last time. I can’t wait to be able to meet the rest of these goals.
285: More than half way there.
284: 125 pounds lost via WWS.
279: Have lost my first daughter thrice.
278: Have lost my second daughter five times.
274: Closer to 250 than to 300.
271: Lost one more pound than J from WW online. (VIA WWS.)
268: Less than 100 pounds to WWG and my fourth 10 percent loss based on old WW starting weight.
265: My third 10 percent loss based on the new WW starting weight.
261: 150 pounds lost via MHS. (And have lost my second daughter six times.)
260: Less than 100 pounds to PG.
259: 150 pounds lost via WWS.
250: Just obsessed with the even numbered milestones, aren’t I?
249: Closer to 200 than to 300.
247: This is the last weight I really remember seeing on a scale before I started gaining a ton of weight. This was in 1995 or so.
244: Have lost my second daughter seven times.
241: Fifth 10 percent loss.
238: Fourth 10 percent loss, based on new WWSW.
236: 175 pounds lost via MHS.
235: Have lost my daughter for the fourth time!
234: 175 pounds lost via WWS.
227: Have lost my second daughter eight times.
224: Closer to 200 than to 250.
217: Sixth 10 percent.
214: Fifth new 10 percent.
210: Have lost my second daughter nine times.
211: 200 pounds lost!!!! (Via MHS.)
209: 200 pounds lost!!!! (Via WWS.)
206: Half the person I was. (Via MHS.)
205: I will have lost more than my current weight via MHS.
204: I will have lost more than my current weight via WWS. (That means, I’m truly half the person I was via WWS.)
200: !!
199: Hello, Alice. Welcome to Onederland.
195: Seventh 10 percent.
193: Sixth 10 percent based on new WWSW and have lost my second daughter 10 times.
191: Lost my first daughter again! (Won’t be able to do it again.)
187: This is completely personal.
179: 10 pounds from WWG.
176: Have lost my second daughter an eleventh and final time. (Won’t be able to do it again.)
175: Eighth and final 10 percent. Another one and I would be below my goal weight.
174: Closer to 150 than to 200 and the top end of my weight range and the final 10 percent based on the new WWSW.
171: 10 pounds from PG.
169: Weight Watchers Goal Weight. 240 pounds lost. (With free bells and whistles!!)
161: My Personal Goal Weight. 250 pounds lost.
82 Weight Loss Goals.
12 Goals met.
70 to go.
I am 21 percent of the way to PG and 22 percent of the way to my WWG.
The numbers definitely still rule my brain. It’s all a numbers thing.
I once had a section here on the things that I would be rewarding myself with, but I chose to take it down. When I began this journey, I figured that I was just different than the people out there who say that you shouldn’t reward yourself for eating properly. It’s what you should be doing anyway. I clung to the idea of rewards, thinking that I “definitely” needed them in order to succeed.
I am not ashamed to say that I was wrong. Very wrong. By the time I hit 70 pounds lost, I had successfully entered the school of thought that believed that the way you feel and the things you can do become your rewards. Buying a docking station or having a new stone in my engagement ring didn’t mean nearly as much as being able to comfortably shave my legs in our teeny-tiny shower. Scrapbooking supplies and a trip out of country didn’t hold nearly as much appeal as being able to run a mile or walk into my favourite store and shop off of the rack. (Of course, we will still go to Ireland and Paris. That’s gotta happen. And it will be after I hit goal so that A) I will comfortably fit into a seat on the airplane (as comfortably as seats on airplanes can be) and B) so that we can afford it, of course!)
So, the rewards section is gone and will be replaced it with my Will-Do list. A list of things I will be able to do once I’ve hit my goal weight. Currently, my goal is to come up with as many items as I have pounds to lose, but the creating of the list is slow-going. So, we’ll see how many I actually get to.