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Date Posted: 09:44:48 06/08/02 Sat
Author: Katie
Subject: How did you pick your goal weight?

Well, I've reset my goal weight. I was going by the 100 pounds plus 5 for every inch over 5' which would have set my weight at 135. I've thought long and hard about it, and done a lot of research, and I've reset my goal to 150. As near as I can figure out, my lean body weight is about 135 now, so even 150 may be an unrealistic goal. I'd love to be a size 6 , but that is totally unrealistic for me. I know a woman who is 5'5" and wears a size 4 and I think that she looks anorexic (and she's always complaining about the size of her stomach).

How have some of you picked goal weights? Did you pick a weight that you felt good at in the past (as suggested by Dr. A in his book)? Did you calculate your lean body weight, and add a healthy body fat percentage for your age/gender?

At first, I thought that I would know when I got there. I'm a little leery of not having a "goal". I'm afraid that I'd stop at a size just because I got tired of fighting this all the time and end up selling myself short of being the best that I can be.

My immediate goal is a pair of size 18 Wrangler's that I fit into for about 2 days before I got pregnant. I got loads of compliments about how great I looked, but I knew that I still wasn't even close to my goal. My second goal is a size 14, finally out of the soft and cuddly woman's sizes (My SO gets so upset when I call it the fat lady section).

Puberty set off some nasty changes in my body. At the age of 12, I weighed 125 at 5'2" and was constantly being told I was fat. By the age of 14, I was 5'5" and wore a size 14 and boys made fun of me in the halls at school (most girls in my school wore a size 0 or 2). I wore a size 18 at the age of 19 (my wedding dress), and haven't been anything smaller than a 20 since.

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