Choosing a healthy goal weight

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Re: Choosing a healthy goal weight

I've struggled as well on what is a good goal weight so I've decided to first chase getting out of "obese" on a body mass index chart. The weight happens to be 209. At that point I will probably set the next bar to get out of overweight category.

Long term the main goal is to be able to run 3 miles every day and spend energetic time with my kids watching/mentoring them while they grow up. I just didn't see it happening with the weight I was carrying.

[not2late]

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Just commenting on what Sunny's twin thing.....From personal experience.

I have a cousin-in-law, who was always slender and very pretty (how my cousin married her I don't know....) Anyhow, when she reached 40, she had a mid-life crisis of sorts. Went low fat, lost weight, etc. It wasn't even that she needed to lose weight but she did anyway. She's so thin now that she can wear Junior sized clothing (and does......by the way, the stuff Miley Cyrus wears doesn't look quite right on a 47 year old woman!) She's totally happy that she can wear the same sized clothing a 13 year old can. BUT, she looks way older than 47. She looks like she's in her mid-50s. Not only does she have wrinkles on her face, the skin on her arm, neck and upper chest look wrinkled and loose too. She also has a perpetually tired look (no other way I can describe it), so that she looks worn and weared out. I met her sister at a family function last year. The sister is 2 years younger and she looks her age---no extreme wrinkles, doesn't look worn out.

So I think that when you get older, it's probably better to keep your weight in the mid-upper "healthy" BMI range. All the wrinkle and aging tv shows say that the wrinkles are due to the lack of collagen. But maybe it's a combo of the lack of collagen and fat?

[ikilledrafe]

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I remembered looking hot at 170 lbs and thought I'd subtract 10 lbs from that. I don't know....figuring I'd have wiggle room for "hotness" if I went up a few!!! I did choose the number 160 though knowing it's all up to me and I can change it at any time. By the way, at 170, in high school I remember wearing size 14's. Now, I'm 197 and wearing size 14's and they're getting loose. I don't know what I'll do. I don't have a size 12 anything and haven't for at least 15 years!! I'm thinking about going to thrift stores and consignment shops to get a cheap size 12 goal collection. I went from size 18 at the end of 2008 to a loose 14 in less than 3 months. It's getting costly!! and I LOVE it!!

It's funny you say that, I've been going to the thrift store once a month buying my next size down. And i was 18, and thought hey why not, I got a size 14 pair of pants. Well i just goggled at them last weekend and thought, well may as well try it. AND THEY FREAKIN FIT! I just remember thinking. How the heck are these people in 14's and they weigh more than me, I've never fit in those really. But i agree, your body changes on this diet, and you do fit in clothes you shouldn't at certain weights. I'm drooling over my size 12's...which are LITERALLY from when i was 14!!~!!