Fat Girl Makes Weight Loss Goals

I need to lose something like 65 pounds to get to my proper weight range. I need to set some very real weight loss goals in order to do that.

* Just because the weight went on really fast doesn't mean that it's going to come off that fast. I need to understand that its going to take some time to lose. Most clinicians say that a goal weight of 10% of your start weight is most achievable.

So me tipping the scale at 208 lbs, actually 209 since I weighed this morning should aim for about 20 lbs to begin with? Don't know that I like that. Think I want to shoot for 5 lbs at a time, that way when I weigh in on Saturdays to see if my diet and exercise are being effective I will feel like less of a loser. or is it more of a loser?

* I've heard that your supposed to try for 1 - 2 pounds a week to stay healthy so that you know your not losing muscle or something like that.

So how long will it take to lose 65 pounds at 2 pounds per week? About 32.5 weeks or about 8.5 months. Guess that doesn't sound to bad. I am so going to celebrate when I get under 200 pounds!! It's been forever since I was less than 200!!

* Going to track my progress. I like writing my weigh in weights on a calendar.

Oh, funny story ( not really haha, but more like a groan story) .... About a year ago I was trying to lose weight, and I had this calendar hung up in front of my elliptical trainer which was in my dining room (it was a huge room) because I didn't have any other place else to put it. Someone who will remain nameless to protect the guilty, came over one day and was looking at it, shes like "so your trying to lose weight, hu? Not working very well for ya, is it!" B****!! Might want to keep the calendar some place private, like the underwear drawer!!

I think it was Rosie O'Donnell that coined the term several years ago when she still had her talk show, "Eat Less, Move more!" Thats kinda the philosophy that i'm going to use in this process. And even though i'm not Catholic, I gave up fast food for lent. I was going to just do pizza, but then thought that I better broaden it to fast food. And yes I know, lent isn't supposed to be used for dieting. I do remember the pastor saying that this last Sunday, but it is a giving up of something. I remember a few years ago, my sister in law gave up cheese for lent, and she is Catholic. HA!