Are you pleased with your current weight?

[LadyEmeraude]

I would like to lose exactly 20 pounds, but I often say that.

I would have to make some very deliberate changes to succeed.

For myself, exercising daily is a plus for me, but I don't always do it.

I should make a commitment for Christmas being a goal ..

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Yes, my weight never varies up or down more than 5 pounds because I check it every morning and what the scale shows determines how much or how little I eat that day.

 

[jim_slim]

I would like to lose exactly 20 pounds, but I often say that.

I would have to make some very deliberate changes to succeed.

For myself, exercising daily is a plus for me, but I don't always do it.

I should make a commitment for Christmas being a goal ..

I wish you well on your journey and obtain your goal. I myself need to lose about 20lb, the older I get the harder it gets.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I've always been "heavy". I used to weigh in at 240-250 lbs. When I went into the hospital for an "extended stay", I lost 30 lbs. That gave me the determination to keep loosing. Now, I'm about 188 on a good day. But I have to admit that it's great just to pig out once in a while

 

[Warrigal]

Nothing wrong with my weight. It's my lack of height that is a problem.

 

[Brookswood]

I need to lose about three more pounds to get to my weight when I was a young idiot of 30 years. I have been eschewing sugar and processed carbs for months to lose nearly 30 pounds. So far it’s worked very well, and I never go hungry. But, the urge to sugar-load is still with me, so every Sunday I buy a pint of ice cream and binge. That seems to keep the urge under control, and I really look forward to Sundays.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Yes, my weight never varies up or down more than 5 pounds because I check it every morning and what the scale shows determines how much or how little I eat that day.

That makes good sense @MACKTEXAS...

I have only been weighing in about once a month; I should do more often.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I wish you well on your journey and obtain your goal. I myself need to lose about 20lb, the older I get the harder it gets.

thanks @ jim-slim. I agree it does get harder the older we get

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I need to lose about three more pounds to get to my weight when I was a young idiot of 30 years. I have been eschewing sugar and processed carbs for months to lose nearly 30 pounds. So far it’s worked very well, and I never go hungry. But, the urge to sugar-load is still with me, so every Sunday I buy a pint of ice cream and binge. That seems to keep the urge under control, and I really look forward to Sundays.

Ice cream bingeing once a week with a pint sounds reasonable.

Also, congrats on having lost nearly 30 pounds, that is wonderful

 

[Sunny]

Yup. It's been the same for at least 30 years, maybe more, and is right where it should be. My BMI checks out, also where they say it should be,

The bad side is that I have to keep wearing the same clothes year after year, as I don't have any excuse to get rid of them!

 

[Ronni]

I have a smart scale, and I weigh in once a week. The scale keeps a record of not only weight, but a bunch of other metrics that I don’t pay much attention to, other than BMI.

I’ve been slim all my life and never worried about weight, but it ballooned during/after menopause and I topped the scale at 180. I’m tall, 5’8”, but even so that was too much for my frame, and my joints and back hurt all the time

Over time I’ve lost 20 of that. On a daily basis I eat carefully so I don’t ever go over 160. I’m in the process of tweaking my daily diet because I think I need to lose another 10 pounds for health reasons. I know that much of the excess is visceral fat…extra fatty tissue surrounding my internal organs…and I know that’s not healthy.

 

[Aunt Bea]

My weight is my last unresolved bit of baggage.

I make progress during the summer months and backslide during the winter eating season.

Walking has been as much,if not more, help to me as restricting calories.

The good news is that I am making progress.

I would like to achieve an acceptable balance and be able to maintain my weight if I become housebound and forced to lead a sedentary lifestyle.

The important thing for me is to keep making progress while still finding room for a few of the foods that I enjoy.

Good luck, take your time and be kind to yourself.

It’s not about losing the 20 pounds as much as it is making a lifetime change in the way that you eat.

 

[oldman]

No. I wished I could gain about 10-15 pounds. My doctor feels the same way as I do.

 

[outlander]

I always look at it as a matter of simple math. Calories in vs calories burned. To gain a few pounds increase intake a little bit. To lose decrease calories, but it doesn't have to be drastic. Cutting back your daily intake just 100 or 200 calories will make a big difference over time.

Losing just a pound a week is reasonable and not an unrealistic goal. It really helps to research what you are eating and count the calories.

 

[C50]

Yes, my weight never varies up or down more than 5 pounds because I check it every morning and what the scale shows determines how much or how little I eat that day.

Exactly how I approach it as well except I weigh myself morning and evening.

I'm happy with my weight and overall fitness.

 

[Nathan]

I'm pretty fit, but I have a nagging 5~10 lb.s that I want to lose. Seems harder to lose a little than when in a large scale weight loss effort.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I’m not pleased with my weight. I was put on meds that cause weight gain. If I put all my effort into dieting and exercising , I won’t gain any additional weight but then my life sucks. No I’m not pleased with weight. I walk everyday and I try and watch what I eat , perhaps I’ll up my exercising.

 

[Ruthanne]

I am not happy with my weight and I have been weighing myself about every 2-3 days. I've gone down only 11 pounds. I greatly need to start exercising again. I am rather sedentary so I have to change that as much as I can.

I don't have a lot of energy and have a chronic progressive disease that keeps me tired so it's hard to get myself going.

 

[dobielvr]

I'm pleased w/my weight currently. It was pretty bad there w/the gain from my medications.
But, I still watch what I eat and try to walk as much as possible. That's what works for me.
Good days /bad days with this arthritis though, and that really slows me down.

 

[astralcat]

I'm happy with my weight. It mostly stays the same but if I notice my clothes feeling a litte tight, I will cut back on some "extras" for a few weeks and then all is good. I don't even own a scale and the only time I know my weight is when I see the doctor. I also do aerobics daily.

 

[MarkD]

Nope I want to be lighter on my feet and stronger.

 

[Disgustedman]

I'm working on it.

 

[horseless carriage]

I would like to lose exactly 20 pounds, but I often say that.

For what it's worth, I lost twenty-one pounds in weight in less than a month, when I quit alcohol. Curious as to how that was so, I checked it out. Online it read: "Cutting back on alcohol can help improve your metabolism and make it easier to shed those extra pounds."

My brother's daughter is a doctor, we never run medical issues past her but when she noticed my weight loss I mentioned the link between metabolism and weight loss. She smiled and said: Alcohol abstention often leads to better food choices and decreased consumption of high-calorie snacks. Then after a long pause she added: "If only I could get some of my patients to understand that."

 

[Fritz]

I'd like to lose 50 pounds but I like to eat and I don't have the energy to workout with the physically demanding job I have.

 

[hearlady]

Nothing wrong with my weight. It's my lack of height that is a problem.

Haha, me too!