I haven’t talked about it much online, although looking at my sparse posting here, apparently this is where I do almost ALL of my talking about it. I’ve been doing Weight Watchers online pretty seriously since September, and I hit a big milestone this week!
I have lost 10% of my body weight — 17.2 lbs. Actually, I lost 18 lbs, but both of those things happened at the same weigh-in. Ten percent!
That’s still more than my pre-pregnancy weight, and since Noah will be 6 in a few weeks, I think it is high time for my body to return to that state. And since when I got pregnant with Noah, I was right on the BMI borderline between “normal” and “overweight,” my long term goal is to land myself about 2/3 of the way down into the normal range.
I’m trying to set a few mini-goals on my 42:42 journey:
1) Pre-Pregnancy Weight: 150.
Aspiration: Reach this goal by 2/9/12
3) Down by 25 pounds: 147.
Aspiration: Reach this goal by 3/1/12
4) Three-fourths to Goal: 140.5 marks the 3/4 point on this journey.
Aspiration: Reach this goal by 4/5/12
5) 20% Lost: 137.5 means I will be 80% of the woman I was in August.
Apsiration: Reach this goal by 5/3/12
6) Last but not least, 130.
Aspiration: Reach and maintain this goal by 7/4/12: Independence Day!
Why 130?
A few reasons. That was my wedding weight, and I looked awesome at my wedding. 130 is also comfortably in the middle of the normal BMI range for my height. The range is 120-150. And 130 fits well with my turning 42 obsession with the number 42 — it seemed like “the answer.”
On the other hand, except for my wedding, I don’t remember when I last weighed 130. Law school? College? It may not be a realistic goal. If I keep exercising and eating healthfully on the WW plan, and I plateau before I reach 130, I’m not going to beat myself up over it. I’ll keep working towards that goal until the 42:42 game I’m playing is over — when I’m 43. At at that point, I hope I’ll have been hanging out at the same roughly 130 for 4-6 months, but wherever I am, I’ll re-evaluate and make sure I’m still making healthy choices as I move into 43.
congratulations! also, i love that your plan has an out, so that 130 doesn’t just hang around making you feel bad if you don’t get there. i think my body is just not that into being in the middle of the BMI range; i’ve spent my adult life at the “normal/overweight” border, and i think that may be my “normal,” population statistics (since that what BMI charts are) be damned.
Congrats on your weight loss! I know how much every pound lost needs to be celebrated.
And 10 percent? That’s awesome.