When do you consider yourself close to goal weight?

Do you feel relieved when you are halfway in weight loss, to your goal weight?

Or do you need to be about 5 lbs away from goal to feel "close" to your goal?

KWIM?

Re: When do you consider yourself close to goal weight?

At halfway, I felt good but I had a long way to go so it wasn't really a relief. But I do like the way it sounds when I tell people how many pounds I've lost. It hardly seems real sometimes.

Five pounds away, I'm going to feel like I won the lottery! I think it depends on where you start. When I have only 5 to go, I will have lost 75 pounds.

So um yea, I will consider myself close at that point.

Re: When do you consider yourself close to goal weight?

Posted by greenfreak

Five pounds away, I'm going to feel like I won the lottery! I think it depends on where you start. When I have only 5 to go, I will have lost 75 pounds.

So um yea, I will consider myself close at that point.

Re: When do you consider yourself close to goal weight?

Thank you! Sometimes I get envious reading threads here when people only have 10 or 20 to lose.

Something I've worked on this time around on the weight loss effort is not focusing too much on the number or goal. If I'm truly serious about this being for good, for the rest of my life, it doesn't matter how much longer it takes to get me there.

And other days I want to throw my scale out the window.