I’ve got a long, boring road of diet and exercise ahead of me (gluttony and sloth are so much more fun…) and I’m curious how far everyone else has to go. Misery loves company and all that.
Define “ideal weight” however you want, though if you’re 350lbs, plump and proud, give some thought to your medically ideal weight.
Poll to come shortly. For those of you on the metric system, remember that there are approximately 2.2lbs per kilgram.
I’m trying for 225. I started at 265 two months ago and I’m down to 240 already. I could go lower, but 225 is ideal enough for me.
Way to go! Are you using a particular diet/exercise regimen?
I said 10, but it’s technically 12. I’m 147 and I’d like to be at 135.
It’s funny – that gap between actual and ideal looks huge to me now, but I used to be in the 190s and 135 seemed like a complete pipe dream. I’ve come further than I think. 
I’m guessing at 75. I’m running somewhere around 300 now, but haven’t weighed myself in a few weeks. My doctor actually wants me at 215, but promised to stop complaining if I make it to 225.
I’m 5’8" and 147 pounds, so I think I’m right where I need to be, according to BMI calculations.
Could I lose 5 pounds? Yeah probably, but I’m OK where I am.
I’m within 2-3 pounds of my ideal body weight. I wouldn’t mind getting a little more definition in my abs, but I’m not worreid about it enough to risk energy-robbing calorie deficits to fix it.
I looked my best at 115 lbs., but my body hates to drop below 130.
I’m just a bump from my BMI. This has gone on for years now.
I count on my winter vacation to lose the ten pounds and I do - lots of swimming, walking and eating natural foods. Then I can maintain it through the summer in MN in the same manner.
But this year I came home to snow in April. Then it snowed again in May and rained all through the month of June. And the pounds came back on.
Our farmer’s market has been slow in providing good fresh food and that doesn’t help much either.
It’s the result of two issues, actually, because my eating habits are good on a daily basis with an occasional splurge to treat myself. And those are: a slower metabolism with aging and an unwillingness to exercise. I’m just one of those people who detests exercise unless it’s accidental to something else.
If it’s nice out I will go out for brisk walks and that’s sufficient to keep my weight down
I might add that I suspect I brought this all on myself when I was young and silly by using one calorie diet sodas as a substitute for eating if I suspected that I had gained an extra ounce. Big, big mistake.
When I married I weighed a very slender 118 pounds at 5’10" and could eat as much of anything as I wanted. ETA: Now I’m 5’9 and 175. Quite a change.
Depending on my mood, I’m right where I need to be or could stand to lose 5 lbs. BMI-wise, I’m in the clear, but if someone could make my stomach flatter without my having to do anything, that’d be great.
I am 6’4" and started at 270 two years ago. I’m trying to get to about 195.
I got down to 215 last year but got sick (mono) and then had some issues where I ended up couch surfing for a few months (divorce).
Two months ago I started being serious again and started anew, at 240. I’m at 225 now and just have 30 more to go and I’m done with this round. I hope to hit 195 by New Years.
I’m healthy and don’t look too bad at my normal adult weight, which is about 5-10 lbs underweight according to BMI, but I’d like to put on 10-20 lbs for the sake of strength, vanity, and having a little extra to get me through illness or injury. I can only gain weight from muscle mass so I’m going to have to commit to a real bodybuilding regimen to make it happen (heavy weights, tons of food).
My strategy has been trying to avoid putting the weight on in the first place. I was doing really well, stable since high school, until my gastrointestinal illness in 2005 that landed me in the hospital and, due to physically weakening me and screwing up my digestion first dropped me down 30 pounds then, on the rebound, bumped my weight up about 10 pounds over where it had been, and my body now seems to want to stay there. I’m slowly getting that back down.
Low carb. Whole grains for the carbs. A big part of the quick start was getting tons of sugar out of my diet. I’ve been increasing my activity level, slowly, I’ll have to pick up the pace on that now.
I need to lose about 50 lbs to be at the weight where I think I’ve looked and felt my best as an adult. According to a regular ideal weight calculator, I’m a hundred pounds past what’s supposed to be ideal for my height. Yes, I am a very short woman. But the low side of ideal for that height is ninety-four goddamned pounds. I haven’t weighed 94 lbs. since about the fourth grade, and I honestly feel I look sickly below 150.
Now I just need to get up off my fat ass and, you know, do it.
30 pounds. I’ve been hovering around 175 for a couple years and 145 is about right for me.
I’d be happy losing another 20lbs, but the effing BMI calculator tells me I could lose over 60lbs before I verge on underweight. Feck that.
I would like to lose another 25 lbs (have lost 80 over the last 2½ yrs.). The last time I was at that weight I was bordering on looking “skinny”. I would like to see what it looks like on me now, but I doubt I could maintain that weight. I would settle for losing 15.
However, despite the fact that I was bordering on skinny at that weight, I was still “overweight” according to the standard BMI charts. I would need to lose nearly 40 lbs from where I am now to be at the very top end of “healthy”. It’s never gonna happen.
The usual BMI calculator says I should be 165 lbs for my 5’7" size. But hell… that’s quite a reach.
I was a scrawny kid, but the last time I weighted 165 was just out of Army basic training, and they managed to smack about 50 lbs of muscle on me.
Now, many years and several surgeries (due to accidents and what not) later, I’m clocking in at 235. Through diet alone I managed to get down to 205 about two years ago (from 250, which was my absolute ‘my fat ass is going to do something’ weight). Since then, I’ve moved back to TX, where great food is abundant (read: fatty and greasy) and I’m back to being a porker.
I’m shooting for 200 lbs, but my real ideal weight is 180. And even that’s still considered overweight. But I’ll take 200 if I can get there again. I think I can do it, given a 2-year time window. Oh, and some mental discipline.
Those BMI calculators tell me I need to reach 155 for my ideal weight. The lowest in my life was at 18 when I was at about 175. I was a damned string bean at that weight. I’d think I’d look somewhat anorexic at 155. How’s that ideal outside the catwalk??
I’m pretty sure I’ll never get that low (barring illness.) I’d be fine getting back to 175 again (30 lbs to go!) I do weight lifting now whereas I didn’t when I was skinny, so that extra weight would mostly be muscle, I’d wager. I can live with that. 