Pretty bored at work today, so lets talk short and long term goals!
SW: 297.5 01/01/2019
CW: 245.5 04/26/2019
Goal 1: 220 - 225lbs. by July 27th, taking my wife to a Smokey Robinson concert, and would love slim down to this weight by then
Goal 2: 205-215 lbs by September 7th, Bali vacation time.
Goal 3: 180-190 lbs by December 5th, my 30th birthday, start maintenance mode
Long term, simply put, is staying between 180-190, healthy, fit, and build/maintain some muscle
What are yours?
My goals are not weight related. I want to hear the doctor say I am no longer diabetic, then I want my blood pressure in a normal range. I also want menopause to be an easier transition. I want zero markers for disease. If that ends up still being a higher weight than the BMI says is normal, oh well.
I am committed to the ultra-focus on fasting/lchf to get to my goals, but my plan is not to have to focus so intensely on it forever. I want to move on from this chapter of healing and just maintain my health.
Those are great goals to have!
Metabolically, i was OKAY, but not the best. Everything looks normal now, so thatās why my main focus is on weight and reversing some the chronic ailments I experience (aches/pain, stiffness, snoring, shortness of breath, etc.) luckily, aside from some very very minor low back tension, all these have resolved. The last time i was in the lower 200ās was when i was a Senior in high school, but before and after than time period, I was heavier.
I keep telling my wife, as silly as it sounds, I just want to be able to buy a shirt at Target without worrying if itāll fit or not, and not have to resort to online shopping or shopping at specialty stores (Destination XL, etc.) for bigger clothes.
Oh I get this! I just this last month got to leave the plus size womenās section and buy from the regular misses section. Itās like a whole new world opens!
Congrats!!!
I bet itās an amazing feeling
Iām waiting till the end of July (goal #1) before buying a nice shirt and smaller slacks for that concert. i tried on my suits the other day and theyāre huge now, so I wont making any high dollar investments like a suit till Iām way closer to my final goal weight. Iām still wearing all my usual clothes, needless to say Iām swimming in them, but it makes the wait for clothes shopping in a few months even more exciting to see how much of a size difference I end up being.
Iām trying not to invest too much money either yet. I can wear baggy tops, I just canāt stand droopy drawers 
I did buy a few new pairs. I probably removed half the clothes from my closet, itās sitting in the garage waiting for a goodwill trip.
Goal 1: Lose 8 pounds by June 1st so weight loss will be complete!
Gaol 2: Run a half marathon before the end of the year.
Goal 3: Run a full marathon before next spring.
Oh yes yes, the only things I have bought are underwear and a new belt, everything else will have to wait. Luckily I have a savings account I put money into just for miscellaneous things like clothing, dining out on occasion, etc., so when that time comes Iāll be able to replace my entire wardrobe without having to use the good olā credit card LOL
8 lbs by June 1st sounds very doable!! Iām sure youāll hit that goal, as well as the marathons!
Two comments on clothing after I lost 53 pounds a few years ago (I later gained 30 back but that was before keto).
I love suits so much I purposely buy tickets for events just to give me a reason to wear them LOL. I get them all tailored but I was still never satisfied with how I looked in them. I canāt wait to buy new ones when Iām way closer to my goal
oh man, thatās an awesome NSV!!
Been in a slight stall but I am ramping up exercise. All of my excess is in my gut now. I also have two secret weapons that I can deploy if needed. I can start fasting and I can cut back on scotch.
Have you tried the egg āfastā? Iām starting one next week just for the hell of it. I hear most folks tend to drop about 4-5/lbs in a week
SW: 225 lbs 9/9/18
CW: 164 lbs 4/26/19
GW: 155 lbs
Short term: get down to GW by my 30th bday (beginning of Sept), start hitting the gym on the regular to tone my stomach and arms
Long term: maintain a healthy and active, low carb lifestyle 
Hi George and everyone else here,
Starting weight 205
Original goal weight 165
Current weight 167
New goal weight 150
Actually I am just going to let my weight stabilize where I feel good and Iām happy with how I look. 
I am finding that my original goal weight was too high, I am not as muscular as I was 20 years ago. I am 5ā10ā and will be 60 in July. I started out on my own Atkins with natural foods diet to loose weight and drop elevated BG when doctors told me I was turning diabetic from taking a prescription steroid drug that I have to take for life. About a week later I read some stuff about keto and itās health restorative effect. Weight loss still a goal but metabolic healing takes first priority. The weight loss is happening too. No longer a pre diabetic, and thatās a big one.
Hey George,
I actually put all of my goals in my profile, and have been marking them off as I go. I started at 320 (or thereabouts) on 9/9/2018.
I am about at 236 now, so 84 pounds in about 8 months.
Hereās what I have in my profile. Some of these are just arbitrary numbers, some are based on the weight ranges determined by BMI - which may or may not be worthwhile but I seem to be one of those people for whom itās probably accurate:
Weight-loss Goals/Achievements:
I realize these are all just number goals, but I have real underlying health-related goals. Iām in my early 60s, and have a family history of type 2 diabetes, though I do not seem to have developed it myself. But my blood glucose numbers were always right at the beginning of the warning range (99 - 105) so I decided I would turn that around before it was too late.
@JRS08 - You getting a handle on this before you turn 30 is great. You need to really, really make an effort to keep the weight from coming back. It is easier to maintain than to lose. When I was 29, I weighed about 180 and was fit and athletic. And yet 30 years later I was over 300.
Set yourself some āline in the sandā levels and defend those with all of your might. Donāt ever get complacent. There is something about you (and me) that let us get up to the 300 range. Be on guard against the slow slide. My weight gain over 30 years was only about 4.5 pounds per year (average), so it can creep up on you.
Unfortunately, 4.5 pounds up or down is pretty much within normal fluctuations so it is hard to separate out the signal (real gain) from the noise (daily or weekly variations).
I know some people hate the scales because it doesnāt tell them what they want to hear. I will tell you that when I was gaining, I didnāt weigh. I wanted to ignore what I knew from how my pants fit.
My take on it - when you get to your maintenance range, weigh yourself at least once a week, and if you see a trend towards increase over a month or two, get serious again and arrest the slide before it turns into a 30-year decline.
