How do you determine how to set an achievable weight loss goal for progress?

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I’m 5’ 7” and 176lbs.

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I’m 5’7 and my ideal weight is between 170-180. But that looks different on everybody! So I’d focus more on body composition rather than the scale ☺️ the scale is only one of many ways to track progress! Maybe try to track measurements, stamina, energy levels etc before jumping on the scale. The scale fluctuates SO much in 1 day. 
I know my weight in the AM is usually 3-7 pounds lighter than my PM weight. Crazy as heck but our bodies do weird things! 
If you are set on using the scale, do weekly weigh ins. Not daily or even every other day. Do it the same day every week at the same time and that will give you a better idea of how you are making progress.

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Just do it

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However your body feels most comfortable is probably the weight but you should be it. Don’t focus on the scale focus on how clothes fit on you. Sometimes the scale doesn’t move but your body eventually shifts and catches up. I was a lot heavier than you I start at 350 pounds size 50 double D bra I got down to 255, 40 double D bra. I’m just walking and eating better, I used my fitness pal and Fitbit and maintain a calorie deficit. But my biggest shift in my body I went from a size 24 pants to a size 18 or 16 without the scale moving 1 pound but my body finally caught up to my upper half from the bottom half. It takes time. You didn’t get in the way overnight you’re not gonna lose it overnight and there’s no miracle pill or shake or anything that you see on TV or advertised online that’s going to make you drop the weight overnight. Cutting out the junk food soda etc. definitely helps eating out less things like that. Maybe shifting your diet from your current diet to vegetarian or vegan or just making better choices. Losing weight is not about starving or depriving yourself it’s about finding a balance. I stick with 8020 myself but 80% of the time I eat healthy nutritious foods and I give myself some grace with the 20% for holidays and birthdays and things like that as well as every day I treat myself to some thing so I don’t feel deprived. Whether that’s low-calorie ice cream or something as an alternative to junk food. I liked all dark chocolate covered bananas 100 cal packs￼￼ Or a halo top ice cream you can eat the entire pint for 300 cal or whatever the numbers depending on the flavor. I did high-protein high-fiber low salt low sugar and mostly granola bars for bread carbs I cut out meat except for going out once in a while and that seems to what works best for me personally you know everybody’s different. I don’t have a set number of what I need to weigh or a size I need to be because once you reach that number you end up getting it all back. Just take it one day at a time and take it as it comes. Life happens and celebrations happen quarantine happens you never know what life is going to throw at you and injury a car accident you got to grow with the punches as they come. And also know that the number on the scale or the size of your pants doesn’t define you or complete you or your happiness, you do. Life is what you make it, if you aren’t happy, you change what you can and what you can’t change, you learn to love, accept and embrace yourself flaws and all. I fell in love with myself and my body at 350 pounds, I still love myself just the same no matter what numbers on the scale.￼ You do what feels right for you and your body.  Take it one day at a time, one meal at a time, two weeks at a time, 5 pounds at a time whatever it may be for you, the biggest thing is psychological when it comes to weight loss how we go into it how we view it and how we focus on things. You find a reason and that becomes your goals and motivation and feels you to keep moving forward. Your reason is you. Not because of a man not because you have prom coming up not because you have a wedding coming up because once those things are over you lose your focus and your motivation and you gain it all back. Choose yourself, choose happiness, choose better. You deserve better and you deserve happiness. Choose yourself and make yourself a priority. Love yourself, date yourself, pamper yourself, take care of yourself. You can do anything that you put your mind to. Don’t be so hard on yourself, give yourself some grace, and take it as it comes.￼ ￼

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I would go for more of the look vs weight. You could get down to 155 and feel like you look amazing but if it wasn’t your “goal” weight then you won’t be as happy. 
Don’t step on the scale, work out , eat better and see how that goes for a good 6 months.

How do you determine how to set an achievable weight loss goal for progress?

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