Evidently I have issues with my body, as I have whined about on here ad nauseum (sp? whatever). As it stands, my goal is to get down to a BMI of 18.5 ish, which is on the border of low-healthy. I think this is okay, and would satiate my urge to be thin. I know myself well enough- I wouldn't want to push it lower than that. I use that as my goal because it is slightly more than what I was a few years ago...at my skinny weight I got more compliments/ attention than I ever got before in my life. My ribs were jutting a lot though, so not that far.
But it is *SO* hard for me to lose weight past a certain point. I'm like BMI 20 now or something, and it's hard to lose more.
The thing that made me wonder is, since I've lost about six or seven pounds recently, I apparently look 'a lot thinner'. Whenever I lose five pounds, people notice, but I can't see it on myself. I always look the same to my own eyes. This worries me that I have no perspective anymore. I literally don't believe my scales or measuring tape.
So my question (and this is so annoying, all this obsess-o-rama, and sorry sorry sorry, but I'm all tired today and can't help myself but talk about it)- how do you set reasonable goals? If you can't tell what looks best? Clothing sizes? BMI? Measurements? These are all objective standards that I figure would let me know where I stand. I want to be love handle free. What's a good goal, or what's something that I could measure myself by that is not too unrealistic? I'm beginning to learn that just maybe being a size four is okay for me. That's hard to accept though.



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