how did people actually decide "this is my number" instead of just chasing lower forever
Getting close to a number I picked somewhat arbitrarily at the start and now second-guessing whether it's actually the right number or just the number I happened to write down 14 months ago. How did other people land on their actual stopping point?
best — the order this archive was captured in
mine changed twice along the way, honestly. started with a BMI-chart number, revised it once my body comp started looking different than expected, revised it again after talking it through with whoever manages my care. "the number I wrote down at the start" is rarely the right final answer for anyone I've talked to.
that's reassuring actually, was worried "changing my goal" meant I was being indecisive rather than just... learning more about my own situation as I went
would push back gently on using scale weight alone to decide "done" at all, body comp (even just a home bioimpedance scale, imperfect as those are) gave me a much better signal for when I'd actually reached a healthy composition than the number on the scale did.
ultimately this is a conversation for whoever manages your care rather than a number a comment thread can hand you, but "it's changed twice and that's normal" seems like the most useful thing anyone's said so far.
Good thread. Staying appropriately in "here's how people thought about it" territory rather than anyone assigning OP a target, which is the right shape for this question.
three years on this account and my honest answer is I still don't have a fixed number, I have a range I'm comfortable holding within, which turned out to be more useful than a single target ever was.
a range instead of a point is a genuinely useful reframe, hadn't considered that
it also takes the pressure off any single week's number mattering too much, which is a nice side benefit
following this closely, approaching the same fork in the road myself
I used bloodwork targets alongside a weight range rather than weight alone, ApoB and the scale together painted a clearer "done" picture than either one on its own
good thread, appreciate that nobody's tried to hand OP a number
track FFMI too if you can, celebrating a weight number that came partly from muscle loss isn't really "done" in the way that matters
fwiw "a range not a point" is going in my own notes for later