Jaycey
Post-Menopausal Maniac!
I just wondered - because I originally set my own target weight at 11 stone, just because that's what I was for years. My CDC did point out that this was just under the 'overweight' line on the weight chart for my height (rather than well into the 'normal' area), but at the start I just didn't think that I'd lose any weight at all (having been wrong-footed by so many other diets).
Now that I'm doing so well, we've talked about changing my target weight to 10½ stone (which I was throughout most of my late 20s and 30s). It still seems incredible to me, but my clothes and the scales are grounding me in reality, and I know that I can do that.
However, my CDC always says that there's no reason why people can't go back to how they were when they were 21 (this always amuses people who were even bigger then than they are now, lol) and so I asked my mum how much I weighed then, because I can't remember. She thought for a bit, then went running off upstairs and came back with an old exercise book. She'd only found an old food diary of mine, from when I was 18!
(As I've said previously, I've been dieting on and off since I was 15!)
It was interesting - at age 18, I weighed 9st.12lbs, and I measured 37-31-36 (which seems a lot for that weight?) - I grew to 5'8" at 16 and stopped there, so I know that was the same. I'm not suggesting that I try and get back to all that (although it might happen anyway) - but I reckon if I get to 10½ stone on SS, then when I switch to SS+ and gradually wean myself off the diet and onto maintenance, then that half-stone might just drop off anyway (and the inches with it, hopefully!).
What do others think? Am I asking for the moon here, or does it sound like a real possibility? 
Now that I'm doing so well, we've talked about changing my target weight to 10½ stone (which I was throughout most of my late 20s and 30s). It still seems incredible to me, but my clothes and the scales are grounding me in reality, and I know that I can do that.
However, my CDC always says that there's no reason why people can't go back to how they were when they were 21 (this always amuses people who were even bigger then than they are now, lol) and so I asked my mum how much I weighed then, because I can't remember. She thought for a bit, then went running off upstairs and came back with an old exercise book. She'd only found an old food diary of mine, from when I was 18!
(As I've said previously, I've been dieting on and off since I was 15!)It was interesting - at age 18, I weighed 9st.12lbs, and I measured 37-31-36 (which seems a lot for that weight?) - I grew to 5'8" at 16 and stopped there, so I know that was the same. I'm not suggesting that I try and get back to all that (although it might happen anyway) - but I reckon if I get to 10½ stone on SS, then when I switch to SS+ and gradually wean myself off the diet and onto maintenance, then that half-stone might just drop off anyway (and the inches with it, hopefully!).
What do others think?
Am I asking for the moon here, or does it sound like a real possibility? 
