What’s a Comfortable Weight?
It’s a weight at which you feel pretty good about yourself, given where you’ve been. (Yes, you’d like to weigh 120, but since you’ve been at 180 for a long time, could you live with yourself at 140 on 50?)
It’s a weight that you don’t have to starve and exercise fanatically to maintain. (If you got to 125, would you really want to live that way to stay there?)
It’s a weight at which you have no medical problems caused by your weight. In fact, studies show that losing just 5 to 10 percent of your weight—TO to 20 pounds for a 200-pound person—can make a big difference in your health.
To Set a Coal Weight or Not?
Sari M. offers some good advice about finding a comfortable weight: “If someone gives you a goal weight, ignore their suggestion. The weight loss program I went to told me that I should weigh 120. But when I got to 130, my body started saying no.
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However, I pushed it down to 127 or 128 by practically starving myself. I decided that enough was enough and told them I wasn’t going to lose anymore.” Sari currently weighs 144, which is about 20 pounds less than her all-time highest weight. (She’s 5′4″.) She says, “I realized that as long as I look good in my clothes and feel happy and good in general, the ‘ideal’ weight doesn’t matter much.”
Sari advises other teens to “figure out what your desired weight range is and make sure it’s healthy.” In fact, there’s a theory that each person’s body has a preset biological weight that it will fight to maintain by causing constant hunger if the person drops well below it. This seems to be the case for many people. However, this number is not necessarily hard and fast. It’s more likely a range, which can be quite wide, and people have some control over which area of the range they maintain.
A number of experts I interviewed discourage teens from setting weight goals. They feel that if teens focus on changing eating and activity patterns, the weight should take care of itself. Adolescent eating and weight expert Craig Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Eating Disorders
