For all of those who don't know, I recently finally decided on my exact ideal weight. It's more than just a goal weight- it's a specific weight that if I could weight ANYTHING, I would way this amount: 114.5 pounds.
I chose this weight because it is equivalent to Zooey Deschanel's exact BMI, and she has what I consider a perfect body.
At first, this was just an "ultimate goal" weight, that I didn't have a specific date to match. But now, I do!!
My ultimate goal is to be 114.5 pounds by September 13th, 2010.
Why this date? Because September 13, 2010 is the first day of class for the Fall 2010 semester at Savannah College of Art & Design.
I would be living in a new city, starting fresh, with a new body. There couldn't be a better time.
Good news? It's totally do-able. I went to caloriecount.about.com and used their calorie intake advice calculator to determine how many calories I need to eat between now & then. My max daily calories is 1383.
Very, very excited I came up with a date. YAY
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
My Ultimate Goal is Zooey Deschanel!

So... outside of my "daily log", I wanted to write about something that has come up in my weightloss journey.
I would think that most, if not all of us, have an "ideal weight". It's not just a "goal weight" but more of a specific body weight you have that if you had the power to magically become ANY size at all, you would pick this particular one. Mine?
Zooey Deschanel.
She is thin, but not a rail. She looks delicate, but not fragile. She still looks feminine, and I think she is very proportionate. But she is SKINNY.
She is also taller than me. I am 5'4, she is 5'6.
So, to make this accurate, I decided to go by BMI.
Her weight was hard to find, and I mean how accurate could it be? But every answered I came upon said pretty much the same thing. The most popular answer is "around 114-132 pounds. There was one specific answer, and it said 121 pounds. I think i'm going to go with that, because it's right in the middle of the first answer, and it sounds about right.
So Zooey is 5'6 and 121 pounds, so her BMI is 19.5, putting her on the low range of a normal weight.
My weight is 5'4 and 201 pounds, so my BMI is 34.5 (obese... writing that makes me cringe)
At a height of 5'4, a BMI of 19.5 is a weight of 114.5 pounds.
So, 201-114.5 means I have 86.5 pounds left to lose.
This is not a goal that I expect to reach anytime soon. I would like to reach it within the next year or so, but I expect when I hit a weight where I am thin and comfortable, weight will be coming off slower and that will be okay with me. But one day, it would be nice to weigh as much as Zooey Deschanel.
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