Where would you be in 5 years if you didn't start your weight loss?

The #1 thing that got me motivated to lose weight was to calculate where I would be if I didn't start.

Where would you be in 5 years if you didn't start your weight loss?

Take your starting weight as the base (I started at 294 pounds).

Then take the approx number of pounds you have gained over a year, and multiply it by 5 (our 5 years).

For example: Personally I gained 20 pounds in 1 year. Multiply that by 5.

20 * 5 = 100 pounds.

Then add it to your starting weight.

100 + 294

Total weight in 5 years for me would have been 394 pounds. That doesn't sound like much fun.

Starting: 294
Years Gain: 20
5 year total: 100
Starting + Total = 394

I started out at 195 (at the end of high school) and slowly but surely gained 70 pounds to about 265 over the course of 25 years. So my yearly gain was about 2.8 pounds on average. Had I not lost weight, and all other things being equal, I could have made it to 279 without messing with my "weight gain program". Not that it was intentional, or anything . . .

Right now I'm 136..gaining about 5 pounds per year would put me at 136+25...which would mean a whopping 161 pounds on my little frame.  Yikes.  Now THAT's motivation.

what an idea.

i have started at 262 (121 kilos) this january.

i was 106 kilos about a year before.

gaining 15 kilos a year> gaining 60 kilos in 5 years, i would be 166 kilos ie 366 lbs

now that sounds kinda scary... where would i be? in a coffin maybe? would i fit in one?

Probably dead.

well, my story isn't quite so dramatic, but it was definitely projecting into the future that got me motivated. i stayed fairly active for the first ten years out of high school, then starting gaining in my late 20s.  i went from 125ish to 166ish in ten years, so about 4 pounds a year.  i was 37 when i decided it had to stop.  if it had continued, i guess i'd be 178 by now, on my way to 198 five years from now.

although i haven't completely reversed the process and have been struggling a bit of late, i'm quite fit now at 146ish, and last fall got down as low as 138 (though not nearly as fit as i am now).

Probably fat.

But thats just a guess.

I was only 16 when I started working out, and 17 when I started counting calories. I've dropped 26 pounds in seven months, so most likely I'd gain the freshman 50. :(

Unhappy and fatter!!!.... and no healthy!!!!!!

I'm start 136lb five years ago and then i'm gained 48 lb (10 lb/year aprox) and then  I'm back to 134lb since March-july 2008 and still lossing!!!!!!

OUCH!

I put some good 13 pounds on in the last couple of years (8 of which are already gone, thankfully!). If I kept gaining pounds at the same speed, I would probably be very close to 200 pounds in five years.

Well I put on 30 pounds over the last year, but I also quit smoking so that's not a realistic figure.  I say 10 pounds a year is more realistic so I'd be 250.  That's not a pretty picture.

Starting: 140

Pounds gained per year: 36

5 years: 180

So I would have been 320 pounds by age 19..

At my highest weight I was 14stone (196lbs) and I had gained 6 stone (84lbs) in 6 years so about 14lbs a year.  If I continued at the rate I was going for 5 more year I would have been (5x14)+196 = 266lbs/19st.  Luckily for me I didn't get any higher than 14stone.  Currently at 12st 13lbs/181lbs and have been bouncing between 12-13stone for the last few years with a brief period of being 11.5st last year.  Hoping this time to make it down to 10st. 

Keep this thread going. It's a good reality check.

You can also work it backwards. Starting @ blank # of pounds, lost x number of pounds in a month, will hit my goal weight of x in blank number of months. :) Even though it's not an exact science, it makes you realize how long it took you to put those pounds on, and then how short of a time (even thought it may feel like forever) to get them back off :)

Ermm..

When I started I was 177 pounds. I gained 15 pounds thru my first year of high school.

So:

15 pounds X 5 = 75 pounds, which means 177+75=

= 252. How sexy.

I'm 14, 15 in September.

This calculation was a big factor in getting my attention to make IMMEDIATE changes.

In July 2006, I weighed 205 lbs and I had gained 40 pounds in the previous three years.  I realized that by July 2009, I would be 245.  In five years, I'd be 271 pounds.  205 was horrifying.  271 was beyond comprehension.

Thankfully, I made the neccessary changes, and instead of weighing 231 right now, I weigh 151.  I still have 26 pounds to go, and it may take me most of another year, but in July 2009, I'll be 125, not the projected 245.

Original Post by sharz96:

Thankfully, I made the necessary changes, and instead of weighing 231 right now, I weigh 151.  I still have 26 pounds to go, and it may take me most of another year, but in July 2009, I'll be 125, not the projected 245.

Cheers to that!

I don't even want to think where i'd be right now if I didn't start CC. Lost 175 pounds within 16 months. It's crazy to think how easy it is to actually take off. Time is of the essance.

Oh gosh.
This post really shocks you into reality.

Starting: 158 lbs
Years Gain: 15 lbs
Five Year's Total: 75 lbs
Starting Plus Total: 233 lbs

To think that, as a 19/20 year old, I would be two/three years into college and/or uni, and I would have a BMI of 42.6.  That weight on a body frame such as mine would be so bad I wouldn't be able to move fast, I'd constantly have back and leg pain, I would be at an extreme risk for breast cancer and heart disease- both of which run in my family- I WOULD BE DEATH WAITING TO HAPPEN!

This is the point where I have to ask myself: how could I have done that to myself?  I was a  healthy kid, always a bit chubby after age 8 (always underweight before that, due to being born premature at 3 lbs 11 oz), who mountain biked every day after school, ran, played intermural sports, purposely took P.E. all four quarters, and I let myself turn into a fat, unhealthy, BLOB!
I am even more inspired now to get back down to my lowest weight, and to NEVER, ever quit running and doing weights.

I want to run a marathon when I'm 90!

Interesting calculations, but they certainly won't work for all of us.  I know that I put on most of my weight when I got gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with my son 15 years ago.  For the most part, following that, my weight stayed within a 20 pound range.  So, with that in mind... I'd probably be right where I was, + or - 20.  I'd be in terrible physical condition, unable to climb stairs and not enjoying life in general.  Even that said, it probably wouldn't have really started to hurt me for a while yet, but I know I'm WAY better off as I am now!