Goals & Rewards...... What Are Yours?

So what are your goals? & how will/do you reward yourself in a non-food type way?

Do you reward yourself with a little something each week? Or are you waiting to reach your main goal to do something/go somewhere?

Or is your reward seeing you body change & finding new things you can do that you couldn't before? Small things like crossing your legs to relieving back pain.

Please do share!

Hi Claire. I am Sam and I am over 200 lbs right now. I have been trying to lose for 4 months now but have started succeeding since the past 1 week only. The secret formula I found was self control and patience. I get up at 6:30 am for my workout, spend the whole day at office and then come home and cook dinner. The results have slowly started showing and though it is not visible to others, I can see it in the movement of the scale. My clothes are a bit loose. I do not hog so much that I feel sick. I know I am moving towards a lifestyle change and it is going to last. For now, that is reward enough.

However, in a few months time, I will be looking forward to snuck into my skinny jeans and my tiny tops I used to wear before marriage. That will be the ultimate reward and the fact that relatives will stop making ugly remarks.

My biggest reward will be getting engaged.  I refuse to do so until I've reached 150 lbs, and feel more comfortable in my own skin.  Why bother shopping for a wedding dress when even NORMAL shopping makes me cry?

I have 2 goals, one is to reach 140 (in which case I will be satisfied if I can do no more) and the other is like, 120/125 (which is unreasonable and unrealistic but hay, I can dream can't I?)

I'm lucky that I got into a financially stable-ish type of position, I can support buying new clothes (which i also need for work) so for now the shopping is not only necessary but also fun and encouraging.

I get stuck at 160, but I figured if I got to 150 I'd buy a huge fancy hat and go to see the dinosaurs.  If I got 120 I'd buy a bikini and get a tattoo.  (I put those rewards at that because I'd never get there, and that's the likelihood that I would get a tattoo)

I become pleasantly surprised to realize as my arm is pressed against me that I can actually feel my hip bone ... or how my upper stomach is becoming smaller and harder. I can't wait to see my collar bone though :D

I am waiting to buy new clothes until I hit my goal weight.  It's partially a reward but partially because my old clothes are getting too loose, plus I want to fit into cute things, and I don't yet.  No point to buying now.

In the short term though, I'll satisfy my other sins rather than eat.  Often a good lay out in the sun (it's AZ, I can do that!) will keep my cravings in check.  Other times the new number on the scale is reward enough!

As of now my first goal is 199. When I get there I will buy a few new outfits.

Other goal is 150/160. When I get there it's tattoo and Las Vegas time!

:)

I'm trying to focus more on fitness than on the numbers.  My goal is to be able to run 5K without walking by the end of the semester.  When I do, I'm going to buy myself some new, super-cute workout clothes to motivate me to keep going further.

My goals are to increase strength, flexibility, and cardio as well as becoming more toned.

I reward myself once a week (if I stick to the plan) with what I call a "cheat day".  This is the day that I can eat whatever I want within reason. It also keeps my metabolism guessing.

Every kilogram I lose I get a reward, anything from a ride in a go-kart to buying jeans to a walk up a hill that has special meaning (I am allowed to go swimming each kilogram lost as well).  At goal, I get to go on an overseas trip (I'll book 5kg earlier), get new lenses for my glasses and start looking for a better job (one that I actually enjoy!).  The biggie is I will propose to my partner, I want to see that she is attracted to me at that weight.

My weight loss system means that I can go to the cinema, or buy coffee from the supermarket, but only if I am the lowest weight so far since 1st Jan 09.  It's working so far.

When I get to goal (144, 16 pounds from where I am now) I'm giving myself a half inch buzz again. I had that cut before and loved it-- but I didn't enjoy the assumption on the part of people around me that I was in some way negating my gender or proclaiming a sexuality by removing my hair. I think that being comfortable in more form-fitting clothing and emphasizing my femininity in that way while having the hair style I love will feel very rewarding. I've always had shorter hair, wear a lot of tees and jeans, and I'm a bit tired of being visually pegged as the token lesbian.

(Nothing against lesbians. Seriously. I've many lesbian friends, butch and fem.)

Right now, getting to 150 I'll get a new song or 2 for my ipod.  After that I'm looking forward to doing the same for each 5# loss, or just saving them for a new cd I'd like.  I'll get new clothes when I hit goal so I can really save my small budget for some stuff I'm going to love. 

My big reward is a trip this summer with family and it's my goal to be at least 2/3 to my goal by then if I haven't made it.  That way there's no undue pressure.

First goal is 10% which would be 216 pounds = Pedicure

Second Goal = 199 pounds = Getting my suits tailored to the new size

Third Goal 179 pounds = Shopping trip

Final Goal = 160 pounds - Hubby is buying me a ring that we picked out last night and more tailoring to current suits and new clothes. 

My first big goal is 199, 6lbs away, where I will schedule myself a massage.  My final goal is 160, where my husband is taking me on vacation anywhere I want (still deciding, but I won't be unpractical, probably a couple of days somewhere).  I'm not sure what I want to do in between there, but other milestones for me are 189, 175 and 168 (each has significant meaning to me). One of them, hopefully the 168, I will go buy some new jeans.  Still looking for other ideas though, for now I'm just focused on my massage!

Original Post by du57y:

I have 2 goals, one is to reach 140 (in which case I will be satisfied if I can do no more) and the other is like, 120/125 (which is unreasonable and unrealistic but hay, I can dream can't I?)

I'm lucky that I got into a financially stable-ish type of position, I can support buying new clothes (which i also need for work) so for now the shopping is not only necessary but also fun and encouraging.

I get stuck at 160, but I figured if I got to 150 I'd buy a huge fancy hat and go to see the dinosaurs.  If I got 120 I'd buy a bikini and get a tattoo.  (I put those rewards at that because I'd never get there, and that's the likelihood that I would get a tattoo)

I become pleasantly surprised to realize as my arm is pressed against me that I can actually feel my hip bone ... or how my upper stomach is becoming smaller and harder. I can't wait to see my collar bone though :D

 You made me laugh out loud, it is so funny (to me) because I told my husband that I wanted to get a tatoo when I reach my goal of 140!  AND I am super excited to see what my neck looks like when my collar bone is showing!  The main thing I want gone is the "butt hump" (the lump of love that has formed between my waist and butt) I think I may go to hip huggers when that thing has vanished!  LOL

He he he butt hump!! I call mine my 'wedge'

I've loved reading these.

My goal at the moment is to reach 154lbs & tone up.

My reward is a week on Paris & to see a show at Moulin Rouge & wear a posh frock & red lippy! I should hopefully reach my goal by mid March.

Original Post by clairesty:

He he he butt hump!! I call mine my 'wedge'

 

Muffin Top.

Love handles?

Isn't it odd how that term obviously started out as meaning something nice, like a voluptuous woman, and now it has such a negative connotation?

K I have a butt hump also, and looking at my mother for my genes apparantly I can get fairly slim and it won't go away, WHICH IS SO BAD BECAUSE I HAVE NO ASS.  It doesn't help ANYTHING.

Oh, dear God, please don't tell me it won't go away!  I will cry for a very long time...I HATE MY BUTT HUMP!  I have the droopy stomach and flabby arms and legs but am ok with the fact that they might still be droopy and flabby...I just want the butt hump and the chins to melt away.  My butt would be non-existant too if it weren't for the extra beef under there but I'd take no butt over one with a hump on it.  Anyone with a butt hump remover?

When I reach my goal (135, currently at about 155), probably mid-June, I want to reward myself with some new outfits, a makeover at MAC, and a new hairstyle/colour!  It keeps me very motivated thinking about all this...can't wait until those cute summer clothes are out!

Original Post by thecoppergourd:

Oh, dear God, please don't tell me it won't go away!  I will cry for a very long time...I HATE MY BUTT HUMP!  I have the droopy stomach and flabby arms and legs but am ok with the fact that they might still be droopy and flabby...I just want the butt hump and the chins to melt away.  My butt would be non-existant too if it weren't for the extra beef under there but I'd take no butt over one with a hump on it.  Anyone with a butt hump remover?

Don't worry! They do get smaller! Mine did shrink conciderably! I've come to the conclusions that if I do lots of 'bum exercises' to build my butt muscles up, as well as losing a few more lbs, everything should even out *crosses fingers*