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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats! What a big accomplishment!

To me, it depends on how successful you've been in the past at maintaining your weight. Are you always either losing or gaining? That's sooo common. Or have you had years of maintaining your weight successfully?

If you have a history of being able to maintain your weight, I'd keep going. If you think your stretch goal is too much, maybe find a middle ground? [b]Perhaps the highest weight in your healthy weight range for your height,[/b] rather than 5 lbs below that?

If you have never really successfully maintained your weight, I would take a pause, and learn to maintain while you've still got good motivation. Can you keep yourself at this weight for three months? Or six months? Then you can reevaluate, see if you want more. But honestly, the ability to maintain your new weight is WAY more important for your healthy than losing another 8 lbs. [/quote]

My stretch goal IS the highest weight in my healthy range.  I'm not a yoyo dieter.  I now weigh what I did before I had my babies (5 years ago).  Before that I went up and down 5 pounds at a time but I maintained for years.  I just want to be happy with my body.  Maybe that is my problem.  I look back at pictures of me at my smallest and I still thought I was fat then.  I don't want to be in this position where I constantly feel like I need to lose weight, I just want to be happy.  [/quote]

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