Don't Sell Yourself Short - How Much Have You Really Lost

[transforming jlaroux 78]

29%

[Cocoabean 430]

If you had 100 pounds to lose and you lost 80 of those 100 pounds, then you would have lost 80% of your excess weight. In short, take the weight you have lost and divide that number by the total amount of weight that you have/ had to lose. If you have lost more than what you set out to lose, then you have lost more than 100% of your excess weight. Does this help? ;-P

I think that is what I did??? Although I had a typo...I *needed* to lose 68 lbs to get to a normal BMI, I lost 77. I read the Original Post to be asking how much of your total weight have you lost. So that would be the weight I've lost divided by my starting weight...no? I now weigh about 2/3 what I did when I started..another way to look at it! I've lost a third of myself. And 5-6 pants sizes (seven if you count the odd pair of size 6 capri jeans I got last weekend!!). Also 2 ring sizes and a shoe size. Oh, and my pants got longer before I started dropping sizes! A 16" Tiffany heart necklace that was very tight now hangs perfectly.

Woot!!!

:-)

[♕ajtexas♕ 3,771]

Starting weight 250 lbs

Current weight 199 lbs

Total loss 51 lbs, 20.4%