I am almost six months in on my weight loss and health improvement program. I am averaging about a pound a week so far. My intermediate goal is to get to 199 lbs and my end goal is somewhere between 170 lbs. and 180 lbs depending on how I feel when I get there. That final weight seems very high, but every place I look tells me the same thing–I need to plan on weighing a good bit more than when I was 30 years old to stay healthy. I am writing this post as a help to stay on course to get to 199 because this last five pounds seems to be taking a lot longer than what came before although the graph says that is not so.