Has anyone else focused on losing and being healthier without being super focused on the metric of exact weight, particularly at the start of their journey?

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m an almost 24 year old female who has been some degree of overweight since starting college. I think I had pretty bad food habits well before that as well - I just happened to be an active high school athlete which kept it off. I’ve also struggled with a devastating cycle of binging/heavy restricting probably since I was 16. I’ve had several stints in the last few years of losing 30+ lbs (I’m 5’9) very quickly through extreme restriction and looking and feeling great, then gaining back a bit, feeling shitty about it and eating back the rest of the weight.

This year, I think it would be good for me to shift the focus from just “lose weight as quick as I can” to improving my overall relationship with food and movement (with the goal of weight loss being a side effect). I want to break the binge/restrict cycle and become a healthy adult who doesn’t obsess about food. I plan on adding movement gradually, counting calories with compassion (using a calorie goal “window” rather than limit and not obsessing about the 5 calorie difference between 2 brands of hummus), and focusing on my mental health in conjunction with physical health.

My question is: has anyone else lost weight without a hyper-fixation on their exact weight loss?

I meant to weigh myself this morning to get an exact “starting weight” and realized my scale needed batteries. I briefly thought about throwing the towel in on dieting and waiting until I could go to the store this weekend, get batteries, and start next Monday. But the reality is: I know I have between maybe 50-70 lbs to lose - does it really matter exactly what lb I start at? Probably not - I know how to diet and calorie count and I know I’ll be creating a deficit regardless.

My thought process is, whether I lose 4 lbs or 7 lbs this month doesn’t matter as much as working on a healthier food mindset. And whenever I obsessively weigh myself, I get very very focused on the number and will start starving to watch it go down quicker. I know I will need to eventually weigh myself to adjust my calorie window as I get smaller, but is it completely stupid to start without an exact weight for the first couple months?

Feel free to give criticism - I’m happy to hear both why I’m right or wrong! Thanks for reading my novel.

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