360. How To Set A Good Goal Weight For Fat Loss?
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, I'm sitting down solo to answer a question we've been getting a lot inside the Hot & Healthy Community lately: how to determine a proper goal weight for fat loss.
For some women, setting a goal weight can be helpful. For others, it can quietly sabotage their fat loss efforts. That's why in this episode, I'm breaking down five best practices to help you decide whether a goal weight actually makes sense for you — and how to approach it if you choose to set one.
I'm also diving into the parameters that should guide whether a goal weight is appropriate, the research-backed numbers you can use to reality check your expectations, and how I recommend using goal weights as a tool (rather than a source of pressure) while you're actively in a fat loss phase.
By the end of this episode, you'll feel clearer and more grounded in how to set a personal goal weight for your fitness journey, and how to adjust it as your body and goals evolve.
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Related Episodes:
🎙️Episode 320: Q&A: Lose Fat or Lift Weights? What To Focus On First If Your Body Fat Is Above 25%
🎙️Episode 69: Goal Weights and How to Track Weight Loss Progress
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy, Never Hungry. |
| 0:11.4 | I am so excited you're taking time out of your day to join me as we talk about setting goal |
| 0:16.7 | weights and really achieving our goal bodies, dare I say, dare I say that in today's age. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm really pumped. This episode was actually inspired by Alyssa, who left a comment on Spotify. |
| 0:28.5 | That was in relation to episode 320. That was on body fat percentage. So I wanted to take that |
| 0:36.4 | comment and really run with it, especially |
| 0:38.2 | because one of the first things that really happens when I sit down and begin Boxer coaching my one-to-one clients. And for those of you that don't know, I Voxer coach, which means there's an app called Boxer, and it basically is like a walkie-talkie app. I can text, I can voice note. I do a lot of voice noting. I even use a platform called loom with my clients. That allows me to like screen, record my screen when I do food logger views and that kind of thing. But, you know, if you've ever found a private client of mine, you absolutely know inside of 90-day Fit Bay Body, what I'm doing is I'm actually not just telling you what to do for fat loss from like a general |
| 1:13.2 | sense, but everything is in relation to your progress and in relation to what the specific |
| 1:18.3 | outcomes you want to see on your body are. So on that note, I wanted to do an episode on really |
| 1:24.8 | how to determine a good goal weight for body fat loss. This is a topic in an episode. I think |
| 1:28.9 | I covered back right when I first began the podcast, but I really haven't covered it since for you guys. |
| 1:34.5 | So I want to walk you through the five things I really want you to keep in mind when it comes to |
| 1:39.4 | thinking and determining your goal weight and really the goal physique that you have in mind that I use |
| 1:45.8 | and practice every single time I coach one of my clients privately. As we're diving into today's |
| 1:51.1 | episode, I do want to give a quick shout out to Kimberly G. She said short, sweet, and so helpful, |
| 1:56.9 | even though I typically prefer UK-based podcast because she's based in the UK. I absolutely cannot miss an |
| 2:02.5 | episode of Hot Healthy, Never Hungry. Lawrence advice is so balanced and straightforward with a touch of tough love |
| 2:07.2 | thrown in, which I absolutely love. Keep them coming. Girl, I'm going to keep them coming. I'm going to keep up |
| 2:12.4 | that tough love. You know, something I really am trying to do as someone who is not only a dietitian, that |
| 2:19.9 | counsels and coaches, but someone who also has a social media presence. And just I really try to |
| 2:25.3 | be myself. And sometimes, I think in the past, like way in the past, I feel like sometimes I would |
| 2:31.2 | simmer down my tough love because I sometimes don't feel like people can handle it. |
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