Key points

Using weight targets as process goals avoids all the problems of making bodyweight a singular outcome goal.

Bodyweight targets can help channel attitudes like rebelliousness, gratitude, and curiosity.

They can also help us take action, stay honest about our progress, and create simple recovery rules.

In the first three parts of this post ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ), we’ve explored the many reasons why using target weights in recovery from eating disorders is a bad, misguided idea—one founded on the fundamental untruth that anyone can say where anyone else’s (or their own) recovery will ultimately bring their body weight to. But having goals around weight can also be a good, honest, powerful contributor to the process of leaving an eating disorder behind. How? Well

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