Setting Your Weight Loss Goals – Easier Said, Easily Done

Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

The basics of setting weight loss goals give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They help you focus on what you need to do and help you to plan and organize your life and your time so that you can get the best results.

Setting a clearly defined short term and long term goals will enable you to measure your progress you have successfully met your goals.

Charting your progress will also enable you to actually see the stages of completion leading to the actual realization of your goals. It could be as simple as marking down each day on your calendar with a big black “X.”

This helps to eliminate the feeling of a long and pointless grind towards achieving your goal. Your self-confidence and level of competence will also improve as you will be more aware of your capabilities and as you complete or achieve your goals.

The basics of goal settings involves deciding what you really want to achieve with your weight and what short term and long term goals you need to achieve it. Then you have to break down your larger goal into smaller and manageable targets that you must complete in your way to achieving your lifetime targets. Once you have your list waste no time in tackling your goals.

For example a good way to have a manageable list is to have a daily and weekly set of goals. You work out a weight loss plan of how much weight you’d like to lose (long term goal) and then work backwards until you have a weekly target and daily target of how much calories you need to be eating per day and also how much exercise you need to be doing.

By doing this you will be always in the position of working toward your goal. Every time you achieve a certain goal (weekly/monthly goal) it helps to you a feeling of accomplishment.

Here are some pointers that should be taken into consideration in setting goals and achieving them.

Attitude plays a very big role in setting and achieving your goals. You must ask yourself if any part of you or your life is holding you back towards completing your simplest goals.

If there are any part of your behavior that is being a hindrance or puts your plans into disarray?

If you do have problems in these areas then the immediate thing to do is to address this problem. Solutions may include a visit to a doctor or psychiatrist to control your problems.

If you need to achieve a major weight loss goal, move further ahead in time and set a 1 year plan, then 6 month plans then monthly plans, then weekly, then daily and then create a things-to-do list for the day.

Finally,

Remember the old saying “He who fails to plan, plans to fail” By having a goal even a small one will give you something to aim for, isn’t this better than just Jung Ho for a few days and then losing all idea of what you really need to be doing??