Realistic
Goals
Set Your Self up to succeed, Not To
Fail
No matter
what you do in life you will always get better results if
you set some goals and the same applies with losing
weight.
By setting goals you have something to aim for and by giving
your weight-loss program purpose you will be more likely to
realize your desired weight.
One thing you do have to be careful of however is to set goals
that are realistic otherwise you be setting yourself up for
disappointment and in doing so you won't maintain your weight
loss program.
You can set a long-term goal but you will also need to set more
short term goals where you are only looking to lose smaller
amounts of weight within a certain time span.
As you achieve these intermediate goals along the way that will
drive you more towards your long-term goal and as you see the
small amounts of weight coming off and the improvements that it
will bring with it you will not only visualize yourself being
at an optimum weight but you will also begin to believe that it
is something that you can finally achieve.
When we talk about these intermediate goals you need to
understand that you shouldn't be weighing yourself every day as
there can be fluctuations from one day to the next so a
short-term goal should probably be no less than about two weeks
as this will give you an opportunity to make changes on a
relatively easy basis and give your body time to become
adjusted and to actually see some results.
By weighing yourself every day the daily fluctuations could
show that your weight hasn't changed from one day to the next
or in fact you could even weigh slightly more than the day
prior if you weigh yourself at a different time during the day
or after you have had a meal.
This can be quite disheartening whereas if you don't weigh
yourself for a two-week period and you have been sticking to
some form of weight-loss program no matter how small that might
be you will generally see some results that will be
encouraging.
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