Setting Weight Loss Goals

If you are overweight, any excessive weight can put you at risk for many health problems. Setting weight loss goals can help you avoid these risks.

If helps to be sensible about your weight loss goals right from the beginning. Know what both your short term and long term weight loss goals are. You want a reasonable short term goal that you will be able to attain. And the long term goal needs to include a plan of how to keep the weight off so as not to gain it back after all your hard work.

Below are some guidelines from experts in choosing weight loss goals.

Be Sensible

Don’t aspire to an unrealistic long term weight loss goal.  Find a number that you really think you will be able to weigh. If you are now 50 years old and are aspiring to weigh what you weighted when you were 14 years old, that probably isn’t a realistic weight goal.  The positive and realistic way you approach your weight loss goal with help you be more successful losing weight.

Set Appropriate Goals

Dieting alone won’t be enough for your long term weight loss goals.  You will need other changes in your life like exercise.  Eating more healthy foods can become a way of life, not just a way to lose weight.  And you will feel physically and mentally better with the exercise and healthy eating habits.

Set Specific Goals

Concentrate on specific goals each day.  Cut out one snack today and make it through the week without that one snack and you have reached a specific goal.  It’s lots easier to attain a specific goal rather than saying you are going to lose some pounds this week and exercise more.  Start riding that exercise bike in the corner of your room for 5 minutes at lunch, 10 minutes the next week and so on.  You can control your behavior; unfortunately you can’t always control how much weight you will lose.  So jump on that thought and set specific goals for yourself each day.

Set Realistic Goals

Short-term weight loss plans are not easy.  They are even harder if you set unrealistic goals that you can’t achieve.  If you try to lose 5 pounds a week and just can’t seem to do it, but you can lose 2 pounds, change your short-term goal to 2 pounds a week.  That way you can achieve your goal (or exceed it) each week and still have desire to continue on your weight loss journey.  Don’t set yourself up to fail by having goals you can’t reach.  If you fall short of your goals one week, just try to do better the next week, or maybe change you goal.  After all, you do want to succeed in losing weight.

Reward Yourself

When you do reach your goals, reward yourself.  Don’t jeopardize your weight loss plan by rewarding yourself with food, but reward yourself with something else.  Go to a movie or buy the shoes you have been wanting.  Reaching a goal and rewarding yourself for it will help motivate you to succeed. 

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