How To Set Your Weight Loss Goal

     Before you enter into another kind of weight loss regimen, have you already done some goal setting? Any program should start with the setting of your weight loss goal so you can have better control of your diet and exercise. Being able to set goals can also give way to a more successful and weight management. However, you need to make sure that you are correctly setting your goal to ensure its effectiveness.

For healthy weight management

Setting weight loss goals involves coming up with realistic short-term and long-term goals paired up with your expectations. The more sensible your goals are, the more you can meet them and the more you can be successful in keeping your weight off.

Be sensible

Nobody can lose weight overnight or even 20 pounds in just one week. Even overweight people lose weight gradually. People with health problems linked to obesity and severe weight gain need to be careful in losing weight rapidly.

Therefore, when setting your goal, make sure that they are realistic and achievable even if it will take you more than 6 months to be able to achieve them.

Consider your lifestyle

In setting your goal, you need to focus on the present and the past first. Consider how you are living your current lifestyle and be able to determine the following factors on why you gained weight:

o Your health status and age

o Genetic and biological history

o Using food as your response to anxiety and stress in your life.

o The kind of lifestyle you are living (i.e. Are you active or not? Do you play sports? Do you exercise?)

o What are the foods you love to eat and how much do you eat in a day?

Be able to address those factors

In setting your weight loss goal, consider those aforementioned factors so you can set realistic and attainable goals that can eventually lead to successful and safe as well as weight management. Once you have considered those factors, you need to be able to set your goals that involves changing any of the bad habits you may have encountered in your evaluation.

Check with the doc

Your doctor can help you in setting your goal especially if you have a medical condition. Your doctor can even design a program that can fit your goals without putting your health at risk, so do not forget to pay them a visit and have yourself evaluated or examined before jumping into another weight loss program.

Learn something

Your goals should also be able to teach you a valuable lesson in living a healthy lifestyle by eating a healthily and increasing your physical activity. You will know whether your goals are attainable and successful or not by judging whether your lifestyle had a complete change ever since you began your program.

Your short-term goals

You should not take your short-term goals for granted when setting goals In fact, they are important in guiding your way towards successful weight loss and weight management. Remember that something small can go a long way in promoting a complete change in your lifestyle. For instance, you can begin by telling yourself that you can lose at least a pound in a week, or you can tell yourself that you will walk around the neighborhood for 20 minutes everyday in 2 weeks, and then increase it to an hour.

Be specific

In setting your goals, make sure you are specific on what you want to achieve and make sure you strictly follow the steps to making them a reality.

Discipline and self-control can help you in setting your goals and achieving them, but do not be too hard on yourself or you may end up feeling frustrated.

However, even when you have specific goals in mind, do not forget to look at the big picture and imagine the end-result to inspire yourself.

Keep a journal

So you won't forget bout your weight loss goals, you can write everything down in a journal or keep a diet blog. Your journal can even help you determine your strengths and weaknesses and methods so you can check on which ones you can improve and which ones are already unnecessary.

Your journal can even serve as your checklist on which of the goals you have already achieved and see which ones still need some work.

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