FINALLY, A THINNER YOU

Don’t Set Weight Loss Goals Casually

That is unless they don’t really matter to you.  It’s hard to talk in original terms when it comes to weight loss and goal setting or on either subject on it’s own. There is much wisdom out there on each of these individually and as they relate to one another. So this entry to my  Finally, A Thinner You blog and website is a brief reminder on how to put the nebulous science of goal setting to good use in the very important part of your life of proper weight loss and weight management for good health.

Here are the elements necessary to the setting of a goal you really want to achieve :

• Practicality. Make your goal real. By now you are likely to know you will not succeed at losing 20 pounds this month. However, it’s entirely possible to lose 10 not easy but doable. So you can go to or avoid the Fat Loss 4 Idiots click see what they have to say it’s so popular and so impractical promising 11 pounds lost in 9 days. It isn’t going to happen.
• Specificity.  You really have someplace to get to in your weight loss effort. So set your heart’s and mind’s GPS for that place. 30 lbs fine put it in there. Write it down.
• Emotionality. You are overweight then you don’t need to be told how emotional this is for you. There are plenty to of emotional issues to hang your weight loss goals on. Think back on the times that would have been better for you at a weight you were happy with. Use the emotions of those moments to drive you.
• Measurable and Reviewable. These work in tandem and your goals have to have both revisited often. Not every day but several times a day. Distraction and excuses are only a short distance away if you aren’t willing to hold your own feet to the fire.
• Accountability. This is the written record of your effort. Don’t use it to abuse yourself instead use it to keep yourself on track above all be honest here. I had a client who stop recording in her food diary when she went off course. No you must record all of it. the good the bad and the ugly. The accountable part is where you record your assessment and recommitment in the event a of a slip.
• Time Sensitivity. You don’t want to lose weight this year. You want to lose 10, 20, 30  lbs by a date specific. Then break it down to do that. I will have to lose 2 lbs a week or 3 lbs a week whatever it is reduce it to that kind of chunk. Now do the things that must be done each day one day at a time to achieve these smaller very time specific weight losses.

The small manageable weight loss week to week adds up to success or I guess you could do what you have always done. You can swear to lose at a rate of 5 lbs a week until your down that 30 lbs. In that case. I’ll see you next year same time same place only you’ll be no thinner and probably you’ll be heavier.

 If you set your goals according to the formula above you will lose weight fast enough and still in a healthy manner.

Again remember to be realistic,accountable,measurable,emotional in setting any goals you might have.

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