Setting Goals for Weight Loss
You should congratulate yourself if you have made an effort to lose weight. Eating right and working out more will help you to get there. However, you need to set some goals so that you can stick with all of it. Ideally, you shouldn't expect to lose more than one or two pounds per week. This is if you are doing it the right way and you are planning to keep it off. That may not sound like a lot, but it is going to add up very quickly for you.
Set goals from the start of what you would like your ideal weight to be. Use online tools to help you find out what your goal weight should be for your body frame, your gender, and your height. This will help you to keep a target in mind that is healthy for you and not based on what we see on TV and in magazines.
Write down what your goal weight is going to be and see where you are at right now. If you need to lose 50 or more pounds, it may seem impossible but you will get there. Break it down into smaller goals so that you can see progress. For example, a goal of 5 pounds per month is reasonable. With that in mind your long term target range should be 10 months to lose that 50 pounds.
You should also set goals for your calories each day too. Again, use online calculator tools to help you determine how many calories someone your age and gender should consume. Then make a plan to cut back on them be a certain percentage. You shouldn't be going hungry, but by cutting out some calories you can increase your weight loss success.
The other part of that is to increase your level of physical exercise. Set goals about how much you will workout per week and then stick to it. Initially, you may make a plan of 2 hours per week. Then you can increase it over time to 3 hours or more. As your level of physical fitness increases and your endurance does, you should be able to do more and more.
