Weight Loss Goals

Whether you want to educate yourself about dieting, change your eating style, or both, Easy Slimming Diet is here to help. Your first plan of action is to set some initial goals.

Let's say your primary goal is to lose 20 pounds. This can be your long-term goal. Now how are you going to manage this weight loss? Change food habits, begin a walking program, purchase new varieties of fruits and vegetables, prepare more meals at home—each of these are short-term goals that can help accomplish your long-term plans.

Success of any type is built on establishing long-term and short-term goals—goals that are realistic and challenging. Long-term goals help you imagine where you want to be a year from now. Short-term goals set your plans for the upcoming week or month. These are more realistic goals that are easily attainable. If you make these short term goals weekly, one each week, you can bring on over fifty changes in one year. Or if you prefer, try  one each month and incorporate twelve in a year. And I'm talking about small changes. These small-term changes help you meet and accomplish these long-term goals.

To help you along, here are several more examples. Long-term goals should not be impossible to meet, but should add a challenge, like these:

• I want to get in good enough shape to run a marathon.
• I want to go on a two-day, 100-mile bike race.
• I want to wear a size ten by next summer.

Short-terms goals should be those that can be met without a great deal of effort. These short-term accomplishments help reinforce that changes can be made while motivating you to continue striving for success, like these:

• I will walk for fifteen minutes each day.
• I will stop eating and snacking after 8:00 P.M.
• I will eat breakfast at least three mornings each week.
• I will put out a fruit basket each day with different varieties of fruit to try.
• I will cut down the amount of soft drinks I drink to one each day.

Just losing an initial 10 to 20 pounds can bring on physical and psychological benefits to make you feel better, be healthier, and be more motivated to continue.

Personal Goals

Now it is time for you to set some initial goals for yourself. Ask yourself the following questions:

• What do I want to accomplish in the next year?
• What do I want to accomplish in the next month to help meet this goal?
• What do I want to accomplish in the next week to help meet this goal?

Now it is time to get started. You have identified the need to lose some weight and decided it's time to start once and for all. You've determined you are ready to start, to set some initial goals for yourself, and that you are ready for success, not failure.