How do you decide your goals?
wildsun
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I'm aiming at the big 50 lbs lost mark, and it will soon be time to set the next date and number.
My next big goal is onederland, which *hopefully* at tomorrow's weigh in will be 33 pounds away.
So how do you decide your next goal, and when it will be? Do you shoot for a special day, or just calculate a safe weight loss and time in the future?
My next big goal is onederland, which *hopefully* at tomorrow's weigh in will be 33 pounds away.
So how do you decide your next goal, and when it will be? Do you shoot for a special day, or just calculate a safe weight loss and time in the future?
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Well right now i have a mini goal of reaching 135 before June 18th, the day of a concert. I dunno, certain dates like that really motivate me and keep me on track. If it's just some random day, I can't grab enough motivation, really.
But when I'm working out and listening to the beats I'm looking forward to hearing x amount of pounds lighter, quitting after twenty minutes doesn't sound so appealing.
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I set my first major goal at 60 just because I felt It would be the weight that people would notice. Not a good idea to do that. However, at 63 lbs lost is when I got my first comments.
I haven't set any more goals. Not sure why. Just trying to figure things out. Well I suppose I fear setting these goals and then going to extremes to accomplish them. Then too, it's a life time commitment. So I want to focus on losing weight but remember that it's health we are talking about.
Nothing wrong with setting goals though. Just make sure they are reasonable. I did set a goal where I calculated my average weight loss then deducted a couple of pounds. I gave that one up because of the above reasons.0 -
My big goal is the mid-way point of my healthy BMI, which is also a weight that I have maintained stably and comfortably in the past.
My mini-goal was the top of my healthy weight range, which I reached recently.
I didn't set goal-dates as such, but set a target weight loss rate of 0.5kg/week and aimed for that.0 -
My goal is to lose about 55 pounds total. I've lost 13.5. My plan was for the weight loss to take about a year, broken up by my third pregnancy. I'd hoped to lose 25 pounds (30 if I was really lucky) before I got pregnant, which was a 6 month timeline. I didn't reach that goal. I tried, but wasn't always able to get the gym consistently and for my body, that's more important than the healthiest diet ever. I'm a little disappointed since I was only halfway to my halfway goal. But, it did put me at just about the same weight I was when I got pregnant the first time, so it's better than nothing! And, since my diet has changed drastically and I still try to make it to the gym 5 days a week I know this pregnancy will be much healthier and I may not even gain much weight. (I only gained 30 pounds with each pregnancy, 20 of which I lost the week after giving birth.)
So now my goal is simply to reach my goal weight of somewhere between 125 and 140. I'll decide when exactly I'm done when I see how I look and feel and how much body fat I have. And how much work I feel like putting into it. If I'm healthy and looking great at 140, I'll stop there. If I still need to burn fat (which I probably will) I'll work toward 125. I don't really have a timeline set, but I'm thinking a year after my next baby is born will be about right, though I'm hoping it'll happen in more like 6-9 months.0 -
My final "goal" is about 10 pounds below what I call my "normal fat weight." My "normal fat weight" is the weight I had been maintaining as an adult for a good amount of time.
I'm not quite sure what happened, but 30 hit me like a Mack-freakin-truck. I didn't make any adjustments for it, though, and over 3-4 years I gained 70 pounds. Yeah. BAD.0 -
I didn't set a goal date - I didn't want to feel pressured to reach a certain point by this date or that date. I just feel like - for me - that's WAY too much pressure on me to succeed and if I don't meet it, then I'll feel like a failure. Instead, I set an ultimate goal of 150lbs. Along the way, I set mini goals for myself - such as lose enough to not need plus size clothes anymore, etc.
I reached my goal in September of last year. It was a long, hard road... but I did it.
Due to some injuries, I gained a few pounds between November and March. However, I've gotten the injury weight (I believe it was more water retention from the medications I was on than actual weight) back off and am staying around 150-151lbs (though I DO fluctuate up to 5lbs through the day).0
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