I have people come to me all the time with very un-realistic goals. When you’re setting a goal do you look at what’s the most weight loss I can possibly lose in the next 6 months or year? And you set this as your goal? It is important to differentiate between what is possible and what is realistic for you.
The other day I had a client who wanted to lose 30 pounds in 6 months and she was about 60 pounds overweight. This is defiantly possible; I have had clients reach similar goals. However when you look at how willing she was to change her current lifestyle and nutrition her goal wasn’t realistic for her. When I started discussing taking out all processed food, getting to bed by 10:30 and several other changes she would have to make, she said “I don’t know if I can do all that.” She wasn’t ready to make the sacrifices and changes necessary to accomplish her goal of losing 30 pounds. People often set goals that are possible but not realistic given their readiness to change....it’s a serious problem that prevents people from permanent weight loss.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for setting challenging goals, but it is important that you actually look into the “how” behind accomplishing your goal. Talk to professionals and ask them what you would have to do to accomplish your goals. Then actually take a second and look at everything you have to do and ask yourself am I ready to actually make all of these changes? Do I really feel confident that I can make all of these changes? If you start to think things “well it’s possible” or “I might be able to do that.” Stop and ask yourself if you’ve gone through this exact same situation before. I bet you have.
You’re not alone most people that set fat loss goals, do the exact same thing over and over again. They come up with these incredibly difficult goals, but don’t plan out everything they have to do and come up with plan that they can implement into their lifestyle long term. This usually leads to one of two possible scenarios. They set out, lose a bit of weight and get discouraged and stop their “diet.” OR they hit their very difficult goal, but they’ve been feeling so deprived they start to eat all the food they’ve been missing out on and gain all the weight back.
What would make more logical sense to you, coming up with a goal of losing 10-20 pounds over the next 6 months and not feeling deprived, knowing you’re going to keep that weight off long term and being on track to continue to lose weight after you hit that goal? Or making a lot of difficult changes very quickly, counting calories, depriving yourself and losing 30-40 pounds over the next 6 months and gaining it all back again in the next year? All the people that I have come into contact with over the years that have been successful at maintaining their weight loss make slow, steady, consistent changes to their lifestyle instead of a complete overhaul.
You can be very successful with your weight loss goals, you just have to make sure that they match your willingness to change. If you need help losing weight download a free copy of “P.E.A.K. Fat Loss: A 6 month guide to transforming your life, health and body.” It will walk you through every single change you have to make on your weight loss journey and it will give you the tools for you to be able to not only reach your fat loss goal, but learn how to keep it off. And it’s free.....not catch......no sales pitch. A free resource that will get you success if you follow all the steps.
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