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short term goals
| Fri, 02-20-2004 - 9:49am |
g'mornin' everyone,
First I'd like to thank all the people who welcomed me to this board and gave me some great ideas! I think I'm really gonna like it here :)
I've come to the conclusion that I've dieted myself up to my present weight of 290. I started dieting about 20 years ago...I had 20 lbs I wanted to lose. I lost about 10, and then put 20 back on...that's been the cycle. Lose some put even more back on! I want to stop doing that! I have a habit of setting unrealistic goals for myself...Like... "I'm going to lose 30 lbs by Christmas!" I said that on the Friday after Thanksgiving.. I need help setting better short-term goals I think. What do you guys think is a reasonable goal for say..a month?
Thanks!
Faith

Sara
Hi Faith (I love your name btw)
Welcome to the board if I didnt welcome you in your original post (I am so scatterbrained I forget who I say hi to lol )
I think setting realistic goals is what is really important and not setting ourselves up for failure . Some people post that you can lose 100 pounds in 5 months or something..and while they may have done that , it is not the norm and it is very damaging to people like myself and possibly (?) you thinking we are going to lose 20 or 30 pounds in a month when in reality 10 pounds is more of an ideal goal .
I posted down below in the weigh in that I am going to try on the "setting small goals at a time" thing..someone from this board mentioned that and I apologize I cant say who it was and am too lazy to go look it up . So instead of my saying "I am going to lose 100 pounds this year" it seems like such a big goal it can get overwhelming and i feel like I would give up alot quicker . But saying "I am going to lose 5 pounds by _add date here_" will be more encouraging to me . It may not work for everyone but it is an idea .
I wish you the best of luck and this board is a wonderful source of information on weight loss or just plain silliness I hope to more of you around here!
VisiT BlaKeS WebPaGe
again welcome here and hope you can find this a peaceful outlook to turn to as I have..
okay maybe not always peaceful but it sure can make ya laff hehe
ROFLMAO - you are recommending psychological counseling to others!