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Weight Loss Program: Determining A Goal

Because excess weight puts us in jeopardy for numerous health problems, we might want to set some weight loss goals to help head off the dangers and prevent possible disease.

But what ought to be our long-term goal? And what short-term goals should we set to help us get there? We have a greater chance of achieving our goals when we make certain that the weight loss program that we use is intelligent and reasonable right from the get-go.

Here are a few rules of thumb from the experts in selecting weight loss programs and goals.

1.  We must be honest with ourself:

Just about everybody's long-term weight loss programs become more challenging and ambitious then they have to be.

For instance, if we weigh 170 pounds and our long-term goal is to weigh 120 pounds, even though we have not weighed 120 pounds since we were 16 and we are now 45, this might not be a realistic weight loss goal.

Our body mass index number or BMI is a great indicator of whether or not we should lose any unwanted pounds.  The ideal BMI range, according to the national Institutes of Health, is between 19 and 24.9. If your BMI is between 25 and 29.9, you are believed to be overweight.  Any number above 30 is in the obesity range.

From this point of view, we will want a reasonable weight loss program that will agree with the corresponding BMI established by our height, this and our weight are the primary factors that determine our BMI.

2. Lay out pertinent objectives

Applying a weight loss program only for vanity’s sake is psychologically less useful than dropping off the weight to improve our health.

We take a big step when we resolve to follow a weight loss program that includes eating healthier, more nutritious meals and getting more physical exercise.  We begin to feel better and have more energy for the finer things in life.  A weight loss program that offers good for you, healthy, and nutritious meal shakes that replace the need to be counting calories and serving sizes is a very viable option to consider.

3. We  center on acting upon our weight loss program and not on the results we hope to obtain.

Rather than telling ourself that we are going to drop off 5 pounds this week, we tell ourself that we will stick to the plan of  how we will eat more healthier, nutritious meals and how  we will get more physical exercise this week.  By controling our thoughts, rather than focusing upon the pounds, it will bring about better results and the pounds will drop off on their own.  Bear in mind that our weight is not completely in our own control, but our thoughts and actions are.

4. Don't do it all at once.

We need to be sure and check with our Doctor before we undertake any diet or exercise program.  If it has been a long time since we have exercised, then we  start out slowly rather than doing it all at once.  If walking is part of our weight loss program, we start out with a short walk for the first day and then gradually increase the distance that we walk each day.  If lifting weights is in our program, we start with light weights and move up to heavier weights as we feel more comfortable. 

 Weight loss programs should not be designed so that the results are impossible for us to attain.  Instead, with perseverance, determination and purpose on our part to act upon our weight loss program we will find success in reaching our goal.

Curt Dietrick

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