There is a popular saying that states that “when you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This saying is practically true, not just about academics and career, but in every aspect of human life.
Whenever you set a specific goal in the area of personal health, for example, you would need to come up with at least a simple basic plan to achieve it. One common health goal is in the area of losing weight to achieve a better overall health condition.
If your goal is to lose a specific amount of weight (e.g. ten pounds) in a given period of time (e.g. ten weeks), then you’d better come up with a workable diet and exercise plan. Setting a numerical goal of losing ten pounds in ten weeks is specific enough to keep you going the right direction.
This objective, though, must be supplemented by specific steps to achieve your goal in your prescribed time.
In terms of planning a healthy weight losing diet, there is no need for you to go to the extent of meticulously counting your calorie intake. Such obsessive compulsive manner of dieting would be quite difficult to sustain and you may just end up miserably failing when you feel guilty about occasionally taking in more calories than what you’ve unnecessarily set for yourself.
What is important is that you observe the principle that the calories you burn must exceed the calories you take in. This means you do not need to excessively restrict yourself in your food consumption as long as you have a specific plan on burning those calories through the corresponding exercises.
For people who are not too busy with their career lives, losing one pound a week may be quite easily attainable. But to others who may find it hard to schedule time for regular exercises, it may be extremely difficult. Your goal setting on how much weight to lose in your set time period would ultimately be determined by your overall lifestyle.
With your goal on losing ten pounds in ten weeks, you could very well measure your weight loss on a week to week basis. If you find that you are motivated enough in diligently following your plan so that you are actually overshooting your target by losing more than one pound each week, then you could moderately readjust your goal, not to double it right away, but probably increasing to losing fifteen pounds in ten weeks.
You must remember than in making your diet and exercise plan, you would only succeed when you make your goal setting and planning realistically attainable yet challenging enough to stretch you and make you feel good about yourself when you achieve your goal in the end.
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