subject: Understanding Low Calorie Diets - Part 3:Establishing Your Weight Goals [print this page] Author: Grace Kisner Author: Grace Kisner
Anyone on low-calorie diet needs to establish their weight goals, if they plan to achieve anything with low-cal diet.
The quantity of weight you need to lose, the life changes you're prepared to make to help lose it, and all of the tiny steps you can take along the path make up your long term, intermediate-term, and short term goals. ( Before you compromise on your goals, you've got to work out how much weight you would like to lose. )
Long term goals : Your first long term goal is the full amount of weight you wish to lose, or, if you wish to put it an alternate way, the final weight you would like to reach. Your first long term goal might also be an ordinary Body Mass Index ( BMI ), which is a measure of weight for height that will be a little more correct than most standard weight charts. Intermediate goals : These goals are the ones that you create and change along the path.
At this time, one of your intermediate goals might be the weight you hope to be when you are halfway to your long term goal. As an example, if you would like to lose sixty pounds by this time next year ( an exceedingly reasonable long term goal for somebody with sixty pounds to lose at the recommended rate of one to two pounds a week ), then 2 of your intermediate goals could be to lose fifteen pounds in the following 3 months and 30 pounds 6 months from now.
Unless your weight seriously compromises your vitality for instance if your BMI is thirty or higher or if your health practitioner has told you that you're already in peril for developing obesity-related medical issues, your goal should be gradual weight reduction, which means losing one to two pounds a week.
If your weight is putting you at fast likelihood of health problems, you may wish to consider quicker weight reduction in a medically supervised program.Speak to your physician about your well-being risk and to discover what sort of weightloss program is correct for you.
Short term goals : These goals are instant goals you target from day by day. As an example, you can set a goal to lose one pound this week.
Creating mini-short-term goals to help reach your short-term goal and to satisfy any need you will have to deal with your weight right now is a great idea.
As an example, deciding to eat steamed fish for dinner tonight is a mini-short-term goal that may help lead to your one half pound weight reduction goal for the week.
Another mini-short-term goal might be to get a pocket-size calorie count book today or find calorie-count info on the web so you have it available wherever you are.About the Author:
