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Post by bbbearsmom on Mar 9, 2024 23:49:23 GMT
Day 10 – Set a Realistic Goal
Beck talks about being realistic goal when you set a goal for weight loss. It is important to be realistic about your rate of weight loss because one of the bigger reasons people quit their attempts at weight loss is because they aren’t losing weight fast enough. She also points out the option of just having your goal being five pounds at a time.
Since a lot of us are at our goal weight this can also speak to us about setting other goals, for example exercise goals. We need to be realistic with those too or else we wear ourselves out and may fall into “all or nothing” thinking and stop exercising at all, could also happen with weight loss goals.
If you are losing, what type of weight loss goal have you set for yourself? Do you think it is realistic and how will you handle it if you have setbacks?
For those of us maintaining I am assuming that we all have the general “maintain my goal weight” goal. Have you found that goal a realistic one for yourself and the life you live? How do you handle setbacks?
Heads up: Day 12 (Tuesday) is “skip lunch” day. You might want to think ahead about that so you can be prepared to do it on Sunday, although there is no obligation to do it if you don’t want to and if you want to do it you can do it any day you choose.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Mar 9, 2024 23:53:14 GMT
When I was losing my weight WW was doing a lose 5% of your body weight and then 10% of your body weight, and I did that. Then I kept doing 10% until I reached goal. I knew from my previous weight loss journeys with WW that I would lose about a pound a week if I followed the program and that is what happened.
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Post by cathygeha on Mar 10, 2024 9:13:29 GMT
My target has always been around 140 BUT when I started in 2020 at over 200 pounds I kept thinking that it would be nice to get back down to 160 again...that I felt good there and could live with that weight. My current goal is to get down to 140-145 and will keep working toward it but have reached the 160-ish and do feel a LOT better than I did in 2020 before I started losing again.
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Post by ermabom on Mar 10, 2024 10:40:41 GMT
I would like to lose 30 lbs total but if I don't, I'm ok with it. I'm more focused on making sure that I can do the things I want to do, stay healthy and active, and keep chronic diseases at bay. I mentioned inflammation in another post and I had looked at anti-inflammatory diets on a few well-reputed sites - Johns Hopkins, Harvard School of Public Health and the Arthritis Foundation. I am doing all the things they say except for fatty fish. I don't eat fish. But every other guideline - lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts. Less dairy, meats, processed foods and refined carbs and sugar. Those are the things that matter to me so Beck is more about avoiding sugar and refined carbs and eating more vegetables and not eating too much of all food.
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Post by susan092907 on Mar 10, 2024 12:09:03 GMT
When I lost weight down to my personal goal this time on WW starting in 2009, I set a rate of weight loss for myself at 1/2 lb a week. As I got closer to my personal goal weight, below the highest WW/BMI goal for my height, it slowed to about 1 lb a month. Now, I'm back in losing mode to try to get back closer to my personal goal weight after years of weight regain, and I figure my rate of loss should still be about 1 lb a month. It's actually going faster than that. I don't know if I'll go back to that earlier personal goal weight. For now, I'm trying to get to about 5 lbs above that, and then I'll reconsider.
When I was maintaining, it really helped me to see the visual of the weight loss graph on the WW tracker - each week when I tracked my weight, I really enjoyed seeing the visual of that almost straight line extended for one more week, and I set a goal for myself to extend it for the next week ahead.
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Mar 11, 2024 16:12:29 GMT
I have about 5 pounds to loose to get back to goal.
But I also want to work on other healthy habits- incorporating more fruits and veggies, drinking more water, doing my Yoga at least 5 nights a week.
I agree that goals have to be realistic. I definitely have a habit of being an "all or nothing" person and stopping because I can't reach a goal of being totally perfect.
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