Setting Realistic Weight Loss Goals

All too often we set ourselves up for failure because we want to lose a lot of weight quickly. We tend to put ourselves on a “starvation diet” thinking that by eating next to nothing surely the weight will come off.

This may be true for the first few days, but research shows that for the first few days you are probably losing mostly water weight from a reduction in sodium.

After those first few days of dropping pounds quickly, the weight loss levels off and we get discouraged. Most of us stop dieting altogether at that point and before we know it we are right back where we started, if not heavier.

If you want to lose weight and keep it off the best thing to do is set realistic goals. Get it into your head that if you want to lose weight and keep it off, it is better to take it off slowly. Figure on losing perhaps one to two pounds per week. Remember, your number one goal should be to stay healthy while you are losing weight.

If you go for those starvation fads you may find yourself in a heap of trouble. It is a proven biological fact that when the body feels it is starving, it goes into self preservation mode and can actually start storing fat instead of burning it.

Research further shows that the body sometimes starts consuming muscle rather than fat. Here again, we get weak or discouraged and toss in the towel.

By setting realistic goals you won’t be setting yourself up for failure. Be satisfied with losing six to eight pounds per month.

Exercise more, eat healthier foods and work on your attitude. Don’t get discouraged if it seems like it’s taking forever. Remember the old adage; Rome wasn’t built in a day. When it comes to diets, truer words were never spoken.

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