Monday, July 22, 2013

Setting Goals, avoiding Overwhelming Myself.

Today I am off to a good start.  I am slowing down and savoring my food.  I walked 30 minutes.  I also remembered to add some produce to breakfast and lunch.  Improvement is more important than perfection!

I stated that I want too loose weight and that I am doing it by making changes to my lifestyle.  In order to guide me, I need to have specific goals.  How else will I know if all my work is paying off?

My ultimate goals are to loose 65 pounds and fit back into my size 6 and 8 clothes. This is a lot of weight to loose.  So in the spirit of my smaller steps approach, I am setting some intermediate goals.  So for the next 30 days my goal will be to loose 10 pounds.

The whole reason I am doing this whole change in steps is because I have tried the all or nothing approach in the past.  I tend to tackle a lot of projects like this.  What usually happens that I wind up getting frustrated and overwhelmed.  Even now I see what else I want to do to reach my goals, but I have given myself permission to add those activities at a later date.  I already have some ideas of what I want to do add next week, but I am not going to sabotage my focus on this week's changes by adding more too soon.

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