Just look back at your own history and carefully analyze where all your achievements came from. Apart from the occasional lucky incident all your achievements probably base on careful goal setting and planning. So maybe you are guessing now where I'm going with this article. How does objective setting and dieting fit together?
First and obviously it is very hard to reach your goal if there is no objective in the first place. And even more important how would you know whether whatever you're doing is helping you achieve that objective or detrimental to your nonexistent objective. You can't because you don't have a compass. By now you should be able to acknowledge that setting Goals can only help you in the long run.
Furthermore, but a dieting goal also gives you a goal measure for you to judge your process on. The benefit of this is that you now can see if you're moving towards your objective of a slimmer body or moving away from it. So in summary you want to set Objectives for your diet so that you are able to see your progress objectively and without any doubt.
I hope you are now with me and agree with me that having Goals to strife for can only aid you in your diet project. If not, you are a setting yourself up for failure. If you are still with me, let's see now how to go about setting up the Goals. The Goals you set for yourself should be within possible reach and not defy reality. With impossible to achieve Objectives the only thing you achieve is setting you up for failure. It won't take long for your subconsicous to see that it's impossible anyway and you are back to square one. If you want to know what objective is reasonable, make sure to look around in your circle of friends and acquaintances. Make very sure NOT to look at the news and especially not and advertisements for diets as they are overhyped.
Important goal setting rule number did anyone count? Be specific with the numbers. Ten pounds in one month is a good example for a rational and achievable goal as opposed to "I wanna lose 80 pounds until next year." After achieving the first short term objective, the next short term objective should be as easily achieved. See what I am getting at here? If you can lose 10 pounds once, what deters you from doing it once more? And again? Nothing, that what. This is how you fool your brain. Feed it with little successes and it keeps going on its own. Small Objectives are easier to achieve. So don't go for the big end goal directly. It's so far away you can't see the flagpole nor can you see what it does to your life once you reach it.
Now what happens when you miss an objective? Do not give up I say. The solution is to find out what went wrong and make adjustments. Either to your behaviour or your Objectives. Maybe the goal was too hard to achieve? Change it down.
What also often plays into missing the mark for many individuals is that they don't really want to achieve the Objectives. This is most often seen with kids in school and homework. Did you ever have to do work that others gave to you? Didn't you understand why you should do it? How motivated were you to do the work to the best of your ability? If you are not dedicated to achieving whatever objective you set for yourself, you could also just leave it at that and go home.
As part of your goal planning, set up some reward for yourself for each milestone you reach. Try using something nonfood related for that. Your reward should be small enough to not get expensive after every small achievement. But it shouldn't be too small so that you don't care about it at all. What you just learned applies to everything in life by the way, not only diets.
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