Weight Loss Plan: Your Ultimate Goal

Since obesity and being overweight puts you at risk for many health and heart related disease, you may seriously need to set some weight loss plans to  help avoid those risks and prevent disease. But what should be your long-term and short-term goals? And how would you set yourself up to your weight loss goals? Your chance of achieving your goals are higher if you ensure that the weight loss plans you are using are sensible and reasonable right from the start. Here are some guidelines from the experts in choosing weight loss plans and goals. 1. Set A realistic goal A lot of people are often ambitious when trying to achieve their weight loss. For example, if you weigh 150 pounds and you hope to achieve 110, even if you have not weighed 110 since 18 and now you are 45, that is not a realistic weight loss goal because as we grow older, our body metabolism rate dropped. Our body cannot burn calories as efficient as it is when we are younger. Your body mass index or BMI is a good guideline to how much weight you need to reduce. The ideal BMI range, according to the national Institutes of Health, is between 19 and 24.9. If your BMI is between 25 and 29.9, you are considered overweight. Any number above 30 is in the obesity range. From this guideline, you will plan out a sensible weight loss plan corresponding to the required BMI based on your height. 2. Set appropriate objectives Applying a weight loss diet plan for vanity’s sake is psychologically less helpful than to improve your overall health. The main objective you should tell yourself is to keep your body healthy and rid off all sorts of heart related disease caused by obesity. The ideal plan is to include exercise together with your weight loss diet plan to meet your objectives. 3. Focus on doing, not losing Focus on carrying out your exercise plan in a routine manner weekly and not thinking about how many pounds you are going to shed off after a day's workout. Set yourself a target exercise plan per week and not how many pounds to lose in a week. Remember that your weight within a week is not completely in your control, but your behavior is. 4. Achieve bit by bit Do not go all out to achieve weight loss by working out hard everyday. If you have never exercised at all in the last few years, your best weight loss plan for this week would be brisk walking at a comfortable pace long enough to burn off calories and start your heart working. 5. Keep up the self-encouragement An all-or-nothing attitude only sets you up to fail. It is important to evaluate your efforts fairly and objectively. If you fall short of some goals, you do not need to feel bad about not able to stick to your exercise plan if you missed out a few days. Just look ahead to next week. You do not need to have a perfect record. After all, self-encouragement should definitely be a part of your weight loss plans. Otherwise, you will just fail in the end.