Setting Goals

Achieving what you want is much easier if you know what you want. Sure, you may know that you'd like to lose ten pounds, but unless you set a time constraint, you may not have the motivation to carry out your plan. And you need a plan!

Okay. Say you have ten pounds to lose. (It may be more or less.) You need a realistic time goal in which to lose them. Don't decide you need to lose ten pounds overnight. The only way you can do that is with liposuction, and that doesn't work in the long term. If you want to lose ten pounds and keep them off, you need to decide what to do about it.

You've heard this before, I'm sure, that two pounds a week is a reasonable amount of weight to lose and keep off. Any faster than that is not healthful, and the weight will probably come back, with interest. At two pounds a week, ten pounds will take you five weeks to lose.

"Five weeks!" I can hear you screaming. "I want these pounds gone now!"

Well, of course you do. But you want them to stay gone, don't you? There's no point to lose ten pounds only to gain them back.

Furthermore, when you lose weight in an unhealthful manner, most often you aren't losing fat. You're losing muscle. Muscle is what helps burn fat and keeps your metabolism revved. When you lose that, what you gain back won't be muscle. You'll gain fat. And fat takes up more space than muscle does, so you'll lose definition as well.

So, set a reasonable time goal. And don't just diet. Change small things. Get really good nutrition, such as supplementing with Vemma products. Start exercising. The more muscle you build, the better your metabolism will be. Aerobics will increase your stamina. Strength-training will add healthy, lean muscle. Flexibility training will keep you limber and ease joint strain.

Lastly, remember, if you need to lose weight, you probably didn't gain it overnight. Don't expect to lose it overnight, either. Losing weight should just be part of your goal. Your main goal should be getting healthy!