I found the teaching of Zig Ziglar to be very helpful to me in understanding how to reach my goal. Not only is Zig a successful business man but he also won his own personal battle of the bulge years ago. He lost a little over forty pounds and has kept it off. The first thing you need to do is take a look at the damage. How is your body holding up, what is your current energy level, how is your health, and of course how much do you weigh? A good way to do this is by getting a physical from your doctor.
After I found out how much I weighed (a terrifying 300 lbs) I thought about how much I would like to lose. Something that helped me with this was doing a little online research. You can go to several online sights and see about how much you should weigh for your height. Usually there’s a range based on your small, medium or large framed. As you know, all fat people are big-boned. Just kidding. Once you have found out how much you weigh now and how much you want to weigh at your ideal weight you need to try and set a date for when you reach your goal weight. Think about how much weight you might realistically expect to lose each week.
Then use that as a guide to figure out how long it will take you at that rate to lose the weight. When you’re finished, circle that date on the calendar and think about how good you will look and feel on that day. Because I had so much excess weight, I figured a reasonable goal for me would be to try to lose two to two and ½ lbs a week. As it turned out I ended up burning through an average of five pounds a week. But the important thing was that I set small, realistic goals for myself. I didn’t think about how I needed to lose over one hundred pounds. I just thought about losing my two pounds that week and was very pleased whenever I exceeded that goal.
