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Originally Posted by frogguruami
I have problems with setting goals. I tend to hate "general" goals like "lose weight". It just seems so broad. I am more of a "lose X number of pounds by such and such date" kind of person.
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I've never set time specific goals. If you don't meet them, how do you address that? Just curious. I sit down at the start of each month and set goals that I can control for the coming month. At the moment they're really just eating within plan and specific exercise levels. These are things I can control. I've never been able to control the speed at which I lose weight. It has been fairly consistent, but I still go through periods where I lose little, almost always followed by periods where I lose more. Overall it evens out, but if I said 'lose x number of pounds by this date' I suspect I'd be disappointed if I didn't meet it. And if I did meet it early I wonder if I'd slack off.
The long term goal is the hardest. Life-wise it's go back to college and finish the course. Last time I was in college it ended up being something I didn't want to do, so towards the end I lost interest. Weight-loss - to be a healthy body weight. It would be impossible to set a target for that unless sometime in 2010 counts as a target.
